Category Archives: Studio

Gone Travelin’

By G | Published: 31 May 2005

I had sworn off Sweetwater years ago, and now I remember why. Even though their website implies that the Mackie 400F is in stock, and my “personal sales rep” has told me twice now that they would be in in a matter of days, none of this is actually true. Worse, I had to contact [...]

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Audio Interface Mystery

By G | Published: 13 May 2005

Mackie is finally still not shipping their Onyx 400F audio interface. I’ve been shopping for this last bit of hardware for months, so this is a relief. And just in time, too! Now that the product is official, more details have been announced which made this decision even easier. When used with OS X, the [...]

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I’m On TV Again

By G | Published: 11 April 2005

Sorta. I just received my quarterly BMI report, and it’s always fun to see old works popping up on television shows. It would be nice to know before-hand, so I could actually watch the damn shows, but such is life. Among the new.. BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (CBS) – Apparently they used one of my [...]

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24 Inches of Glory

By G | Published: 22 March 2005

My 2405FPW 24″ LCD display arrived this afternoon! It looks fantastic in initial tests running DVI @ 1920 x 1200 from my PowerBook (not its final home). No dead pixels, no stuck pixels, very bright. Gamma and overall color temperature are pretty good at native settings. Grays are slightly red, but I’ll calibrate it later. [...]

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Plug-In Stand-Ins

By G | Published: 15 March 2005

One of the reasons I’m dropping Pro Tools is that every TDM plug-in carries a two-fold price premium for no good reason. I built this rig in the Mac OS 9 days, and I’m now dying to move to OS X, so the upgrade cost for each and every plug-in is also annoyingly expensive. Aside [...]

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Shopping

By G | Published: 13 March 2005

I’ve been shopping a lot lately. Not because I like to spend money, but because I like saving money. That’s actually kinda fun. Shopping for what, you ask? (Go ahead, I’ll wait.) A new studio—from the ground up, assuming a computer is the center of any modern studio. I’m currently running a dual G4 Mac [...]

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