- STEVEN SLATE VCC OR OTB ANALOG SUMMING PRO
- STEVEN SLATE VCC OR OTB ANALOG SUMMING SOFTWARE
- STEVEN SLATE VCC OR OTB ANALOG SUMMING PROFESSIONAL
I personally think the DAW generation ( ITB crowd) has a problem coming to terms with all this.
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Thus, where the term Pro Audio arrived from. The kind of hardware that the Pro Audio world has been talking about for 50 + years. The two worlds are not the same to me and you cannot know this until you are using a professionally equipped DA recording system that has high end hardware and great converters. Over and over and over.īut what about all the people that want to talk about analog gear that have to listen to all the distraction and noise about how hardware is a waste of money and that ITB sounds so much clearer and better with these third party plug-ins.
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And let the software and hardware users fight it out.
If we or I have it wrong, that would mean we should merge ALL the digital and analog FORMS ( past to present) into one forum and call it a day. The Term Hybrid to me is referred to POST, what you do after the recording and specifically ( Mixing OTB) with a analog summing system that is designed to work with a DAW. Hybrid its a gray area but the term hybrid DAW systems to me does not include mics, converters, pre amps etc as Don made clear. Maybe we need to define what a Hybrid DAW system is and/or let the manufacturers know they have it all wrong. This separation and new layout is not about who is better, it is about content and where it belongs. Hybrid is "pro audio" because it continues to support boutique pro audio products which I am a big supporter for!ĭAW studios ( summing ITB) do not use pro audio gear so the two need to be seperated. I don't think the hybrid crowd cares to keep listening to this nor do the DAW crowd either so its time to make some changed and define things better.ĭAW users are in a constant battle over who is better and this is getting stupid. The DAW crowd however, has no interest in hybrid (summing OTB) and keeps trying to convince the pro audio world that their DAW systems (Mixing ITB) are equal or better. Hybrid is a combination of plug-ins and hardware. The Pro Recording forum was simply renamed to hybrid recording.ĭAW, 100% plug-in studio are not hybrid so a division has to be made and I'm doing it now rather than a year from now when people start waking up. How ever it pans out, we simply cannot keep the two area's ITB and hybrid together anymore. How I see it, Hybrid is the new Pro Audio or the end of an era. I think all the engineers that participated in these forums shared this opinion. I know you can produce solid music all ITB. We need to cut a line here and its now done. I think its fare to say that up until only a few years ago, Pro Audio clearly meant hardware so I think its you that hasn't come to terms with what's happened or happening to our pro audio industry. If you noticed, we have a DAW Pro Audio forum as well and this section is taking preference here now. I share your POV but its not realistic to continue trying to keep both forums together. I was hoping we would get some static over this. Not a platform." (And that includes gear)Įxcellent points.
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" Professional is an attitude and a skillset. To quote a real pro that I know from Australia: As always, it's never the gear, but how it's applied. Despite the hardware, many of these studios are for all intents and purposes, entirely ITB.Īnother issue I have is that the heading gives off the impression that having a hybrid setup, mixing OTB, with high-end gear is what makes you "pro". What about large studios with PT systems and Icons? There are many of those. Many of my colleagues work with some of the biggest names in the business here and they are all ITB these days. The truth is that in this day and age, they don't. The only outboard that was used was in the front end, AFAIK.Īnyway, don't wanna cause major controversy but I feel like the heading of the new Pro Audio Forums gives off the impression that all pros work in big studios with lots of outboard gear and huge LFAC's. I was there for a good week while it was being done. I myself, despite six degrees of separation, know of at least one gold selling album (US) recorded and mixed completely ITB in a small bedroom in Marina Del Rey. English words in a backwardish alphabetical order.I don't know about the new format of the forum, to be honest.