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 • Zoom GFX-5
• Roland PCK-1Glyph On-Line Disk Space Calculator
Zoom GFX-5
With a solid steel body, easy-to-tag pedals, hundreds of possible effect combinations, drum machine, sampling and more, the GFX-5 packs a serious punch into one super FX box! The GFX-5 starts with 75 different guitar effects-each one completely rich and realistic. You can use up to 10 effects simultaneously, mixing and matching to create sounds that are all your own. On top of the nearly limitless effects possibilities, the GFX-5 has Zoom's Variable Architecture Modeling System amp modeling which allows you to simulate 30 types of classic and high-tech amplifiers. Take a look at it today!
Roland PCK-1
With the PCK-1 Practice Conversion Kit, you can turn your acoustic snare into a near-silent practice pad. This special package includes a patented 14-inch mesh head, an acoustic trigger with separate head/rim capabilities, and a rim silencer so you can practice naturally without disturbing others. Add an optional RM-2 Rhythm Coach with metronome and rhythm training exercises for even more effective practice.Glyph On-Line Disk Space Calculator
Have you ever wanted to know just how much hard drive space you should purchase for your next project? Check out Glyph's On-Line Disk Space Calculator! This handy calculator helps you select the amount of disk space you need for an Audio Project. This in turn helps you select the proper disk drive size. How do you use it? Select the parameters for your project. If your exact value is not in the list, choose the next higher value. And don't forget to allow for a few spare tracks!
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| Scratch |
In music, a technique whereby vinyl records are manually moved back and forth under/across a phonograph cartridge. The resulting sound produced can vary between backwards or forwards playback of the material on the record, or, if done quickly enough, a scratching sound, hence the term. "Scratching,"as it has become known, has in many ways defined certain musical styles such as Hip-Hop, Rap, and others, but has also made its way to some extent into most styles of popular music.
Scratch also refers to a data or recording medium that may be used temporarily. A scratch disk, for example, is a drive volume or partition that can be used by some programs as a place to temporarily store data during certain operations. Scratch tracks (see WFTD Scratch Vocal) are temporary tracks that are often used to provide a reference to musicians in a song during recording. |
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| The AKG C 3000B and Roland V-Studios |
Q: "What is the relationship between AKG's C3000B and the VS-2400CD (I see in Roland's literature that it's the recommended microphone)?"
A: When Roland first came out with Microphone Modeling in 1998, it gave thousands of V-Studio users the opportunity to take recordings made with inexpensive dynamic mics and make them sound like they had been recorded with more expensive, higher quality mics. A year later, Roland expanded Mic Modeling to include the popular AKG C 3000B as a source mic.
For Mic Modeling to work most accurately, the V-Studio needs to know the precise characteristics of the mic you used for recording. Roland engineers have "taught" (via software updates) the entire family of V-Studios the characteristics of the C 3000B. With that in mind, the V-Studio knows how to reshape a signal recorded with this mic to make it sound like a different mic.
For example, let's say you record a vocal track using an AKG C 3000B. Later, you're wondering what it would sound like if you had recorded the track using a Neumann U-87. Simply insert the effect for Mic Modeling on the Track, then edit the effect to set the source mic as the C 3000B and output mic to "87", the designation for a "popular German large diaphragm condenser mic".
With the C 3000B set as the source, you can model a number of different mics, including a small diaphragm condenser mic (the AKG C 451), a large diaphragm dynamic mic (Sennheiser MD421), large diaphragm Condenser (Neumann U-87) or even a Vintage Condenser (the Neumann U-47).
So adding a C3000B to your Roland V-Studio recorder can be like owning a closet full of some of the more respected mics in the recording industry. The Roland units can also work from other source mics such as the Shure SM57, SM58, or the Roland DR-20.
All of this raises the next logical question: Does mic modeling really work? Can one really turn a C3000 in to something like a U87? We'll dig in to that question a little more tomorrow. See you here. |
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