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On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 22:07 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Having used Neves I can only say I loved them. More than

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> Harrison or SSL.

 I've been fortunate in my (former) career in that I got to use some

pretty serious analog desks.
> For converters, a good choice to use with MADI and MADI/ADAT

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> are the 8-ch units from Aphex. They are great in fact.

 My experience with their stuff (analog stuff) is that it is decent.  Of

course Apogee is a good choice also.
> >  Ideally I'd like to submix the drums down to a stereo pair of outs so I

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> > only use 2 channels on my console, same for guitars, percussion

> > overdubs, etc...

>

> That would be perfectly possible. The only consequence is

> that you have to divide you focus between routing done

> on the mixer and within Ardour. For such use cases the

> autoconnect works against you, so you have to do all of

> it manually. It's no problem during mixing, but it takes

> time during a recording session.

  Not too big of a problem for what it gives me in term of flexibility

with extra tracks.  A trade-off I'm happy with.
> >  I'd be comfortable with either.  After all, they made records with

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> > destructive editing for decades.   :-)

>

> And using less than 16 tracks... Sgt. Pepper's was 4 track IIRC.

  Yep.
 And of course that will also give us the ability to record drums and

things on the 16-tk, and transfer to digital.
 I assume that Ardour can lock up with SMPTE if I stripe a track onto

the analog deck?
> >  Well that changes things considerably for me.  Punch-ins (and outs) are

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> > a fundamental function for any recording device like this.  Why is it

> > unstable in this area?

>

> What happens regularly with my current setup is that after

> one second or so you get an error saying that writing to the

> disk failed for some reason. Restarting doesn't seem to help

> in such cases, saving and reloading the session may help.

> It's not something you'd want to happen twice in front of a

> performing customer trying to concentrate on getting his/her

> side of the punch right. 

  Seems like this should be a high-priority big fix.  Why isn't it??
> > From what I've seen there should be a workaround for this, right?

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> > Record another track, or region in the same track and drag the regions

> > to fit around the punch.  No?

>

> Yes, but that means you have to switch the monitoring manually

> at the right points  during the punch, and of course edit the

> transitions later. The latter takes time.

 Yep.  But hey, that's why clients have money.   ;-)
 Rich...
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