It’s time…it’s time…IT’S VADER RANDOM TUESDAY THOUGHT TIME!!
- So what exactly constitutes a “live performance” by a band appearing on television? This question actually formed in my head after Def Leppard‘s appearance on Dancing with the Stars last Tuesday. Suffice to say that the band mimed along with an edited version (For time, not content; also, I should point out that it was actually a pretty seamless edit in that regard, so kudos to whoever did that job anyway) of the version of “Pour Some Sugar On Me” that appeared on Hysteria. I imagine this is standard practice for any artist on DwtS, but it was particularly jarring in this case (And really the first time I had noticed it), given that I’ve seen Def Leppard live and, as such, actually know how the song sounds truly live (It’s still very good, but also very different from the studio version). As such, to me, it was only a “live performance” in the loosest sense of the word. I even know that this is something of a time-honored tradition when it comes to bands on TV, but…I dunno, it still bugs me somehow.
- My Astyanax speedrun is apparently in SDA limbo at the moment. Don’t ask me how it got there. I’m guessing it still has to be timed, because I’ve done everything else. Alternately, this is karma coming back to bite me for…something SDA-related.
- I’ve been working on recording another version of commentary on my Rygar run. After that, I’ll get back to mixing The Six Day Exile; the two activities actually require different sound card setups, and I’m too lazy to switch from one to the other repeatedly.
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So the bigger question: what are you doing watching Dancing With the Stars? :)
So speaking of your sound card set ups, I can feel your pain. Right now I have two cards: a Soundblaster Audigy for “practice” and my Tascam US-224 for line in studio quality recording. The problem? The Audigy uses a lower bit rate and has a lot of air and hiss in the recording, making it lower quality (and it tends to deaden sharper sounds). The Tascam has excellent quality (once I adjust all the appropriate levels) BUT has to be output through a stereo, doesn’t have sound font MIDI support AND doesn’t have a boosted audio output (meaning some tracks sound much quieter recordint than they appear in the mix–turn it up too much and it gets distorted in a bad way).
So basically, I record a “dummy demo” (what you’d call a slap-it-down mix) with the Audigy, then record the MIDI tracks as live audio, move the whole thing over to the Tascam and re-record all the parts. This is why I don’t spend a lot of time recording (I’m sure a better, recording quality soundcard that ISN’T the Tascam might be a good idea).
Anyway– get more RAM!