

Roland Dyens Felicidade Files Professional Musician But While I was in school studying music, on more than one occasion I would hear my profs speak about Desert Island Discs. You can read more about it, but to sum up its points: it is an eight channel, tube preamp which has been getting very good reviews for its price point.and the real kicker, it has a built in ADCDAC which runs into the computer via firewire.Įven without the computer sound input though I was really interested in this unit because it has: eight channels eight ins, eight outs (great for a live setting with a band), real tubes (push the input gain on the unit and you can really get some nice tube warmth), and phantom power. I went to my local music shop and after a few days of reading and browsing and going home and researching on the net I decided to grab a nice mic (AKG C-214, this is for classical guitar) and a tube mic preamp (ART Tubefire 8). Going to a studio was out of the question for me because 1) I love computers and recording and I want to be involved in every part of the creation and 2) due to my job (Ive taught some recording courses) I have a substantial working knowledge of recording techniques.

Ill be playing a concert as well as a masterclass that weekend which is right after I return from adjudicating the Edmonton Kiwanis (busy April this year).Īlso Ive added some non-classical-guitar gigs to my upcoming events as well including: 25 Steve Reich (an amazing piece for 2 rock bands.I had to dust off the ol strat and Ill be playing in the Thomas Regan concert this coming weekend (Friday) with Matt Martin and playing Banjo in Kurt Weills Three Penny Opera on Sunday.Ībout a month ago I decided that it was time for me to pick up some decent recording gear and get moving on a recording. Well its official, Ill be judging the 2012 Montreal Guitar Competition this year again You can read more about that. Ill give the most logical and easiest first although I notice no difference at all between the two. There are two good ways of doing this (the former is quicker, while the latter is far better at regaining lost data ddrescue works really well if there are nofew problems with the disc (free from scratches): ddrescue -n -b 2048 devcdrom dvd.iso dd can be brutally slow, but gets everything: dd ifdevcdrom ofdvd.iso convnoerror,sync 2) joining VOBs There are two ways to do this too. Ill break it into steps: 1) Getting the info off the disc Since these are all personal discs, a conversation about libdvdcss as its not needed.

Ive been watching video codecs with hope, and finally with h264 and aac I have to say it really is incredible quality at a highly compressed bitrate.
