...and not having to tear down my DAW after every session

 
Err...  I wouldn't get anything done!
 

Err...  I wouldn't get anything done!

It's not as bad as when I first started and I literally had put everything back into a closet every night but I still have to move my monitors, trackball, keyboard, etc out of the way. Also the way my current room is set up I have to unhook my mics to get out of my room to use the can or go have a smoke. Not very efficient. I also can't use any of my hardware like my mixer and fancy guitar head and I can only have either my padKontrol  or keyboard controller set up at one time. Haven't even touched my DX-7 since I've been here. It is an enormous pain to get anything done. New room is gonna rock. Tons of room for everything, no people bugging me every couple hours (I hope), no phones ringing off the hook, no noisy fans blasting away, no stomping and banging coming from upstairs and I'll also have an awesome view for inspiration. Paradise.

stevec

 

I'd have to check to be sure, but I think the two "keep" modes are actually maintaining a clean signal through those frequency ranges (wherever the crossover is set) and only affecting the opposite range.   So "Keep High" would only saturate the low end, and "Keep Low" would only saturate the high end.   The third mode saturates the entire frequency range.
 

Just have a listen to what happens when you switch the knob from low to high, that should tell you.

I've actually been having much frustration trying to keep the master ProChannel from overheating. Does anyone else here feel like these ProChannels are too sensitive? Of course I have no idea what I'm talking about...

...But it just seems like when using ProChannels, everything I'm doing has to be turned way down. The synth's output is cut dramatically (Z3TA I'm having to cut down to 25% or so). Outputs on FX chain effects and PC modules have to be turned way down as well. Sometimes I'll find that a not particularly loud synth will be overheating the master ProChannel, even when everything's turned down. So I turn it down some more, until it's barely audible. Then I figure I'll turn everything else down as well. 

By the end of it, when I've turned everything down to prevent the master ProChannel overheating, and all the track's ProChannels are nowhere near overheating, the overall output of the master bus seems to be a lot lower than it would have been if I wasn't using the master ProChannel at all. Even with the master slider at 0dB, peak levels seem too low. 

And the annoying thing is, the overheating of the ProChannel (for me anyway) is invariably caused by one pesky note of a synth part (which doesn't even seem louder than the rest). I see that red light come on very briefly, and it doesn't even seem to coincide with any loud event. 

I wish I knew more about this ProChannel and gain staging business. I seem to be spending way too much time worrying about that red light during the mixing stage. 

sharke


I hear you on the distractions! In my building there is invariably someone blasting some crappy hip hop at floor vibrating volumes, or someone slamming their front door, or some couple having a domestic. Then outside in the street there are these drunken old losers who do nothing but stand on the same corner and scream and yell and cackle and fight. People who have quiet soundproofed studios don't know how good they have it!

That would definitely be frustrating to deal with that much "outside" noise.  I built an underground house back in 2001 and my studio is in one end of the house, separated from the rest of the house and has it's own central A/C.  I also built the house about 200' off the street, kind of back in the woods.  So noise has never been much of a problem for me.