Guitarist and electronic musician Christopher Willits gives us the first in many lessons on home recording in our brand new monthly series.
Guitarist and electronic musician Christopher Willits gives the first of many lessons on home recording. In this episode, Willits starts with the basics: how to get sounds from your guitar into your computer using pedals, pickups and Ableton Live. Tune in once a month as Chris tackles different aspects of home recording -- from which gear gives you which sounds to his take on the best available software programs.
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Posted by istlota on 02/08/2008 at 09:49:55 pm in XLR8RTV
This is one of the better Ableton tutorial videos I have watched. I have watched many on YouTube, but here on Revision3, how ever it is being shot, I can actually see clearly the Ableton screen . I experienced no technical problems viewing it.
I learned a lot about improvements I can make to my gear from seeing what he uses. For instance, I now realize that I really need to get an good hardware compressor pedal rather than depend on the compression effect built into my POD.
I would like to get the Doepfer pocket fader he uses, but Doepfer's web site says it is discontinued and ebay doesn't have any used ones for sale. I am trying to figure out how to use some of the programmable pots on my Novation Remote SL keyboard instead.
I can't afford a Motu Traveller yet and, instead, am using a Mackie mixer to mix bass, guitar, and vocals into the USB audio interface built into a Line 6 Pod XT Live.
Ebay always has good deals on used FCB1010s.
I was able to follow along, configuring my Ableton Live software step by step right along with him until he actually started recording which is where I think there may be a step or two that he didn't explicitly describe. There is one point when he is obviously making some changes to Ableton, when he says something about "starting the timeline". Unfortunately, the camera is aimed at him and not at the Ableton screen. Hopefully, he can go back over this in the next lesson which I am really looking forward to watch and study.
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Posted by mic on 01/29/2008 at 09:38:11 pm in XLR8RTV
No, I meant I was transferring huge amounts of data while WATCHING the show, not while downloading it. I had downloaded it several days prior to watching...
I see what you mean. No, that would have no effect.
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Posted by kowgod on 01/29/2008 at 09:27:31 am in XLR8RTV
Heheh. Ever since watching this episode, I was like, "Oh man, I wonder if he is related to Nathan Willits!"
But then I realized it's Nathan Willet. And I was slightly saddened. :(
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Posted by movingrushmore on 01/29/2008 at 09:19:59 am in XLR8RTV
I don't normally watch XLR8R but I loved it. I even shot the link to a couple of my friends (and I don't do that very often.) It might be niche, but it was great. And I didn't think it was cost prohibitive other than Live.
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Posted by kowgod on 01/28/2008 at 02:54:38 pm in XLR8RTV
No, I meant I was transferring huge amounts of data while WATCHING the show, not while downloading it. I had downloaded it several days prior to watching...
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Posted by mic on 01/28/2008 at 02:34:03 pm in XLR8RTV
Yes, my audio and video were out of sync in itunes. I was actually in the process of doing some pretty hdd intensive stuff at the time, and just thought it was my computer. Guess not?
The way I understand it, it's very unlikely a transfer would cause a multimedia file to become out of sync during the downloading process, even with extreme hard drive usage. As the hard drive usage increases toward saturation of the bus, the transfer speed will simply slowdown. If there is corruption, it either preexisted or the file became corrupt after the transfer due to a failing hard drive, over-clocking, memory, power supply, etc. However, corruption doesn't mean a sync issue. You might encounter a glitch in one or both streams, but it should immediately correct itself with any decent player. In this case, the sync issue is preexisting.
PS, I received your PM.
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Posted by mic on 01/28/2008 at 01:53:25 pm in XLR8RTV
Did you download from iTunes? A couple other people have been complaining about audio and video being out of sync at the end with their iTunes downloads as well....
Good to know, thanks
No iTunes installed here, nor will it ever be installed here. :) I downloaded this episode, my first actually, directly from the download link at Rev3.
However, it is my understanding that iTunes, for the sake of this conversation, just lists the Rev3 shows, it doesn't do any specific encoding, and the downloads still comes from Rev3 regardless. If that's true, then the sync issue comes from the original encoding process.
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Posted by kowgod on 01/28/2008 at 01:40:08 pm in XLR8RTV
"Did you download from iTunes? A couple other people have been complaining about audio and video being out of sync at the end with their iTunes downloads as well....
Good to know, thanks"
Yes, my audio and video were out of sync in itunes. I was actually in the process of doing some pretty hdd intensive stuff at the time, and just thought it was my computer.
Guess not?
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Posted by Numberwang on 01/28/2008 at 11:02:14 am in XLR8RTV
Did you download from iTunes? A couple other people have been complaining about audio and video being out of sync at the end with their iTunes downloads as well....
Good to know, thanks
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Posted by mic on 01/26/2008 at 06:37:52 pm in XLR8RTV
I normally don't download this show (a testament to having a long recent list), but found the information about setting up very interesting. However, towards the end of the large XviD version the video and audio were out of sync.
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