Studio setup

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:08 am

My mastering setup is pulsar based
it starts from a pc with wavelab and an rme soundcard
two vst plugs and go out in a modified tube preamp,in a spl qure ,in a focusrtite mixmaster,in a dbx quantum II and then i finish with optimaster on my mac g4.
a friendchip digimax digital patchbay manage the digital input and output.
Now i have some problem with my new studio setup
i start from a pc with scope and a rme soundcard,,two vst plug and go out in a modified tube preamp,in a spl qure ,in a focusrtite mixmaster,in a dbx quantum II.
i would like to re-enter in scope with aes ebu from the quantum II at 24 bit 88,2 khz ,open optimaster and close the mastering routing inside a g5 logic 8 powered with a fireface 400.
make in real time a 16 bit 44,100khz dithering and that's all...........................
but the routing inside the pc don't come well
please give me some suggestion
best regards
gabriele

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:41 pm

i hope in your help
there is a project file that can help me?

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:54 pm

hi,thank you.
i tryed also at 48 and 96,the problem is that i'm not able to make a project where i can go out from the analog output( scope or rme inside the pc)work with the outboard and re-enter to scope aes ebu, put optimaster and go out in another pc(mac g5)

the19thbear · Post by **the19thbear** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:02 pm

so you have everything hooked up right inside scope? you just dont get any input from the aes/ebu? is that right? You can select what digital inpts to use in the settings menu i think.. the same place where you select master clock etc.. there you can select aes/ebu as digital in.. hope that helps!

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:18 pm

precious advices,thank you
tomorrow i will do a new work with the old setup and then i will try again
see you soon
best regards

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:21 am

i will do it the next days
regards
gabriele

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:42 pm

thank you for the replies
the problem was a wrong sample rate setting
now it's everything ok
best regards
gabriele

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:52 am

hi,i made the first work with the new setup.
Wow it plays very well and the sound is exellent
thank you guys
gabriele

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:29 am

fromiceland wrote:hi,i made the first work with the new setup.
Wow it plays very well and the sound is exellent
thank you guys
gabriele

thats fine, as Stardust says you're lost now

you're the only woman here, at least that I'm aware of

Whach your words guys

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:55 pm

stardust wrote:That means that you are hooked now.
The typivcal way is now: more DSPs more plugins I/O box ....

don't worry, there's a self-therapy group that meets on a website named planetz.com ... or something like that...

cheers, Tom

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:13 pm

stardust wrote:scope is not working at 88,2, but 44, 48 or 96.

Scope works well at 88.2kHz, its clock just can't master it. Works fine slaving to external clock though, as fromiceland may have found out in the meanwhile...

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:27 pm

thanks at0M i will try again at 88.2
i have just take an analog summing outboard
i would like to put it just after out the rme,before to enter in the dbx valve pre
what do you think about it?
GUYS?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:48 pm

just in case you prefer 88.2 for the sake of being an even multiply of 44.1 versus 96 as 'uneven' - that doesn't matter much for sample rate conversion.
It's a pretty complex math thing and the final quality of the process depends on how good that specific piece of math is implementated - not on source or destination sample rate.

No problem, tho if one of your boxes works particularily well at that rate - you probably have the RME controll the sample rate anyway.

But it would be nice to have a Scope summing versus the same source summed by the analog thing you mentioned.

Not sure if that's possible at all (due to routing) and afaik it's difficult to get levels precisely even for a valid comparison.
I personally gave up on the subject after reading a big magazine 'shootout' about analog versus digital summing, which had examples faked so obviously that 'shameless' was the bottomline

cheers, Tom

fromiceland · Post by **fromiceland** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:21 pm

thank you astroman for your replies
i will try the analog summing box the next week
if you like i can put here two files

regards

gabriele