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When I first started working with Logic, I immediately maxed out its processing power on my laptop within the first 5 minutes. In the time since then, I’ve done full 36 track mixes with effects, and mixed my own complete productions; all of this involved eking out as much processing and hard drive performance as I could from my laptop.
I’m sure you’ve all heard that Protools, along with going native, now has an SE version that ships with either a USB microphone, an interface similar to the Mbox mini, or a MIDI keyboard. You may also have heard that you don’t have to go to your local Guitar Center to buy one either; you can get them at Best Buy.
A couple nights ago, I had the opportunity to attend a small songwriting session with two likeminded individuals. As a guy who mostly sits in his studio, writing solo, it was inspiring. Joe Gilder has talked about just getting the song done, but I’m a super procrastinator and it’s pretty hard to finish them without having a hard deadline or being accountable to anyone else.
Imagine you’re a mix engineer and you get a song to mix recorded by another engineer. Unfortunately, it has a lot of noise: hissing, pops, background noise. When there’s something playing on that track, for example the vocalist is singing, you can barely hear the noise, but if the singer isn’t singing constantly, you can hear it.
As I slowly install all the music software back onto my hard drive, it occured to me that some of you may not know that it’s a good idea to put all your samples and project files onto a second hard drive.
