Cheshire Omnimedia

Great news from Waves- they’ve capped the total WUP fee to $200!

The old way: they charged a max of $200 per bundle. Which is fine. If you own Mercury. Otherwise the fees add up. It’s not too impossible to go over $200 with the old way.

I’m in the boat of having 4 different Waves products. ( I should post a shootout of the CLA stuff…) My WUP would likely be over the max.

Of course, I don’t have to stay current. At the rate that Apple releases os upgrades, that’s not an option for many.

WUP by the way, is the annual maintenance agreement for Waves. It stands for Waves Update Plan.

Been awhile since the last update. Things have been pretty busy lately.

A quick shout out to Griffle.com, where I’ve been doing some consulting. Check out the 3×5 trio on the TV tab. Yours truly directed and edited!

So the rumor mill just kicked out something interesting. An unconfirmed report claims Digi won’t have a presence at AES this fall.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/414034-no-booth-digidesign-years-aes-new-post.html

There’s been rampant speculation in recent years that Digis parent company, Avid, has been on shakey footing. It could be that the combined effects of the economic slowdown with decreased earnings at Avid made for some cost cutting.

I think is safe to assume that there’s no new hardware for HD users, and no major updates to PT8 or Le. There is however M-Powered support for Mackie, perhaps a combo booth is in order?

Just a quick note: I’m in Vegas! Whoo hoo! More studio thoughts to come soon.

Last night over beer a buddy was asking me about the general “stages” of recording. After a bit I started to think about the first step I had told him: Pre-Production.

Prepro is probably the easiest to underestimate in the recording process. It took me quite a few sessions to figure that out as there’s not the clear cut path to follow in my market as far as learning the ropes.

Let’s look at the basic premise of prepro: the producers of the project (bands, producers, engineers) talk over what they hope to end with and how they’re going to achieve it. Will everybody play together at the same time? Is everybody rehearsed, songs selected? Budget? Studio? Schedule?Deliverables? Click track? Rental gear? Do instruments need some tlc from a tech? Etc etc.

At a home studio or pro room ( or any combo of the two ) this simple process is the key to many problems that usually come up later.

It’s a painful lesson to learn, but once you get in the mode of planning, the sessions go sooooo much better. There’s quite a bit less drama in the studio with this short meeting.

Here’s a quick look at what your backup directory should look like. Note the date convention: year, month, day.