Mile
Zero

The just-released Best of B-SPAN podcast is my first Pro Tools production. As promised, it is almost completely revamped, and includes a musical bed with gratuitous software synthesizers. Probably not very exciting for anyone else, but it's a big step forward--even if Pro Tools is driving me nuts trying to figure out why the busses aren't bouncing to audio tracks.

The funny thing about using a real heavy-duty audio workstation, as opposed to Audacity or a bundled copy of Cubase, is that I'm spending a lot of time in the virtual equivalent of hooking up a VCR. Virtual outputs go to virtual inputs, creating signal chains to do what I want--such as the pre-emptive ducking, which splits the vocal track between a compressor and a delay. In real life it would probably bore me to tears. When it's mouse driven, I could rewire the virtual studio all day long.