DavidandMary
12-20-2008, 01:15 PM
Hey Guys,
I now have added SAC to my SAWStudio Full setup and wanted your advice. I have a two bedroom home studio. The first bedroom is for mixing. The second is where the double walled 7 x 7 recording booth with quiet ventilation is located. The inside dimension is only 6 x 6 after you figure the walls, the lumber and the foam on the walls, but I digress...
I have a RME FF400 interface. I remember that Dominic said that interface adds 32 x to your buffer setting. Before I get to those settings in detail, here is what I am doing now. I only record two mics right now. One is in the mixing bedroom so that I can talk to the person in the booth. The other mic is in the booth to record vocals and acoustic guitar.
I have out 1-2 in SAC going to the mixing room speakers with Bob's graphic EQ setup to help with the room acoustics and cooperate with my acoustic foam there. I have designated out 3-4 for the headphone feed into the headphone amp in the booth. I have designated the SPDIF out for my headphone feed in the mixing room. I use that for the majority of my mixing decisions so far.
Now that you know what we are doing, I want to know what you think is stable. I really love SAC. The reverb in the headphones and EQ are really neat. I can close my eyes and feel like I am in a real concert hall. It is breath-taking to me. My buffer settings are 2 x 48 (plus the 32 that Dominic told me about). I can do that if I make use of single commands and refrain from using the scroll wheel with the mouse. If I use the scroll wheel with the mouse, I drop output buffers. I also loose out buffers if I string two commands together. I do not loose buffers if I make a command, wait a second and then make another single command. So, is that stable enough? Or, is it pushing it too much. I must say that the latency that low is addictive. It feels so live in the phones!
But, what do you guys think? What do you suggest?
I now have added SAC to my SAWStudio Full setup and wanted your advice. I have a two bedroom home studio. The first bedroom is for mixing. The second is where the double walled 7 x 7 recording booth with quiet ventilation is located. The inside dimension is only 6 x 6 after you figure the walls, the lumber and the foam on the walls, but I digress...
I have a RME FF400 interface. I remember that Dominic said that interface adds 32 x to your buffer setting. Before I get to those settings in detail, here is what I am doing now. I only record two mics right now. One is in the mixing bedroom so that I can talk to the person in the booth. The other mic is in the booth to record vocals and acoustic guitar.
I have out 1-2 in SAC going to the mixing room speakers with Bob's graphic EQ setup to help with the room acoustics and cooperate with my acoustic foam there. I have designated out 3-4 for the headphone feed into the headphone amp in the booth. I have designated the SPDIF out for my headphone feed in the mixing room. I use that for the majority of my mixing decisions so far.
Now that you know what we are doing, I want to know what you think is stable. I really love SAC. The reverb in the headphones and EQ are really neat. I can close my eyes and feel like I am in a real concert hall. It is breath-taking to me. My buffer settings are 2 x 48 (plus the 32 that Dominic told me about). I can do that if I make use of single commands and refrain from using the scroll wheel with the mouse. If I use the scroll wheel with the mouse, I drop output buffers. I also loose out buffers if I string two commands together. I do not loose buffers if I make a command, wait a second and then make another single command. So, is that stable enough? Or, is it pushing it too much. I must say that the latency that low is addictive. It feels so live in the phones!
But, what do you guys think? What do you suggest?