Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ronald Glaser. You can either address me as Ronald, or as Ron, preferably Ron. I am 43 years old, and currently reside in Aberdeen SD, although I'm currently at an independent living program, (No, not ACB, nor NFB,) located in Sioux Falls. - That will be finnished however mid February, at which point... well, it's a long story... anyway... I'll just leave it to say I may be moving to the Charlotte NC area. Yes, I do know Christopher Gilland. He and I both run the ministry you see at the bottom of all his e-mails. So yes. I know him face to face, quite well! We go way back!
The reason for me joining this list is, the state of SD is very seriously considering buying me all the equipment I'll need to get started using ProTools from a blind standpoint. I already have a mac, which I know is good enough specs to easily support ProTools. I've done lots of homework on that front! Where I am getting stuck is, more or less, mixers/interfaces as well as possible control surfaces. Currently, I use Reaper both on Windows, as well as the mac. I don't know that I totally right now want to throw Reaper down the bath tub's drain, sota speak, but in the long run, my ultimate goal would be to get some training through Chris, as well as look at the ProTools With Speech stuff done by Matt Diemert, and Rod. I've heard some of it while down visiting Chris over christmas, and was highly impressed at the level of what all was covered in depth. For its price, I don't think I can beat it! I'm no newby when it comes to audio production, as my mother, Wanda, who God rest her soul left us in 2016, and I did a lot of things in that field helping others. That said, I am indeed a newby with the more pro-grade end of things. I say this to say, I know a fair amount of termanology and what not, so don't feel like you have to be super super super elementary with me. Keep it general, but I'm no baby either when it comes to this stuff. So, here is what I'm currently thinking, and I wanted to reach out to you all with these questions. Firstly, are there any places like Sweetwater in the US that sell ProTools already bundled with an iLok included? All be it, I know they're only about $50.00, (give or take a bit of shipping cost,) but I figured that if I could get it included somehow with my order, that would simplify things a bit. Secondly, here's the interface I'm currently looking at. I saw one at Sam Ash Music, and absolutely fell in love with the thing! I'm thinking of the Yamaha MG10XU 10 Channel Mixer with USB and SPX Effects. Find out more at: http://www.samash.com/mg10xu-10-channel-mixer-with-usb-and-spx-effects-ymg10xuxx This page should also have the manual. I'm going to go through it myself, actually. I think it's a PDF, so it shouldn't be that terribly bad. What I need to ascertain however is, firstly, I want to get a mike bundle package now that Sam Ash is locally offerring here. It comes with a mike cable, (XLR of corse,) a floor mike stand, and an SM58 mike. You're looking just over $200 for the bundle. http://www.samash.com/shure-sm58-microphone-package-ssm58pack Firstly though, isn't the SM58 a dynamic mike, not a condenser? I hear these are great mikes, I've heard them in action, and they sound wonderful! The only thing is, if it's a dynamic mike, then wouldn't I need some kind of a pre between the mike and my interface? I'm thinking otherwise, I won't get enough input signal to the board to drive that mike at any decent level. I hear these mikes are more designed for live performances than for studio sessions. I'm planning to record both singing lead vocals, maybe some backings multi tracked, as well as using it for spoken word. I'm looking for a bright crisp yet warm praise and worship style kind of sound. I'll be recording both unplugged acoustic as well as full band style material in the long term. This Yamaha board definitely does have a 40V I think it is phantom power on/off, not that I'd need that with the SM58, but with something like a Blue Bluebird which I'm also considering, I would, as that is a condenser mike. I'm pretty sure it's cardioid for the pickup pattern. It's definitely not figure 8's. The effects on this board by the way are accessible from what I can see. They're just dials. My biggest question is however, do any of you all know if this board can toggle on/off the direct input monitor. I don't want to be monitoring both through the board's incoming signal as well as the monitor within ProTools on my armed track/tracks. I'd rather set up a send within ProTools either to a bus/output, or to an AUX input, and monitor that way, or of corse if the Yamaha has any sends already on board, that would be nice. Also, I might use this board with Skype when doing some internet broadcasting, so mix minus would also be a great feature to have, but at the very least, I'm not buying this thing without knowing first if direct monitoring can be turned on or off, or at least level adjusted down to essentially nul. So, what do you all think of this setup? Do you think the Yamaha would work? Also, does anyone know if this board is just an interface, or does it have full control surface ability as well. For its cost, I highly doubt it's a surface, but, hey, you never know! We might be surprised, I mean, admittedly, this does look like a damn nice unit! Thank you for any guidance. Ron. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
