From: BT To: 3dsmax@engramdigital.com <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Subject: Re: home recording Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:56 AM Well, I use both Cool Edit Pro and Sound Forge. Of the two I think cool Edit is much better. Unfortunately you can't bring video into either of the two unless there's plugins that i'm not aware of. Cool Edit Pro 1.2 has pretty good reverb effects and have great EQ adjustment. It also allows you record up to 64 individual tracks. What makes it so powerful is that you can mixdown, say, 63 tracks, play them and record the 64th track all realtime. It's VERY powerful software if you are into multi-track recording. Sound Forge cannot do that. Generally, if i'm doing ambient noises for my animations I get them all together and mix them in cool edit because I have the greatest amount of flexibility there. The only thing SF does very well is noise reduction, but you can buy that as a plugin for cool edit if you really need it. Wich brings me to the next point- Cool Edit is much cheaper. Unless things have changed recently, cool edit is a few hundred dollars cheaper than SF. Strange, because it's much more powerful. But then, people in our industry tend to believe more money gets you a better product which is obviously totally untrue. It also doesn't help that it sounds like a 12 year old came up with the name cool edit. I would also suggest is getting a high end sound card, like a sound blaster live which will give you a host of additional hardware accelerated effects and a low signal to noise ratio. You could definitely get away using a SB Live value, which costs under $50. With this setup i'm capable of making professional sounding recordings with basic musical and recording equipment. There is no need for mixing boards, effects boards, or anything related to that. -BT >>I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on recording sounds for my >>animations at home. Sounds would include voice overs and general >>effects. I >>remember the guy(s)? who did pump action mentioning a certain system >>which >>was set up at home, and the sound in that turned out well. >>Are there any programs one would recommend over others? For example: >>Sound >>forge vs. Cool Edit Pro? Also, what about the recording hardware? Are >>there >>decent microphones out there that I can plug directly into my computer? >>Do I >>need to buy a special mixing board or is that function achieved through >>the >>software? >>I'm currently running a PC on the Win2k platform. >> >>thanks in advance for your help- >> >>Pasc -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net