Using Pro Tools Recording Software in a Home Recording Studio

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Part of the video series: How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio

Summary: Learn how to use Pro Tools LE software in your home recording studio in this free online music production video clip.

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By Tad Donley
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Tad Donley is a 25-year veteran producer, writer, singer, musician and music video creator who owns the popular Pro Sound And Video Recording Studio in Houston, TX.read more

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tadblows said

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on 8/2/2008 by this one he's had a few more scotches. "propriatory" hah. this guy loves a male to male a to d turnaround

qland said

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on 8/2/2008 This guy's the best!

masonbarringer said

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on 8/2/2008 hahaha, this guy is a -- idiot

on 8/2/2008 This (sigh), again is bad information. ProTools only records what you feed it. If you send a bad sound to be recorded, it will sound bad on playback. I'm also still unsure which single piece (“$35,000…HDIII convertor”) he's talking about. Digidesign’s top HD convertor (192) sells for approx. $3,200 (far less than his claim). In one of the other videos he referred to this same piece as a HDIII controller (MAJOR difference between a controller and convertor). His information is inconsistent which leads me to believe he doesn't understand the subject matter.

newrigel said

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on 8/2/2008 A real Pro Tools HD 3 Eccel system is very expensive, and YES the controller gives you an analog nature of MIXING that a mouse can't! Plus, if you have any REAL talent any DAW will work but it's all about less is more... Yes, the guy gets a bit hung up here and there but I want to see the posters that have bitched prior to mine and see their "how to" videos! Man, of course you can do better but man, just take your animosity somewhere else cool? It doesn't really matter how good or bad it is... it's how you can assimilate information and tell what's real from BS... If you ask my opinion, Pro Tools is way over rated and the faster the computers get the LESS your going to see PT's in the mainstream! Dual 48 bit FIXED POINT is what DAE uses which is sonically superior (theoretically speaking) but if you watch your gain staging on the summing buss on a native system there is really NO difference with dynamic music such as rock or any high dynamic material! The only time you'll hear any difference is on very antissimo passages in classical music etc. and most go ANALOG for that! Oh and my Apogee converters will EAT your Pro Tools 192 junk for breakfast! Digidesign is over-priced, over-hyped and just for the record...
At least the guy is trying...
By the way, Bob Katz said "I just received one of the most beautiful, dimensional, pure, spacious mixes I've ever heard. How was it done? In the Box, mixed digitally in Digital Performer."
Here is the link: http://recforums.pro soundweb.com/index.p hp/m/64944/8427/?SQ= 8a750dd0d87230fcb1c7 77a103fa5341#msg_649 44

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Tad Donley and I’m speaking in behalf of Expert Village about ProTools LE. This is for a computer thing and it is really going to sound pretty digital sounding. There is no warmth, nothing, it is just going to be flat, as a pancake and it is almost going to sound like your playing with the tinker toys. It is going to be… It is, you know, you can do a few things with it. If you are working with ?? or something like that or loops and you are trying make your own beat or something like that, you can possibly use it for some reason or probably not because those other ones that take care of the program itself, they don’t even need that. ProTools LE it is kind of a joke, now ProTools is good. I worked with ProTools for seven years, but I tell you what, there are a couple of things that can affect the sound. You have to really spend a lot of money on that controller in order to get it done proprietary, meaning that anything that you buy, you have to buy ProTools equipment to go with it. You can’t use something else. You can use a MOD 2 converter, but that sounds really lousy. It is not going to sound that good. It is going to sound digital. The guitar is going to sound different. You can use a Rosetta converter, which is good, Rosetta 800, but you have to switch back and forth on Rosetta. ProTools is supposed be the industry standard. It is supposed to be the leading one and I heard some good stuff before on ProTools and I heard some stuff that was not good enough on ProTools. A couple of things that happened are, number one, if you have to put in outboard stuff like Neve and SSL which cost a fortune by the way, just to get the sound warm, who has got that kind of money, who has $35,000 for that HD III convertor. I will show you how this sounds and this thing sounds great."

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