Recordinghacks has a Gefell M930 to give away this month.
Must... resist...
Hang on. It's a competition!
Gotta love Recordinghacks. They have yet another mic give-away, a pair of Telefunken Ela M 260 small-diaphragm tube condensers.
And I'm writing this entry to increase my chances of winning! Shameless, isn't it?
I've been enjoying Pro Tools 9 too and haven't even applied 9.0.x updates, but on Thursday night I had a showstopper.
I was playing multitrack for a show and it played two cues from different times in the playlist simultaneously. Took a reboot of my Mac to fix it.
I've seen a lot of weird PT stuff over the years, but I've never seen anything remotely like that.
Those chaps at Recording Hacks keep on doing it! There's another mic to win, and they say that if I mention it on my blog, it doubles my chances.
You know, you never can own too many microphones!
OK, so I knew this was true. But there is plenty of confusion about whether Pro Tools HD PCI cards are PCI or PCI-X. They have the PCI-X form factor and the recent PE6R4-I chassis is a PCI-X chassis.
So I took my chassis and Macbook Pro into work and loaded it with an HD2 configuration. The cards hang over the end of the PCI connector on the chassis' motherboard. But that's OK.
Since this is my eventual plan (when I can afford to buy PCI cards and at least one audio interface second-hand), I'm happy to report that it works! The weird thing is the disappearance of menu bar items on the right side—on my Macbook, that's the Time Machine, Bluetooth, Volume, Battery, and Date/Time icons. The Spotlight icon does not disappear.
But HD is still functional. And the menu bar thing is a known issue.