Re: [LAU] Mixbus 32C (based on Ardour) and Reaper shootout

On 10/28/2016 02:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:31:39 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
>> There is a shootout going on with results next week:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDVSaoZhwQ
>>
>> Harrison Mixbus 32C is based on Ardour and incorporates at the mixing
>> stage the 32C channel strip that was used to make famous recordings by
>> Michael Jackson, Supertramp, Paul Simon, Zappa, etc, etc... Harrison
>> also contributes support and code to the Ardour project.
> Are you sure? Did Bruce Swedien use Ardour when recording Jackson? My
> information is that Bruce Swedien used analog mixing consoles. Bruce
> Swedien is a friend of a former friend and customer of this
> former friend's microphone company, where I worked as an engineer. I
> don't claim he didn't use Mixbus, but I doubt that much mixing was done
> with a virtual mixing console, if any. I'm sceptic when reading such
> name-dropping, especially in combination of old school musicians with
> new digital software. From where is this information? What songs where
> done with Mixbus, given that those artists already made music when even
> Linux didn't exist and they don't had much success within the last 20
> years. Which Zappa? Frank, who died in the beginning of the 90s?
They were recorded using Harrison consoles. Mixbus is emulating the
channel strips from those consoles.
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Received on Fri Oct 28 12:15:02 2016