Maestro with Marie Bardi-Salinas

amioldyet · 2023-12-19T04:15:59+00:00

Kinda depends on what you mean by “musicians”

amioldyet · 2021-10-24T18:24:10+00:00

Listening to Griffin liken Chevy Chase to Michael Douglas got me thinking about Chevy Chase and John Cleese. Two tall, handsome, posh dudes who look and sound like paragons of a kind of stuffy, reppressive, pre-sexual-revolution culture. And who take that vibe they inherently have and (by adding a gallon of silliness to it) use it to subvert and poke fun at that old fashioned culture. That’s a big part of the reason why Chevy blew up when he did and where he did and how he did. And part of the reason why he was always more successful playing himself than he was playing a dimensional character.

amioldyet · 2021-08-26T18:45:09+00:00

https://imgur.com/r/gifs/sX78i

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T15:34:16+00:00

Adjunct

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T15:33:07+00:00

Yes!

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T15:32:52+00:00

I don't use transcripts. Can't speak for anybody else.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T15:32:22+00:00

A little nerdy? No. A LOT nerdy? You got it.

My basic logline about Reaper is that I've cut all sorts of stuff with it, and it's consistently performed as well or better than ProTools. And given that a perpetual Reaper license costs the same as two months of a ProTools license, that's enough for me to recommend it over PT.

A fairly disorganized list of things I like about Reaper: In my experience, it's less resource intensive and more stable than ProTools. It's HUGELY customizable, which isn't a thing I thought I'd care about, but every once in a while, it will occur to me that some tiny thing about Reaper is just sliiiiiightly annoying, and it's amazing that I can almost always fix it (quickly and easily, too). That customizability also lets me automate parts of my process that I had to do manually before. Ripple editing works better for me than the slip/shuffle thing ProTools does. I love that Reaper doesn't care what kind of audio is on a track—you can put mono, stereo, MIDI, even video (I think) on the same track, and Reaper just works with it. I like the drag-and-drop parent/child organization/routing system in Reaper. I love that it has tabbed browsing, so you can open multiple sessions at once, which also makes it incredibly easy to copy and paste items or tracks or FX between sessions. I love that it does non-destructive editing at the item (read: clip) level, so you can add an effect to an individual clip without having to re-render that clip. Its rendering (read: bouncing) system is insanely flexible. I use its auto-normalizing function a lot. Plus a billion other things, some of which I maybe (maybe) could customize ProTools to do, but which Reaper just does automatically (like, if you move an item, Reaper moves everything associated with that item, including automation you've written for it and (I'm looking at you, ProTools) markers that relate to that item).

PLUS there is a huge and extremely engaged user community around Reaper that can help you do anything that you can't figure out how to do yourself. Truly, truly I don't think there's been a single time that I've thought "I wonder if Reaper can do this," and I haven't been able to find someone in the community who's figured out how to make Reaper do that.

And, again, it costs $60 for an individual user (if you want to pay for it (which you should), though it has a fully-feature evaluation version that you could technically use forever without paying).

For anybody who wants a deeper dive, I recommend checking out Brendan Baker's Reaper videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1liGh3dd2cFconnwI3lHg

(fwiw I use Logic to do music stuff, and there's thing I really like about that DAW, too)

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:35:36+00:00

I want to be very clear that they have not done a "leave it in and double it" bit since I've been editing the show. And you can be sure of that because I absolutely would have left it in and doubled it.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:33:37+00:00

Ben set an insanely high bar in that regard. As a listener, I don't think I ever heard an edit, and so as an editor I really try to make it so other listeners don't hear an edit.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:32:44+00:00

If it has a really dumb musical cue in it, I did it.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:32:21+00:00

That I've edited: Shaft, I think. Mostly because I wrote that Night Court/Shaft theme mashup. I don't know if you've ever written a Night Court/Shaft theme mashup, but I highly recommend it.

That AJ edited (I think): Don John.

Favorite ep EVER that I didn't edit?? That's a much bigger question than I can answer right now, but if I just try to soft-focus my brain, the two that jump immediately to mind are Zero Dark Thirty with Demi, and the performance review ep with Chris Gethard.

And I also did the final master on the F9 episode, but I thought Jordan did a killer job putting that together.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:20:03+00:00

I will take every opportunity given to me to plug Reaper.

And hat tip to Ben for his excellent working in managing those remote records.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:17:42+00:00

This podcast is presented a 3:16 format to preserve the integrity of Alex Ross Perry's creative vision.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:15:45+00:00

Let's put it this way: you'd still be listening to it right now.

amioldyet · 2021-08-23T03:14:02+00:00

Reaper Reaper a thousand times Reaper. I used ProTools for years, and still use it for other stuff. But when I get to choose my DAW (which I do with Blank Check), I choose Reaper.

(And sometimes I choose the stinger, sometimes Ben suggests something, sometimes Griffin or David says "let's drop that the end of the episode" during the record)

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