Topic: Babyface Blues
I'm a classical pianist living in Thailand. I was recently sent a grand piano to make recordings of music for the piano manufactures using the harmonic pedal. I bought an Earthworks piano mic, babyface and headphones in USA. I'm not a sound engineer so am having a VERY hard time getting used to the abbreviations, dial, sliders and so on in TotalMix. I've watched the video tutorials which just run though the old software and please excuse me, but they are not helping me as a musician understand what each TotalMix element is for specifically - rather they seem an itinerary of the software's available elements and it's assumed you would know.
I can get a recording from my piano mic, but frustrating can't get the babyface to playback recordings. I'm using Logic Express. As a solution, far from ideal, I go into Logic's sound preferences and deselect babyface and go for the internal mics, apply changes and so on. Back and forwards. There must be a better way. My headphones are plugged into the side of babyface. I've been clicking left right up and down on anything and everything - nothing happens (for 2 long days). I'm in AN/12 trying to make something happen. I've selected phones on the babyface and so on.
Can anyone please - in simple day to day English language, not in anymore sound engineering jargon! - help me get to playback my recordings? I (I use iMac. btw)
Paul.