Unfortunately Ardour is barely known among people who work at radio stations in Germany. I’ve been telling a lot of people about it - hope some of them might give it a try some time…
Since Ardour 4 has solved the problems I had had with audio export under Ardour 3 I can actually use Ardour as a reliable system for doing my work.
Now it has shown its reliability during my last feature on Deutschlandradio Kultur ( http://www.deutschlandradio.de ): dealing with a biographical film about bassist Jaco Pastorius.
It was fun to mix it using a Mackie MCU Pro - though I’m still a beginner with that and find it still tricky to handle automation with faders.
Here is a screenshot of my project:
And this is the result:
It was a great fun - with:
Ardour 4.6
TangoStudio on Debian 7
Mackie MCU Pro
Spendor M100 monitors
Neumann TLM49
and a twelve years old Pentium 4 pc…
Thank you very much.
Fortunately it’s still possible in German radio to make such features. Hopefully it might be possible in future, too…
By the way, the DVD is very nice - a good film, not just for bass players.
That automation looks like a nightmare to get right…or is it easier to draw that in Ardour 4? (i’m still on an older version with connect-the-dots style)
Also, what combination of compression and de-essers settings do you have on the main narration? It sounds very pleasant!
As for the automation: Yes I use Ardour 4 (meanwhile 4.7 of course) and it works fine. I could already draw this stuff in Ardour 3 but got a serious problem when exporting my project to a *.wav file. I guess it had something to do with my individual use of automation.
Glad to hear that you like the sound. Actually I have not used any effects like compression and de-essing or other ones…
Just a combination of:
