new mix room
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metalkingdom said:
So you can actually hear a difference with and external clock? can anyone elaborate on the advantages?
MX582
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ha ha... well.. waiting for the Electrician who's scheduled to come tomorrow, so the room is still just bare studs... i have my PT rig set up for doing some editing work and some small tweaks to mixes i did in Atlanta. the Genelec 8050A's and 7070A sub set-up is the best i've ever owned or worked on... really digging them.
here's something i've changed since getting this new rig... bye bye Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro (well, i's been relegated to my old DP rig). now with PT i'm exclusively using the Apple Mighty Mouse.
it's all about the "scroll ball"... it's not a scroll-wheel, it's not a track-ball... the scroll ball is awsome for navigating the edit view of just about any DAW...scolls the page up/down and left/right in a very smooth, usable way. navigating a session is shitloads easier with this mouse than any other mouse i've ever used. i disable the side-buttons because the mouse lives in a small liittle area on my temporary desk and i have to pick it up and set it down a lot because of that, causing me to hit those side-bottuns. i don't need them, so no biggie. the scroll ball is enough, it's that damn cool. by the way, it may not look like it, but it is a two-button mouse with left and right click in the normal spots... you just can't see the bottons, but they are there, and work perfectly.
here's something i've changed since getting this new rig... bye bye Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro (well, i's been relegated to my old DP rig). now with PT i'm exclusively using the Apple Mighty Mouse.
it's all about the "scroll ball"... it's not a scroll-wheel, it's not a track-ball... the scroll ball is awsome for navigating the edit view of just about any DAW...scolls the page up/down and left/right in a very smooth, usable way. navigating a session is shitloads easier with this mouse than any other mouse i've ever used. i disable the side-buttons because the mouse lives in a small liittle area on my temporary desk and i have to pick it up and set it down a lot because of that, causing me to hit those side-bottuns. i don't need them, so no biggie. the scroll ball is enough, it's that damn cool. by the way, it may not look like it, but it is a two-button mouse with left and right click in the normal spots... you just can't see the bottons, but they are there, and work perfectly.
...is yours wireless??
MX582
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JeffTD
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James - did you opt for the Wireless option? I've been heavily considering getting a wireless keyboard and Mighty Mouse, it's good to hear the MM getting good reviews, and that scroll ball is genius.
nah, i just have the wired one that came with my new Quad G5. the less wireless shit around me the happier i am.. i'm convinced all this wireless shit is going to give us all cancer.
That mouse looks fucking cool - I've been wondering when someone would do the top of mice like that, I'm always cleaning gunk out from the cracks in my mice and it's driving me nuts. Out of plain curiosity, does that scroll wheel thing double as a third button? I know I'd play a lot of Half Life on any computer I bought, have to keep my bases covered...
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JeffTD
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kev
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James Murphy said:
Im up with that james. Im thinking of gettting rid of this old crt for a lcd for the exact reason. Anyway, wireless i find to be a bloody nitemare for many obvious reasons... cord mouse forever for me!
Wireless mice wouldn't have worked for me because of the little one running around - my parents used to have a trackball mouse and the little bugger would yank the ball out and hide it from them, no telling what he'd do with a whole mouse.
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unsilpauly
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im with you there man. its hard enough keeping track of all the remote controls. or if he gets into the studio and im workin. the kid loves the faders and all the gear with buttons and knobs.JBroll said:
I really don't trust anything wireless. The fact it could cause cancer (not proven, still theory, but then again you really never know) is scary enough but I also just feel better with wires. I can see them and makes troubleshooting things a little easier. No worry about interference or other weird wireless oddities.
That said, the mighty mouse is pretty sweet and the scroll ball is cool but I still don't think I could give up my Kensington trackball! Just so used to it and I program the buttons to change tools or for different tasks.
*e-mails Kensington to ask for a scroll wheel on new trackballs*
That said, the mighty mouse is pretty sweet and the scroll ball is cool but I still don't think I could give up my Kensington trackball! Just so used to it and I program the buttons to change tools or for different tasks.
*e-mails Kensington to ask for a scroll wheel on new trackballs*
Um, guys...
Wireless is everywhere. Period. If you have a cordless or cell phone, a pager, a laptop, a neighbor with a wireless internet connection, any telly or radio stations in the area, you're in trouble. With the way technology is right now, avoiding wireless mice would be like feasting on the flesh of rotting animals and then buying your burgers from McDonalds burnt to a crisp because you're afraid of food poisoning.
That being said, wireless mice are a pain in the ass and have made me lose all hope in electronic engineering on a number of occasions.
Jeff
Wireless is everywhere. Period. If you have a cordless or cell phone, a pager, a laptop, a neighbor with a wireless internet connection, any telly or radio stations in the area, you're in trouble. With the way technology is right now, avoiding wireless mice would be like feasting on the flesh of rotting animals and then buying your burgers from McDonalds burnt to a crisp because you're afraid of food poisoning.
That being said, wireless mice are a pain in the ass and have made me lose all hope in electronic engineering on a number of occasions.
Jeff
kev
Im guybrush threepwood
JBroll said:
yep! But i guess it makes sense to cut down on the major influences perhaps. Having said that guys... i watched a program about chernoybl and there ended up being no conclusive evidence of the disaster leading to an increase in cancer- and furthermore concluded that a fair dose does good.
Andy Sneap
Metal Guru
We had an interesting discussion when cradle were here. How come when soon to be super heroes get exposed to radiation of sorts, they only develope really useful superpowers? How come its not something really useless like a huge big toe or the ability to reverse park?
Chernobyl hasn't had the impact we thought it would - no leukemia, very little actual cancer, more killed in the explosion than from side effects to the best of our knowledge, and a very low projection for cancer death in the future - 9000 out of six and a half million thought to be in extreme danger may die from it, so they will have lost more to bad vodka and smoking. Do keep in mind that irradiation is used in a lot of places where the word 'radiation' doesn't mean 'evil bad death stuff KILL IT NOW!' (including food on space flights) and has great effect in killing off whatever anaerobic bacteria may be living in there, that radiation treatment is a big part of getting rid of many types of cancer (although in more controlled doses); 'radiation sickness' proper requires a lot of exposure and is only really found in people who originally produced and/or handled lots of the early radioactive materials like radium (like Marie Curie) and nuclear fuel in early Soviet test programs. Radiation does not necessarily mean death - more people die from talking on their phones while driving dangerously than from getting cancer because of them.
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