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Expert Profile: Wayne Tapia

Expertise: Ask me general questions about Location Recording, foley, ADR, Pro Tools, recording musical performance, post production for film/video & music. Specific gear questions may or may not be answerable as I don't own or have not worked with everything out there.

Experience in the area
Certified Audio Engineer, Pro Tools Certified, Have experience with : Pro Tools (LE & TDM systems) Sony Suite (Vegas, Acid, Sound Forge) Waves Plugins (RTAS & TDM) Over 20 years live music recording and FOH mixing Feature & short film audio Mixing for 5.1 surround

Organizations
ASCAP AES

Education/Credentials
Audio Recording Technology Institute - C.A.E. Vancouver Film School - Digidesign Certified User

Past/Present Clients
See my online resume @ http://imdb.com/name/nm2301451/resume for client listings

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Something controversial or provocative about this subject One of the big myths in the world of digital audio is that one cable "sounds" better than another. The truth is digital audio is a bitstream of 1's and 0's. I was part of an experiment where we attached RCA plugs to a piece of steel coat hanger wire. It worked perfectly, and our "blind" ears (who we told it was an expensive "digital" cable) actually said it sounded better.

Average Ratings
Prestige Points: 1110
Knowledge	9.97 Best of the best
Clarity of Response	10.0 Best of the best
Timeliness	10.0 Best of the best
Politeness	10.0 Best of the best
Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		10
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		171

Recent Reviews from Users

Knowl	Clarity	Time	Politeness	Date
10	10	10	10	08/25/08
10	10	10	10	08/12/08
10	10	10	10	07/30/08
10	10	10	10	07/30/08
10	10	10	10	06/01/08

User Comments

I hear you and understand. Thanks for the quick response! You'll get all 10 rating from me and I'll throw in a nomination vote.
(Reg on 08/25/08)

Thanks much for your reply, your advice helped a lot. Ethan. :)
(Ethan on 08/12/08)

thnx again.
(VAL on 07/30/08)

Thank you very much..I really appreciate it. I knew I could coun't on you for advice. =)
(VAL on 07/30/08)

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Recent Answers from Wayne Tapia

2008-08-25 Mixing: The simple answer is a resounding no. When in the digital audio realm, ANY clipping is bad, whether on individual or master channels. Digital clipping is normally an ugly sound that most engineers and...

2008-08-12 Re: Home Recording, PC: You'll need a multitrack mixing program that can import MP3's for editing. I believe that Acid can do this (not totally positive, though). You can look into Cakewalk and Cubase as well... I use macs...

2008-08-04 Regarding phasing: If your program allows it (Pro Tools does), try inverting the polarity of one of the problem tracks. Offsetting the track by a few ticks is good, but not always effective. It is odd that the guitar...

2008-08-03 Regarding phasing: Here's the wikipedia definition: "Consider two waves that are in phase,with amplitudes A1 and A2. Their troughs and peaks line up and the resultant wave will have amplitude A = A1 + A2. This is known...

2008-07-22 Laptop recording: I'm leaning toward the external sound card option. I doubt the version of acid would cause a change of that nature. The delay in recording... are you talking about latency or an echo? If it's latency...