Mixing Engineers with HD24 compliance?

[Scinx]

Just throwing this out there - cause its something Ive been curious about. Are there any quality, mixing engineers who work on an indie budget that could take an HD24 caddy and mix from that? I know that one can take tracks from the caddy and DL them to computer and send them that way - I was just wondering if that step might not be necessary.

[robmix]

Originally Posted by Scinx

Just throwing this out there - cause its something Ive been curious about. Are there any quality, mixing engineers who work on an indie budget that could take an HD24 caddy and mix from that? I know that one can take tracks from the caddy and DL them to computer and send them that way - I was just wondering if that step might not be necessary.

That's what rental houses are for. Some studios have all kinds of formats available, and you might actually find someone with an HD24, but at least here in L.A,. the big rental places have every format a studio could need and it's no big deal to rent a machine for a day or a week or whatever it takes. For what it's worth I can't think of any big time mix engineers who use the HD24.

[Scinx]

Makes sense. My impression was that most wouldnt have an HD24 - but I didnt think of the rental avenue. Thanks for the post.

[jayfrigo]

Originally Posted by Scinx

Makes sense. My impression was that most wouldnt have an HD24 - but I didnt think of the rental avenue. Thanks for the post.

We have HD24XRs in the remote truck, but we always hook up the HD caddy to the G5 and drag the tracks into pro tools. But, sure, I guess we could mix right from the Alesis... but I cant think of why that would be desireable...

if you will forgive an edit just a second after the original post....
ah, you just want to be able to send the Alesis drive and not have to do a transfer yourself; not actually work off the unit. OK, that makes sense. Yes, we can do that. However, I still would not feel comfortable sending the original drive without having a backup somewhere.

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[Jay Kahrs]

Yeah, like Rob said you'll probably have to have the material transferred to a DAW or the mix engineer will have to rent an HD24. Still, I'd assume that most mix engineers would rather work off their preferred machine for purely logistical reasons. Even if they can find one to rent, the mix AE have to interface it with the rest of their rig and have a way to control it, which may or may not be possible.

Really though, getting your multi-tracks into the right format for the mix engineer is usually the smallest hurdle to overcome in mixing. You're really better off preparing the tracks for whatever format and/or machine the mixer wants to use for your project.

[Scinx]

It makes total sense. I suppose my intent wasnt clear. I wasnt attempting to convey the idea of "how can I save myself work" as Id much prefer to do as much as I possibly could. I guess the intent was: for those who dont have the capability to transfer - are there people out there who can mix off of it (to which the answer is, yes through rental, etc.), or, in a related theme, if there were mixing eng's out there who use it, then that would go into consideration as it would cut out that additional step without any additional cost. Perhaps it was a vacuous question.

My curiousity is satisfied now though...

Thanks again for the responses

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by Scinx

are there people out there who can mix off of it (to which the answer is, yes through rental, etc.), or, in a related theme, if there were mixing eng's out there who use it, then that would go into consideration as it would cut out that additional step without any additional cost. Perhaps it was a vacuous question.

Usually the cost of a format transfer is the least of it. Worst case is that it might cost a few hundred bucks, but that's nothing compared to what you can spend on a mix engineer, studio and mastering. If all of those are going to cost (hypothetically, YMMV) around $6000, what's another $300 for a transfer?

[Gie-Sound]

The studio I most often use for mixing has a HD24.
I normally mix from the PT HD system, but I have had to mix projects that were brought in on a HD24 caddie... I just put it in the Alesis machine and transfer everything to PT HD...
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