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PRO TOOLS HD3

I have been using Pro Tools for more than 8 year. I use the top-of-the-line Pro Tools HD3 system. There are a lot of different Pro Tools systems out there and they are NOT the same. They range from free online systems to the $20,000 HD3 system (which I use); so find out which system someone is talking about when they say "Pro Tools." Mine is one of the few Bay Area studios that exclusively uses the Pro Tools HD3 System with 192K Sampling through Digidesign's 192 D/A Interfaces. It blows the other Pro Tools systems away. In addition to better sound quality, the HD3 System uses HD plug-Ins (mixing effects) that blow away the other system's plug-ins.

PRO TOOLS VS. TAPE

There was once a battle between Digital and Analog. It's over now: Digital won when Pro Tools launched the HD system. The biggest studios in the world started replacing their tape decks with HD systems a few years ago and now some have even begun replacing their analog boards with all digital interfaces! . . . Old habbits die hard for some but we new they'd come around.

Now that Pro Tools HD System has made the sound quality between digital and analog recording indistinguishable, there are only two major differences between Pro Tools HD and analog (besides the analog his which i can add for no extra charge if you'd like).

1) Pro Tools has Recallable Mixes:

I have chosen to operate exclusively in Pro Tools and avoid analog recording and outboard effects for one important reason: it allows for 100% recallable mixes. This means that you can take a CD home with you, listen to it and then come back and make adjustments by simply re-opening the file. This is not the case with analog studios. Even those with "automated" boards lack the ability to recall most settings such as effects, compression, EQ, etc. Ultimately, this means you're stuck with your analog mix, for better or worse or, that you need to spend costly hours per song writing down all of your settings and then re-entering them every time you want to try to touch something up. Simple as it sounds, it's not: it sucks and takes too much time and money.

Here, you can listen to your CD at home and make notes, then come back for adjustments and leave with a new CD in a matter of minutes! It's the only way to go for anyone wants to get their music sounding just right. And why shouldn't you? It only takes minutes.

2) Pro Tools Saves you Time and Money

Editing - Another benefit of Pro Tools HD over analog is the ability to edit quickly. By copying, pasting or sliding, we are able to edit mistakes in your performance effortlessly. This saves hours of tracking, re-tracking and punching which results in you saving money or having more time left for additional overdubs and mixing. It also cuts back on a lot of the frustration and pressure of re-taking over and over again.