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Cato Zane
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Hi everyone! Here's some info about me:
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With a diverse career in audio, Cato has worked on everything from traveling Broadway shows, to Super Bowl commercials, to working with numerous Grammy winners. She currently works full time as an audio engineer and music producer, specializing in indie cinematic pop music. She is the head engineer at Lost and Sound Foundry, a boutique studio in San Diego that she is proud to have recently opened after years of working in larger commercial studios.
She recently graduated from Columbia University, getting straight A’s (not even a single A minus!) while earning a masters in Music and Music Education. During her time there, she worked for Columbia University as an applied studio music instructor, teaching digital composition and audio engineering to a few students each term. She was also hired as a TA for her program advisor for two semesters in a row (her final two semesters).
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With a diverse career in audio, Cato has worked on everything from traveling Broadway shows, to Super Bowl commercials, to working with numerous Grammy winners. She currently works full time as an audio engineer and music producer, specializing in indie cinematic pop music. She is the head engineer at Lost and Sound Foundry, a boutique studio in San Diego that she is proud to have recently opened after years of working in larger commercial studios.
She recently graduated from Columbia University, getting straight A’s (not even a single A minus!) while earning a masters in Music and Music Education. During her time there, she worked for Columbia University as an applied studio music instructor, teaching digital composition and audio engineering to a few students each term. She was also hired as a TA for her program advisor for two semesters in a row (her final two semesters).
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Contact me: cato@catonoise.com
Analog vs. Digital: Why Are We Fighting?!
Analog vs. Digital: Why Are We Fighting?
In this video, we chat about analog and digital audio, including how they work, some pros and cons for each, and some drama about the topic.
*** Patreon & Merch ***
www.patreon.com/CatoNoise
cato.threadless.com/
*** Show Notes and Resources ***
My Analog vs Digital vs Acoustic Video: ruclips.net/video/7KipzTLjFjQ/видео.htmlsi=UNFv4MLfWXIHhMlJ
Reverb History Video: ruclips.net/video/X-4L5VWrHGc/видео.htmlsi=O3koC1aYukokCPAY
Perfecting Sound Forever Book: amzn.to/3WeQxa9
My Video on Sample Rate and How Digital Works: ruclips.net/video/DS4Eib-BiKE/видео.htmlsi=7KUfUvii_wsPZCsc
This is What it Sounds Like Book: bookshop.org/a/87346/9780393541250
My Booksh...
In this video, we chat about analog and digital audio, including how they work, some pros and cons for each, and some drama about the topic.
*** Patreon & Merch ***
www.patreon.com/CatoNoise
cato.threadless.com/
*** Show Notes and Resources ***
My Analog vs Digital vs Acoustic Video: ruclips.net/video/7KipzTLjFjQ/видео.htmlsi=UNFv4MLfWXIHhMlJ
Reverb History Video: ruclips.net/video/X-4L5VWrHGc/видео.htmlsi=O3koC1aYukokCPAY
Perfecting Sound Forever Book: amzn.to/3WeQxa9
My Video on Sample Rate and How Digital Works: ruclips.net/video/DS4Eib-BiKE/видео.htmlsi=7KUfUvii_wsPZCsc
This is What it Sounds Like Book: bookshop.org/a/87346/9780393541250
My Booksh...
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Pro Tools Won't Open? Easy Troubleshooting Tips!
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Pro Tools Won't Open? Easy Troubleshooting Tips! In this video, we chat about a couple of things you can try when Pro Tools and/or your Pro Tools session won’t open. I hope it helps someone out there! Patreon & Merch www.patreon.com/CatoNoise cato.threadless.com/ Show Notes and Resources Optimization & Troubleshooting Page: avidtech.my.salesforce-sites.com/pkb/articles/Troubleshooting/en367983 ...
How to Pick a Recording Studio: 15 Tips for Artists, Musicians, and Bands
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Pro Tools Basics: Setting Your Default Fade Type - Have You Set It For Your Style of Music Making?
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Interview with Emmy Winning Composer and Music Producer Lars Deutsch
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I hit Top 10 locally, without giving any payments. Interesting...
I watched the entire video and didnt see where you told me how to change the note value. If i want to add quarter notes or half notes using the pencil tool...where can switch the value? Thanks.
Great stuff. Thanks for the deatailed explanation.
Helpful for me thanks
plus and minus don't work on my normal keypad without the numeric functions..
High fidelity capturing or creation of Lo-fi sounds and tones makes music more interesting. Great video!
Appreciate this
What the hell is a "soundboard"?
thank you so much. very helpful
Thanks for the review! I’ve been eyeing this for a while. Can you get individual tracks off the SD card? or just the mix down
secondly, the pleasure of handling a tape or a 33 1/3 disc on a turntable appeals to all the senses which contributes to a better experience: sight, smell, touch, listening. (maybe not the taste!
I think the same way as you, first of all because we live in a digital audio world which is technologically more advanced than analog, but which allows us to better reproduce the warm side of the analog audio world. I work with analog audio (Neve Burl and Chandler preamps, Revox open reel), but also digital audio equipment (Lexicon and Antelope Audio)
Why is there no phantom power on individual tracks? Does that mean you can only put it on all them at once?
I have this theory that we are wired to understand our feelings as truth. Like when we are young, and fall in love, we're convinced that our feelings prove we're supposed to be with that person forever. So, maybe, when folks hear that analog warmth, twist the real knobs, see the beautiful gear all racked up they feel so good, and it does sound good. Ergo, it must be better, like measurably better.
Amazing. Thank you so much - cheers from Toronto.
Great video, it’s always cool to learn something new. 🙌
Hi, Can I somehow block notes from octave 0 from being accepted from the keyboard in Pro Tools? I have a problem with random notes in this octave. Regards
You're absolutely correct! It's not just opinion. It is fact. digital is higher fidelity. Analog has more charm because of it's flaws. Warmth is derived from very subtle noise and distortion. The term that best applies is psychoacoustics. Both have their place. Preference is simply subjective. A narrow view is snobbery.
yes - psychoacoustics is it! Thank you! haha
Literally just had a comment war with another person on RUclips who wanted to make sure I was wrong about digital and analog, and he stated that there is no way a plugin will ever be better than analog and I don’t have enough experience with analog to have an opinion…I definitely have enough experience (like 15 years) with analog and digital both. People are just really aggressive sometimes and I realize that ignoring them is healthier than getting upset. The less time I argue the more time I have to mix master and produce.
Yeah, for real - it's not worth your energy. While they're out there arguing with someone else, you can just be creating music and having a blast! ^_^
I agree
This argument was over, done and totally bored with 30 years ago. I'm sorry but you are literally sharing the discovery of the wheel. Try to be inovative.
Then make your own videos if you can do better. You have zero videos on your RUclips channel.
don't think I said this was a discovery.....maybe you're thinking of something else
Everything is a fight
for real
As far as using tape is concerned I don't miss having to realign tape heads or clean the machine's tape path or redoing bias. I do miss using two stereo machines to produce tape phasing effects of which I've still to find a decent digital equivalent. Wearing headphones I don't get the same feeling of my head being squeezed and then released that I heard with tape phase. Even transferring such a recording to digital I lose that feeling. Digital is certainly cleaner and has a better dynamic range and I'm a fan but possibly as I have got older and my hearing has reduced in frequency response I may not be the best person to comment. No matter what you use, it is only a good as it's weakest link and what I hear will not be what you hear. For that reason alone I feel there will never be consensus of opinion on these types of topics.
Your video and Digital Is Dying & Why You Should Try Analog got recommended to me, side by side, LOL! I'mma just use the mixdown tape machines up on MixAnalog during the final steps because too much tape can be a bad thing. 😀
I came up in the 90s doing demos on tape and got into larger format recording when digital recording was still non-standard, and studios were only partially shifting over to hybrid rigs. Interned at a studio with 2x Studers and a Pro Tools rig. Back then the PT rig wasn't all that great, and we would A/B recordings where tape had more pleasing harmonics and significantly better bottom end. But 20 years on, digital recording has completely proved itself and thensome. While I still do like a few analog outboard compressors & boxes with tubes for the distortion they add in the chain, I don't miss dealing with large format tape machines and maitenance. Honestly the gap has been closed for awhile now that I'm surprised people would still be fussing over analog vs digital. Just make music!
I’ve worked in both. I loved the big studio analog workflow. And I still don’t think anything I’ve ever heard sounded as good as a playback of a 2” master that’s still fresh, with all of its top still intact. But I also remember hearing the playback off a Sony DASH machine for the first time, and it was gorgeous. And even a moron could nail difficult punch-ins with it. But this “argument” or “controversy” is basically over. From a technical, numbers perspective, digital audio wins, and from a sound perspective, the general consuming public, well, it’s not even a tiny blip on the radar. I’ll always miss big consoles, but I won’t miss the maintenance. THat’s the whole thing in a nutshell. Good video. Thanks for making it. Luke Korneff Audio
omg yeah, good point about the maintenance - I've worked in so many studios where the console is partially broken, and you just have to work around that.
@@CatoNoise - Oh man! I think it was rare that I worked in any studio that didn’t have channels that were out. Typically they were moved to the far end of the console if they were swappable. So, on a 56 input console, maybe 53 - 56 were kind of unusable. Even great studios with great maintenance... you could still come in on an overnight and a channel could be out. It was common. To troubleshoot or work on a big console, like an SSL, you’d pull the channel out, then plug in an extender card, then plug the channel into the extender, because unless you got the channel out of the console but still kept it plugged in, you couldn’t test it. There were good techs around, and great studios typically had really competent techs, but as the big studios went out, it got hard to find techs, and good techs were not cheap, so studios would wait until a bunch of stuff was broken before calling in a tech. Often the studio owner was or became the maintenance guy. SSLs had these huge power supplies, and they would blow, so there would be back-up power supplies floating around, like on the floor of the machine room, which typically had it’s own air conditioning system... And this isn’t even getting into analog tapedeck fun! Like cleaning it. Calibrating it. Wanting to kill someone because the intern somehow managed to magnetize the headstack because he supposedly learned how to do that in some class he took. Very different than running your entire set-up off a single UPS and fixing things by re-seating a USB cable. But... I admit, I kinda miss it all. But that’s mainly because I’ll never have to do all that stuff again. L Korneff Audio
@lukedelalio3155 haha yeah, I saw the same stuff with the SSL boards and such - I was definitely in the era where they would wait until a bunch of stuff was broken before attempting repairs. I imagine the tape era had even more maintenance issues! I've learned a bit about it over the years, but by the time I was working in studios, most tape machines in studios were decorations more than anything else.
Something to keep in mind is length of time digital audio has been so easily record-able. I remember when the DIGI001 was the only home studio Pro Tools option for bedroom producers. Since then, much has changed. There was also a time when there were no eq modules for engineers to use in large studios such as Capitol Records. They had to match the microphone to the desired color of sound they were going after and use the room as much as possible. (MANY YEARS AGO) Since then, much has changed. In my opinion, it's already more common than not for the hybrid scenario to be the most realistic choice for the modern engineer/producer: Analog desks with analog outboard gear shaping and leveling the signals being captured into a digital space for all of the precision edits, eq, intricate fx etc. ❤
I've personally settled on analog EQs/compressors while recording, only plugins during mixing and then for mastering, analog gear is once again "permitted" in the workflow. Otherwise, it's too much of a hassle due to mixing recall. "Baking in" the EQ with some light compression makes mixing easier/faster/subjectively better. Source: 16 years of music production experience.
@@RealHomeRecording exactly 😎
Yeah, 100%, I totally agree - and I still advocate for the idea that, when tracking, before reaching for an EQ, you should consider whether or not you can adjust mic placement to improve the sound instead. And omg I remember the DIGI series! I used to use a DIGI003 that I checked out from my school, and that thing felt so fancy at the time!
@@CatoNoise I know, right? I started with the 001, then I got the 003 Console felt like a dream to have motorized faders at the pad, haha Oh how things have changed! Now I have 3 different interfaces for 3 separate stations running different software and gear, lol One thing that I believe will remain timeless, that which you said about mic placement and eq. You are so on the money! Making an adjustment with a less than ideal mic can have surprising results!
@@CatoNoise agreed on adjusting the mic position and changing other things BEFORE touching the equalizer. Absolutely! Oh and try different microphones out if there's time...I've been doing that lately and mics I wouldn't think would work, did.
Very well said, thoughtful and highly articulate. Thank you for this!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it, and thanks for watching! ^_^
At lease in my computer (Windows) it's holding "START" to change the playlist height 💫
This is helpful. I am trying to get a score ready for studio musicians to play - do you ever doing tutoring for pay? I have a great Protools tutor but he doesn’t use the score much.
Can u plz enlighten me....while gain staging I set my faders to unity and adjusted the gain level for tht sweet spot hitting around zero in VU meter...now how will I balance the levels for each track while mixing...coz offcourse I have to touch the faders....without touching faders how will I balance the volume level of each track ???
the sophistication of ai these days will make it tough since it will at least not comment about the lyrics in an instrumental. i always ask "how many albums have you sold from being #1?"
can you learn me about pro tools please i from india
I do offer private pro tools lessons - you can email me at cato@catonoise.com or DM me on IG (@catonoise) if you're interested. Thanks!
Bruh!!! What a life saver! My Mac Mini thanks you!
Glad to help!
If you want this to do better you need to explain what this is about in the first few seconds. Im a software engineer with a fair bit of experience, but even I have no clue what you're talking about
maybe you should check out the full length video on my channel then.
The full length video explains it in more detail, but for a quick explanation: trashing preferences is a super common issue for Pro Tools users, so that's really who I made this short video for. Many users are finding the information on how to properly do it on blogs and stuff, and then they have trouble when they're using information that isn't quite right for their OS, so I'm just showing the path to find more accurate information. The concept of trashing preferences is super common for PT users, so that's why I'm not explaining it in this short, but I believe I explained it in another short instead - and I definitely explained it in the full length that this is taken from.
The video is excellent, just like all the others I’ve watched from you. Very interesting, useful, and with the appropriate explanations. I wanted to ask you a question that I’m not sure is possible. Is there a shortcut, like using CTRL + Command to disable inserts/plugins, similar to how you bypass inserts or all of them in a row? I know that using CTRL + Command + Option disables only the inserts in the first column. My question was quite lengthy, and I’m not sure if it’s entirely clear. Sending you my regards and thanks for the dedication you put into your videos.
Light to Dark on ReverbNation
Yep! Totally annoying, thanks for the groan
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has good sound editing I think. Aliens 2 comes to mind for sound design.
Audio sounds good on this recording :)
The scam basically is: the more you pay the higher your ranking is. Lol
yeah, that seems to be the gist of it!
@@CatoNoise thanks for the video, you explained it very well.:)
Great video
When I enable low latency monitoring, I cannot hear the audio on the track coming through my monitors or headphones. But when I turn it off, I can hear it just fine. Is there a setting that remedies this problem, so that I can hear my audio while in low latency monitoring mode to record?
What's really amazing is that I looked this video up SPECIFICALLY because I want to automate the endless smile I have in my pro tools session. Literally the EXACT plugin I needed to automate!!! Love you!
Ahaha, that's perfect! It's a good one - I don't use VSTs in Pro Tools a ton, but that's probably the one that I use most.
diddy party
My favorite trick, back in the day, was to run a tape to pre-delay the send to the plate (EMT 140) or the spring (AKG BX-20) simulating the back wall scatter of a hall. Distance between record and play head gave the delay. Could get the slap in tempo by vari-speeding the tape. Then the studio bought a 250 (and 251) and the universe changed.
Oooooh, I wish I could've been in the room for that!
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this was very helpful thanks
Also, has that studio ever recorded/mixed your type of genre? I worked with a studio that was owned by someone that played in a famous band in my area. I suspect, this studio had only recorded rock/metal because they didn't know how to mix in the congas or timbales. After the band decided to pay for extra studio time that night, the tech says "We can't have the studio run late because of the apartments next door." And everybody that heard the final mix said you couldn't hear the congas and the bass was too boomy. Never went back to that studio.
Oh yeah, that's a good one! And you're right: the genre thing also applies to the studio, and not just the engineer. That's too bad about your experience with that studio, I'm sorry to hear that happened.
I've always found it odd when the studio's set up time is within the session timeframe.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought this.
Yeah, I like to see it included, but the other side of that is that if you expect them to set up for you outside of your studio time, that often translates into asking them to run setup for free - and depending on how much time you've booked with them, and how much setup you require, that may or may or may not be worth it for them.
You can also look at this as… the bulk of what you’re paying a studio to do is accomplished during the setup. This is the time an engineer takes care of the technical stuff a musician would rather not. The workload during tracking is relatively light in comparison.
@@jamesseabrook3631 To some extent, yeah, I think I agree. But I also think a good engineer will actually be doing a lot during tracking too - it's just a different type of workload really. So for example: I listen critically and will coach my clients on performance and use some psych tricks to help them get a better performance, while also taking notes on takes, prepping and sometimes doing quick comps as we go - plus organizing the session, doing basic editing as we go, queuing up processing so it's ready to go when they walk back in, and more. Depending on the genre, this will often look a little different, but I think a good engineer does a lot during the recording process so that things will be as far along as possible by the time you walk back into the control room.
@@CatoNoise I understand what you're saying, and I don't mean to discount the work we do during tracking. It is very involving and engaging, especially if we are also wearing the producer hat. However, musicians tend to dismiss the time they aren't actually playing or performing as less relevant. It's a constant conversation I have with clients helping them understand why setup/soundcheck time is just as valuable and therefore deserves to be considered "part of the session." I suspect @englishoakrecording has never actually worked in a studio that was booked 24 hours every day in 8 hour blocks and doesn't fully appreciate what the studio does for it's clients. :) More conversations like this are hugely beneficial to that understanding.