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Post by svart on Jul 16, 2017 10:19:38 GMT -6
So I stole this from John to post here..
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 11:09:05 GMT -6
So I showed up to the Tracking Room yesterday to experience the new vintage, and of course meet some forum members! It was great to finally meet jsteiger and stratboy, although it was a pretty seriously packed event and didn't get to talk too much with everything going on. Got to talk to the cool folks at Coil Audio, Roswell Mics, Placid audio and Stager mics. All cool products for sure. Then this guy shows up.. View AttachmentYeah that guy shows up and everything seams to go to hell!😎
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 16, 2017 12:33:40 GMT -6
Camera adds 60 lbs
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 14:01:07 GMT -6
Damn I need that camera !
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Post by noah shain on Jul 16, 2017 15:07:50 GMT -6
That studio looks KILLER! The guys in it are handsome too. But the ROOM!!!
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Post by kcatthedog on Jul 16, 2017 16:14:26 GMT -6
Ya the gear and rooms:over the friggin top,scuse me while I go back to my basement ! basterds !
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 17:09:48 GMT -6
That studio looks KILLER! The guys in it are handsome too. But the ROOM!!! Yeah I keep sayin we should be Roomslutz, but it's way to expensive of a reality to get any traction!
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 16, 2017 19:41:14 GMT -6
It's funny...I had the conversation with more than one person that I hadn't been to the Tracking Room in about 10 years...and they were saying the same thing. There are just SO many around here...and dropping like flies.
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Post by noah shain on Jul 16, 2017 19:51:55 GMT -6
It's funny...I had the conversation with more than one person that I hadn't been to the Tracking Room in about 10 years...and they were saying the same thing. There are just SO many around here...and dropping like flies. I just geeked out on their website...holy heck that is a nice studio.
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 19:59:13 GMT -6
It's funny...I had the conversation with more than one person that I hadn't been to the Tracking Room in about 10 years...and they were saying the same thing. There are just SO many around here...and dropping like flies. I just geeked out on their website...holy heck that is a nice studio. Yeah Hard not to fall in love with a big Hidley designed room, all those ISO's and a stone room! They just don't build em like that anymore 😪
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Post by svart on Jul 16, 2017 20:11:14 GMT -6
You guys just don't even know how good it sounded in there. I walked around quite a bit through the day and it was hard to find a bad spot in the room.
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 20:41:51 GMT -6
You guys just don't even know how good it sounded in there. I walked around quite a bit through the day and it was hard to find a bad spot in the room. Yeah that's a big Hidley Room!
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 16, 2017 20:50:13 GMT -6
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Post by ericn on Jul 16, 2017 20:58:04 GMT -6
You Nashville guys have all the fun places! But it's still hard to beat a Studio with playboy bunnies!
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Post by noah shain on Jul 16, 2017 22:13:38 GMT -6
How do these studios stay open? They gotta be loss leaders for some other angle!
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Post by ericn on Jul 17, 2017 6:55:41 GMT -6
How do these studios stay open? They gotta be loss leaders for some other angle! Nashville is a different world and some of these paces were payed for long ago, so if your smart acquisitions wise and don't bet the farm with Bernie Madoff, you can keep it going.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jul 17, 2017 7:41:31 GMT -6
That one went bankrupt and is on at least its third owner!
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Post by noah shain on Jul 17, 2017 8:37:01 GMT -6
When I was a kid everything I saw in the world turned in to a skate ramp in my mind. Now, everything I see turns in to a studio like one of those😂
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Post by ericn on Jul 17, 2017 9:12:14 GMT -6
When I was a kid everything I saw in the world turned in to a skate ramp in my mind. Now, everything I see turns in to a studio like one of those😂 Yeah then the guy in me who tried to restore a 1913 Victorian in Galveston see's the $$$!
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 17, 2017 9:33:18 GMT -6
I'm afraid they're all on their last dying breath
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Post by stratboy on Jul 17, 2017 11:44:07 GMT -6
That studio looks KILLER! The guys in it are handsome too. But the ROOM!!! Yeah, it's a special place. The folks who own it now have done a beautiful job of updating. I loved the gigantic SSL! And that Hidley control room sounded sooo good. There was a moment where Jeff and I could have sworn the guitar player was right there in the control room with us, not out wailing in the main Tracking Room. It was great to meet Chris and Jeff and John in person!
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Post by ericn on Jul 17, 2017 13:35:00 GMT -6
So was there anything new at the actual store.
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Post by aamicrophones on Jul 17, 2017 14:51:55 GMT -6
Got to hear the AA mics and was struck by the $350 47CE (I believe that's right.) Really thought it held up well with me screeching like a three footed hyena in it...I can usually make capsules pinch, but this held up like a champ. Not bright at all...I liked. Thought his 67 sounded good and was surprised that the 251 wasn't very bright. That one sounded really nice. Didn't get to sing into the Roswell mics, but they had a video set up with headphones...band was only using the Roswell mics - and it sounded really great. I'm interested in that Delphos. Matt said the top was purposely rolled off...which I like. Hi John, thanks for dropping by. Sorry, we did not get to talk for very long. I wanted to take you for a drink and thank you for keeping RGO "real". The CM47fet/CE has a class "A" circuit like the original 414eb plus our very accurate AK47(K47) reproduction. So, it has 14db more headroom than a U87 circuit. That's why it can handle the "Screech". It also has a U87 type de-emphasis circuit which will pull back any excessive HF "peaks". We tried to make it over to the tracking room but it was songwriter night at the Broken Spoke and I promised some clients we would drop by. Several performers got up and played plus a band. Everyone were such good guitar players singers and writers. You pay $100 easy a couple to go see one performer that good where I live and all I had to do was buy our team drinks at the Broken Spoke. Also, by Saturday I was pretty well "geeked out" from talking tech for three full days and just wanted a drink, relax and to listen to some music. WE LOVED NASHVILLE. The highlight for me was when Bernard Purdie the famous studio drummer came by with his studio builder to talk about microphones. The Purdie Shuffle video on the making of AJA by Steely Dan is very famous. What a lovely guy as was everyone that came by to see us. Everyone in Nashville were so gracious and made us feel at home. Chuck Ainlay was leading a seminar about recording female vocals and mentioned our CM67se as one of his favourite vocal microphones. He came by to give us his take on the original Neumann tube microphones as he is explaining in this picture, " I am done with the old Neumann's...they will sound good but often after an hour into the session they can start crackling or failing in some way" Joseph Magee who is scoring a movie at Ocean Way also took four of our tube microphones back there after the end of the show. He said, they have lovely microphones at Ocean Way that are well maintained but they are getting long in the tooth and he told me with 40 players it costing $50 a minute and if just one microphone starts failing it can cost a lot of money. Joseph just moved to Nashville from LA and he can not believe how great the players are in Nashville and how willing they are to give him exactly what he wants for the musical score. Film mixer Joseph Magee and the AA gang Me and Bernard Chuck Ainlay and the AA gang Thanks to Strat Boy and John plus others from RGO who dropped by to check out our creations. It was a very positive show for us great vibes and it is so great to talk to folks who use our microphones and are also part of the AA family. Cheers, Dave
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 17, 2017 16:01:07 GMT -6
Very cool stuff, Dave! Yeah, I didn't make it back to the booth as I was a little geeked out myself. lol. Hope to meet up with you soon, again!
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Post by donr on Jul 17, 2017 18:07:00 GMT -6
The OX is an impedance load box. You can take a head or a combo, plug into the box and then crank your power section of the amp up to where the sweet spot is. The kicker is the ability to use their cabinet, mic and room modeling. Along with delay and plate reverb. I played with it and listened through headphones and it really sounded pretty damn good. You really can hear that real amp breakup...because it's well, a real amp. You can go digital out or line out to the DAW...Little steep at $1299 though...but for someone with a bunch of amps, this thing could be killer - if for nothing else, just for practice, etc. I've been seeing a lot of guys on YouTube with the Two Note Torpedo boxes for load/ cabinet emulation. Seems like this is a new category of gear that is taking off for home studios. Or even, apartment studios. I use the Torpedo Live in my stage rig and also recording. It's great. I met Guillaume Pille, Two-Notes owner, at Hellfest in France late June. Nice guy.
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