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Post by jin167 on Nov 24, 2016 8:00:00 GMT -6
TaDa~ ....why, though? Would you buy it if you didn't know the brand of this particular eq?
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Post by jin167 on Nov 22, 2016 0:34:30 GMT -6
modded API 2500 -> Knif Vari Mu II -> Overstayer MAS -> Pure2 ADC clip if needed. Can get things to be as loud as I want.
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Post by jin167 on Nov 19, 2016 9:07:04 GMT -6
Delay compensation on PT HD is quite robust but on the native version, latency has to be set manually like spock said. I tend to stay away from automatic delay compensation on any DAW except for PT HD.
While working with PT native I came across situations where delay compensation goes wack after experiencing error messages like 'running out of cpu' or 'disk not fast enough'. Once it happens the only solution is to restart the PT and it was a real PITA.
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Post by jin167 on Nov 5, 2016 10:29:36 GMT -6
Hey there, Thanks indiehouse for posting about gearshoot. If you or anyone have any requests for particular gear that you'd like us to add in let me know and we'll see what we can do to track one down and sample it in. Or if you'd like a preset set up e.g. of Vintage Pultec vs UAD Pultec vs Manley Massive Passive etc. Equally if anyone ever has some gear they would like to add in feel free to get in contact. [Jin167 - are you based in NZ? I would love to be able to get a sample of the Knif Vari Mu II if possible]. Hello. Yes, I live in NZ. Vari Mu should be with me sometime next week (assuming the customs doesn't f&^% up. Which they often do..). How do you sample? I'm hesitant on shipping it anywhere tbh.
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Post by jin167 on Nov 1, 2016 5:32:15 GMT -6
Double needle VU + amorphous xformers.... on its way here to New Zealand and I think I'm the first person in this country to have one ha!
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Post by jin167 on Oct 31, 2016 21:48:22 GMT -6
Another great site. Thanks! There's a mastering compressor shootout here that might be of interest to the participants of the "Mastering compressor under $3500" thread. Yes. I've known this site for some time. I believe the site is run by a fellow kiwi (New Zealander) mastering engineer and the site has been really helpful. I've decided to pull the trigger on a Knif Vari Mu II btw
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Post by jin167 on Oct 30, 2016 1:26:15 GMT -6
About to pull the trigger on this bad boy. I'm so nervous.. wish me luck.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 26, 2016 1:57:41 GMT -6
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Post by jin167 on Oct 24, 2016 23:13:21 GMT -6
Wow... so many options to choose from. Thank you everyone. It was a good idea to ask for professionals opinion. I don't know why i didn't consider classics like manley and millenia. Gyraf and rjr sounds interesting as well. Regarding the FCS p3s I've heard that there is an issue with the output transformer? Apparently you cant raise the output level above 20dbu because of the thd spec of the transformer or something.. i guess you can disengage the transformer but then whats the point of having it in there in the first place hmm...
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Post by jin167 on Oct 24, 2016 23:02:54 GMT -6
It's not about the power cord taken alone. It's about how it affects specific power supplies and an overall grounding system taken as a whole. It SHOULD not make a difference if everything is designed properly however in the real world a lot of stuff isn't and different power cord designs, especially simply adding shielding, can make what to me was a surprising difference. I get your point. I never said proper grounding, power supply topologies, clever routing and installation, length of cables, different potentials etc. would NOT make huge differences in this field. They DO. I absolutely agree with what you say about power supply as a whole system. YES. These things can make a huge difference. About shielding power supply cable - the electromagnetic field around the power cable is much stronger than the one of signal cables. Shielding them might lower the influence on other cables in suboptimal studio installations and therefore - might - make a difference. Hmm. Unorthodox. Didn't calculated if this makes much difference. If it does enough to improve audio in the end. Why not? Even then - the core does not make the difference. And from scientific point of view NO esoteric explanation needed, d'accord with known physics, laws of electrodynamic fields... Huge electromagnetic fields make problems. Industry machines with fat electro motors. Poorly designed or defect washing machines, dryers, there are lots of potential sources of problems. But most of the problems come thru the power line and not by induction into the cable from wall plug to IEC thru the walls. Ferrit filters on power cables from digital equipment with switcher psus to avoid bringing HF dirt into the mains system etc. - yes. Makes sense. No (acceptable) LCD display without this already stock. Good connection, good plugs etc. - i agree with ALL of this. Poor PSUs have poor filtering and therefore dirty frequency stuff above 60Hz. Yes. But - a mains power cable alone makes no difference if it is generally suitable for the load, because a pure cable is - no - serious lowpass filter. Power line filters do make sense for sure. Yes. I do not believe that we are really talking different things. There are lots of ways to improve the power supply system. And of course we are NOT talking ideal or even flawless PSUs inside all studio equipment or an ideal grounding. Therefore these things really matter. Noone is blind about real world mains and psu problems. Especially if we think about decades old equipment, that is in use, with insufficiant capacitors in psus due to age. I get that you improve studios with rebuilding the mains supply system. Makes totally sense. I get that you use seemingly better kind of mains cables and overall get improved performance of the system. You might not think about connector qualities anymore. You will re-think mains cable length and routing if you invest into expensive mains cable. And this makes huge difference. Twisted pair mains power cables? Naaa. Esoteric cable alloys? Naaa. We are not talking theory. Physics and engineering is not abstract model science depending on ideal conditions and becoming invalid because of tolerances, real world problems etc.. There are several methods of evidence. The statistical method is only ONE of them. And most probably the weakest, most failure prone, hardest to make systematically correct, most expensive. Deduction from the known is not only more "elegant" but also brings the explanation of the phenomenon with it most of the time. Not deduction from belief but from the known. There are few elementary powers in the universe. No way seemingly hearing improvement in audio range with the power cables we are talking about is an evidence for an unknown "new" elementary power that is "overlooked". There is many other explanations already that are well inside the known physics, cybernetics, hearing biology, psycho-acoustics and psychology. There is no reason to belief someting that can be known. And of course no serious evidence of such a mysterious new physical principle or elementary power has been given in the last 100 years of electricity. Because you can not proof what does not exist.It's often the other way around unfortunately. You can't un-prove what does not exist. Learned this from years of debate with creationists and anti-vaccers.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 24, 2016 11:01:32 GMT -6
Not even sure if this question is valid. From what I've seen any outboard gear that has a word 'mastering' put onto it costs at least $5,000 for some reason.
Anywho.. I've thought about several options but before confirming I thought I might ask around and see if working professionals could throw in a few suggestions as I don't trust my opinions too much when it comes to choosing gears.
I will be using it mostly for jazz and classic but occasionally need to deal with poppish indish rockish edmish sort of music. I do own quite a few outboard compressors but they are all either too colored or mono.
I have about $3,500 to spare and I don't really mind a second-hand unit so.. if you feel like chiming in please do so and enlighten me with your knowledge.
oh.. btw I was thinking about chandler limited zener, MBP, dave hill titans, and maselec mla-2. Probably wrong or dumb choice.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 22, 2016 4:58:19 GMT -6
There is an accepted term for those who preach that they "know" the truth and don't have to bother conducting experiments to prove it. That term is not "scientists". That term is "pedants". (No disrespect intended.) BTW, the world is flat. Ask anybody (who lives on Diskworld!) It also is propelled through space on the backs of four huge elephants standing on the shell of a gigantic turtle named A'tuin. Like I said, ask anybody..... (And if you don't read Terry Pratchett, you need to.) There are no unknown phenomena in this area of physics. So yes. Engineers don't have to believe, they know. There are other areas, where experimental physics makes sense. Power cable - no. The flat world "belief" and the earth centric "belief" are good examples where absurd theories and so-called experimental "evidences" were made for religious reasons. Antique greek science was far ahead of this. Btw - at their time, religion played not a big role... The guys who preach are those who promote religious ideas. Those, who have no evidence for their claims. I just recommend reading physics books. Simpler ones or advanced. Engineering books. Math books. And get a realistic view on what happens. Kreyszig?
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Post by jin167 on Oct 20, 2016 9:08:06 GMT -6
jin167, next time,try asking four musicians who've actually tried switching out cables. When you said, "making claims like 'these cables WILL make a difference' without providing a reasonable scientific explanation or proof is a plain BS".Well, I've been at this over 40 years, and disagree. Look at Jim William's posts and Bob Olson's posts. One said to do a proper scientific test would take massive amounts of money, the other said he and others carefully tested some cables and do in fact hear improvements. By default, your statement means they don't know what they're hearing or doing. Or maybe they've provided as reasonable a scientific explanation as time and money allow? I'm curious, have you actually tried this? jazz noise, I appreciate where you're coming from. It's good to be reminded of priorities. Having already spent a lot of time on this subject over twenty years ago, I probably shouldn't be spending this much time on it now. I don't need guys in lab coats to know what I'm hearing, no offense intended to all the cool engineering cats here. Yesterday, my computer kept dropping the firewire signal from my Apollo. Today, it doesn't see it, and I don't think it's the cable. So, right now, I can't do any musical recording work at all. So, I'll have to bow out for a little while until I hopefully get that resolved. 1. jin167, next time,try asking four musicians who've actually tried switching out cables Four musicians going 'er.. I have a feeling that I can hear the difference but I have no idea why or how' doesn't really help. 2. ,the other said he and others carefully tested some cables and do in fact hear improvements. Personal experience doesn't exactly count as a scientific proof just in case you didn't know. 3. I'm curious, have you actually tried this? Have I tried spending $25,000 on a 1.25m power cable? Er... why would I do that? Have I tried using different cables? Yeah, sure. I've spent a reasonable amount of time and fund on trying out different power cables, speaker cables, power conditioners, outboard hardware, speakers, converters etc. over a decade. Conclusion? I've come to learn that there are things that do make a real difference but also there are things that don't. Got anxious to know why and that's what motivated me to choose electrical engineering as my second degree. Opened up a whole new world for me.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 20, 2016 4:43:59 GMT -6
People on this forum are too nice. But in reality, if you were to speak to any 'professional' electrical engineer regarding this topic, 9 times out of 10 you will hear something similar to this.
I spoke to about 4 lecturers at the engineering department (all Ph.D. holders naturally) of my university this week regarding this topic just in case there was something I was not aware of but as expected they all had similar opinions. If you hear something different using these esoteric cables, or 'power regenerator' or whatever, go ahead and spend your money on them. It's your money after all.
But making claims like 'these cables WILL make a difference' without providing a reasonable scientific explanation or proof is a plain BS. Opinion should remain as an opinion until it can be proven.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 19, 2016 23:00:11 GMT -6
love your song Wiz!
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Post by jin167 on Oct 19, 2016 9:32:31 GMT -6
PS Audio does just that, regenerate power. It costs from $2,500 -$5,000. For wealthy audiophiles, it's a no brainer, although I don't know much about it. So, although expensive, but maybe it's not insane money if you're running a small or mid size studio. Take a quick look: www.psaudio.com/product-category/ac-regenerators/how is it a no brainer if you don't know much about how it works? It is not 'regenerating' anything. It's an ac to ac converter in essence. If this improves the performance of your equipment you are basically saying that whoever designed that particular piece of equipment is incapable of designing a proper PSU.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 19, 2016 8:59:20 GMT -6
Why not build your own perfect power generator and run everything off of that rather than relying on a sub-par public power system? Why not replace wire connections inside of your outboard gears and speakers with high-end boutique cables? Why not swap out all the connectors of your equipment to hospital or military grade ones?
These are all bottlenecks of a given system right? I won't be able to sleep at night knowing that I have so many bottlenecks in my system degrading the quality of my music. Jesus..
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Post by jin167 on Oct 18, 2016 7:24:35 GMT -6
One thing that I feel the need to address, is the duality I see in threads like this, but thankfully mostly at other sites.. It's all too common to see folks speak of "hearing obvious differences", but when it's mentioned that electrical tests need to be run to verify *actual* differences, those same folks will say things along the lines of "you can't test for these types of things".. That's plain horseshit. Physics is physics. If you hear a difference, then there will be a corresponding electrical difference. If you can't prove a difference, either your equipment isn't good enough, you don't have the right equipment, you aren't looking for the right things, or there plain just isn't a difference. However, I've seen these same folks turn around and tell folks that without proper testing, their opinions aren't worth anything. Such is the duality of pro-audio. The positions of people's opinions change depending on which side of the criticism they sit on. Amen to this. If the differences are so small that they can't be measured even with the of resolution of a modern measuring equipment then isn't it logical to think that something else could be affecting the sound that you are hearing (temperature, humidity, material of the clothing a person is wearing, what he/she had for lunch, and what not).
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Post by jin167 on Oct 16, 2016 17:27:15 GMT -6
which no longer seems to be the case nowadays. I'm genuinely curious to know which audio engineers that engineered hit records had degrees in electrical engineering, starting with the Geoff Emerick era (1966) and going forward? I don't care to know. My point is still valid. Modern audio 'engineers' can call themselves whatever they want but what they do has nothing in common with other schools of engineering.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 14, 2016 22:48:06 GMT -6
Personally, I've never seen a professional engineer who makes their decisions based on their 'perception'. Until you can prove your claim with tangible data and able to reproduce the said phenomena you remain silent and admit that you are either wrong or don't know enough about the subject. You can't just decide sound engineers aren't 'engineers', because they don't publish a 15-page report every time they reach for an EQ. Thank you for proving my point.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 14, 2016 22:47:11 GMT -6
science vs. perception/confirmation bias sometimes I wonder why audio engineers are called 'engineers' in the first place. No matter which school of engineering you belong to all engineers share one fundamental principle and it is that they make decisions based on calculations and data collected through experiments where everything is measurable. Personally, I've never seen a professional engineer who makes their decisions based on their 'perception'. Until you can prove your claim with tangible data and able to reproduce the said phenomena you remain silent and admit that you are either wrong or don't know enough about the subject. Audio engineers once had to get a degree in electrical engineering, that's why. which no longer seems to be the case nowadays.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 14, 2016 20:27:32 GMT -6
science vs. perception/confirmation bias
sometimes I wonder why audio engineers are called 'engineers' in the first place.
No matter which school of engineering you belong to all engineers share one fundamental principle and it is that they make decisions based on calculations and data collected through experiments where everything is measurable.
Personally, I've never seen a professional engineer who makes their decisions based on their 'perception'. Until you can prove your claim with tangible data and able to reproduce the said phenomena you remain silent and admit that you are either wrong or don't know enough about the subject.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 13, 2016 23:29:16 GMT -6
Depends on the context. From a circuit point of view, audio cables can be seen as filters as they are not purely resistive so depending on how it's built it could affect the signal passing through it (although unlikely given the bandwidth of the signal) but the power cable is an entirely different matter.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 13, 2016 21:52:30 GMT -6
Hmm.... I can't tell if he is genuinely excited about this product or just got paid to do this little advertisement.. www.essentialsound.com/power-cable-technology.htm had a look through their website but nothing special about the 'design' of their product and I am a little sceptical of their reasonings behind how their product 'works'. Graphs without much information. Oh and a degree in mechanical engineering... Err.. I will pass.
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Post by jin167 on Oct 8, 2016 9:34:50 GMT -6
fascinating stuff. keep us updated on your custom channel strip. Might even end up placing an order for one if svart ever decides to go commercial hope it looks good. Throw in a couple of VU meters!
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