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Post by iamasound on Apr 25, 2024 0:45:11 GMT -6
If you're stuck playing the shaker, at least let the crowd wonder "wait, is that guy up there shaking a can of Schlitz? "Schlitz...the shaker that made Milwaukee famous".
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Post by iamasound on Apr 25, 2024 0:17:40 GMT -6
On the other hand, I've spoken to some very experienced audio engineers that insist that size doesn't matter, and in fact are preferable to mics that can fit into tighter places in of course the right circumstance. (And now we return you to your regularly scheduled programing)
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Post by iamasound on Apr 24, 2024 14:42:41 GMT -6
I only have RE20s because my father on his deathbed said to me, "Son, never use a dynamic microphone larger than your manhood". My mother's nickname for him was "Big Daddy" and as far as I can remember he never wore short pants.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 20, 2024 5:36:36 GMT -6
Someone in my little country has the rack version up for sale for 2500 bucks but I won't bite though that seems a really good price. The Audioscape Opto is working out for me nicely.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 16, 2024 10:50:43 GMT -6
Yea, I play a little drum! These kids are best recorded from below.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 15, 2024 22:20:00 GMT -6
I've opted for the Shure SRH1840 open backed after auditioning just about everything in a wonderful shop called K55 in Zürich. I had a budget but to me the SRH1840 beat out pairs over twice the price. I've found them to be very neutral in color, detailed across the frequency spectrum with more than decent separation down low, non-fatiguing and they are very lite in weight. We are renting and there is a two year old child sharing a wall to my room next door, so....I'm really happy that I bought them. I'm tracking with the ATH-M50Xs.
If you've liked the Shr940s you'll probably like the 1840s.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 15, 2024 10:59:08 GMT -6
Vintage Ikea that I bought off Jim Williams about 12 years ago. I rolled the Mullard that he had in it with a Telefunken Diamond Bottom ECC803 that I was fortunate to have inherited from Bill Putnam Sr upon his passing in 1989. People really enjoy eating over here at the house and to a person always comment on how 3D it looks! The Mullard exhibits more color and the lavender tone is a bit more intense, but I prefer the Telefunken texture.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 14, 2024 11:31:57 GMT -6
By the way, I recieved the Audioscape Opto the other day which must have been sent out lickity-split as I got it like four days shipped from Florida to Switzerland. I love it and couldn't be happier. I forgot about the little bonus in the box...it came in handy today!
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Post by iamasound on Apr 12, 2024 14:29:46 GMT -6
Molot GE Limiter°6 Jon V Audio Fircomp 2 Valhalla VintageVerb Valhalla Delay
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Post by iamasound on Apr 9, 2024 12:21:19 GMT -6
By the way, I recieved the Audioscape Opto the other day which must have been sent out lickity-split as I got it like four days shipped from Florida to Switzerland. I love it and couldn't be happier.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 3, 2024 3:38:35 GMT -6
Perhaps if you could find a used Daking Mic Pre One. Looks and built like a brick with perhaps the sound to compliment the GAP. Dakimg mic pre 2 any good? It's twice as good!
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Post by iamasound on Apr 2, 2024 23:06:34 GMT -6
I shot these out with the 3U Warbler 127 and the Neumann's went back. Everyone has different tastes I guess.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 2, 2024 9:32:52 GMT -6
Perhaps if you could find a used Daking Mic Pre One. Looks and built like a brick with perhaps the sound to compliment the GAP.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 2, 2024 9:28:12 GMT -6
Neumann Home
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Post by iamasound on Mar 29, 2024 15:32:29 GMT -6
Sonic Flavours R66 from 2005 but it's only 32 bit and the company went out of business.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 29, 2024 14:11:15 GMT -6
I've boxed the horrid sounding KT-2A that I bought used after trying to get it to not suck the life out of anything that I put through it's circuits. I'm not quite sure that it would be karmically beneficial to try to sell it. I changed the tubes out and it made but a small incremental difference so maybe I'll just pass it on to the local Goodwill. I sold the replacement tubes and the originals are back in. Wow, what kind of bass are you running through it? Was just listening back to a session tracked with a couple different Jazz basses through the KT-2A and admiring its grip on the bottom. Unless you're talking about recording something besides bass through it, which I can't say I've found worth doing. Mostly a Jazz bass but I'm not keeping it for just that. Until I recieve the Audioscape an instance of Fabfilter Pro-C in Opto Style into a pinch of Saturn in sidechain will have do for me. The KT-2A is already boxed up and ready to find a new home with a new family.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 28, 2024 5:51:13 GMT -6
I just placed an order on an Audioscape Opto. When I pulled up one of their emails I hit the link and found that they actually had one available after going through the same routine for over a year. I was startled for a moment there and when I came out of it hit the buy button. The hit of an extra $150 for shipping to Switzerland hurt but I'm sure that it will be worth it. I've boxed the horrid sounding KT-2A that I bought used after trying to get it to not suck the life out of anything that I put through it's circuits. I'm not quite sure that it would be karmically beneficial to try to sell it. I changed the tubes out and it made but a small incremental difference so maybe I'll just pass it on to the local Goodwill. I sold the replacement tubes and the originals are back in. I'm looking forward to putting it in my rack.
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Post by iamasound on Dec 24, 2023 2:59:09 GMT -6
1. A Moog Subharmonicon and a DFAM 2. An Arturia Polybrute synth 3. An Arturia Drumbrute Impact 5. An Arturia KeyLab 61 MKII keyboard controller (love their hardware but not their bloated gigabit software) 6. Shure 1840 headphones 7. All the Valhalla plugins 8. u-He Zebra, Repro 1/5 and Diva vsti 9. A pair of APS Klassik monitors 10. Empress Delay Echosystem 11. Kilohearts Phaseplant
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Post by iamasound on Dec 5, 2023 22:30:00 GMT -6
I bought an Arturia Polybrute which is the only synth that I've gotten since selling my Kurzweil 2500 XS and Ensoniq ESQ-1 in about 2001. It's so much much fun to be hand on knobs and sliders with analog filters and oscillators than midi mapped out soft synths on my keyboard controller and it sounds stellar. The mod matrix is fantastic and makes creating sounds a breeze. The morphing feature is brilliant and I am loving this thing. It's also built like a brick shihouse.
I also recently bought a pair of APS Klasik 2020 monitors. They replaced my KRK V6 series 2 pair.
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Post by iamasound on Dec 5, 2023 22:12:00 GMT -6
Also, the UMT70S is on sale at Alto Music (BF15 code) That's even less expensive than I bought one 10 years ago in Europe. That's amazing.
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Post by iamasound on Dec 5, 2023 22:02:27 GMT -6
I saw this on YT. It explains much of what we're talking about here. The fellow is goofy but gets the main points across.
About gui bloat, Arturia's software can be up to a gig's worth of graphics that I'm not willing to fill up my hard drive with. On the other hand I've bought their hardware, a Polybtute, a Drumbrute Impact and a Keylab MK II and really enjoy those.
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Post by iamasound on Dec 3, 2023 16:03:10 GMT -6
Giancarlo is freaking out because his software was cracked and revealed that about 90% of the coding was dedicated to the bloat of protection encryption. Perhaps he'll ditch all that now and so perhaps the cpu hit will hit much less.
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Post by iamasound on Dec 3, 2023 5:19:40 GMT -6
I put a set of Martin Monel Retro on my cedar Roy Noble as I'm not really playing her as much as I used to. The strings not only are fresh without corrosion when I do pull her out of the case every three or four weeks but because they seem to lessen the attack, also as a side effect lessen the squeak of fingers rubbing on the string on the fretboard. I was scoring a scene for a project that I'm working on which calls for a bit of finger picking and played it both on the Noble and then on my D-18. There was a very noticeable difference that I could not account for by the difference in build woods it seems.
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Post by iamasound on Aug 7, 2023 3:47:35 GMT -6
In the mid 90's I recorded Richard Hardy playing tenor sax for a friend's album with a Rode Classic paired to a Joe Meek VC 1 and he thought it the best sound of his playing ever as mostly his parts were captured with a Sennheisser 421.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 15, 2022 21:21:13 GMT -6
The M-930 also has a very wonderful off axis response that I wholly appreciate.
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