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Post by iamasound on May 11, 2024 13:09:43 GMT -6
If I'm recording a very sparse arrangement with my Roy Noble Madi/Cedar then it's D'Addario Phosphor Bronze. If there's lots going on then the Martin Monel because there seems less harmonics heard and won't muss it up. The others all just get D'Addario Phosphor Bronze. I buy them in the ten pack and go through about 25 a year.
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Post by iamasound on May 7, 2024 11:06:04 GMT -6
I've learned from the best!
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Post by iamasound on May 5, 2024 18:12:48 GMT -6
I haven't been into a Sam Ash in a REALLY, REALLY long time but those stores hold fond memories for me. In 1972 after a family visit to my grandmother in West Virginia her gift of 15 silver dollars funded the very first album that I ever bought, The Concert For Bangladesh from back when the entire front of their store in The Green Acres Mall was dedicated to vinyl (I can still remember seeing John Mayall's Journey From The Past, the second album I ever bought sitting in that bin...and got it because my neophyte 13 year old brain thought that his sax player Johnny Almond was an Allmann Brother, lol...and "discovered" that guy who was blazing on guitar on that great record, Eric Clapton). A few years later I bought my first good electric guitar, a Gibson Les Paul Standard there, and I bought my first synth, and Ensonique ESQ-1 at their Queens Blvd branch in Forest Hills in 1985.
RIP Sam, You were The man!
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Post by iamasound on May 5, 2024 10:32:02 GMT -6
Lemme know if it's in your time window or if you need it sooner than by way of another solution. I'm visiting my brother who lives in Sarasota, arriving October 2nd and there for I think 12 days. I've done the same for a bunch of family, friends and a few times for guys who live in Eastern Europe from another music forum who companies wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I live just outside of Basel. PM me if you like.
Cheers...
Cleve
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Post by iamasound on Apr 27, 2024 15:19:24 GMT -6
Echo chamber...MC930 is usually what I go for but that other 930, the Gefell M 930 has been nice for me as it picks up the woody sound of my Martin D-15M. When I call out, "Hey, 930, ready for duty" they both turn around, so now they just go by the monikers "Skinny and Fatty".
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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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