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Post by ragan on Sept 22, 2021 8:03:32 GMT -6
Do you just mean putting the Dimension D on an aux, so it’s parallel? I don’t think there’s any “sidechaining” involved here. There’s no detector.
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Post by ragan on Sept 21, 2021 17:12:18 GMT -6
Booooooo….not what I was wanting to hear. I miss the UAD one. Actually, now that I’ve got more I/O, maybe I’ll just buy the Behringer thing.
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Post by ragan on Sept 21, 2021 8:37:31 GMT -6
Pumped about this
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Post by ragan on Sept 20, 2021 13:22:07 GMT -6
Also, the "they only needed a few mics for JOHN BONHAM therefore you only need a few mics bro" thing that gets repeated ad nauseam is ridiculous because, well, not everyone is trying to sound like Led Zeppelin records. The OP says they work mostly in punk, metal, hardcore, etc. It's irrelevant what Zeppelin records sound like because hardcore/punk/metal bands aren't going for that production aesthetic. It would be just as valid (meaning totally invalid) to go back in time and inform John Bonham/Eddie Kramer that Anthrax records are going to be made with a lot more mics on the drum kit so they better get some more mics going too. FWIW, I work mostly in country these days. Although the technique works for anything - the guy I got it from does Cyndi Lauper. I mean, sure, it works for anything if you want that minimally mic'd sound. I've used Glyn Johns (modified or just the straight up 3 mic original) many times. It works if you want that sonic aesthetic, it doesn't work if you don't. I have yet to hear a metal/punk/hardcore record that's going for that kind of aesthetic.
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Post by ragan on Sept 18, 2021 20:00:22 GMT -6
Just to follow up from the other day, my little girl does not have covid. She’s on the mend and no one else in the house has gotten it very strongly. Thanks for the well wishes.
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Post by ragan on Sept 18, 2021 15:39:05 GMT -6
Also, the "they only needed a few mics for JOHN BONHAM therefore you only need a few mics bro" thing that gets repeated ad nauseam is ridiculous because, well, not everyone is trying to sound like Led Zeppelin records. The OP says they work mostly in punk, metal, hardcore, etc. It's irrelevant what Zeppelin records sound like because hardcore/punk/metal bands aren't going for that production aesthetic. It would be just as valid (meaning totally invalid) to go back in time and inform John Bonham/Eddie Kramer that Anthrax records are going to be made with a lot more mics on the drum kit so they better get some more mics going too.
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Post by ragan on Sept 18, 2021 9:29:33 GMT -6
^^^ this was my first thought as well
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 22:42:49 GMT -6
I don't understand this aggressive stance towards Josh. I don't care if he's truly "center" or not, I think he tries to communicate respectfully and I appreciate it. The "center" issue with me is odd. I guess center to me is the fact that I've voted for dems, repubs and independents. In other words it's easy to say you're "center" and then vote for the same party every time haha. Anyway, if I need to put "right wing nut job" in my signature to make this thread go smoother I will By they way, just saw your post earlier and I'm sending lots of love and prayers your way for your kids. I have two young kids myself and just went through the same thing a week ago(turned out to just be a cold thankfully). It so hard to know what's best to do. Anyway, wishing you the best, keep us posted. I personally don't give a flying rat's arse about right, left, or center (unless I'm mixing guitars, drums, and bass ), I just care about people acting on good faith and making an effort to be intellectually consistent and generally honest, with themselves and with others. If that stuff is in place, everything else will sort itself out, in my experience. And thank you for the well wishes re: the kids. Same to you my friend. It's not an easy time for parents. I know that whatever my little girl's got tonight probably isn't covid. And even if it is, she'll probably be ok. But there are cases everywhere, and as a parent you're sweating bullets until you know it's ok (as I know you know).
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 22:09:19 GMT -6
To be extra clear, there was an assertion that the danger of covid is basically the same as the vaccine. It's that sort of 'hey, I ran the numbers and it turns out that this whole thing is a wash' comment that spreads like wildfire. When I see comments like that I feel compelled to point out some facts to slow the spread, so to speak. And to add to that, Seawell, I do have a problem with the "I'll start fires but not stick around to see what else burns down around it" posturing that you tend to do. This is classic, Tucker Carlson, "I'm just asking questions" bluster that doesn't actually do anything other than provide confirmation bias and stoke fear. You can't continue to post videos and opinions that you find "interesting" and then claim that you you're an impartial observer. At some point you have to put up or shut up and back these things up with actual facts. I don't understand this aggressive stance towards Josh. I don't care if he's truly "center" or not, I think he tries to communicate respectfully and I appreciate it.
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 18:18:01 GMT -6
I think there is general exhaustion with all the invalid VAERS stuff because it's relied on so heavily in the Edgy Podcast Bro world of people who make their living hawking disinfo. If you get an email from your uncle and the subject starts with FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD:, there's a good chance there's a bunch of bollocks stuff about VAERS data in there. When your sister-in-law is ranting on Facebook about "THE REAL NUMBERS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!!!" it's almost invariably linked to more intentional misuse of VAERS. I mean, it's come up like 20 times in this very thread. Someone makes a claim of causality from VAERS to support their ideological point about the dangers of vaccination, 5 people re-explain what VAERS is, there's no like, "Oh, damn, I totally misunderstood that, ok", there's just a gap of a few weeks and then the same kind of invalid claim comes up again. I'm not necessarily talking about this recent stuff, just speaking about the spicy reactions to the continued misuse of VAERS in general. I know some of you guys really are trying to have a good faith discussion about this stuff. I applaud it. It's important. This stuff is pulling hard at the societal seams right now and prolonging this godawful pandemic. Grifters are getting rich hawking stuff they know is B.S. and the rest of us get to live (or not) through the consequences. I've got two young kids in school/pre-school. It's a nightmare. They can't get vaccinated, remote learning sucks, this own-goal, voluntary 4th wave (or whatever it is) we're in has the variants du jour spreading everywhere and our kids' lives continue to be filled with disruption and inconsistency. My wife and I agonized over whether to send our little girl (4) to pre-school. Talked to our docs, talked to educators we know, talked to our parents...triangulated as best we could and decided to send her. We don't need the care for her, it's about her getting valuable socialization and learning to be in a school environment, learning to interact with peers, learning to interact with authority figures who aren't us or her grandparents. We're sending her just a few hours, twice a week. The pre-school is staffed by nice people doing all that they can to create a safe environment for these kiddos. She's been to pre-school twice and, as of today, is in bed with a spiking fever, cough, runny nose, and we're waiting on the covid test results. And meanwhile we've got friends and family members who are FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: - ing their asses off with bad faith lunacy and making sure that we stay in this pandemic for as long as possible. Again, I know some of you really are trying to operate in good faith and share honest perspectives. I applaud it. I think its important (which is why I read along even when not wanting to post). You have a higher tolerance for rhetorical reruns than I do. Exhausting is an understatement. To have the tools (the vaccine) at our disposal to lick this virus, yet continue to wallow around in Covid purgatory because of a bunch of fear mongerers with ulterior motives, is just exasperating beyond belief. The longer this goes on, the higher the possibility becomes that the virus mutates into a variant that the vaccine is no longer effective against and/or is highly virulent. As much as our current situation sucks, that scenario really scares me. People need to get on board here with the bigger picture. I won't get into impugning peoples' personal motivations and the underlying psychology of why they're receptive to some of this stuff, because I simply can't know that and it's too personal and individualized. But it is, unfortunately, a fact that there is a booming industry of covid/vaccine disinformation that operates almost entirely on bad faith. Many of the powerful people at the top of these disinfo operations (looking at you Rupert, Tucker, DJT, etc) quietly get themselves vaccinated early on, and then, once they're protected, go on to make their money by frothing up their audiences with anti-expertise, anti-vaxx fervor, leaving it to the smaller fish to actually walk the walk. Here's a rundown on how some of those smaller fish have been doing the last few weeks: 8/4 - Farrel Austin Levitt, publicly known as Dick Farrel, a conservative radio host in Florida who vehemently criticized the coronavirus vaccine has died of “severe damage” caused by covid, Farley told The Washington Post. He was 65. 8/21 - Phil Valentine, a prominent conservative radio host in Tennessee who refused to get vaccinated, then urged his followers to get a shot after being hospitalized with Covid-19, has died, his station said on Saturday. 8/28 - Florida conservative talk radio show Marc Bernier, an outspoken opponent of masking and vaccines to combat Covid-19, died of Covid-19 8/28 - Caleb Wallace, the 30-year-old founder of a group called the San Angelo Freedom Defenders who protested against masks and business closures in Texas, died on Saturday of COVID-19. 9/13 - Conservative radio host Pastor Robert "Bob" Enyart of the radio show "Real Science Radio," who swore off Covid-19 vaccines, and who won a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over its Covid-19 restrictions has died from complications due to the virus, his co-host announced. I mean, at least they were consistent. Sure, they're endangering the lives of the people gullible enough to listen to them, and prolonging this whole godforsaken mess for the rest of us, but at least they practiced what they preached*. I have sympathy for the people who loved them. *except for the part where they ran straight to the Untrustworthy™️ In The Pocket Of Big Pharma™️ Corrupt™️ Elite™️ medical establishment (taking up beds that could be used by people who aren't making their money off of covid disinfo) when they actually got sick.
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 17:00:57 GMT -6
I think there is general exhaustion with all the invalid VAERS stuff because it's relied on so heavily in the Edgy Podcast Bro world of people who make their living hawking disinfo. If you get an email from your uncle and the subject starts with FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD:, there's a good chance there's a bunch of bollocks stuff about VAERS data in there. When your sister-in-law is ranting on Facebook about "THE REAL NUMBERS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!!!" it's almost invariably linked to more intentional misuse of VAERS. I mean, it's come up like 20 times in this very thread. Someone makes a claim of causality from VAERS to support their ideological point about the dangers of vaccination, 5 people re-explain what VAERS is, there's no like, "Oh, damn, I totally misunderstood that, ok", there's just a gap of a few weeks and then the same kind of invalid claim comes up again. I'm not necessarily talking about this recent stuff, just speaking about the spicy reactions to the continued misuse of VAERS in general.
I know some of you guys really are trying to have a good faith discussion about this stuff. I applaud it. It's important. This stuff is pulling hard at the societal seams right now and prolonging this godawful pandemic. Grifters are getting rich hawking stuff they know is B.S. and the rest of us get to live (or not) through the consequences. I've got two young kids in school/pre-school. It's a nightmare. They can't get vaccinated, remote learning sucks, this own-goal, voluntary 4th wave (or whatever it is) we're in has the variants du jour spreading everywhere and our kids' lives continue to be filled with disruption and inconsistency. My wife and I agonized over whether to send our little girl (4) to pre-school. Talked to our docs, talked to educators we know, talked to our parents...triangulated as best we could and decided to send her. We don't need the care for her, it's about her getting valuable socialization and learning to be in a school environment, learning to interact with peers, learning to interact with authority figures who aren't us or her grandparents. We're sending her for just a few hours, twice a week. The pre-school is staffed by nice people doing all that they can to create a safe environment for these kiddos. She's been to pre-school twice and, as of today, is in bed with a spiking fever, cough, sore throat, etc while we wait on covid test results. And meanwhile we've got friends and family members who are FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: - ing their asses off with bad faith lunacy and making sure that we stay in this damned pandemic for as long as possible.
Again, I know some of you really are trying to operate in good faith and share honest perspectives. I applaud it. I think its important (which is why I read along even when not wanting to post). You have a higher tolerance for rhetorical reruns than I do.
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 13:11:43 GMT -6
And not bad to also get the 3A, 4A, and second opto speed of 2A in the same unit, too I knew about the 3a but didn’t realize it had the other models too…geez 🤯 Yes indeed. For my limited hardware space and budget, and for the fact that I mostly use hardware for tracking or for printing tracks from DAW inserts, the ADG and SA23A will cover a lot of ground.
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 12:47:32 GMT -6
Can't wait to hear your thoughts! The original SA-2A was really good so if it has been approved upon in any way, it's going to be a beast! And not bad to also get the 3A, 4A, and second opto speed of 2A in the same unit, too
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Post by ragan on Sept 16, 2021 11:33:13 GMT -6
I just got word that my SA-23A+ has been in QC and will be shipping soon. Got invoiced and paid the balance. I'm really excited about getting this unit. There wasn't a dedicated thread for it and, now that they're being built, I figured there should be one. stamaudio.com/shop/compressors/sa-23a-plus/
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Post by ragan on Sept 13, 2021 8:41:40 GMT -6
I'm actively avoiding even looking at it because I don't even want 15 new plugins to learn/compare/analyze. Feel like I've kinda got what I need in DSP... Edit: this is kind of a worthless post. I should add that I’m avoiding it precisely because it’s so tempting.
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Post by ragan on Sept 10, 2021 21:53:28 GMT -6
The Rev A on the ADG is pretty dang hard to beat on vocals. It's really flattering.
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Post by ragan on Sept 8, 2021 16:59:52 GMT -6
I didn't use mine for a long time but recently put it back in the 2-bus chain. I dig it. I have it on super mild settings. If I try to get more overt with it, I stop liking it across the mix, image collapses a bit and I lose detail. On the very mild setting I use now, it just softens the highs and imparts a pleasant kind of cushion. With this setup, it finally beat out the tape sim plugs I was using in its place. I do also like to get overt with it on individual tracks, it can be lots of fun. But it's a quirky, passive device to be sure.
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Post by ragan on Sept 8, 2021 11:07:50 GMT -6
MetricAB remains my desert island plug-in I think. I lean on it so much. MetricAB is stupidly good. Have to quote you on this one. I was using it to compare rough mixes and mix revisions. You can set it to mono, do the automatic level match. It's way easier to critically listen in this environment. I was using it to set balances and tones, to "beat" a client rough mix, and my own previous mix. First time I ever properly exploited its powers, but I'm floored by it. Yeah it provides a huge gain in overall results for me. Desert island! Comparing to reference mixes or comparing multiple songs on a record or whatever, it’s so good.
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Post by ragan on Sept 8, 2021 9:09:45 GMT -6
Welcome to the forum. I've got nothing of value to add, really, just chiming in to say that I loved the UAD Fatso when I was on that platform and have always considered picking up the hardware. Over here, the Zulu sees a lot of use for this kind of purpose. There's also the DIYRE Colour format to consider. I've also considered building a couple of these: www.soundskulptor.com/en/proddetail.php?prod=TS500A lot of the time, though, I just use FF Saturn2. In my blind ABs with the Colour modules, it was about 50/50 picking the Colour or Saturn2.
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Post by ragan on Sept 7, 2021 16:28:28 GMT -6
Sounds nice, less of a major difference in the low end for sure.
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Post by ragan on Sept 7, 2021 9:24:11 GMT -6
I grabbed Metric AB for $30. I have its predecessor, Magic AB from Sample Magic, and was hesitant to buy essentially the same plugin twice. The newer Adptr Audio version is much easier to work with. I ordered a Beyerdynamic M201 and Oktava MK-012, which should keep me occupied on capturing acoustic guitar and drums for a while. MetricAB remains my desert island plug-in I think. I lean on it so much.
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Post by ragan on Sept 7, 2021 9:10:51 GMT -6
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Post by ragan on Sept 4, 2021 10:09:14 GMT -6
I’d say if you want to get into the Apollo ecosystem and use the DSP while tracking and you’re interested in Luna, then yeah, go for it.
If you’re just talking about using plugins for mixing, man, it’s a tough sell to tie yourself to that very expensive DSP and the inherent latency it involves. UAD plugins are great, but IMO they’re not better than the top tier native stuff.
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Post by ragan on Sept 3, 2021 9:14:38 GMT -6
so is the rule tec the „best“ pultec on the market right now? its on sale, i could get it rather cheap. For my taste, it's a peer to the MKII UAD. Those two are the best I've heard ITB. I haven't compared them directly, just going off memory from years on UAD. By the time Rule Tec came around, I was off the UAD platform.
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Post by ragan on Sept 2, 2021 18:01:15 GMT -6
Yeah I don’t get it. His whole return claim was that it didn’t work. It works. I know Reverb skews towards the buyers but what is their claimed justification for you having to refund a working piece of gear?
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