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Post by avgatzeblouz on Jun 10, 2022 17:41:35 GMT -6
Honestly, any speaker of a certain price of lots of major brands can work. PMC, ATC, Focal, Yamaha, Dynaudio, etc... But the most important thing is how the speaker reacts to YOUR room. I already said it on this forum : I'm working daily with ATC 25 in a studio downtown where they sound fabulous, clinical, detailed. When I brought them home on several occasions, they sucked big time. No low-end, muffled, not able to work on them. A speaker is nothing by itself. It's the couple made of the speaker and the room that matters. Like the microphone and the instrument. The microphone is nothing by itself, can shine on some sources and be a real garbage on others. So try the speakers in YOUR setup.
Edit : I may add that in my room, Focal Trio6 speakers are great. But they sound way different than in a studio where thay have them too, even with digital room correction applied on both locations. The couple is what matters.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Mar 1, 2022 9:13:21 GMT -6
Good Lord, they look fabulous, timcampbell ! Tell me about that third one with the 'W' patterns in it, please! That's my K47. It's identical to a very early Neumann I found.
I wish there was more time.
By seeing these capsules, I wish you had more time too ! A Tim Campbell M7 pair would make me very happy.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Oct 21, 2021 19:31:53 GMT -6
I do post, but only because I do it from home, takes me 2 hours and get paid between 7 and 10 hours. Basically I do it because it is easy money. It compensates for the indie bands I love working with, get me almost no money, but tons of creativity. Professional life is like mixing : it's all about balance !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 16, 2021 12:15:14 GMT -6
I have two in a DIY M49b pair with Neumann capsules. I can't compare to anything. The only M49 I compared it to was a weird sounding one, maybe with an M7 in it. I find them quite bright, which surprised me. Tons of bottom end too.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Jul 20, 2021 7:23:00 GMT -6
I agree. The woofer on the 25s seem low, not tight. Hence the warm feeling. They are very room-dependant. Do not buy unless you could try them at your place. I have experienced this with the 25s. I tried them in the main studio I work at where they absolutely shine, and I moved them in my personal studio where they absolutely sucked. I did not experience this with my ADAMs, or now my Trio6.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on May 7, 2021 6:58:52 GMT -6
Why? Because of limited space in donor body and one sided c12 capsule Im going to use.. I will tune final sensitivity of mic though... I like simply designs. Other reason is that I have many multipatterns mics in my studio. So again its not clone, but something inspired by original. I like freedom of DIY! Well that's cool.
Understanding electronics enough to have that kind of fun is really nice. Have fun !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on May 5, 2021 7:27:48 GMT -6
Thats great! Actualy Im finishing C414EB-P48 circuit board design - cardiod only version without pad and HPF switches. I have a pair of the originals. Why delete the switches? That removes half the functionality. To emphasize, especially why remove the multipatterns ? Those things are awesome to do MS recordings, or omni rooms.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Apr 8, 2021 13:43:07 GMT -6
It certainly seems doable if the Warm mic is in fact a fit for the original capsule. Just get the body, xlr cap, and internal connector bit from their factory and spin up a board. It is not a fit. It was rumored at beginning and ended up not being compatible.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Apr 8, 2021 11:50:26 GMT -6
Hmm. Would have much rather had someone make bodies that can use km84 or km184 capsules Absolutely agree. Still waiting.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Apr 7, 2021 8:03:56 GMT -6
I'm using Audiogridder to run some of my Acustica plugins on a slave computer. Very nice. How does that work with latency? I mean, Acosutica is obviously irrelecant--it's extra DSP power on the other computer...but, does that work for Kenndy's real time VI situation? I feel like Vienna Ensemble doubles your buffer latency. Which for big orchestral projects, fine...but, for SD3 and pianos that won't work (well). I had not understood the specific need for VIs.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Apr 6, 2021 12:31:37 GMT -6
I'm using Audiogridder to run some of my Acustica plugins on a slave computer. Very nice.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Jan 9, 2021 8:14:22 GMT -6
Wow, Michael Brauer lost some weight !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Dec 12, 2020 10:08:36 GMT -6
Sennheiser is the distributor. I purchased Neumann capsules from them a few years back, and inquired about U47fet parts, they had them all.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Nov 17, 2020 19:12:47 GMT -6
One of the few that contributed to the recorded music in a unique, elegant, and most important way.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Nov 16, 2020 9:33:35 GMT -6
I've moved on now, I'm not worried as I have great service from my 0300's for 12 years and the money was spent a very long time ago. You're a wiser man than me ! Sennheiser refusing to service them would make me mad as hell !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Nov 16, 2020 8:18:49 GMT -6
Good news, I've found a dealer who will lend me a pair of 25's for a week to set up in my room and do some mixing. I guess it's the only way I'm going to know for sure. This is mandatory, very good for you. I personnaly use 25s at a studio several times a week, and the mids are absolutely the most precise I ever heard. But honestly, that's about it for me. The bottom end is too slow, top end too soft. Very nice to balance stuff, but I can't get the eq as great as I want when mixing on those on the whole spectrum. I tried them at my place several times, and they sounded horrible. My room is ok, some nice treatment, but not killer. Which leads me to the conclusion that they are very room dependant. I tried the 20s mkII as well at my place and they sounded very good. Not enough bottom, as everyone said. I had then a pair of Spiral Groove, and they sounded as nice and presented themselves as an equivalent quality tool as the 20s, but without the need of a sub.
To summarize, I'm not trying to sell you to Spiral Groove (I'm now on Focals Trio6 Be), but in my experience, the 20s have been a much better mixing tool than the 25s. Good luck !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Oct 9, 2020 8:41:46 GMT -6
And that Phaedrus VF14 ?
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Taupe
Sept 26, 2020 7:47:38 GMT -6
Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 26, 2020 7:47:38 GMT -6
It's a great plugin. The tape emulations are very good, and the MCI console emulation awesome as well. It has lots of tape machines models, a really nice collection. The tape compression is there if you push the input knob. What it lacks compared to other good tape plugins like IK or magnetite is all the distortion, wow/flutter. It does lack an ATR-102 as well, but Acustica is known to develop free upgrades completing the collections. So it should appear one day, and the distortion as well I guess. But the Eq models are very nice, colored and musical. They should not be overlooked. Finally, you can bypass the tape sound and just have the head sound of the machine, which is awesome, but can yield to phase issues if you wanna make a mix between both stages, as it would on a hardware tape machine. They do black friday sales, and have discounts from time to time. It's nice that someone is making a "tape sim" that skips the "emulation" of a broken machine. By which I mean wow/flutter and distortion. If my machine did that I'd either be pulling and repairing the bad cards or calling my Studer mechanic for the broken transport. Absolutely. That's what AA answered to the people complaining about the lack of these "features"... I like a lot that you can skip the tape itself as well, and just have the sound of the electronics.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 24, 2020 8:57:32 GMT -6
It's a great plugin. The tape emulations are very good, and the MCI console emulation awesome as well. It has lots of tape machines models, a really nice collection. The tape compression is there if you push the input knob. What it lacks compared to other good tape plugins like IK or magnetite is all the distortion, wow/flutter. It does lack an ATR-102 as well, but Acustica is known to develop free upgrades completing the collections. So it should appear one day, and the distortion as well I guess. But the Eq models are very nice, colored and musical. They should not be overlooked. Finally, you can bypass the tape sound and just have the head sound of the machine, which is awesome, but can yield to phase issues if you wanna make a mix between both stages, as it would on a hardware tape machine. They do black friday sales, and have discounts from time to time.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 16, 2020 6:38:45 GMT -6
Acustica Audio has a plugin emulating it in their Fairchild suite, the one called Ultramarine. It sounds gigantic.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Sept 3, 2020 7:18:29 GMT -6
I would say A is M7 cause it's darker than B. Both are great, but so close I would not bother having both. Great sounding mics, clearly.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Jul 10, 2020 15:28:59 GMT -6
Dan, it sounds absolutely amazing. This is THE SOUND. Much congrats.
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Post by avgatzeblouz on Jul 7, 2020 6:37:49 GMT -6
So happy for you man. That's a ballsy move !
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Post by avgatzeblouz on May 29, 2020 7:29:48 GMT -6
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Post by avgatzeblouz on May 26, 2020 10:55:21 GMT -6
Wonderful french accent welcome ?
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