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Post by winetree on May 26, 2022 23:29:19 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on May 23, 2022 16:14:52 GMT -6
Don't see a C-12 in Warm's mic line-up.
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Post by winetree on May 23, 2022 15:34:03 GMT -6
In terms of expense, just meant relative to other clones, but agreed, trying to replicate the original circuits and tubes is inherently expensive. Remember too, I am the penny pinching Canuck adding the easily 30% premium on top of usd, so relatively speaking Josh’s are much better priced, but harder/impossible (?) to get. Wonder, if Josh will do another run sometime? winetree must be pcb, ptp, with all the tubes would add hugely to labour costs? I finally cancelled the deposit on a 50% off StamChild after a three and a half year wait, that last B-stock unit was listed 7 days later. Put the balance towards a 76D+ that arrives on Wednesday. My understanding is there will be a MKII version, much like there was with my original SA-47 and 1073EQ purchases. I'm I the same situation now. I have a $500.00 deposit on a 50% off Stamschild that Was to be the 2020 batch. I've have some recent e-mails with Joshua ending in he'd give me a quick call. Nothing, I've waited this long live up to the contract. I'd like to preorder the new 800c mic but I don't know if I'll live that long.
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Post by winetree on May 21, 2022 21:52:43 GMT -6
Picked up 10 of the Vicoustics Diffusers. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> How do you like them? Not really able to fully test them yet because There is still a large 8ft high scaffold with a plywood platform acting as a partial live ceiling. The Room is live solid wood floors with 16ft dead ceiling. The room had a flutter free short reverb time, The wall diffusers scatter the sound and seem to shorten the room reverb time. with the Scaffold removal, and the addition of the inter thermal tube trap corners and wall half rounds I'll be able to test better. So far it's a great sounding tracking room. Just ordered 4 more to fill in spots in the diffused back wall of the control room.
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Post by winetree on May 21, 2022 21:29:03 GMT -6
Wondering if the Heritage is point to point or P.C.B. But I probably could already guess the answer.
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Post by winetree on May 16, 2022 20:13:53 GMT -6
Picked up 10 of the Vicoustics Diffusers.
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Post by winetree on May 16, 2022 18:42:51 GMT -6
Way back when, I always used the mic preamps in the Harrison console. Other than some original rack mounted Neve modules I had, the Deane Jensen Boulder dual servo mic preamp was the first commercial rack mounted preamp I was aware of. I bought one and still have it.
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Post by winetree on May 3, 2022 20:54:01 GMT -6
Yea, good above info. That garage door is like a screen door on a submarine.
First question asked above "So what to do with the floor?" I've been building a new tracking room for over 3yrs. and the last desision I need to make is what to do with the floors, not the first. Everything else was first.
Live floor, dead ceiling. Live floor; Early reflections from the floor add to the sound. Dead ceiling: Long reflections from a live ceiling create flanging or chousing. Dead ceiling would also help with your above sound isolation.
Sound proofing is transmission isolation. Sound won't transmit through a board that is cut in half. A thick wall with connected layers will pass some frequency thru it.
Retro sound proofing an existing structure is always a bandaid. To do it right, Seek advice, help and large financing.
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Post by winetree on Apr 28, 2022 12:51:49 GMT -6
Short time use, like new. Paid $330.00 to my door.
$260.00 shipped CONUS.
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Post by winetree on Apr 14, 2022 21:12:50 GMT -6
Economic Reality. Despite all the excuses You can't pump almost 10 Trillion dollars into the debit pool and not expect the Kool Aid to get diluted. Therefore you need to give more of the devalued dollars to purchase the same goods. An upward spiral that will never come down.
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Post by winetree on Apr 14, 2022 11:45:33 GMT -6
I could go. Could somebody get me a PASS.
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Post by winetree on Apr 13, 2022 9:57:50 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on Apr 8, 2022 15:39:55 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on Mar 25, 2022 17:38:37 GMT -6
I need a new office computer. So I decided to down grade the newly acquired Mac Mini M1 from the Media Room (the DAW Workstation) to the office. I just ordered the new Mac Studio M1 Max to replace it. After setting everything up, I’ll probably sell the OWC Thunderbolt 4 Dock I bought for the M1 Mini, seeing I won’t need it with the Mac Studio. I was running 10 year old Mac Minis, It was time for an upgrade.
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Post by winetree on Mar 9, 2022 14:59:17 GMT -6
Redco Audio Mogami W3159
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Post by winetree on Mar 3, 2022 19:19:34 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on Feb 23, 2022 23:48:42 GMT -6
Makes me want to sell my U47 Ser# 3x (could be the lowest number in existence) and buy another Hot Rod. I'd probably enjoy it more, but with 7 cars already, Neh
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Post by winetree on Feb 22, 2022 17:04:44 GMT -6
Holly Cow I'm going to Disneyland
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Post by winetree on Feb 10, 2022 13:36:01 GMT -6
Otari bought sound workshop so at first they were basically sound workshop 34 series consoles and then they upgraded them from there
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Post by winetree on Jan 31, 2022 22:53:14 GMT -6
12 little Flickengers to play with. Dual flicks in a Capi VP 28? Wish the VP 28 would run on 24 volts. Going to try one in a Capi VP312 DI 51X running at 24 Volts?
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Post by winetree on Jan 31, 2022 22:35:00 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on Dec 22, 2021 20:23:19 GMT -6
Costco had $100.00 off Apple Stuff. So I retired the Late 2012 - I7 - 16gb - 2SSDs Mac mini, realizing it was now 10 years old and not updatable, and bought an M1 Mac mini. Also got the OWC TB4 Dock. www.owcdigital.com/products/thunderbolt-dockChanging around cords and connections and loading new software, Logic Pro. Looking forward to trying some Atmos 3D mixing. Merry Christmas
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Post by winetree on Oct 3, 2021 14:59:12 GMT -6
After listening carefully to some of the comparisons the Warm sounds pretty close other than a touch more harshness in the high end that I suspect can be tamed. My other thought after reflecting for a while is my room will probably be an issue more than the small difference cheaping out on the Warm will be. It’s treated but small at 11’x13’. I suspect I can pick up a used Warm for $650, maybe couple hundred in upgrades if I’m not happy I can sell it for maybe small loss and move on. Also I just bought an Audioscape 76A which helps everything sound better So if I may, let me expound a bit more on my experience...and take it FWIW. I've been down the path of buying and selling numerous mid-level mics over the past 15 years in search of eliminating harshness. Each time I thought/hoped that I could make it work. Swapped lots of tubes, swapped transformers, bought and sold preamps, and invested in EQ, compressor, and saturation hardware and plugins. All in an effort to fix the mic issues. What I've found is that all of those things do a great job of enhancing what is already good in a mic, but are not the solution to fixing something that is inherently a problem at the source. I've literally spent years experimenting, buying, modding, and selling mics that had some deficiency, all to the detriment of actually recording and completing projects. As you hear over and over, you have to get the source right, and that in large-part means the capsule. The problem I've found with trying to EQ harsh mics is they don't take EQ well. Once you start notching out the harshness, that attempt to fix one area only reveals hidden issues with other frequencies. Then you try to fix those areas. It's a domino effect that eventually sucks the life out of the recorded sound. Garbage in, garbage out. I'm not advising you on what mic brand/model you should or should not buy. I would just encourage you to consider the fact that you're already saying the Warm has harshness, and to understand that "taming" that will likely not be as easy as a tube or transformer swap. And to weigh how much time you want to spend on tweaks and mods and additional hardware in an unknown effort to fix perhaps the unfixable vs. investing in a mic that just delivers the first time. I hope this is somewhat helpful. Good luck on your journey! Goes to show a lot of time and money can go into trying to polish a turd. The money and time spent could have bought the real thing. You only have to buy the best once.
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Post by winetree on Aug 31, 2021 17:25:02 GMT -6
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Post by winetree on Aug 26, 2021 19:25:17 GMT -6
Bob Clearmountain uses one side of one of his 1178 on lead vocals often. I've always wanted to try one, hopefully AudioScape makes it happen in the near future! Wasn't there some kind of story behind Clearmountian and his 1178? Like he got 'em from the Power Station because they were going to toss 'em or something? Feel like I'm in bizarro land. When did the 1178 become a desirable piece? Maybe its because legit "vintage" 1176 pricing went through the roof? Years ago you couldn't give 'em away and nobody liked 'em for much of anything. Was kinda viewed as the unloved step kid of the 1176... transformers replaced with opamps, no class A circuit. The dual mono mode sucked since it couldn't decouple attack & release times. Maybe there's a few things you can get away with that on... Then again I remember when I got into this mess mid 90s an 1176 was a $300 box all day long. Could find a U67 for like $1500 without much of a struggle? Was all just old junk that not many people wanted. First studio I worked at, we got a monthly (or 2 weeks?) newspaper thing, I think it had an orange cover and was called "Pro Audio Trader" or something like that. People all over the country would list their stuff with a phone number. Email was still kinda new! If only I had a time machine... Fast forward, maybe not even 5 years. Post interknot version 1.0, smackie 8 bus consoles and Digi 001 home toolz... I bought a pair of the then brand new reissue 1176 from GuiTarget. Couple months after they were announced and shipping. Paid something like $1500 each which was about the going rate for an old one, still easy to find BTW... They were a special order and the guy at GC asked me what I was going to do with a limiter? What are these things? Why don't you use the Waves L1? What's the difference?! Time flies like a banana. I agree, I bought this stuff years ago. 1176s ( D versions ) $150. each, pair of LA3As - $750, 1178 - $400. Now these common tools of the trade are crazy expensive. However out of the compressors in this rack the 1178 was the least used. I never took to the sound or action of it. So it has sat in the rack for for over 40 years. Maybe I should give it another try.
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