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Post by drbill on May 13, 2024 21:01:44 GMT -6
Locomotive 14B also is pretty interesting as well…have looked at those for awhile now, love to hear from anyone who’s had some experience with them. I've got 50+ channels of comps. For mix bus, my absolute favorite are the Manley Vari-Mu and the Locomotive 14B's. The Manley is easier as it's set up to be "stereo". It's a little more retro / vintage sounding for lack of a better term. The 14B's are bigger sounding, more in your face, a tad more modern sounding. I could easily survive with either.
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Post by drbill on May 13, 2024 16:34:29 GMT -6
The RS124 is obviously great, but I've never used one, so no comment there. On the AS V Comp.... YES!! Def smooth, vibey and tubey. I have only used it on mix buss ONCE. It was very cool, but L/R tracking was not good for me. I have the older model though. I'd give a shout out to Chris about stereo usage, cause it definitely fits your criteria otherwise.
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Post by drbill on May 13, 2024 16:28:04 GMT -6
It'll never not annoying the shit out of me that a dude doing an audio based YouTube channel can record his own voice over for shit. Like it's not that hard. But just fully of distortion and heavily denoised with something. I didn't make it 30 seconds in. Ditto to all.
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Post by drbill on May 11, 2024 9:05:46 GMT -6
Pro Tools HDX Ultimate. I don't know if it's "the best", but I have never thought about delay compensation other than to just "turn it on" for well over a decade.....
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Post by drbill on May 10, 2024 22:21:26 GMT -6
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Post by drbill on May 8, 2024 19:53:27 GMT -6
If you like the completely resetting everything, that's cool - some dig that. But if you just want easy recall and are swearing off hardware because of it, in my humble opinion - I'd suggest that you're doing hybrid wrong. I've mentioned my approach before, and for me, recalling my entire hardware studio is just as easy and just as fast as recalling a plugin mix. Hardware recall and setup is a non-issue. I definitely hear you on this, Bill, but most of us can't afford to have as many HW options as you have, much less the I/O. I love my LA-2A on Vox and bass, but I can't afford a second one to have dedicated to each application... Yup. I hear ya. But you can still scale it to whatever your particular gear count / budget is. IME, getting analog gear involved in a mix is a win/win. No matter how much or how little you have!
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Post by drbill on May 8, 2024 9:57:38 GMT -6
Now that’s the first time I’ve heard you mentioning HW’s dirty little secret - it’s a pain in the ass. And why I’ve stayed ITB because of all the recall. If you like the completely resetting everything, that's cool - some dig that. But if you just want easy recall and are swearing off hardware because of it, in my humble opinion - I'd suggest that you're doing hybrid wrong. I've mentioned my approach before, and for me, recalling my entire hardware studio is just as easy and just as fast as recalling a plugin mix. Hardware recall and setup is a non-issue.
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 17:57:02 GMT -6
It sounds so good, that I'm thinking about expanding my I/O and using more hardware. IT's a pain in the ass for sure, but there's no denying there's something to it. Just punch and attack... Also making me think about a silver bullet. Man, what a killer combo that would be. Put Tape*79 or the Fairi-Mu in the C slot, and you would have a killer mix buss.
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 15:45:49 GMT -6
SNIP AND the dust left over from tuning them. LMAO! So that's how YOU did it. OK. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA Do they even work without the magic "dust" and particulate lead pieces floating around inside them? . If it doesn't "crackle" when you play it for an hour, consider yourself blessed and make sure you never have to tune or replace a tine, and for God's sake, NEVER move it again.
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 15:24:32 GMT -6
but I knew from others that he could be a bit of a character! P.S. The drummer showed up 90 minutes later and knocked 6 songs out of the park in one-two takes each. Oh yeah, quite the character - RIP. Well, one thing I've learned over the years is that if you can make the performer comfortable and confident - that makes our jobs infinitely easier. So....if showing up late works for their brain, then so be it. Doesn't relieve any of our frustrations, but again, whatever gets the job done!!! Glad you knocked it out!!
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 14:03:00 GMT -6
Loved / Hated my Wurlies. Including the tube one from the early 60's that was made out of particle board and the cheapo plastic ones from the late 70's. Loved the sound, hated the breakdowns and maintenance. I do miss them though.... But not enough to buy another. LOL. At least they didn't break my foot like the Rhodes did.... They feel pretty stable, of course it would probably be better to replace the electronics. As long as you service it and don't travel with it it should hold up fairly well. It does sound amazing and is a very inspiring piece of gear It was never the electronics that gave me problems. Always the mechanical aspects. AND the dust left over from tuning them.
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 10:06:56 GMT -6
Loved / Hated my Wurlies. Including the tube one from the early 60's that was made out of particle board and the cheapo plastic ones from the late 70's. Loved the sound, hated the breakdowns and maintenance. I do miss them though.... But not enough to buy another. LOL. At least they didn't break my foot like the Rhodes did....
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Post by drbill on May 7, 2024 9:48:27 GMT -6
Man . . . some millennials really piss me off, late to work all the time. Waiting for a drummer who's an hour late to the session, everyone else is just waiting around. When did common courtesy and respect just fly out the window? Probably when you started working with musicians / singers? It's not just millennials. I've shared this before, but my "worst case" was far worse than an hour and literally drove me up the wall week after week. But it was how these artists recorded. When I started working for Andrae : - Leave home at 3:30 to show up at studio thru cross town rush hour traffic @ 5:30 to prep for 6:00 session. - Producer shows up at 6:15. We decide which song we are working on. Put on tape and get rough mix up and start waiting. - First session singers show up around 7:00 and immediately leave to go do errands and get food when they see no one is there yet. - More singers dribble in around 7:30-8:00. When they figure out where the other singers went to eat, they leave to go get food too. - Everyone starts to get back and stay around 8:30, the rest of the crew shows up about then. By now, I'm frustrated. - Andrae shows up around 9:00 and all the "hey, sup brah, BSing and joking around starts. Good times. - 9:30 - That's when Andrae STARTS writing the lyrics for the song we are going to record. Knocks it right out and teaches it to the singers who instantly get it. - 9:45-10:00 singers FINALLY go into the studio proper. - 10:15-10:30 we're done TRIPPLE tracking everything (to tape no less). When they work it was like trying to hold on to a raging forest fire. - Home by midnight. For essentially a half hour session. - Singers (5-20 of em) got paid scale by Quincy's label. For FOUR to FIVE hours. LOLOLOL. I've always speculated that it could have been this album that triggered Quincy to shutter his label. Haha! - This happened on and off for weeks. - Wait one year, get Grammy. It was worth it, but frustrating for a guy who does commercial work that happens on the spot. The "sessions" were some of the easiest, and yet most frustrating I've ever done. LOL
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Post by drbill on May 5, 2024 17:38:06 GMT -6
Fader moves.
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Post by drbill on May 5, 2024 15:34:10 GMT -6
I dunno. All I know is that they are freaking expensive - IF - you can find one.
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Post by drbill on May 4, 2024 14:23:04 GMT -6
Also, Steely Dan: horns: omg so tight, tight, tight, melodic and so musical !!! Where have I been ? Listening to country music?
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Post by drbill on May 3, 2024 17:11:52 GMT -6
?? Horribly disturbing or a Godsend to Travis fans? Will we be subjected to Elvis doing Taylor Swift and Madonna songs for the rest of eternity?
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Post by drbill on May 3, 2024 14:35:24 GMT -6
One thing that left me scratching my head the longer I thought about it.... Unless I misunderstood, or was distracted during the video, they mentioned that "normal" IR's measure freq response, but the Fluid IR's also measure "harmonics". Um....harmonics ARE what determine freq response - right?? So....did I get it wrong, or are they freely throwing around tech terms meant to entice guitarists who don't know any better. Either way, the Fluid IR's generally seem to sound better. But I do not generally appreciate those throwing out tech talk to disguise actual truths. Maybe I was just daydreaming..... ?? Harmonics are not present in the original signal, they're introduced by the system. Maybe we're dancing around semantics, but the way they described it on the video certainly left me feeling like they were trying to pull a high tech smokescreen. Harmonics absolutely ARE present in the original signal. Otherwise your guitar would sound like a sine wave. Virtually every sound has harmonics in it. Obviously they are doing something, and maybe they are just not describing it the best way possible....
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Post by drbill on May 2, 2024 22:09:00 GMT -6
I have a number of test songs but Seals song Loves Devine is great to check vocal center. Woman in Chains by TFF is also great for checking tightness of the low end. I like your listening material!!!!
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Post by drbill on May 2, 2024 16:37:31 GMT -6
One thing that left me scratching my head the longer I thought about it.... Unless I misunderstood, or was distracted during the video, they mentioned that "normal" IR's measure freq response, but the Fluid IR's also measure "harmonics". Um....harmonics ARE what determine freq response - right?? So....did I get it wrong, or are they freely throwing around tech terms meant to entice guitarists who don't know any better. Either way, the Fluid IR's generally seem to sound better. But I do not generally appreciate those throwing out tech talk to disguise actual truths. Maybe I was just daydreaming..... ??
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Post by drbill on May 2, 2024 9:33:10 GMT -6
How many monitors do you actually use? Two - one for the Left, and one for the Right. JBL 708P's.
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Post by drbill on May 1, 2024 9:14:51 GMT -6
I had the old TDM version. I'll have to pull out some of the old iLoks and see if I can find it - $65 is definitely worth it. Dave Hill is very talented.
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Post by drbill on May 1, 2024 9:05:32 GMT -6
Interesting. Good stuff. I own THU, but it's been awhile since I used it. Will need to check this out.
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Post by drbill on Apr 29, 2024 10:15:01 GMT -6
My contemplation is that one pass through a transformer-less console might be a little vanilla compared to simply letting Scheps Bounce Factory run the stems through my Silver Bullet overnight? Don't know the Scheps Bounce Factory, but an extra run thru the Silver Bullet will net you quite a bit. It was designed to do exactly what you are describing and will sound subjectively better than the SSL;s (IMO). Good luck with your project.
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Post by drbill on Apr 29, 2024 10:09:39 GMT -6
Longtime Air user here. I would say that connectivity would/will be your major concern. As others have said, max out the RAM and Storage and you should be OK.
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