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Post by donr on Sept 17, 2017 21:57:02 GMT -6
Noah, how'd it go?
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Post by donr on Sept 15, 2017 20:20:13 GMT -6
Those tunes aren't too difficut to sing and are good time tunes. I didn't listen to much rock from the late 'oughts on because I didn't think it was very good.
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Post by donr on Sept 15, 2017 19:56:11 GMT -6
Oh I get it, it's songs that you sing.
How 'bout "Drink In My Hand," Eric Church
"Free" Zac Brown
"Gone Country" Alan Jackson
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Post by donr on Sept 15, 2017 19:44:52 GMT -6
Seriously, some Katy Perry? California Girls? I dunno.
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Post by donr on Sept 15, 2017 19:31:37 GMT -6
Don't Fear The Reaper?
Ha.
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Post by donr on Sept 13, 2017 12:48:03 GMT -6
John, I'm sure that flew over the head of most people here, but not me. Thanks, Don! That was actualy one of the first 2 or 3 songs I learned on guitar. I thought it was cool that Bruce Springsteen recorded "Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night" a few years ago. Both that and "Go Tell Aunt Grody" were songs I learned in the first grade ages ago. Don't know if they still do that. Probably not.
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Post by donr on Sept 13, 2017 12:33:20 GMT -6
If I had a big nice sounding live room I'd leave an amp mic'ed up all the time. But I don't. I've got basically a control room that doesn't sound too evil with a mic up in the room. It sounds pretty good actually.
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Post by donr on Sept 13, 2017 7:45:58 GMT -6
In my band, Richie Castellano is using a Line6 Helix which lets you use your own cab IR's if you want to, and that's what he does.
He also uses a Variax guitar on one tune which 'plays' a Taylor acoustic IR, and it sounds killer for the purpose and much more convenient than lugging/mic'ing an acoustic for the one tune.
We did a few huge metal festivals in Europe this summer, and about half the metal bands were using Kempers instead of real amps.
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Post by donr on Sept 12, 2017 23:11:04 GMT -6
Any of you guys ever play through a Two Notes C.A.B. or a BluGuitar BluBox? I'm interested in the possibility of running a preamp pedal through a convolution based cab sim. I've come to think convolution cab sims are the bomb, after using the Two-Notes Torpedo for a couple years now. I like pushing my guitar stage rig through a real amp with real tubes, I find the sweet spot for the power tubes about 45% on the master volume.) It's typically a JCM 900, and I use the clean channel pushed about 75% gain, which is crunchy but capable of clean with volume roll off on the guitar. I haven't used the Two-Notes instrument/line level product, but I HAVE used the Two-Notes power amp sim in addition to the real amp sound. I add just a bit of Two-Notes 6L6 push-pull to the cab and mic IR's. I have great affection for class a/b 6L6 sound, and I blend in a bit of it to the Marshall powertube sound, and it's all good. I dial in my sound at the check with in-ear monitors with the stage sound off, so I'm not fooling myself with the added beef of the stage sound. I know exactly what I'm giving the FOH, and when I put the stage cab in and hear it throught the vocal mic leakage, it just adds vibe but I know what's going out front, and what the leakage adds to the FOH too. Convolution cab IR's are becoming the rage these days, but Two-Notes were the first to make it happen. Certainly from a live POV, giving the FOH the same mic'ed cab sound no matter what the gig, indoors, outdoors, honky or sweet venue, has proved stellar, compared to analog cab sims in my experience. Quint, try one out and see if it works for you. I know I can't do better in my home setup than what Two-Notes offers for cab/mic/room options. And it lets me use my real amps without deafening my family or neighbors.
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Post by donr on Sept 12, 2017 22:40:20 GMT -6
Go tell Aunt Rhodium Go tell Aunt Rhodium Go tell Aunt Rhodium That the old grey goose is dead! John, I'm sure that flew over the head of most people here, but not me.
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Post by donr on Sept 10, 2017 20:58:23 GMT -6
Let's not forget with the age of the Internet and demise of college radio, college booking as become a very specific niche market where the bookers seam to do very well and the acts while busy live hand to mouth! Did college radio die? Streaming with a www. address would make college radio stations viable now that nobody has FM radios anymore. The school connection would imply a captive audience for curated playlists by people with their ear to the ground, or at least gullible to indy promo efforts. I dunno, did college radio succumb to Social Justice, like free speech?
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Post by donr on Sept 10, 2017 19:48:25 GMT -6
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Post by donr on Sept 10, 2017 19:37:22 GMT -6
Most of today's shows suck! I blame the demise of live venues. That and the lack of financial support for anything that doesn't look like it'll turn an immediate profit to the bean counters and ad men who are presently in control of the means of distribution and promotion. I understand that all of Bob Dylan's seminal early albums (before the motorcycle accident) lost money for CBS but they kept him on and promoted him because having him on the label attracted many more profitable acts. You won't see that these days. In fact you won't see any Bob Dylans getting signed at all... I'll second the notion about CBS Columbia Records' philosophy of long term developement of their artist roster in the 60's-70's. They signed their artists to long term deals and expected to develope an artist's talent and experience over that period. Blue Oyster Cult's first album in 1972 sold about 100k over the first year, but that was enough to do the second, and then the third, which stairstepped up in sales even in the absence of an AM radio hit. Our first gold record was the forth one, a live album, and the first platinum was the fifth, the one with the Reaper on it. Of course we were doing our part, touring relentlessly and promoting ourselves as we could. But if Columbia could never quite figure out how to market us, they certainly could deliver the product to retail when we finally hit. And I'm grateful to the label's then-philosophy of maintaining a long term relationship with the artists. One thing, Columbia never lost money on 100k sales. They recouped their expenses for recording and advances and promotion with those numbers. I would bet they did with the early Dylan records too. But the artist didn't recoup those expenses, for which they were charged every penny and then some. The label made more per disk than the artist did.
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Post by donr on Sept 7, 2017 10:46:38 GMT -6
I don't use Logic, but what happens if you just drag the midi file from the desktop onto a new Logic track?
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Post by donr on Sept 6, 2017 23:20:34 GMT -6
donr Can you post a pic of the new setup ? Anyone Else: Been having issues with my 2nd bigger display . It connects from the TB display port to hdmi to screen.. Thing is my 2012 MBP only has 1 TB port which is how I get a second monitor. If I had two TB ports life would be easy 😂 Trying to find a solution that would let me put the TB card in my Apollo as well as get a new screen while still using the same TB port. I'm afraid if they are daisy chained the screen via TB will take away from the Apollo throughput, even though I'm sure it will still be still way more than the fw800 lol Chase, here it is at the moment. It's a work in progress as I assume all of our rooms are. I'm so nuts with touring this year I haven't spent any where near the time I want to in the room. The treatment is Jeff Hedbeck's. The beige is 2" 703 over pegboard and standard insulation (covers about ⅔ of the top of the room where the original pegboard was a workshop feature.) The squares on the wall and ceiling are GIK tuned bass traps and the overhead is GIK too. Note the SVART box in the top of the rack and the ZULU on the stool. Both righteous pieces of gear. The SVART D/A is fed/clocked by AES/spidf from the MH ULN-8 and I can monitor off either one without changing the setup in the DAW. The Apollo is great, I retain it for its functionality but it's not in the same sonic league as the SVART and the Metric Halo. BTW, my video is connected by the HDMI port on the 2013 MacPro, and I hooked up the Slate MTi2 the same way on my 2014 MBPro. No issues with it, it works fine. What issues are you having? I only use TB for the Apollo stuff, an outboard SSD, and interfacing my Metric Halo ULN-8's FW400 with an Apple TB adapter.
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Post by donr on Sept 6, 2017 9:40:44 GMT -6
DAW buffer latency is the bane of all VI's.
Now, UAD could make a move hosting a simple drum machine, even if just to make beat data for fuller drum software.
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Post by donr on Sept 5, 2017 16:38:27 GMT -6
Thanks! I decided it takes too much space for my current desk. That's the rub. You need to plan your desk around it.
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Post by donr on Sept 5, 2017 8:54:21 GMT -6
I've got one, although I'm not using it at the moment. The setup procedure is a bit tedious and takes a while to get all the functions happening, but I got it to work well with DP. The monitor is nice and the multitouch works as advertised. I realized I had no reason to emulate a large format console on my desktop. I'm a short guy, and reaching for touch presses and drags I'd usually move a mouse for was no advantage to me. I need the desk real estate for a midi controller and other things. I didn't mind having the monitor right in front of me, that part was cool. I am now using a 50" Samsung curved 4k TV on an AV stand for a monitor, and that frees up the desktop. I see MTi's mounted in console style enclosures, and that's neat if that's the way you want to work. I still think it's an innovative product. The macro capability could be really worthwhile if the time is taken to set up the routines you use repeatedly. PM me if you think you want one, stormy.
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Post by donr on Sept 5, 2017 7:55:13 GMT -6
Nothing comparable to Steely Dan out there now, to my knowledge. Steely Dan was the prime reason I kept upgrading my playback system in the day.
RIP Walter. DFTR.
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Post by donr on Sept 5, 2017 7:52:11 GMT -6
Waves plugs are staples in my DAW. I'd pay ~100 bucks/yr to maintain what's essentially the Platinum bundle.
I'm down with these $29 sales. Got the Abbey Rd plates and SSL G channel and CLA Mixbus that way.
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Post by donr on Aug 30, 2017 12:25:31 GMT -6
I bought the Dynamic EQ. Figure I should have at least one of those.
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Post by donr on Aug 30, 2017 7:44:59 GMT -6
Safe to say it doesn't hurt to dither on hardware sends out of the DAW. Do dither whenever reducing bit depth, or whenever the DAW is doing math on the audio. How many dB down is the dither, anyway?
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Post by donr on Aug 28, 2017 17:27:51 GMT -6
Waves' Signature Series UI's are almost purposely garish and confusing. Even the staightforward plugs are dense a lot of times. Not all Waves are that way. RVox, RBass and L1 are fine.
Valhalla's GUI is logical and informative. The control positions on presets give you a good idea of why the preset sounds the way it does. Fab Filters UI is powerful and informative. Slate's VTM isn't bad either, after you hide the reels. Add a star to any plugin that has a constant gain listening option.
I have a hard time with Apple's AU and Airwindows' plain horizontal slider interface. Hard to get a feel for the 'box' the plugin is trying to be. I can't imagine a Pultec EQ plugin, for instance, with horizontal faders for the pots and detented switches. I wouldn't know what to do with it.
I will say, the more faithful the GUI to the original hardware, the better it sounds. : ) I still like pretending I'm patching in real gear with plug ins.
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Post by donr on Aug 28, 2017 15:48:57 GMT -6
I don't want to speak for Dave, or quote him without his permission, but he said to the effect the extra 8 bits in 32 bit float keep track of the decimal point enabling much more dynamic precision in the computer, but the digital audio is always 24 bit when outputed to an interface, and there's no truncation involved in that math process.
Not to say the analog conversion of those 24 bits couldn't or wouldn't sound more pleasing with the addition of dither on the way. It well could.
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Post by donr on Aug 27, 2017 1:15:13 GMT -6
Further correspondence with Dave Roberts at MOTU. He says coming out of DP to an interface at 24 bits fixed from 32 bit float involves no truncation and no advantage to adding dither.
I wonder if what people prefer using dither is the noise. Like a painting on black velvet rather than canvas. Why do so many modeled plug-ins add noise? The noise floor of vinyl records is like -55dB, isn't it?
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