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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 20, 2015 19:33:49 GMT -6
Ah...does that mean that there will be no upgrade discount even if you own 11? It would be like $599? In essence I really wouldn't have any choice but to pay for the subscription? Extortion much? I talked to Avid a bunch of times about this before the holiday. As of my last conversation the PTHD updates break like this: As stated, its $599 for PTHD subscription. If you let your subscription lapse then...they haven't quite gotten that far in their thinking because they have that other pesky policy about not selling PTHD without a card. My bet is that they will get this sussed out and in typical Massholey Avid fashion, they will not be clear about anything. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 20, 2015 19:26:15 GMT -6
Is there link with this? I am dubious.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 16, 2015 16:48:51 GMT -6
This just won the internet!
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 14, 2015 19:35:40 GMT -6
If so, how is that not against Antitrust laws? Collusion much? I think it's only collusion if they own a controlling share for which they would have to get FTC or FCC approval. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 14, 2015 19:34:38 GMT -6
To me there is no justification, stealing is stealing. If the artist made a bad deal with the record company that's their problem not mine. How do I know ? I choose to buy my music. Sozocaps, I hear what you are saying and like you I prefer to purchase music, not for any other reason other than I like having it. I have a lot of friends (most in fact) who disagree and prefer the subscription model such as Spotify. Mostly, they say that they prefer these sites because of cost and convenience. They get to listen to whatever is a hit amongst or is suggested by their friends, and they don't feel bad about it because it is totally legal. Would they buy this music if Spotify didn't exist? Probably not. In fact most of them just play music they already own in one form or another and just don't want to deal with the hassle of migrating libraries from Vinyl, CD or iTunes and Spotify works on all their devices. Spotify did a test a while ago to see if they could raise their monthly rates, and they found out that (like Netflix) their customers have been trained to expect to pay no more than $10/month for access to on demand music of their choice. That seems to be about the rate that all the music streaming services charge. This is really no different than Netflix or Hulu. Once a film gets onto a streaming service, it stops making money. In fact, those services don't even have to pay per play, they just pay one lump sum for streaming rights that have an expiration. Unlike music streaming, video streaming services don't usually get first run films. Would it be better for the industry if the music streaming services made deals like this? They would pay a lump sum for streaming rights to a library for a limited amount of time. I'm not sure how this would get broken up and paid out, but at least there would be built in expiration dates. Or maybe a third party like ASCAP should hold in trust streaming rights to music and make the deals themselves. They would be responsible for paying the rights holders themselves. Maybe I am way off base here, but I think that we all can agree that we as a society must agree that music has more value than coffee. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 8, 2015 17:42:18 GMT -6
My favorite one of these will always be the Greymatter CD, nearly two hours of the GD playing Dark Star live mashed together.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 8, 2015 17:21:13 GMT -6
Most DSP generates numbers having larger exponents than can be passed on to a different process or written to a file. Truncating that exponent causes crunchy sounding distortion that sounds like a chattering noise gate. The way to prevent the distortion is by adding a specific spectrum and level of noise to make the toggling of the bottom bit random so it sounds like hiss. This distortion accumulates and can't really be masked. Subjectively it actually masks low level information that a random bottom bit would preserve. This dithering process has a fair amount of computational overhead so many developers don't bother since using dither means fewer bells and whistles will be available. Naturally the normal answer to this is endless claims that you can't hear it. That's often true of a single process but real world mixes "in the box" involve a huge number of processes. Floating point math is a big help but at a minimum you want dither before anything hits the 24 bit fixed point input of a D to A chip. Any thread that forces me to go to Wikipedia is a good thread. Thanks Bob. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 8, 2015 17:01:04 GMT -6
Just to be clear...I didn't write this, it is a SOS article. I deleted the text and kept the SOS link. I was more commenting that it was a nice find, but I'd be lying if the thought didn't cross my mind at least once that you may haver written it. LOL.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jan 6, 2015 15:33:08 GMT -6
Well done. Nice article.
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Post by adogg4629 on Dec 15, 2014 16:45:42 GMT -6
It took a while, but I had to get a few projects finished and out. After the upgrade, I am happy to say that my 2009 Mac Pro benchmarked just a tad slower than the new 12 core MP. Super Psyched. I highly recommend Paul Opsahl's delidding. The price was not bad and he was a great help through the process (just remember to use a credit card when applying a TINY amount of thermal gel to the CPU to just barely cover it and since the IHS is off of these chips, I would ignore all the chatter on-line about the number of turns of the screw and just tighten the heatsinks like you tighten a drum head. If you tighten too much you could strip the threads, but that's it.
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Post by adogg4629 on Dec 15, 2014 16:28:57 GMT -6
Cool. Let me know. I'll be in and out of LA for the holiday week, but de of that, I'd be happy to help.
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Post by adogg4629 on Dec 11, 2014 15:12:31 GMT -6
I'm in Sherman Oaks, and would be happy to help out within reason. pm me.
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 17, 2014 12:24:57 GMT -6
I just got my CPUs and are sending them out this weekend. Crossing my fingers and hoping I don't have a heart attack. I did a little research into the delidding process, it's not too difficult, let me know if you want a run down on what to do, i will say the price the guy is asking is quite high for what he's doing, let me know bud. BTW, what sized CPU's did you get? I looked into the delidding and decided that I do not trust my hands enough with a razor to not take some dye out with the lid. I ended up getting a pair of x5690s. Power-wise they take exactly the same as the 5520s, but not sure how much extra heat they will put out. I guess I will see. LOL Best AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 14, 2014 16:02:54 GMT -6
I just got my CPUs and are sending them out this weekend. Crossing my fingers and hoping I don't have a heart attack.
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 11, 2014 11:55:57 GMT -6
I'm really glad this is working out for you Tony. I just wish the guys who was de-lidding the CPUs would start selling them on ebay again. As to the Mac Mini...well...all I will say about this is that I'm praying I can make it another two years until I have to upgrade. I hope that by then, there will be new Xeon based Mac Pros that are at least use the two 12 core Xeon E5's and will let me choose to downgrade the Graphics cards. If not, then I will just make a PC system to run Pro Tools and slap one of these cheapo Mac Minis into it to run email, internet browsing etc. AD ad, what do you mean by this?First off, let me apologize for both my lack of context and poor use of the English language (it's only my native tongue). The "guy" (singular) I was talking about is named Paul. He's an engineer in the mid-west who has figured out a way to successfully "de-lid" the intel Xeon CPUs. This allows somebody to install a pair of new CPUs in the 2009 dual socketed (the eight core version) Nehalem Mac Pros without having to put in washers and that heat spreading fabric that adjusts the spacing between the heatsinks and the processor. You have to do that in the 2009s because for some reason Apple ordered de-lidded CPUs from intel and have the heatsink literally touching the CPU with just a bit of thermal paste between. This was due (presumably) because the Nehalem Xeons ran hot and this process was an old modders trick to help cool things down. Because the Westmeres Don't run as hot, it's not an issue like it was (if it ever really was) and Apple went back to standard practices in the 2010 Mac Pro. The good news here is that Paul is back offering the service on Ebay for $200 for a pair of chips. He goes by the handle Box185 on ebay. Here's a link to his Ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/box185?_trksid=p2056016.l2559 Best AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 28, 2014 13:31:14 GMT -6
I'm really glad this is working out for you Tony. I just wish the guys who was de-lidding the CPUs would start selling them on ebay again. As to the Mac Mini...well...all I will say about this is that I'm praying I can make it another two years until I have to upgrade. I hope that by then, there will be new Xeon based Mac Pros that are at least use the two 12 core Xeon E5's and will let me choose to downgrade the Graphics cards. If not, then I will just make a PC system to run Pro Tools and slap one of these cheapo Mac Minis into it to run email, internet browsing etc. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 8, 2014 19:08:29 GMT -6
I mainly use pres for foley, so anything clean, quiet with a lot of gain.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 3, 2014 11:30:56 GMT -6
I'll try to stop by to say hello.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 3, 2014 10:48:57 GMT -6
Holy hell, I can't say much about specifics, but there was an off camera read that was looped in by a different actor that we were able to make track because of the EQ Match (as well as luck in casting).
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 3, 2014 10:25:51 GMT -6
Still a bit pricy for what you get. You guys crack me up. It's ok.....even though i don't have an SSL on my profile pic I'll still make a good living with some aging plug. We are talking about "Definitive Guide to Plug-In Reverbs" and if this one can't make it for you well i guess you should move out of this business. I admit it, I made a caustic comment about a reverb plugin I don't much care for. Also, that's not an SSL on my profile pic. I wish it was, but it isn't even close. I also wish I was good enough at drums to be called a dumb drummer, but alas the best I could muster would be to called a dumb crappy drummer with no rhythm.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 2, 2014 17:46:21 GMT -6
Just finished my first feature film and about two months worth of reality TV shows with Pro Q2. The EQ match, while not perfect, gets me there quick and dirty at times, which in a pinch is just what to doctor ordered. I'm a fan of the Natural Phase as well.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 2, 2014 17:40:37 GMT -6
Waves Ren Reverb : 29$ today. Still a bit pricy for what you get.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 2, 2014 17:39:59 GMT -6
I recently consolidated and have been loving life with EA's Phoenixverb, Valhalla Vintage Verb, and UA's EMT140 and Ocean Way. Add some Echoboy and I got my bases pretty well covered. Some quality plugs, for sure. Michael Carnes did one hell of a job with Phoenix Verb. I just did two feature films in a row with it and fell in love.
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 2, 2014 17:36:00 GMT -6
I know Black Dog was, but I think they closed up shop.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 13, 2014 16:48:42 GMT -6
If the ability to cause illicit groans and eye-rolling counts...then Phish.
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