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Post by rocinante on Dec 25, 2017 2:21:54 GMT -6
I couldn't agree more that 2017 has been a pretty terrible year and definitely up there as one of the worst. But at the same time; I had a lot of success in some areas including my bands album finishing and work increasing. Happy holidays gentleman
naztrovia!
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Post by rocinante on Dec 22, 2017 12:37:26 GMT -6
What are the stock transformers?
I use mine on bass when I need to narrow it and thump it out and frigging love it.
Just to be clear I'm not doubting you guys but if you ask Tanner or any of those Neve Guru dudes they're going to say that a large part of the Neve sound is the Transformers. Obviously they didn't use carnhills at the time. I just worked on a 33415 (a 1081 with a different output xfmr) when searching around I read stuff like 'it's a mariner going into an line amp with a big ol 1751 output xfmr hanging off it.' I'm paraphasing.
I have a bunch of ba338s and ba340s I'm just waiting to find time to stick in something.
Godyam life gets in the way.
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Post by rocinante on Dec 21, 2017 11:08:44 GMT -6
Rocking a kx88 as well.
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Post by rocinante on Dec 21, 2017 11:05:44 GMT -6
I switched the stock transformers with Carnhill input and output xfmrs and associated caps. The acmp73 is a really nice layout. To be honest the chameleon labs was a little more like Neve in its layout, albeit the wiring is not a direct switch for never ba283 amps. Their all derivatives of each other including golden age. I really want to do this with my ACMP-84. Did you have any of the hum issues? Did you want to do the Mic in and line in as well, assuming you are going to do the output xfmr?
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Post by rocinante on Dec 21, 2017 11:02:08 GMT -6
There's nothing to change or upgrade. Maybe a mariner for a carnhill but at that point you might as well change them in your vintech, heritage, aml, etc... Looks really nice at any rate. I'm sure I'll get one. Or three.
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Post by rocinante on Dec 21, 2017 1:55:08 GMT -6
I've used an 8078 and it was the best easiest mix I ever did. I could not directly compare but there was no need for outboard pres. I have close to the 'dream' but the dream is at least 10 channels of neve in the form of a console. So far 2 x Capi vp28 2 x 1272 2 x 1290 (diy) 2 x tube (diy but delicious) 4 x 312 (diy) 1 x-12 (312 clone) Wa12 4 x Helios (diy) 2 x vintage designs m81 1 x ssl 9k clone 1 x tnc acmp73 (modded) Soundcard ghost (but I've never used the Mic pres) More than I need and some are out on loan. Tell me about you TNC ACMP73 mods? I switched the stock transformers with Carnhill input and output xfmrs and associated caps. The acmp73 is a really nice layout. To be honest the chameleon labs was a little more like Neve in its layout, albeit the wiring is not a direct switch for never ba283 amps. Their all derivatives of each other including golden age.
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Post by rocinante on Dec 18, 2017 20:04:46 GMT -6
I've used an 8078 and it was the best easiest mix I ever did. I could not directly compare but there was no need for outboard pres. I have close to the 'dream' but the dream is at least 10 channels of neve in the form of a console. So far 2 x Capi vp28 2 x 1272 2 x 1290 (diy) 2 x tube (diy but delicious) 4 x 312 (diy) 1 x-12 (312 clone) Wa12 4 x Helios (diy) 2 x vintage designs m81 1 x ssl 9k clone 1 x tnc acmp73 (modded) Soundcard ghost (but I've never used the Mic pres) More than I need and some are out on loan.
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Post by rocinante on Nov 27, 2017 9:13:05 GMT -6
Might as well. After you make sure they are unscrewed, take a pair of pliers behind the knob (so between the knob and frontpanel) and pull. Someone put them on and it wasnt Goodyear tire service.
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Post by rocinante on Nov 21, 2017 19:24:20 GMT -6
That's a decent price regardless. Its all smd though. Does anyone know where i can get those knobs and what company makes those illuminated pushbuttons? Svart? EMRR?
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Post by rocinante on Nov 20, 2017 22:37:06 GMT -6
My suggestion is all! I record using both cardoids and omnis and both give me great results. I sometimes use both (watch for phase) and from the artist and listeners perspective sometimes. I than sometimes add haas effect to give it dimension (if i dont just duplicate the omni and drag the duplicate forward a microsecond) and then smile at my meager accomplishment. When i am in a good room my default is omni.
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Post by rocinante on Nov 19, 2017 19:23:33 GMT -6
What I miss and what made me come to rgo was the days when an inexperienced up-and-coming engineer could ask some technical questions about a piece of gear and get a response from you some pretty respected and very knowledgeable folks. Every once and awhile some drama would flare up regarding someones knowledge, experience, and opinion of a product or a place or fellow engineer and it was funny. But it seems nowadays that's all it is with various weekend warrior home studio owners asking the obligatory: 'which should I get xxx or xxx for my untreated room in my basement?'
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Post by rocinante on Oct 18, 2017 4:02:35 GMT -6
About time.
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Post by rocinante on Oct 15, 2017 10:40:28 GMT -6
I built a digital vu meter using and arduino and oled's, and it was actually damn accurate.
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Post by rocinante on Oct 12, 2017 8:31:25 GMT -6
Okay well this kind of sucks... so I was going to put out a monitor controller I designed, but yours is going to be probably better so yeah.... I think I'll just eat souvlaki. I don't know if I'd even do this one. Seems there are a lot of options out there for this already. I was sort of daydreaming on the options something like this would/could have and seems like a very daunting design. Something as simple as should it be buffered on each input, or simply just a relay crosspoint switch? A buffer would ensure constant impedance on each input and output, but would add considerable cost and would add a half dozen active and passive components to the signal path.. Just a relay-based crosspoint switch would only have relays but the I/O impedances would vary depending on what was plugged into the I/O.. And that's not even considering all the possible combinations of paths and features, etc.. Yeah i know, its taken me f'ing forever. It works a charm right now but is ugly. With a new volume control display (that one is for you buddy) I hope to make it slightly more attractive. Right now its a JLM thingamobobber.
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Post by rocinante on Oct 11, 2017 13:10:08 GMT -6
I also second a hi end summing adds. I have the multiple IO taken care of but I'd like a nice stereo 24/96-192 adda for mixdown.
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Post by rocinante on Oct 11, 2017 13:06:15 GMT -6
Okay well this kind of sucks... so I was going to put out a monitor controller I designed, but yours is going to be probably better so yeah.... I think I'll just eat souvlaki.
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Post by rocinante on Oct 7, 2017 17:01:00 GMT -6
I am doing something very similar. Pm'ed you.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 29, 2017 10:27:40 GMT -6
My VintageDesigns (TK Audio) m81s are probably my favorite mic press in my collection. Second are the 1290s I built. Colin has been at this awhile. I am happy to read these are good.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 25, 2017 17:19:18 GMT -6
Guys, its a nice Carnhill input Transformer followed by a Neve amp card that has a Carnhill output Tranformer dangling off it. It's gonna sound good regardless. Ive used an AMS Neve 1081 and use a 1081 clone all the time and both were good. Like one of my favorites.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 25, 2017 16:35:25 GMT -6
Cinemag Transformers are very high-quality transformers made by a very high-quality company. Nobody is skimping nothing by using Cinemag transformers. Warm Audio made their product seems more 'legit' because they advertised that they used cinemag everywhere on every package, hoping customers would consider their products hi-end to be using such high-quality transformers. You have it backwards. I remember when you were working on this preamp and how excited you were when you finished it. Amongst the geniuses over at Groupdiy who create incredible hi quality and clever designs your excitement was refreshing. I remember when I built my first tube preamp and how excited I was too. I wanted to show the world. There's something very satisfying about looking at a schematic and creating a piece of hi quality and engineering art from it. I have sold a couple of pieces (mostly Helios stuff) which without the help of Ian Thompson Bell and other GDIY dudes never would have been done. I never sold any of my tube preamps as it just didn't seem worth it considering all the products out there that could offer extra features I couldn't afford for less than it took me to build. Locomotive Audio makes good products and they are nice guys and there is A LOT to be learned from them. I actually bought some of their extra components they were selling (they bought a lot of stuff in bulk) for my own projects. Using the search engine over at GDIY there is a ton to be learned by those guys. More than a few of them are the owners and designers and engineers of some of most respected and highest quality recording equipment products available, and they have consistently dropped gems of information over the years that is worth reading and rereading. At any rate good luck with your product. Looks nice and I remember it sounded pretty good too.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 21, 2017 22:32:05 GMT -6
I just looked at the schematic (the coloring book is thorough) and as expected the professionalism at AML is nothing short of incredible. Its a really well done model of the 1081 thats for sure. Like i thought instead of using the ba338 and ba340 amp cards (kind of like DOA's)the amps are built into the entire circuit. No matter what i am sure it would sound great. I haven't spent a ton of time looking at it AML's schematic but i had a hard time sourcing several of the transistors when I built the ba338 and 340 amps. Like really hard Someday I will build a 1081 preamp as well but this is certainly cool.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 21, 2017 10:01:45 GMT -6
You know I'm not seeing the ba338 and ba340 which I'm guessing they integrated it into the entire circuit somehow. Yeah what dudes usually gush over is the entire circuit which is highly complex. I actually designed a 1081 mic pre since I have some ba338s and ba340s but never got around to making pcb's.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 21, 2017 9:55:30 GMT -6
Dbx160x is my go to as well. La2a and 1176 as well. I especially like the bass through an 1176 after a Pultec.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 19, 2017 8:20:26 GMT -6
Yeah a hundred tracks seems a little much. Sometimes if I'm doing a ton of editing and lots of takes sure I'll use 60 tracks maybe 70. That's not uncommon. I've recorded some pretty big bands and even my band itself has 7 instruments in it. I recently recorded an 11 instrument NOLA style swing band and yeah the drums got 7 Mics going in, maybe each guitar during the scratch track will get 2 mics (more than likely 1) and each instrument gets 1 mic but 90% of the time all the instruments are rerecorded in isolation. By the time I'm mixing down the session is cleaned up and all those edited tracks that were sprawled out into 18-20 tracks are bussed into 1 or 2 tracks.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 18, 2017 18:01:08 GMT -6
I don't know who you guys hang out with but I have gone to (and still go to) dozens and dozens of house shows in New York City and San Francisco and here in Minneapolis and Chicago all the time. It may have dwindled in the past few years from 3-5 a week to 1 or 2 but they're going on all the time. Some of them are really really awesome and you can catch some real quality bands some of them the cops show up. I actually enjoy playing house shows a lot as I am level with the crowd (stages are boring) and my bands belly dancers make us a lot more money passing the bucket around then they do at clubs. Usually the house having the show lets the community know and keeps things super respectful.
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