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Post by rocinante on Sept 18, 2017 10:36:47 GMT -6
I did vinyl laminate over concrete and it worked just great. Better than concrete and looks way nicer. It's worth it to get the better laminate imo and most importantly to buy a box or two more than you need. Yes it does scratch if you scrape a heavy guitar amp across it and no it does not look like wood. Also many basements don't have the smoothest floor and quickly with traffic the vinyl will reveal those seemingly small bumps. The better laminate will reveal less as they are usually thicker. It is vital that you clean and scrub the floor before laying it down. Even pebbles will eventually tear through the laminate. Also its important to pick up extra laminate as many styles run out of popularity and will eventually disappear from the marketplace. Years ago I had picked up a popular model laminate and had to order online for replacements from a dwindeling supply for way more than i had paid. That all said: laminate can look really nice and in my case 'brightened' up the studio making it look way more professional. Beats a concrete floor in most cases minus maybe a large room or warehouse. For basement studios its great. Wood is always better. In every regard; acoustically and aesthetically.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 17, 2017 17:04:35 GMT -6
To add I mix 30 plus tracks often enough but buss them into anywhere from 8-16 busses. Those busses are then run out da to patchbay to console back to patchbay to ad. This is so I can insert external hardware anywhere along the path. The busses also have plug ins on them but are grouped by instrument.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 17, 2017 16:56:26 GMT -6
Coincidentally I'm operating a 12 core z800 and two months ago did two 46 track sessions at 2496. Several (I believe 7) of the tracks had Valhalla, waves Veq4, and Studio One 3.1 built in mixverb on them (by accident) All other processing was through external hardware. Hitherto i have never needed to use so many tracks and wasn't sure how the z800 would do. I'll probably never need to do it again but it did it without any real hiccups (during recording several of the tracks waveforms disappeared). Needless to say it was stressful. I wantewanted to hug the z800 afterwards. Fwiw I also quite coincidentally have two Evo's as my main hard drives. Great minds think alike?
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Post by rocinante on Sept 12, 2017 23:32:28 GMT -6
Pirate Press does affordable pressing (maybe a tad less than discmakers) and has a good roster of bands to boot.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 1, 2017 1:13:11 GMT -6
Punk has evolved into something way beyond so many of the bands listed. Way beyond. That stuff was cool when I was 13 but there were far better bands of that era. And Johns right you weren't apart of it. It was awesome. It was something very special and it was full of talent and rawness. It was something you had to experience and no YouTube video or corperate sponsored schmuck will ever help you to it. You simply have to go yourself. Which you won't. it really began with bands like
Rudimentary Peni (especially the album cacophony) Conflict Dirt Subhumans (the day the country died) Discharge Anti-cimex Flux of punk Indians Amebix Doom Omega Tribe Crass Anti-schism Anti-sect Are a great starting point to name just a few. Brains, talent, and most of all spirit. They stood against. And then in the 90s some amazing bands wrote some amazing albums and punk evolved even more; crust, grind, sludge, all became sub genres of punk, but ask any punk nowadays (and not some jack ass who likes Henry Rollins or Green day) and they would consider them punk. Bands like;
Dystopia (especially the album "human = garbage") Nausea Extreme Noise Terror Skit system Aus Rotten Neurosis Skaven Initial state Contropetera Citizen fish Choking victim His hero is gone Rise against Asunder Filth Phobia Homomilitia Drop Dead Witch Hunt Damad Grief Oi polloi Leftover crack Toxic Narcotic Capitalist Casulties Eye hate god Abc diablo Agoraphobic nosebleed
All of whom are light years beyond the 3 chord junk and redefined what punk was. Made it become a threat by actually exposing corruption, standing up for what they believe in, etc... They put meaning to what was really terrifying; nuclear war, the kkk, nazis, your government, and the best part they actually could play their instruments.
Years ago and obviously at some time when many others stopped going to underground punk shows, punk evolved and became something way bigger than Henry fucking rollins. Bands like Dystopia introduced highly complex jazz metal drumming while bands like Rudimentary Peni let their schizophrenia out in the name of art. Bands like Neurosis wrote detailed atmospheric soundscapes to accompany the gloomy distorted guitars, while bands like Amebix and Antischism actually beat the shit out of neo nazis and screamed about various companies that torture animals to save on costs. *when i lived in SF and NYC we used to go "moon-stomping" back in the day and beat the shit out of neo nazis and skin heads. Back then nazis were bad. A few of my friends damaged a few slaughter houses that kept their animals in abhorrent conditions* Go to any great punk record store (I'm lucky I live near 'Extreme Noise') and very few of the bands in there will be the drunken plaid jacket and Mohawk sporting shit bands of yesteryear (that i liked when I was like 13) Don't get me wrong bands like minor threat, operation ivy, black flag, poison idea, flipper were fun when I was a kid and introduced me to good punk rock. As a matter of fact my first show when i was 14 was Bad Brains. But i hadn't gone to many punk shows at that time and once i found that there were so many more amazingly talented and highly intelligent and intense punk bands out there I never let go. Cause they were that good. You'll never hear them on the radio. They don't make YouTube or MTV videos. You would have to go and seek them out but they are worth every effort.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 31, 2017 23:53:10 GMT -6
Ignore that they are diy, thats the fun part, they are great.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 28, 2017 0:13:57 GMT -6
I switched mine on my D-la2a to 12ay7 and it definitely opened it up and made it more 3D and overall even more usable. It's also easier to find good 12ay7s. Oh and to quote Kingston at GDIY:
"Changing those 220k plate resistors to something lower is indeed a good idea. The 220k are only good for the really high mu 12AX7's. You could even go and check the tube datasheet if you really want to optimise them (and the cathode bias resistors) to a certain tube. Making the distortion more symmetrical is not automatically better of course."
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Post by rocinante on Aug 23, 2017 9:26:44 GMT -6
Because of the last conversation that we had about dithering on this forum, you guys totally scared the shit out of me and I was like: "oh fuck! I better start dithering everything!" I don't know. I have no A/B but it's been working fine for about the last 7-8 years of using mostly analog gear and I've been using multiple hardware inserts nearly the entire time. I tried it for a few sessions then stopped giving enough of this shit when I didn't really hear a difference. To be honest i only use dithering when I have to up sample or down sample. I'm sure Bob's right cause it's fucking Bob, but I just haven't heard enough of a difference and I've never felt like there was a loss of quality and like I said I use external hardware in every session often with 10+ pieces of gear. Maybe if I used higher end ADDA I would notice.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 21, 2017 19:04:55 GMT -6
What degree/oclock you have it at is only relevant to how much compression you want to apply and how much you want to hear that compression. I like driving the 1176 with bass but if I'm recording vocals and I got kind of a hot singer I keep both the input in the low and the output at 12 o clock. When mixing lead guitars its once again dependent on what it going on with Everything else in the mix but i usually like driving the transformers so its around 2 o clock for the in and between 1-3 o clock for the out.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 21, 2017 6:50:03 GMT -6
Well for one you can just make sure that all your ground wiring and anything that's connected to the ground is secured well. Then make sure that your ground is tied to the pin 1 of the Left and Right outs of the unit. I think the 'in' jacks should be tied to ground as well. You can also move the power transformer a bit to see if that helps. I hate to say it but there's a giant thread for the gssl at Groupdiy that will have you figure this out quickly.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 8, 2017 16:41:23 GMT -6
Yeah smallbutfine is definitely right, you should look it over first. If it looks dicey, why by a boat anchor. When i got my console it was used by npr who had a tech go through it every year.
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Post by rocinante on Aug 7, 2017 0:15:35 GMT -6
Oh yeah go for it. I've never met anyone who got a console and didnt love the flow for at least a few years. You might go back but you'll learn a ton and once yiu get past the learning curve you'll wonder why you hadn't done 8t sooner. Its expensiv, make no mistake. To fully hook up 16 channels to even just 6-8 pieces of gear and your ad da requires a ton of snakes. Ebay them. Get some used hosa and what not till you have it integrated into your set up. Have fun.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 27, 2017 19:58:16 GMT -6
I'll just echo what everyone else is saying; they get beat to hell, they always look beat up, but they can be really great sounding boards. I did a few mixes on a Scorpion and they sounded pretty good. At one point; it was a choice between the Scorpion and The Ghost and the only reason I picked the Ghost was because it was in mint condition and the Scorpion was not. Otherwise I would have probably picked the Scorpion but that's cause they are easier to work on and I like modding stuff. I read of many mods (including Mr. William's) that really made them much better to work on.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 22, 2017 8:02:39 GMT -6
Absolutely.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 19, 2017 10:19:47 GMT -6
I just finished my band sai u drom's album 'in other words...' that spanned seven years of recording. Live we are an 8-10 piece and trying to recreate that plus add studio trickery was hard to say the least. I was also dealing with recordings that spanned 7 years with the last year devoted to mostly mixing. 9 years ago we started it and two years later just we were nearly done when a flood destroyed the studio and more importantly the hard drives. It literally washed out most of our work. At the time it was about 13 musicians on the album so it took me about 4 years to get up the strength to go back at it and try again. Luckily some of it was retrievable (about 20%). I was pretty heartbroken, devastated, and depressed and had a hard time, but eventually i mustered up the courage and prevailed. I wish I had the luxury to have somebody else mix the album but considering the material, the amount of musicians (all in its about 12), the amount of instruments (tuba, accordion, cello, violin, etc... plus samples) it would have cost me tens of tens of thousands of dollars and I'm not sure I'd be done now. I'd also never be able to get the same musicians as they are spread throughout the states and continent. I'm pretty happy with it and so are a lot of other people which is good. I'm going to post a thread soon,talking about the gear that I used, the instruments, guest musicians, and the beautiful mastering job done by RGO's very own Paul Orofino. A lot of guitars were also recorded on the Helios and Neve clones I built. Its got its rough spots but overall came out pretty well. Mixing an accordion recorded 5 years before with a cello a year before with vocals that ranged from 7 years to 4 months was trickey. Or two nylon classical guitars seperated by 6 years. It was like mixing ghosts. Several instruments werent recorded in the best quality but i needed to use them as the musicians playing them are either no longer alive or too far away to rerecord but needed to be on the album. Tricky stuff nevertheless. For those interested it is available for free on our website; www.saiudrom.com/mediaWe often get put under the Gypsy-punk genre but I'd categorize it as world/folk/punk. A magazine once described our shows as: "its like a poets party aboard a pirate ship" A friend called it "stranger gypsy folkin punk"
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Post by rocinante on Jul 15, 2017 20:49:22 GMT -6
A few noteworthy things: I should have made the pcbs smaller but at the time I didn't really think I was going to be doing more than 1 or 2. So far Ive made and sold 3 of the 1u full size mic pre/eqs. Honestly I just wanted to get it right and so used a larger platform. I should have put a 10K trimmer on for the pcbs. Maybe I will the next batch. I would have liked to have met Dick Swettenham. David from Cinemag has been super helpful. I can't say the same for the current helios associated guys (which is neither here or there they dont have to help me) although Cyril Jones has been alright. Ian Thompson Bell, Jeff Steiger, Tiago, PRR, Pastah, also helped a ton.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 14, 2017 23:54:12 GMT -6
Thats quite the endorsement man. Good to hear.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 10, 2017 23:11:25 GMT -6
I can happily say i use a icon platform m and its worked really well in pt and studio one. Sometimes when im touching up a mix's stereo track it'll be a little glitchy with one fader kinda sitting there wiggling and hogging up processing but once i move the fader all is good. Other than that it works great. I usually only use the platform m and keep the consoles faders zeroed but i sometimes also get into the mix and end up finishing it using the consoles faders as well.
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Post by rocinante on Jul 8, 2017 19:29:42 GMT -6
Whew... Other than the gain switch being a little finicky she is noiseless and acting alright. I got a ton of tests i have to do so I'm not prepared to pop open the champagne just yet but its nearing the end. And then i begin the next one. Its currently sharing a psu so I'll have to build one that can power eight. Eventually this will go to this mixing/mastering engineer friend of mine to add to his already beautiful collection.
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Post by rocinante on Jun 22, 2017 12:39:29 GMT -6
Moving along again
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Post by rocinante on Jun 12, 2017 11:36:09 GMT -6
Maybe we got it all wrong and flower pot guy is just some poor bastard trying to please his wife.
Nah, he's just a crook. Like Mr. Meek seller.
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Post by rocinante on Jun 12, 2017 8:43:21 GMT -6
I think the joe meek sc-2 might get the award for most varied response as it seems people either like it or hate it. I too liked it.
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Post by rocinante on Jun 11, 2017 15:26:33 GMT -6
I have had a few problems with my pc but i only because i screwed with it. Otherwise its been awesome. 24 in and 24 out simultaneous while recording 10 in with 2-3 plug ins on 12-20 channels and not a hiccup. Several channels even have some kontakt instrument. Thats good. Its a12 core with 24 gigs of ram.
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Post by rocinante on Jun 11, 2017 14:35:14 GMT -6
Before. Its been awhile and i apologize for not doing my homework. So ignore me. A colleague was pissed when his didnt work and it obviously got to me but i guess they fixed the issue so once again forgive me. *edit* i had a long anecdote here but it derailed from the topic.
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Post by rocinante on Jun 11, 2017 14:26:00 GMT -6
I'll add that i owned a 6b for nearly a decade without a single issue and sold it for only a little less than i paid originally albeit i bought it used.
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