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Post by ericn on Apr 25, 2024 13:47:05 GMT -6
Ouch! At $9.4K I want something more than generic plate amps!
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Post by ericn on Apr 25, 2024 13:08:58 GMT -6
I can tell a lot about a sub in just about any room, but I can’t tell a hell of a lot about how a sub will work in your room with your monitors unless I’m using it with your monitors in your room.
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 13:25:41 GMT -6
Well look at it this way; if it works well on speech, it’s an election year and this will scare the living crap out of the political types so they may actually do something.
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 11:36:42 GMT -6
Both! Yeah I said it! The variable D loading and lack of proximity effect make them very different mics.
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 11:34:36 GMT -6
I've never heard anybody sing with headphones as well as they could without! I know of at least one band and I cannot mention the name, who discovered they preformed best in the studio with their stage rig XL3 and Firehouse wedges, got a call from the AE all panicked because the wedges sound like his Augspergers. They should they have the same TAD drivers😁
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 11:26:13 GMT -6
Absolutely nothing, but then the 1in ply cabinets makes the Quested’s pretty easy to mas couple vs isolate. Every physical isolation device I have ever seen does a pretty good job in their bandwidth, the problem is I haven’t found any truely effective from 35HZ to 20K. You get above or more often below the effective range and you can hear all of them.
The other thing is the change in height/ Angle resulting from a lot of these devices probably is as responsible.
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 11:17:40 GMT -6
Wow, that's some terrible workmanship. Hard to believe someone could get away with that now. You would think, but people buy into hype. Hype sells.
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Post by ericn on Apr 23, 2024 11:15:51 GMT -6
Even if you do make the Jump I would probably hang on to the the Lexicon, in the pro world you won’t ever get what it’s worth because nobody knows what it is. You might in the audiophile world but lots of tire kickers. You have the itch, I get it but my hunch is you won’t be that happy with 03’s and will end up back in Amphion land in no time.
As Far as ATC and “ better Midrange “ it’s all about distortion , unfortunately in the world of ATC it’s the 50’s before you get to the true SL woofers and S mid.
Plus I think in your room those wave guides are helpful, the beamy ring radiator might keep the HF under control but upper mids won’t have the pattern control.
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Post by ericn on Apr 22, 2024 15:57:22 GMT -6
Whoops. Bought this Champagne Sparkle Jet. Always wanted one, loved that this one has chrome and not gold hardware. Sounds great too! But I do need to part with a guitar or three to really justify it Sean I’m not sure if it’s the Neil Finn in me or the fact that I had a friend in high school who had a Chet Atkins and the matching bass that is Jealous. And I can’t even play !
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Post by ericn on Apr 22, 2024 5:59:02 GMT -6
It’s all about positioning mic and speaker polar patterns, if you have to drastically EQ because of feedback remember to EQ the monitoring buss not the input.
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Post by ericn on Apr 21, 2024 18:20:58 GMT -6
Sorry..my phone thought it’d better make that “Erica” Thanks…interesting Yeah I figured auto incorrect 😁
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Post by ericn on Apr 21, 2024 13:22:15 GMT -6
They are more like mid sized but yeah except for the gate like effect you can hear on long decays of featured acoustic instruments. A very very over looked mic. If we are talking beyer ribbons don’t forget the M260. While the dual diaphragm of the 160 gives you more output the single diaphragm of the 260 means your not at the mercy of the summing of the 2 diaphragms so it can bring out a tad more detail. Erica.. Can you clarify on the ‘gate like effect’ as to which of the Beyer mics you’re talking about ? The two Beyer mid sized capsule condensers? 740 or 834? Both, it’s subtle and really effects the very very end of the decay and reverb, but if you crank up the gain on your monitor chain you can hear and actually more and more I find it a benefit vs a negative.
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Post by ericn on Apr 20, 2024 22:20:50 GMT -6
Plugins are a waste of money….we buy them cause they’re cheap….not because we need them. While still a huge hardware guy I have to say the reasons given to me by most of the working pros I know would say you got it ass backwards, recall and finding that sweet spot on hardware is the waste of time. Yes pretty much every plugin in chasing the tone of analog has left me wanting the analog, every Analog recreation of what a plugin can do has had the same effect. Understand for many this isn’t about chasing sonic nirvana, it’s about paying the rent, we normally don’t get paid by the hour but buy the project these days so if a plugin in can get closer to perfect quickly and get me back there quickly it’s not a waste of money it’s a money maker.
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Post by ericn on Apr 20, 2024 22:10:20 GMT -6
I’m trying to match what the Otari is doing with the Studer plugin so I’ve got a digital comparison at some point. Weren’t you gushing over the new LTL Tape extension in the silver bullet? As much as you’re giving me a hard time in here, I know you’re a fan of tape color at heart 😝 (I’m joking with you). Yeah, but EQ (for me at least) has nothing to do with it - the tape sound. It has more to do with the solidity of the bottom, the smoothing of the top. Both factors of tape, but more akin to compression than EQ. As for gushing....I've been fine without tape for well over a decade now. I do like it though if done right with the right machine (for me, not Otari or Studer or Tascam - but instead Ampex and MCI - but that's my preference, not heald by everyone obviously), but tape is not a make or break for me. Over the years I've learned how to work without it and pretty much get to the same place. The Tape79 is cool though, and I have to say, it's really worked out well (as in making things easy) on a few tunes for me. Still need more time with it. Since I have no problem putting words in my friends mouth, what the good doc is saying is it’s not the EQ it’s how tape distorts that we love😁 I won’t say it’s more musical but what I will say is this: for those of us particularly of a certain age the sound of tape is the sound of recorded music
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Post by ericn on Apr 20, 2024 19:21:41 GMT -6
First with any partnership you need an ironclad partnership agreement that covers as many possible outcomes as possible.
commercial real estate is tricky, lots of owners have no problem with a space sitting empty rather than at least covering expenses. Don’t be tricked by a really nice short term offer. The trick many pull is getting you in and invested in the space, then jacking up the rent.
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Post by ericn on Apr 19, 2024 13:16:59 GMT -6
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Post by ericn on Apr 19, 2024 12:33:08 GMT -6
I've had more than one conversation with converter designers who were offended by the notion that external clocking would be better than the clocking they painstakingly designed and implemented. It makes sense! Unless sometimes we simply prefer less precision, like I described in my last post. I’m not disagreeing with you but I probably have had as many conversations with designers who have said their clock design was redone to hit a price point. I get it but the problem is communicating beyond ad speak that we actually took time and effort to design a decent clock.
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Post by ericn on Apr 18, 2024 14:47:53 GMT -6
if only there was a simple, fairly inexpensive way to see if your clock is a source of jitter, if only someone would build an inexpensive device to look at clock signals.
What it already exists? What you can buy one used on eBay for under $100? It’s called an Oscilloscope. Yes it’s fun to discuss this but the solution is simple and mine lives next to my Mytek.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 19:12:20 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where its wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. I’d love to see the pictures! Need a good laugh Nick?
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 17:25:30 GMT -6
That’s just lazy retail. I worked as a waiter for a long time and believe in service. If you need to make an appointment, you should be asked to pick from their in house list, your top 3-5 monitors to demo and they should be placed properly before you get there, set flat, be on the same stands or isolation system and then you demo. I completely agree, but in their defense time is $ and it’s mid month so nobody is scared they won’t make their nut for another week. I will admit in my last 2 years before 4/19/98 if you weren’t a VIP, friend or high $$$$$$ client, I probably wouldn’t be able to justify say 4 hrs of setup/ demo / breakdown. If you insisted on a demo and it wasn’t our standard setup & I couldn’t get the vendor to ship a demo you were probably going to end up with the newbie sales weinnie ( hey it was Madison Home of Oscar Meyer). Even if I wanted to and could do a demo the client hand to understand I just couldn’t devote the time.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 17:10:42 GMT -6
GC doesn’t deal new gear as used even if they aren’t a dealer, they will take gear billed as “ like new” or I never “ used” but no transferable warranty and the seller is not an authorized dealer as used as they should, it’s one of the few respectable policies they have. I might be missing the nuance in this, but when I was with the company, we definitely had a special scenario where we had some inventory come in that we were not official dealers in, so no warranty, no nothing, but we priced it out to move fast.
The nuance that I might be missing: I know they weren't tagging the product with our yellow-used tags, but they definitely weren't the standard "red"-tags either.
Not sure how the online SPO system works now, are you suggesting that if they're on used site, that some employee or manager is actually buying in these Weird Mics at 600 a pop, and tagging them at 1k? (Estimating on the buy-in values, based on the original used prices for them)
Then the stuff wasn’t simply trans shipped from another dealer, it was in fact used ( you want to guess where a bunch was trans shipped from😁 we all did it it if you had a client who really needed something). I’m going to bet all those weird mics are from one of 2 scenarios. 1. Some rep traded them for a guitar or something, might even have spread them around TX for a couple things, again saw it all the time. 2. Someone at GC bought into the line and they lived up to the name not the hype, again you see it all the time with GC used, they take it back on trade, when it doesn’t live up to the hype. I’m sure Weird was willing to give away the farm to get GC to sell a couple. “ So & So at GC pro loves our mics” is right up his alley and I have known wayyyyyyy to many reps, sales managers and owners of gear manufacturers who could play this role without a script.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:54:23 GMT -6
That set up look like a proverbial dog's breakfast approach, how could you make real comparison other than to two speaker that are directly beside each other is beyond me. Was there any clarify about all monitors being set flat and open, no filtering or room correction going on ? not very impressed. You can’t, what it does is force you to hand over your card take them home and at worst for them pray it’s just to much of a pain to bring them back.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:52:26 GMT -6
I still find it odd that you can see their mics show up regularly (or at least, used to?) used in various Guitar Centers in Texas. I know GC will occasionally deal gear they don't officially carry straight as "used" and I'm curious if that's that's going on here. SP: I know this ship has sailed, but if you're still in the market, around the price of the Weird, you could get a 47/48 from UAE SAE (signal arts) for a few hundred more (going off of their site's prices).
edit: Wow, there are quite a few Weird 47's at GC.com marked down. One apparently even made its way to Sherman Oaks, but you can tell from the photos that it was yet another acquired in Texas.
GC doesn’t deal new gear as used even if they aren’t a dealer, they will take gear billed as “ like new” or I never “ used” but no transferable warranty and the seller is not an authorized dealer as used as they should, it’s one of the few respectable policies they have.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:48:49 GMT -6
I don't know how I bought one of his 47's with the existence of this thread, but a trusted engineer had said it was decent....and the Tape Op review. The communication to get the mic was a total debacle. I was promised a Theirsch capsule and a NOS tube...and a warranty. It arrived looking like UPS had played football with the box. The mic was DOA, and it had neither the Theirsch capsule, and the tube was a $10 PSVANE. There were some of the worst looking solder joints I'd ever seen on the capsule and where it's wires connect to the PCB, and in place of shrink wrap at one location was duct tape. There was one wire dangling and not connected to anything, presumably due to the horrible soldering. I emailed 3 times trying to just get a refund. I called multiple numbers that went nowhere. At this point I'm having my tech see if we can make something usable out of it. Happy to provide pics of the horror inside if anybody still wants some laughs. Welcome to RGO, sorry to hear about your experience with weird. Taking a flyer on a new cloner of mics with all the generic made in China crap and higher dollar Made in China crap pretending to be the real deal is a gutsy yet naive move. I’m sorry to hear about your experience, but not shocked. Weird did a great job of setting its self up with great PR out of the gate. Unfortunately in the world of mics that’s usually a clear signal of disappointment. Get your money back, if weird lives up to its name about it call your CC company.
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Post by ericn on Apr 17, 2024 15:37:03 GMT -6
I get the ease of switching speakers but I have to say that pic makes me think of Best Buy and every speaker having a crappy position! Sure it takes time and effort but man it’s so much easier to actually sell speakers if you have 2 maybe 3 pairs in a room and try to position them so they actually sound good. But what do I know! They’re appointment only now - I kindve thought they were going to set up a pair of 03s and Amphions at a console or something. But no. If they had and I felt more comfortable comparing the two, there’s a good chance I would have walked out with a pair. Man I remember when VK actually worked for the sale! That sucks. Getting Decent LF requires work, or when you’re selling you work on a default well positioned tuned sub and switch it on to magically show what a little more cash can do.
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