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Post by ericn on Apr 29, 2024 16:46:16 GMT -6
Been taking a deep dive into the Allman Bros since I heard the news.
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Post by ericn on Apr 29, 2024 11:59:00 GMT -6
If portability is a priority you can’t beat the Air. In fact the form factor of the air is so damn addictive it’s probably why I’m still running an Intel machine.
Definitely spend the money on a machine with 32GB of memory, with Apple set on soldering in the ram and a sort of forced profit center it’s a pain but there is no going back.
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Post by ericn on Apr 27, 2024 12:25:09 GMT -6
Thank for your reply. I've personally found Softube support as bad/good as any other major software vendour - well Native Instruments being the worse for long waiting times for replies. As for the Softube software. I conducted an extensive ABX double blind test (I only make audio conclusions with my own properly conducted double blond ABX tests) using the Softube Brit Channel and my favourite UAD strip the UAD 88RS channel (both Neve strips al be it different vintages) yet to my surprise setting the EQ by ear to sound as indentical as possible - I and the other people in the room were unable to pick out one from the other. So I'm happy and pleasantly surprised with the Brit channel. (I've not tested any of the other Softube channel strips) The control over the UAD plugins is very useful - especially now they have gotten rid of that ridiculous auto gain on the compressors. Ironically, my favourite function of the Control 1 is it's ability to chase channels using the 20 channel selector buttons. Mackie protocol seriously misses the EUCON ability to "go-to" channels not in the selected bank, so in the absence of owning an S3 the Control 1 is a pretty good solution for me. I'm with you, in as much as it'a nowhere near as useful as I thought it would be when I bought it - but Software have improved it's functionality and integration with Cubase and with the added UAD support it just about justifies it's desk real estate. Personally, I wouldn't touch SSL "digital anything" with a bargepole - they have imho THE worse driver and hardware support in the business - the polar opposite of RME.
50% of UAD plugins (at least) sound mediocre, 2005 quality. There are many many many many to choose from, but few that are truly excellent or standouts compared to other plugins. 20 years later now that the novelty has worn off it is easier to assess. Comparing the Softube Brit channel with UAD is not a benchmark of any kind and I do have both here as well. Not a 'fan' of either per se. Not bad, not great. And UAD support as well, day 3 with a support ticket for UAD hardware and UA connect issues and still no reply. None. I look forward to selling my UAD hardware as well. There is nothing about it other than the ATR-102 that I would miss. I am in the middle of an album and I have zero UAD plugins inserted over 8 tunes now.
Is your assessment of SSL as a company support or the drivers? I have never needed support, but if drivers, it is not a shared feeling. Like all hardware, you have to learn how they work on any system. Plug and play expectation is foolish. You need a proper working system, well powered USB hubs, driver compatibility etc. Expect trouble shooting other driver conflicts if needed. Why wouldn't anybody? Modern SSL drivers have been as rock solid on my system as my RME. It just took understanding what kind of integration they needed.
A discussion of UAD being outdated in a thread about a controller that is based around HUI a 30 year old protocol is hilarious. SSL can talk about their 360 architecture but let’s face it as long HUI is what the DAW is speaking to the controller HUI is the limiting factor.
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Post by ericn on Apr 26, 2024 19:35:01 GMT -6
What Bill said, with a little explanation. The MXP3000 was designed to pair with the 3348 dash machine, so it was a pretty clean console, major issue the OPAMPs are unobtainable. The cool selling point was you could order API EQ’s to fit it. Avalon as well. The MXP3000 at Sear Sound had Avalon mic pres and EQs I believe. Sony made 4 different EQs for that desk. When movers ruined mu TAC, a couple MXP3000s were in the running. ONe belonged to Ramsey Lewis and was not in good shape, but I did get to hear the different EQ models in it. The other was an 95% done deal, but Randy Blevins doesn't understand that phones dial out, which is also why I didn't by a JH24 from him. My JH came from your town, Eric. Yeah I had heard about the Avalon EQ but only ever saw the pre and of course the John Hardy pre. Of course now I’m trying to figure out who’s machine that was !
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Post by ericn on Apr 26, 2024 16:23:47 GMT -6
What Bill said, with a little explanation. The MXP3000 was designed to pair with the 3348 dash machine, so it was a pretty clean console, major issue the OPAMPs are unobtainable. The cool selling point was you could order API EQ’s to fit it.
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Post by ericn on Apr 25, 2024 19:22:52 GMT -6
The Stones and Styx are working out a.. Styx and Stones "Break Your Bones" 2026 Tour. Sponsored by Tums, don’t be Styx and Stones don’t break your bones.
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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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