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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 7, 2015 0:22:44 GMT -6
just watch some video on youtube, then take an old piece of electronics "anything" thats in your garage that you never use, smash it on the ground, pull out the pcb's snip some components off, and then resolder them back on in any old place to see how it all feels 8)
the vp28's are pretty heavy duty double sided boards, you'd have to really hammer at it to damage it....
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 19:58:37 GMT -6
well, turnabouts fair play, i didn't see your other thread till days later, at least it was my team that spanked ya haha!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 19:57:18 GMT -6
You can do it!!! Just don't trim the leads and solder blobs TOO flush! Right jsteiger ? Hahahahahaha!!! good name for a band "SolderBlobbs"
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 19:55:21 GMT -6
No doubt, there's nothing like the satisfaction one enjoys when their team is barely able to beat a team down to its practice squad and a water boy due to injuries. Enjoy it while it lasts Tony. oh my, my beloved Eagles are just awful!! thats what makes it so dang funny ahahahah!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 19:52:38 GMT -6
of course excuses will come, every team in the league is seriously banged up, no one more than the Chargers actually....., no excuses from me for them, they suck just like the pats haha
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 18:39:46 GMT -6
jcoutu1 3528 HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 17:59:01 GMT -6
go for it JK, i'm psyched you're trying!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 13:45:38 GMT -6
I use my core 7 for anything video. I don't use it for audio unless it's attached to a video project. I use an old Pentium 4 for CD prep only because it works. Otherwise, PC's and audio are an oil and water mix here. If you can't hear the difference, consider yourself blessed and perfectly suited for modern pop productions. Just don't ask me to listen to the end product. I admit I'm a cheap bastard. I prefer to build a PC, a rifle, a guitar, a console, a microphone, a studio etc, rather than hand my hard earned money over to those corporate greedheads. Walking into an Apple store, besides all the nerdy, whimpy "pajama boys" drooling over the counters, I get a price shock that makes me run, not walk out. what do you record to? he uses a heavily modded Alesis HDXR 24, it sounds ridiculously good, All of Jims gear sounds really good, he had Jim Williams mod all of it! haha, when i dump straight out of PT's onto console channel strips, there is a significant sonic improvement vs any ITB processing and then dumping it out, so i get what he's saying. That said, i don't agree with Jim on the mac thing, i think they have stuff that works really, really well, with feature sets that really attract folks for good reason, i'm not one of those people who need the latest and greatest every time something comes out, i don't own an ipad, and i had an android phone for years before i broke it, and now I have a lowly Iphone 5s for a few years, it's an amazing tool, i can use it to control my daw when tracking, it works every bit as well as an Iphone 6 and 7 and probably 8 haha
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 10:41:47 GMT -6
I own one, but never even put it up. These worth anything? For $40 should I gtab a second to have a pair? Can these be fixed up to be OK on the cheap? Anyone? link or it's not real
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 9:17:24 GMT -6
Works well in both applications. I scored a super cheap pair of used stellar rm3 royer 121 knock offs with the offset, I'm sending them to mark, is there anything I should ask for specifically on the mods D? If I remember correctly u have them also..?..
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 9:12:17 GMT -6
I was playin a bit of course I used to build my own pcs from around 1995 to 2003 until I got my G5, I never used my music pcs on the net for fear of certain inevitable doom, the Mac was a rock solid all the way around beast, building pcs was a motherboard chip matching, component selecting crap shoot, complete with tin can enclosures, spaghetti wire, zip tied plastic standoff's, really felt a gamble every time. When pulling the side off a Mac Pro tower reveals an incredible piece of mechanical engineering that is just beautiful, I'd call it Art If I remember correctly, u couldn't build a PC as strong as a Mac early on without spending a ton?
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 6, 2015 0:05:59 GMT -6
I've been on both extensively, but once i made the switch to mac, i'll probably never go back, how anyone could say a windows operating system is better than mac os...? is beyond jaw dropping to me, no friggin way in a million years is a windows OS even remotely close to the mac OS, NO WAY! and if you dare go on the webs with your windows machine your braver than I.... good luck Charlie Sheen.
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 5, 2015 11:09:32 GMT -6
To me it was all about arranging and stage experience from an early age. What's ironic to me is that recording mostly live with session musicians is cheaper unless people are not getting paid for a lot of the work. Using signal processing to disguise bad musicianship and arranging has become very common to the point that a lot of recordings are cartoons compared to the past. It's comparing Ansel Adams to Marvel Comics. Adams chose striking moments of light much like older records chose striking moments in a recording session. I worked at Motown with very little idea of how good the musicians were. Then I got a pretty rude awakening in San Francisco even working with bands who had been signed and made their first successful major label records 4 and 8 track. When I moved to Nashville in 2001 I had the opportunity to do my first digital recordings with some legendary session musicians again. I quickly discovered that all but the lightest signal processing made them sound worse! At some point in the early '70s the majors were able to extract an agreement from the American Federation of Musicians to pay performers who were eligible to receive royalty payments for just one session per song as opposed to the regular hourly session rate for record dates. At that point studio time rather than wages became the biggest recording expense to labels. Around the same time a loophole in the Federal Income Tax law allowed wealthy doctors and lawyers to take a tax credit for all expenses related to shooting a movie or recording a band. That loophole was what gave us Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola. It also gave us a lot of new studio owners who created the pro audio gear business as we know it. When that loophole closed, many of these investors liquidated and the older studios found themselves in competition with their own chief engineer who had just bought a high-end studio for pennies on the dollar. Meanwhile the labels discovered that a lot of bands had been running up their bill while getting kickbacks from the studio. As a result the "all-in" deal was born which was a flat payment to deliver an album with the artist getting to keep whatever was left over. The studio business has never been reasonably profitable to my knowledge since. Cheap recording had become king. Producer/songwriters were expected to record major label artists on spec. and only getting paid if their recording eventually made the album. Cheap recordings are what I think we really are complaining about and this economic race to the bottom is probably a lot of why most young people aren't nearly as engaged with music as many of us were. Hammer meet nail! Bob O for president! 8)
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 5, 2015 9:07:44 GMT -6
really? i'm in desperate need of the facepalm emoticon....
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 5, 2015 8:51:23 GMT -6
impressive right up to the point where they smear the tone robbing dyed drywall mud to FILL the pores of the wood, and then follow with a resonance killing automobile finish. I wonder when buyers/and most dudes who make guitars will figure out that you go french rub shellac, and/or thin nitro, or nothing at all?
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 5, 2015 0:59:24 GMT -6
im definitely gonna try. i was just trying to get myself talked out of it.... thinking im gonna go the mixer route over dedicated summer. any suggestions? looking for something old and cheap to mod. only need 16 channels. there are some cheap ones here on craigslist. mainly peaveys, yamahas, and tascams. ideally id like to get a JW soundcraft but i havent been able to find one of the ones listed on jimwilliams site. it has to be good enough (post mod) for me to believe its high end to use all that conversion. thanks buy one off craigslist for nothing practically, send jim the master, and channel strips as you can afford to have them done, you will not regret it!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 5, 2015 0:54:31 GMT -6
love STP, seen them at least 3 times, seen members around town over the years(san diego based band), most recent in irvine with the red hot chilli peps, Scott was very creative, and tormented apparently, too bad, i've been routing for him to get it together for a long time, not surprised even at all that he went young, i'm actually surprised it took this long.
RIP Scott...
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 17:55:12 GMT -6
gssl is cool, but isn't the build thread like 1000 pages long? that alone is reason enough to build the SB4000 imo, not to mention Quad vca's and Mikes attention to the details.
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 14:37:05 GMT -6
Not for beginners or people who've successfully built OVER 100 DIY projects either, it's the only project on gdiy that I'm aware of that u can't even complete a bom for, doesn't stop Colin from selling the partial kit though, yes I'm very bitter, gustav, uve always delivered on stuff, but this project is a joke that gave me NO advanced warning of its near impossible success rate when I spent $500 starting it, quite the opposite, Colin's build document makes it appear a no brainer, and I still believe I could successfully build it, but if I can't finish a bom I'm screwed before I can even take a whack, maybe there is a way, but unfortunately I don't have the experience to be a cross reference guru, ud think the creators of the project would step up in that regard considering the overwhelming proof of obvious pain the guys who've spent there hard earned are feeling while attempting this, so it's just bunk from top to bottom from my perspective
ill make a deal with anyone who reads this, u get me as manyshopping carts lined up to fit out this project as needed? I'll pay u $100usd for them. Fair warning, I've spend 10s of hours trying to work this out as I want a compex compressor over all the rest.
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 12:56:32 GMT -6
I once carried a burning Mackie out of a coliseum and left it smoldering on the sidewalk outside, never saw it again. awesome!!
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 12:33:26 GMT -6
until Colin adds some REAL support for the not so easy- EZ F760 compressor project he put forth, i'm not buying anything from him ever again, i don't take kindly to wasting my hard earned on shit support, again, i'm not looking for someone to DIY hold my hand, and i'm not exactly a newb, but that project is a complete joke, and i'm just talking about sourcing the impossible BOM! Then u get to the build issues ever single person has had, as well as coy behavior by some who've actually profited from putting the project out, which is perfectly fucking maddening. Anyone wants to buy the EZ F760 carnhill paper weight component kit i bought from AML, and the faceplate, let me know, i'll give you a great discount. read and watch the life get sucked out of myself and others groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=40274.0
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 12:20:20 GMT -6
What pre did you blow up? Were you giving it too much Juice? edit; ahahah, right over my head! another vp28, for some reason i have a hard time aligning the pins in my 51x boxes, it's at least the 6th time i've done it, i'm gonna cut pcb bits to block me out of the 24v tabs, it just took out the 1/2 watt 10 ohm protection resistor, i have more here, sall goot 8)
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 12:16:09 GMT -6
ask me if i'd swap my delta for a neve(if value in $ meant nothing)? the answer is NO, i can insert neve, api, ssl, or any other color i want in line, and this thing gives it back in spades, the eq's are shockingly good, it's like a very natural looking ultra HD tv or some shit, of course like monkey said, i always like being a bit rhetorical to keep it fun, but this ain't a joke.... really..., totally serial, half man, half bear, half pig haha
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 12:07:25 GMT -6
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 4, 2015 9:07:18 GMT -6
Is apparently a catchphrase for buying steroids! The juice man! I tried googling the forum here when I updated my phone, now I know some things about raging body builders in search of acquiring the juice, the reading is hilarious! Highly recommended!
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