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Post by mrholmes on Oct 26, 2023 22:35:41 GMT -6
Thank s for your kind words guys. At the moment it is still my priority to get back on my feed again. I sold a lot of the studio gear .
If I start again my home setup will stay super minimalistic. If it needs more it will be a professionallplace re -tracking - less headache for me and it saves me tons of lost lifetime.
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Post by mrholmes on Oct 16, 2023 11:30:52 GMT -6
Guys, I just want to state that I still figure out my new life. Just in case some of you thought I stay away "the passive-aggressive way." No, it's not my way.
It was on the fence if I ever can do music again, but now I am getting better and better. I hope to be able to post questions, and to join discussions, again.
PS Bill, congratulations on the SB - Plug-In.... I read about even here in Germany...DOUBLE THUMP UP.....
Ciao ragazzi... A.
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Post by mrholmes on Jun 17, 2022 15:15:52 GMT -6
Bill you chiming in on every thread on here hyping something you profit from is just a bit over the line. Sorry. It's my honest opinion. I should have put that I'm biased. I normally do. And of course I am. Still...I've done the above tests, and that's my honest opinion. Worth stating IMO. We don't need to sell any more mk2's. We're backordered from here to beyond the foreseeable future. Cheers, bp Bill forced me to try that with any hardware I used, my 2-1073 and Bill was not wrong.
Today, I also say we are spoiled to death. Using the right ITB 2 bus chain, you can knock out nice mixes.
It comes down to what works for each one. I can see why people like the SB - btw. I don't own one....
But the summing topic is from my desk forever. It always comes down to a great song/arrangement, the rest is DETAILS.....
Most often it lacks early in my chain because I was too lazy.... etc.
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Post by mrholmes on Jun 6, 2022 14:24:57 GMT -6
RGOs.
Why I am no longer following...?? I fight depression and some other illnesses and some other problems' life can present you.
Cheers A.
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Post by mrholmes on Mar 18, 2022 18:08:15 GMT -6
Outstanding vocals, German Synth-Pop group Alphaville with Forever Young. My mentor is one of the writers, Mr Golds vocal work is breathtaking, listen closely, and you have the feeling his voice is in the middle... but over your head...
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Post by mrholmes on Mar 11, 2022 13:45:38 GMT -6
It's easy to give to those in need without making a huge drama / virtue signaling highlight out of it. I'd suggest that that's what companies who really care are doing - not using a horrific geo-political situation for sales advantage. I spent some time in Moscow after the "wall" came down in the early 90's. The people were wonderful, helpful, and so giving. Exactly the opposite of what the US government had painted them to be all my youth. I really hate the fact that sanctions are going to hurt the common man more than the powers they seek to influence. When do the US and NATO based countries sanctions start for their roles in the mess? JK - feel free to delete if too political. There is NO discussion of these matters without getting hip deep in politics.
True too, but I think we all agree not a single war helps anyone of the civilians in the END. For me, it's a new quality that someone is using the A Bomb thing as a true threat to the whole western world. To not go down to this level too, sanctions are the better option - in my opinion.
But who cares, I live here in the EU and I tell you I don't trust PUTIN a single second. We all joked about Trump, but Putin is indeed out of control IMO.
PS BTW the western world is under "attack" it makes sense to talk about it. It's just a thousand miles away from the German borders... close, very close.
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Post by mrholmes on Mar 11, 2022 10:27:12 GMT -6
Soundtoys in the past has been very political & hope this thread doesn't become one.
It does not need to be political. One of my values goes along with the Song WAR by Springsteen. Will never forget how my Grandpa spoke with an "Enemy" after WW2. Both had the Springsteen opinion - What is it good for? NOTHING...
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Post by mrholmes on Mar 11, 2022 3:05:42 GMT -6
This is very kind of you guys, it's really disturbing times here in Europe. It's crazy, I already asked a friend in NC/USA if she gives me shelter in case everything fails. Luckily, she said YES...
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 25, 2022 18:40:28 GMT -6
A creative mind can fake this ITB. I mean, what will happen with more cornstalk, more phase issues come to my mind. Experimenting with extreme subtle modulation goes a long way, IMO.
Sdrr 2 desk has the modulation (DRIFT), stereo crosstalk, and two high shelves built in for lots of fun. Use Hq+ mode for linear phase filters when oversampling. I may missed that part in the manual damn it....
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 25, 2022 10:35:36 GMT -6
+1 mac M1 latest osx before update nothing as trouble...
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 25, 2022 9:11:18 GMT -6
64 bit floating point summing dithered down to 24-bit fixed point pcm is cleaner than any classic console or mixer. It’s all about minute channel to channel crosstalk and distortion. There are a few great console plugs with stereo crosstalk: Klanghelm SDRR2 desk mode, Fuse TCS-68, Lindell 80 bus. You won’t get the channel to channel crosstalk but you will get some stereo crosstalk cool distortion.Clocking, if your converters improve with external clocking, buy better converters. It’s mostly guys on total junk. Get Lavry, Lynx, RME, UAD, Burl, Prism, Apogee, etc. Yeah some of them aren’t great but the clocks are fine. They’re not Focusrite or Presonus. you can always clock the Apollos or Firefaces to a separate monitoring DA
A creative mind can fake this ITB. I mean, what will happen with more cornstalk, more phase issues come to my mind. Experimenting with extreme subtle modulation goes a long way, IMO.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 25, 2022 8:39:59 GMT -6
+1 Can sound extremely close using ears not numbers...
I posted a HW vs plugin test a while back, and nobody could tell the difference between the 77 plug and HW.
That's interesting, you still have the files...aka LINK?
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 25, 2022 8:22:02 GMT -6
i find the mc77 sounds just like my klark teknik 1176 ... i am happy with both and i mix on the dark side so a tiny bit of brightness is welcome (to me). but i dont find it too bright.
+1 Can sound extremely close using ears not numbers...
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 11, 2022 18:25:54 GMT -6
I’m just trying to make money to keep the site open. So if anyone that doesn’t have an issue with alcohol would like to buy Gamechanger patches, they’re 60% off!
I am a bit confused that you expect AAs to tolerate such an ad... Does it matter which ad customers you/we have?
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 11, 2022 5:48:33 GMT -6
Best is not to drink at all. 8th years sober now, and I am proud of it.
Selling anti hangover patches blows my mind. The invitation to hurt your body without the warning signals your body sends you.
I pray that I will never go down this road again. Science knows alcohol is very similar dangerous like smoking; but no one talks about this. It is a neurotoxin too, has similar effects on our cells. It is a big cause for triggering cells to turn into cancer cells. Likewise, it's just more socially accepted than smoking. I saw a lot of campaigns against smoking, but I never saw one against drinking.
The psychosocial consequences for a drinking family member are horrible. It causes nothing but pain in all family members. It destroys relationships. Even if you're not addicted to it. Alcohol is psychoactive, ever experienced that you get easier into a strong argument with a few drinks? That's not you that's the alcohol speaking out of you. Ever experienced that you have the impression that you only can relax with a few after-work drinks. You do it more than 3 days a week? You need it to reach a psychological point of relaxation... Welcome to the club, that's how it starts.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 8, 2022 8:16:02 GMT -6
Can we not derail every HW thread with an ITB debate? If I wanted to go ITB only I would have done.
Do you see such a debate? I am not. I just see sharing opinions on a side-question someone had. And that's it... done.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 8, 2022 5:07:46 GMT -6
I thought it has been proven in many blind AB's that people fall flat on the pavement trying to tell the difference between the console mix and the console simulation comparison file. With my mentor we checked out the Slate SSL sims vs, his SSL console and we both had to say that it was very similar in depth and dimension with a slight different attitude in the transient and phase department. Nothing tragic. There are no excuses anymore, except someone needs to learn how to cook.
I still can learn a lot from my mentor. His ITB works are no different from his OTB - he just knows how to get it done. He states himself that he is keeping all the fancy OTB tools because he likes to work this way. Sound is no longer an argument for him, to work OTB.
Blessed times to create big sound at home.
Just my 2 cents.
I agree that it's very much possible to get some good sounding mixes ITB but saying that there is an equivalence in sound is just not true. I'm not sure what comparisons you're talking about but the ones I've heard by Universal Audio, or the CLA one, the ITB was pretty easy to pick out and just didn't sound anywhere near as good as the analog stuff. In a blind A/B on one source, I can be fooled by a plug in, I'll admit because I have, but I've never been fooled by a full mix where one is ITB and the other fully OTB. I've done it myself at the studio, trying to volume match everything as closely as possible, using Uad and Pluginalliance in place of the SSL 4K, pultecs, 1176s and Fairchild and the ITB came out sounding like a great sounding demo and the OTB just sounds like an album right away. The slight differences on one track build up pretty fast when you're working on a 48 track mix. This is working mostly with rock and folk stuff. I think that some genres, modern electronic music and pop for example actually can sound better ITB because the transients aren't rounded off quite so much.
I just can speak for the test we did, we were using test tones to level match the console vs. simulation. Here and there we did use our ears to get closer. Again, in the end there was not a clear winner - why should I lie to you?
I also have done many comparisons 1176 vs Plug In or the SPL Iron vs. the Hardware and others.
Some had minor gaps, others were so close that I was not worried a single second to use them.
Not going too deep into ego stuff here. My point is, I need to pick the plug ins I like. And from there on I use my ears.
I am not saying all plug ins are there. But you can pick the ones which are there.... Which still is super subjective, because we all know great ITB mixes.
I think the cook is still the most important part in it. I don't doubt your experience, even if it sounds a bit strange to me to say the ITB did sound like DEMO. This would make me curious to use my ears to bring the ITB closer to the HW version...
It's all about having fun, and I have it with my ITB setup. Need to work now.
PS. In this stuff is also a big bunch of psychology involved.
One more reason to enjoy the path to a great song.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 7, 2022 19:34:41 GMT -6
I thought it has been proven in many blind AB's that people fall flat on the pavement trying to tell the difference between the console mix and the console simulation comparison file. With my mentor we checked out the Slate SSL sims vs, his SSL console and we both had to say that it was very similar in depth and dimension with a slight different attitude in the transient and phase department. Nothing tragic. There are no excuses anymore, except someone needs to learn how to cook.
I still can learn a lot from my mentor. His ITB works are no different from his OTB - he just knows how to get it done. He states himself that he is keeping all the fancy OTB tools because he likes to work this way. Sound is no longer an argument for him, to work OTB.
Blessed times to create big sound at home.
Just my 2 cents.
A lot of it isn’t about how they sound but how we like to work, personally I do better OTB but then I have mixed ITB for far less time. I think we are on the same page here. Find your own work flow … I am still happy with my setup. And I still don’t change tools every week. I stick with my favorite plug ins like with hardware. I get used to them, this makes huge difference in making decisions to go forward….
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 7, 2022 17:47:28 GMT -6
Just out of curiosity any specific reason? So what I miss is a big console sound, and the Dangerous 2 Bus+ came the closest to the sound I want, so far.
I thought it has been proven in many blind AB's that people fall flat on the pavement trying to tell the difference between the console mix and the console simulation comparison file. With my mentor we checked out the Slate SSL sims vs, his SSL console and we both had to say that it was very similar in depth and dimension with a slight different attitude in the transient and phase department. Nothing tragic. There are no excuses anymore, except someone needs to learn how to cook.
I still can learn a lot from my mentor. His ITB works are no different from his OTB - he just knows how to get it done. He states himself that he is keeping all the fancy OTB tools because he likes to work this way. Sound is no longer an argument for him, to work OTB.
Blessed times to create big sound at home.
Just my 2 cents.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 6, 2022 23:00:14 GMT -6
mrholmes off center here but I love your studio mojo, those photos and that "up to 11" engraving, really nice!! Off center meaning off topic? He asked about better low end definition? That’s what you can get with my 50 x 50 cm base traps from bottom floor to the ceiling traps. Did it in all four corners. It’s physically impossible to overtrap the low end. The more corners someone covers, the tighter will get the low end definition. I once had true LEDE room and the low end was + - 3 db. But the room was really dead and had no daylight at all. Much better now…. I love to work in my space. Stile? Yes the older I get the more personality gets my workplace. You see both of my grandfathers. Left WW2 in Afrika right Happy back from war prison 1952. Both had only good things to say about British and US American soldiers. Some friendships were born.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 6, 2022 12:59:52 GMT -6
tighten the bass in the room, I.e., make it easier to define?
If you build big broadband absorbers with insulation, 6000 rayls flow resistance you can kill a lot of base problems. If you make a housing around them with some slots, they only work in the low range.
In my room I did all corners and yes it tightness in the low range a lot. Most people underrate what they can do with housed insulation broadband absorbers. They really kill low-end trouble in rooms.
This is one of my DIY broadband base corner absorbers.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 4, 2022 17:40:52 GMT -6
I wish I could get back the thousands of dollars I've spent on reverb plugins.
I always waited for sales, but yehhhsssss still a lot of money...
The Stock Chroma verb can do the Lexicon thing with much lesser CPU USE.
My PCM bundle was unused today.
The Orchestra Samples they deliver are Vienna parts, so I would not be surprised if Lexicon made Chroma-Verb. What is also very interesting, the GUI is way more intuitive compared to the PCM bundle. The CV GUI forces creativity, the Lexicon GUI is something for TECH freaks.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 3, 2022 17:24:21 GMT -6
Shadow's right, my goal is hybrid. My point about Logic though, is it's good enough by itself to make a great recording if you know what you're doing. A friend once sent me a track and I really liked the reverb, I was shocked when he said it was Chromaverb. That said, the same friend sent me another track and the reverb was so rich and outstanding, I asked what he used and he said one of the cheap hardware Lexicon reverbs he got online for $80 ! When you can get a reverb plug-in like Liquid Sonic's Seventh Heaven basic version for $69, and a Soundtoys' Little Plate on sale for $29, there's no reason not to augment the Logic system with a few good plug-ins. My mantra has always been good mics first. That alone will get you petty far down the road. With one good preamp and one great mic, you can work wonders. Logic is certainly an amazing deal though. It's like an entire free universe for keyboard and beat making guys. Me, I don't go near all that programming. Only on occasion do I use a basic organ or piano, that's it. We are pretty much spoiled -to death- these days. I had situations when my old MVII was the right thing. There is only one LS verb I still like because it’s the only SW verb which does the up front trick. But for the rest I am happy there is only two HW units left over in my place. One tube saturation unit with a following dynamic section which can sound tapish with post EQing. I kept it because it sounds unique. One 1176 is also left over….
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 2, 2022 14:27:51 GMT -6
I once had a 16 year old guitar student who bought a Les Paul, a Focusrite preamp and a cheap mic with his savings and birthday money. He'd used up every penny he had. So we tried a challenge, create an album using only Logic, no 3rd party plugs. The damn thing sounded like a frickin' Coldplay record. Other brand plug-ins certainly bring your personal taste into play, but Logic alone is a monster. If you can't make a great recording with all those tools, you're just not very good at it.
Which answers all HW vs SW doubts...
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 1, 2022 19:17:49 GMT -6
Logic is a bargain, runs super smooth on my M1 Mini, and is easy to use. I was getting tired of pulling my hair out with Reaper -- just not as intuitive as Logic. I likes R but the bus routing ... no thanks. Logic is getting better and better under M1 they get also third party bugs under control. I had two calls by Apple because of reported bugs; they do thier work well…
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