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Post by dandeurloo on Aug 21, 2018 10:52:43 GMT -6
I just bought a few cheap Craigslist guitars. A Epi Les Paul standard and a Squire Strat. I will replace all the electronics and pickups and give them a proper setup. Then I they will go hang out with the other studio guitars. Hopefully they are useful and help round out the options.
My last 2 Craigslist guitars have turned out really amazing. So, I am hopeful.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 25, 2018 15:11:21 GMT -6
The GR Harrisons are very cool. The filters rule.
I really Love the GR Rack eq's. I have 2 of them and a Mastering EQ. They are so good!
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 23, 2018 11:57:28 GMT -6
You can say that about a couple of mix guys in town too A lot of them.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 23, 2018 11:44:43 GMT -6
Off topic a little but worth saying I think:
I have had my tunes mastered by a number of top level guys. The artist I work with often will do a shoot out with a few guys and then decide from there. It is interesting to me how different the songs come back from each guy.
It is also interesting that often times the mid level Mastering Enegineer will beat out the Top Name guy. This has happen a number of times.
My 2 cents So, if you are looking for a mastering guy, get a guy who is interested in working hard for you. Not just a guy who will run it through his process and call it a master and then post about it on FB.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 23, 2018 11:37:04 GMT -6
A friend of mine has a studio I use a bunch. He has 6 of the pres and eq channels along with a stash everything else. I always use the GR pres first. They sound amazing on so many things. B3, Vocals, Acoustic guitars, Drums, electric guitars and the DI's are really nice if you aren't gonna use a ZOD . Johnkenn you should really find a way to demo one at least so you know. And like I said it is one of those things that the more you use it the more you like it.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 23, 2018 11:28:46 GMT -6
The more I use the Great River pres the more I use them. They are some of my favorites for sure. They aren't a special blue paint job or crazy knobs but they sound better and better to me.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 20, 2018 20:43:14 GMT -6
It is the transformer and a few other small circuit tweaks if you are using a real U67 capsule (vintage or new Neumann). But the main thing is the TX. Trust me, I have done more then enough testing to know.
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Post by dandeurloo on Apr 19, 2018 9:24:54 GMT -6
I had the max mod 67 up with original 67’s 269’s and just recently next to the re issue 67. All I can say is it sounded completely wrong,like so dark rolled off over 8k that to me it was unusable. This is what I have been saying for a long time. They are totally off of what a real 67 sounds like.
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Post by dandeurloo on Mar 15, 2018 22:05:38 GMT -6
I normally hate these kind of sims. I am however interested in checking out the OX because it uses really amps. I hope someone near me buys one so I can test it. lol
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Post by dandeurloo on Mar 8, 2018 22:14:51 GMT -6
I have a phono pre that I designed for a client who is into studio and hifi. I have a handful of the PCB's left over if you are interested in building them. They can take pretty much any mono smt, dip or 2520's you want to use in it.
Feel free to hit me up if you are interested.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jan 29, 2018 15:43:24 GMT -6
I'm not sure if any of you saw this on Saturday. Jt has been touring and using the ID DI's for awhile. It was very cool to see it so visibly on SNL.
Great performances!
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Post by dandeurloo on Jan 28, 2018 12:19:48 GMT -6
Looks like I will be picking up a short loaded 36 channel Delta with 24 channels of the 4 band eq strips. Now how to sneak it past the wife! The Modded Delta's can be really amazing. I have custom upgrade chips I made for them that rule. I modded 12 channels for a buddy and modded my little delta as a sidecar to my Neve. Seriously some of the best bang for the buck out there. Even the pres can sound really good after mods. I also have a 24 channel Delta that I grabbed locally for 200 bucks with the good channel strips. I will probably fully mod that at some point. But that will be down the road.
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 19, 2017 16:51:33 GMT -6
I can't get down with UAD any more. I have thou$and$ into plugs and DSP. After they raised almost all new plugs to 300 usd I bailed on buying new plugs from them. I have always known of the issues trying to resell their plugs and honestly most of their plugs have better native options these days. I haven't tried a number of the new plugs because like I said, they aren't getting my money anymore.
I hate being locked into a company and then the company dictating to me what I can do with my purchases. I have that with Avid and I don't need another Avid in my life.
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 3, 2017 22:41:09 GMT -6
I found the same problem with the Thiersch M7 capsules, they were inconsistent. I've purchased 4 Thiersch M7's and they all sound the same... really good!
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 30, 2017 12:55:49 GMT -6
I guess Oliver Archut was that guy, RIP. Nope, Oliver did some nice TX's but they aren't near the originals. I have tried all the capsule and TX options. Neumann still does it better then anyone else. Peulso does get really close with his designs. They are repeatable and have a good amount of that cool vibe of the vintage units while also being balanced. He nails it with his vintage reskins of originals backplates. So does a guy named Doug Walker. I have a drawer filled with both capsules and transformers. Most of them are a disappointment compared to the originals. Sad reality.
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 22, 2017 21:32:55 GMT -6
Or are you mentioning the thing of running cathode higher than spec, which is a rejuvenation method? In the case I experienced, tubes with higher plate and cathode values did uniformly well, and a couple slots with lower value cathode and plate uniformly made for worst noise result. I haven't tried it yet so I don't really know how it works or doesn't work.
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 22, 2017 19:51:45 GMT -6
Brian also mentions on his site that there can be 16db difference is noise between EH6072a tubes. Having just gone through burn in of 30 of these for some console retuning/restorations, I can second that statement. As well, if you burn in at a higher current draw it appears noise increases permanently. I've heard you can remove noise in a tube by burning them in at higher voltages. It is suppose burn the crud off the tubes. I have heard it can work but can also kill the tubes. So it is a gamble. But if the tube is noise and useless then I guess it is worth it.
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 22, 2017 11:06:08 GMT -6
I've got both a 651 Expressor and Pico 502 that I'm looking to sell if you're interested (since others mentioned both). Both of these when Modded can be really really clean. I have both and have modded the crap out of both. The Pico is really great at low ratios and RMS basic compression and fits in the 500 rack. The Aphex is extremely flexible. Probably more flexibility then the distressor but a hair more complicated to setup but still really easy. They do have auto mods that I almost never use because I find I can usually dial in a more accurate setting then using just the slow or fast auto mods. I like to use both in series with other comps usually. I also have the CAPI comps. Those are actually on the cleaner side of things even with the Discrete op amps. Johnkenn what is your main use for the comp you are looking for? That might help a little more in suggesting one comp over another.
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 14, 2017 13:33:00 GMT -6
The few pieces from RND that I have heard and used have all been really lame. That includes the console. A studio here in town has one. It is really boring and nothing great about it. The Shelford stuff does seem to be interesting however.
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Post by dandeurloo on Nov 11, 2017 21:31:44 GMT -6
I match using a single peaks on the tracks to be A/B'd by using the PT meters. That seems to be the best way for me.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 31, 2017 9:40:34 GMT -6
Especially the Josephson. $9'000 is ridiculous. Same with the T-Funks, Bocks and all the other wildly overpriced American mics. The Josephson is perhaps the most state of the art mic of its type in existence for the price of any average Harley Davidson. So no, it's not overpriced, just expensive. I just got to play around with a 725 last night. It sounds great. It was very natural sounding and smooth top to bottom. We had it set up next to a KILLER u67 and the 715 for reference. All of those mics sounded really great on vocals and acoustic guitar. On the female vocal/acoustic we used for testing we all preferred the 715, which shocked me. I thought for sure I would prefer the 67 or the 725. Joesphson makes some really amazing LDC mics (I don't love his SDC's). I honestly don't think I have ever heard any mics as smooth as his. His head basket design and capsules are really amazing.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 24, 2017 19:26:22 GMT -6
That’s actually not even half of it. Believe there are also 40 Heiders. jsteiger And a Zod ID DI going to front of house for bass.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 23, 2017 21:42:58 GMT -6
There is something about Neve EQ's. You can really "carve" out a weird sound with it. It lets you go far too far overboard. Kinda gives you the impression that its ok to goose the knobs and carve out the entire turkey to the bone. Weird, but very rock and roll. I like cranking up the red knob and tweazering the Output trim. Had a pair of BAE 1073 come through here recently. Those have a wetness to them. The old neves are drier, & tighter sounding, The Great River eq is like the Neve IMO only better. You can do all sorts of work with those things. After having the GR eq's it is hard to want any thing else.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 19, 2017 22:14:36 GMT -6
@dander didn't you mod yours a fair bit ? Yeah, a lot!
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 19, 2017 19:30:37 GMT -6
All my previous comments on system stability still stand. Every new driver release is a chance to hold my breath, and, driver updates are confoundingly impossible with normal system connections in place, the whole thing has to be torn down and re-patched one box at a time to do updates: exactly the opposite of what a distributed AVB system in a large facility should require. Mac here, TB connection to Mac, AVB between M8 and 16A. Lose the TB connection and hardwire AVB directly to the Mac for updates! Then do the next box! Now do that from master control down at the old sports arena! Then put it all back together! I don't have latency issues, because I use the AVB mixer(s). I guess all the people with latency issues are trying to avoid it, which is impossible, or what you get. Routing is comprehensive. But. No talkback path; I still need a dedicated stereo input TB box so I can talk to 3 separate HP mixes at once with control room monitor dimmed. With 16A and Monitor 8 I have 4 AVB browser windows open, on top of the DAW window. One AVB mixer is playback monitoring for overdubs, one is live input monitoring, one cascades into the other. Both AVB mixers are maxed out. It's kind of a fucking nightmare, but the only way to make it all work. All this modern crap is designed for people tracking one thing at a time, with no professional concessions for traditional multi-input/musician live tracking and overdubs. If I had patchbay multing inputs to both converter and console B mix, with DAW playback into main channel inputs, I could avoid AVB mixing completely. Or MOTU could bother to write the code so inputs would auto route to outputs as all their previous products did. But, in 3 years of people asking, they haven't, so forget it. But it sounds fine! I have no idea what people discover on other modern converter interface systems, better or worse. Rant over!(?) I remember racking my head trying to figure out the AVB mixer and the routing matrix. It made me really appreciate UAD's console and it was actually a relief to go back to that when I picked up the BF Apollo 16. True, the routing options may be more limited than Motu's, but UAD Console is just so intuitive to use. I agree, it is easy to get lost in. But I will say Motu tech support has been very very helpful. I have been shocked at how good they are to their clients. That is a major plus IMO.
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