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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 19, 2017 19:28:16 GMT -6
I haven't sold much of my personal gear in a while. I have a few things I am thinking about selling but nothing yet. If I do, it will probably be a few eq's as I am kind of full up on EQ right now. I am really wanting to trade some one a brand new ZOD ID DI for a SPL transient designer. I have always wanted to try out the hardware version but haven't wanted to actually buy it to try it. haha Johnkenn , never sell good mics! my 2 cents Dan I see you diving inside the transient designer! That would probably be the second or third thing I would do with one!
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 19, 2017 8:53:31 GMT -6
I haven't sold much of my personal gear in a while. I have a few things I am thinking about selling but nothing yet. If I do, it will probably be a few eq's as I am kind of full up on EQ right now. I am really wanting to trade some one a brand new ZOD ID DI for a SPL transient designer. I have always wanted to try out the hardware version but haven't wanted to actually buy it to try it. haha Johnkenn, never sell good mics! my 2 cents
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 19, 2017 8:47:55 GMT -6
Firewire! This looks really lame.
Just buy some ez1073's and call it a day at this point.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 18, 2017 20:20:12 GMT -6
Crookwood is mostly in mastering consoles.
I would love to hear the new Hedd. I have always wondered if I would like it compared to my modded RMA stuff. I know the processing is cool. I have used it a few times one sessions and liked it.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 18, 2017 20:15:56 GMT -6
Mine has been rock solid for a few years. I haven't updated in over a year. So, I have no idea if any updates cause issues.
I have a 16a and 24Ao connected to each other via AVB and the main interface connected to my mac through TB. Doing it this way I have really low latency. I don't use the MOTU mixer much. I actually try and avoid it as much as possible.
I do clock mine off of the BLA Micro Clock III XB. It helps.
My 2 cents
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 15, 2017 18:49:22 GMT -6
Well, I guess Cobb is ok. haha
The band introductions are really funny. Everyone loved that.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 14, 2017 21:39:50 GMT -6
You should hear my sister talk. Also, I live in a house full of women. I can barely get a word in!
Tell JT, his #2 is burning in right now.
The show rules. I love the trio!
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 13, 2017 11:55:39 GMT -6
"The tubes were also not reliable." Wait a minute.....the dual tube setup from the max design is not reliable? LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! Go figure. Maybe he should have consulted with svart. He said he can make pretty much any of the $5 tubes work. (And I believe him - although there's obviously something in the initial design that prohibited this from happening in a majority of builds) Best of luck to those getting or getting out of these. I'd personally want to hear clips from the FINAL production version. The initial price did seem extremely low based on the high price of individual parts on these style runs. New price seems fair if it delivers. Hard to believe right. haha
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 13, 2017 11:50:08 GMT -6
Big day and a big board. New studio space too. I have a friend who just grabbed one of those boards for under 300. He uses it for studio as well. I have told him he should bring me a module and let me see if I can mod them. Maybe he will do that at somepoint. I am curious to see them.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 13, 2017 11:44:17 GMT -6
I have once or twice. I honestly never have a pair around. People are always taking my personal ones for demos. I can't keep enough built up and around to do it. When I have it sounded really cool. I want to use them as one of the busses on my console. So, I can have a killer tube sounding buss. I could put them on the back end of my folcrom or something like that and then dump that into my Neve. I will do it more once I can keep a few of them around.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 7, 2017 23:20:31 GMT -6
I just watched J.T. Cure play here in Minneapolis/St. Paul with Chris Stapleton. He has been using a ID DI on this tour. He blew me away. The show was incredible, I loved the 3 piece.
J.T.'s tone and parts are very cool. You guys should go check them out if they come through town.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 7, 2017 23:17:41 GMT -6
Well, I should say None of the "MODERN standard tx's used in 1176 sound like what a 1176 should sound like". Because of that it took a lot of tweaking to get the tone right.
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Post by dandeurloo on Oct 6, 2017 20:07:06 GMT -6
The transformers are part of the sound along with the transistors. There was a lot of testing with each major part to get the sound right.
Many of the standard tx's used in 1176's sound nothing like what a 1176 should sound like. If you use those, you will have to do a lot more work to get them to sound right.
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Post by dandeurloo on Sept 27, 2017 9:25:11 GMT -6
javamad, glad you like it! I just mixed a record for a client who ended up borrowing a ID DI then buying one from me. He re-tracked all his bass with it. One of the last tracks he sent me to mix sounded much cleaner over all and deeper then his previous songs. I asked him what he did different. He said he tracked all the guitars through the ID DI without a amp. I was honestly shocked. It sounded great. If he needed a little grit he said he used a few pedals. I would have never done that personally because I love amps sounds but I will do it now for some really great clean sounds.
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Post by dandeurloo on Sept 25, 2017 10:41:42 GMT -6
I track with one of my ID DI's into a LA 2A almost always. I get a tone that rules and can then be pushed in a number of different directions if need be. Then at mix I will add distortion (via pedals) if I didn't track a distortion track and then I use my Sta Level on the bass during mix.
Bass is super easy to get sounding awesome now.
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Post by dandeurloo on Sept 5, 2017 13:26:21 GMT -6
Bill has always been pretty responsive. Have you followed up and confirmed with him that he is aware of your order?
I think he was also making T4b for one of the other low budget LA 2A cloners. So, it is possible he is totally over loaded with work.
Let me know and I can reach out to him if you'd like.
Also, Chimera is as close as one can get to a real LA 3A in the 500 series format. There is a sonic difference between the SA 3A and Chimera but is is barely noticeable. I wouldn't hesitate to use either on pretty much any source. I LOVE MY SA 3A'S!
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Post by dandeurloo on Aug 27, 2017 17:01:23 GMT -6
The Splice is the best sounding 1176 in production to my ears. Mike has done a great job on it.
When he was starting on it a few years back he and I went back and forth with different prototypes changing components and values in order to get the sound dialed in. I can say the first one was not at all like the current model in tone. But after a number back and forths and comparing audio files, each of us modding a proto in order to hear what the other was hearing. He ended up with a fantastic sounding compressor that was well worth the effort.
I was sad that the original 500 got shelf'd for awhile and I am really happy to see Mike has re released it. It is a really great compressor and it nails the sound. It is a no brainer to me. And yes, let the needle swing on these!
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Post by dandeurloo on Aug 9, 2017 7:52:54 GMT -6
so.....how about those KM84's. Anyone ever put a LDC capsule on one? Is there anything out there with the same thread pattern? Or perhaps an adapter to allow retrofit (although the "needle" might preclude that.....) I did. It sounds average to ok at first. Then I started tweaking it. I used a Redline M7 and from there I tweaked the circuit and components and now the mic sounds really really good. It will get used a lot I think. As far as a retro fit, that would be pretty tricky. The needle would be tricky and also in order to get the tone I had to tweak the circuit to much. I think this is on of the things that is best to build into a different body and let it be what it is. Side note: My mic locker is starting to get pretty darn good. My mics are no longer an excuse for me to suck! haha
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Post by dandeurloo on Aug 1, 2017 19:27:21 GMT -6
The last days I had some spare time becasue of vacation time and I re arranged my PP. I also pulled out two of my old reverb units the Yamaha REV 500 and the Midiverb II are back in the game. I cant explian it but everytime I use them they have some cahracter, some pepper - the software verbs dont have. The REV 500 for example is extremly there dimensional and up fornt. I guess they use some great delay tricks. The best of it all its setup in no time on a LV, the unit just uses 4 main knobs to manipulate the reverb. The tail of this unit is a dream. BTW, you can get them for about 70-100 Dollars on e bay. The MVII is such a noisy mess but its pure fun on snare. Put a very small room on a sample sanre and the whole thing gets a new live. Did try the same thing with SV verb....mähhh... Is this becasue of the extra roundtrip AD DA? Is that adding something what I like? Or the algos from the 80s and 90s are not bad at all? Always I use them I am surprissed how good they are, how much life the ad to a song. I wish I had more sends on my console or that PT would let me have more DA's. I would hook up more hardware fx in a heart beat. They almost instantly work, they are creative and they make my tracks sound richer. Even a few of the good old cheap guys like the SPX 90 get used a lot. I have the best ITB fx as well. They work but they always require more fussing with and end up not sounding as rich in the end. Sometimes that is prefect but not always.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 13, 2017 9:19:07 GMT -6
For some reason I NEVER use MAster faders in PT. I only use AUX's. I have a feeling I am missing out. I also don't use Group faders. I use AUX's. I keep thinking I need to learn or reshape my work flow to use those? But mostly I am just trying to get out of the DAW into the console! You talking about VCA faders? Yeah, I so rarely use them I don't even know what they are properly called. haha
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 11, 2017 23:21:22 GMT -6
In the vinyl days when it was all analog, the pro guys might pull down all the channel faders once in a while if the gain staging within the console got out of hand. Sometimes the master bus meters would peg, but no engineers I worked with would slam the console for sonic reasons into the 2 trk tape machine. Levels were ulitimately respected for fidelity. My console has a sweet spot. It seems to be about 90% up on the master fader and with the meters swinging into the Red. I get really nice clarity and color all at the same time. If I turn it down I lose the vibe and if I turn it up it gets kind of mushy and loses the punch. So, it is important to know your gear and where it sounds good so you can set you mixes up around those desired gain stages. The tricky one for me is the print level into the ADC. I need to build a few small stepped attenuators for into my ADC. The built in -10db pads on the RMA ADC's are always to much.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 11, 2017 23:15:07 GMT -6
By no means take this as inflammatory.... You guys who don't care what level your 2 buss is operating at ITB, how do you feel about the levels your audio interface is putting out to you power/amp speakers and running them at their best sonic point? cheers Wiz I am rarely all itb these days but when I am I'm mixing really hot. My dac is adjustable. I can turn it down if it's pegging the meters on the console. Another trick is to mix in to an Aux track as your 2 bus and do all your processing there. Aux tracks are routed differently than master faders in PT. Pulling down your aux track 2 bus fader won't affect your plug ins on that track. On a master fader you are pulling down the level feeding the plug ins when you pull down the fader. No good for fade outs!! If you use an Aux your level to the plugs is set by the channel faders of the mix only. Move the aux fader and your compression and stuff stays the same. Then you can use a master fader on the output of that track for the headroom and dither. Then you can pull that empty master fader down without affecting the compressors or saturators on your 2 bus. At least in PT you can. FWIW I use a bunch of master faders in PT with the multiple busses. If I have a bus that's receiving complex program then I put a master fader on it. I swear it sounds better. ZERO science behind that...pure anecdote. But I swear it does. For some reason I NEVER use MAster faders in PT. I only use AUX's. I have a feeling I am missing out. I also don't use Group faders. I use AUX's. I keep thinking I need to learn or reshape my work flow to use those? But mostly I am just trying to get out of the DAW into the console!
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 11, 2017 22:58:56 GMT -6
Side note: Did you hear my files of the Maag Eq's I modded? Pretty unreal.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 1, 2017 7:54:25 GMT -6
Did you buy it? How much? No, I am waiting for a response, but I probably can't afford it...lol Nothing very highend happening on that PCB.
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Post by dandeurloo on Jul 1, 2017 7:49:39 GMT -6
That's really interesting svart. Cowboycoalminer uses a modded Ghost and I know there are a few guys here who recommend modding Ghosts or Delta's. If the X2 really sounds better, than it's a steal, I think.. The Ghost and the Delta's are not the same. Delta's are a different level sonically and after modding they are seriously a incredible sounding console. The advantage of the Ghost is routing, the delta wins sonically for sure.
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