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Post by porkyman on Mar 25, 2015 2:40:13 GMT -6
i finished the mic. i tested it and it sounded so freakn awesome i couldnt believe it. then i let it burn in for a couple days and now there is an incredibly loud white noise. unusable loud. it already has the aluminum resistor and im using rca tubes. those were the only two answers i could find and those obviously arent the problem. ive spent so much time and money on this thing. over night it went from being my crowning achievement, and the best investment ive ever made to my biggest failure and regret. im at the point i dont even want it anymore. im so tired of working on this thing.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 24, 2015 18:50:48 GMT -6
i dont understand how to use it but im getting cool results with the presets... theres not too many of them though.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 24, 2015 18:15:17 GMT -6
ive built a lot. capi, hairball, sound skulptor, serpent, aml, etc. i just finished an mk47. that was the first tube project i have done. ive been avoiding anything tube because of the high vdc. i hate electricity.... im pretty confident i can build anything now but that doesnt mean its not scary.
thanks for the input guys.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 23, 2015 20:30:33 GMT -6
does this one have noise issues or previous models? this one is a complete kit. comes with lundahls. 640 euro. i dont think theres an option for edcors.... lets just say case, hardware, shipping etc. round up to $800. thats still roughly around the price of a single channel Warm. i really want that Warm but i think im gonna give this thing a go....
400vdc though!!! scary!!!
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Post by porkyman on Mar 21, 2015 0:24:44 GMT -6
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Post by porkyman on Mar 17, 2015 19:04:38 GMT -6
ok. thats how ive been doing it. thanks for the input
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Post by porkyman on Mar 16, 2015 18:23:01 GMT -6
This is something you have to decide but iMHO it would be best to use the same signal for both, that way you actually hear what your printing! i dont understand what youre saying. if i monitor through the same output post processing, wont it create a never ending loop?
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Post by porkyman on Mar 15, 2015 19:20:06 GMT -6
would it be better to send a signal out to hardware using the rme aio converters and monitor with RM Bare Beast, or send the signal out with the Bare Beast and monitor with the rme? which is more important? preserving the original sound before it gets tweaked otb, or being able to more accurately hear how your tweaking a degraded signal?
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Post by porkyman on Mar 15, 2015 1:28:34 GMT -6
metaplugin works great too. it also has a crossover and m/s tool. you can turn any plugin into m/s. you can route the mid to one eq, and the side to another. or the top to one and the bottom to another. or even one to a comp and the other an eq. super, super, cool...
it does get tiresome though in your normal everyday workflow having to open one plugin just to access another.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 10, 2015 23:32:21 GMT -6
amongst others, i've demo'd a 32, there is a lot of room for improvement IMO, my BLA 002 made it sound bad. They loaded it up with some mehh op amps, their psu is rather poultry for 8 channels per chip, it seemed low ceilinged to me and choked up with track count, if you getting this for multichannel mixing on a console, the upgrade will more than likely help it a lot, if i was a singer songwriter in need of no more than 10 simultaneous channels, i'd get a BLA sig modded FM clocked 002 on PT11 and be done, you will be VERY hard pressed to find a better sounding rig at any price as of today, my second choice(un demo'd by me, but owned by some trustworthy folks) would be the new motu line, dandeurloo had his juiced up by bla as well, it will be very interesting to hear his thoughts, he's a VERY trustworthy source of info IME 8) hope this helps its been my understanding the 002 doesnt work in PT11. Avid's not supporting the drivers to run with 11. am i wrong, because i can get one pretty cheap.
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Post by porkyman on Feb 24, 2015 19:30:17 GMT -6
the easiest transition will be Samplitude. the editing is pretty much the same and you can create your own key commands so you wont have to relearn anything really. plus integrated spectral editing is the sh?t. fret buzz, finger slides, lip smacks, everything gone in seconds. it is so awesome i dont know why others havent caught on. beyond the basics though it does get a little too complicated. too many options that arent necessary.
cubase will be the hardest transition but i think it will become the new standard as more and more ppl move from the studio to the bedroom. i dont see penniless up and comers buying in to the avid model. i honestly dont believe that PT has a future. not with all the cheaper options out there like reaper and S1. plus todays electro world is geared more towards midi, vsti's, and synths and as far as production tools go cubase is tops and "no" tools as they say is at the bottom.
im in the same boat. im not going to give avid another dollar. im going to hold off as long as i can though because ive already tried to change and it is tear inducingly frustrating.
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Post by porkyman on Feb 19, 2015 12:31:26 GMT -6
Perfect i want in on the trial unit. i know nobody knows me here so ill send my Analog Allstars EQP1S5, a unit i think ppl should try, to a senior member or the one before me on the list or something to hold/try until the next guy gets the chop shop from me in the condition i received it... i also have a ba512 lola or a sound skulptor 5176 if no ones interested in the AA. Hey! As soon as Tonycamp is ready to help me kick this off we will get you at the top of the list. I'd actually love to check out that Analog Allstars unit myself! Brad
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Post by porkyman on Feb 15, 2015 18:15:42 GMT -6
800 million.... now i really hate em.
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Post by porkyman on Feb 14, 2015 1:54:26 GMT -6
Many have been inclined. Every "proper shootout" Ive heard the files nulled. So an outside observer would assume it all comes down to user bias. just curious. did these proper tests go out through converters and back into a different DAW. same set up of course for both. i contend the differences ppl are hearing are in the DAW's as media players, and not digital summing. if you take the same wav files and print them in two different DAW's, of course they are going to null. they are the same file. it would be like moving a file from one folder to another. the difference is in playback of audio. in other words, you can play the same file through two different media players and they will sound different. but if you put those two files in the same DAW they will of course null, because they are in fact the same file. i posted this in the other forum and got a bunch of sh?t of course. audiofest.info/2011/video_player.php?video_id=20in this video Dr. Rob Robinson, who wrote driver code for Apple for 27 years explains why. clumpy data delivery causes jitter. here is another source www.audiostream.com/content/media-player-qa-q4-what-makes-one-media-player-sound-different-another where 8 other media player developers confirm the same thing, "the efficiency of getting music to the DAC is the main determinant of sound quality." in my experiences, and ive tried pretty much all of them, there are significant differences between them, and not just between different DAW's but between older and newer versions of the same one. especially cubase. there is a big difference between cubase 5 and cubase 7. IMO protools sounds the best, and is the best. i wish to god that weren't the case. that being said, i know i will eventually be leaving PT, and am 99% sure i will end up on cubase. so i hope it was 8 you tried and it really does sound better.
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Post by porkyman on Feb 11, 2015 19:53:27 GMT -6
i want in on the trial unit. i know nobody knows me here so ill send my Analog Allstars EQP1S5, a unit i think ppl should try, to a senior member or the one before me on the list or something to hold/try until the next guy gets the chop shop from me in the condition i received it...
i also have a ba512 lola or a sound skulptor 5176 if no ones interested in the AA.
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Post by porkyman on Feb 10, 2015 20:22:18 GMT -6
never used any of these so i wouldnt know. i like A. the best. B. sounds muffled to me. C. is weird. i first listened through hd 280 straight out the computer and the low end was so overwhelming it almost sounded distorted. but listening through K702's out of the RM bare beast it sounded really good. maybe even better than A... listened to the vox only.
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Post by porkyman on Jan 11, 2015 1:02:15 GMT -6
i have been desperate over the years to get out of protools. i can not stand avid. ive tried most of the others. i think protools and cubase are the most different to me. it seems those are the two main platforms. the mac and pc of the daw world. at least as far as editing.
this is what i dont understand. all of the others ive tried, (sonar, logig, S1, reaper) besides samplitude have adopted the cubase style of editing. it makes me believe it must be better, quicker, more intuitive etc somehow but for the life of me i can not figure out why. it is the #1 reason i keep coming back to PT.
the two biggest culprits are having to go all the way back up to the top to highlight a region in order to playback the section youre working on. how can that possibly be more efficient than PT's method of playing anywhere you click on the screen. the other is the channel strip on the left. i dont know what you call it but its also nonsensical to me. in PT anything you want to adjust is right there on each individual track. in cubase you have to highlight the track you want to work on. so what would happen almost every single time is i would be thinking about one track, looking at one track and adjusting the levels on another. then id realize i didnt have the right track selected and id have to go back and fix the one i just ruined. again i dont understand how it could be more efficient to select a track then go all the way back to adjust, then go back and select a new track and then come all the way back and adjust. granted im talking about seconds here but those little nuisances build up, especially when your trying to be accurate with a mouse all the time.
samplitude i found was the most similar to PT. i actually think samplitude is the most advanced daw on the market. especially spectral editing. its such a powerful tool. the only problem is theres like 5 ways to do everything and none of them are easy.
i spent an entire year away from protools trying to find the answer. never went anywhere but backwards.
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Post by porkyman on Jan 10, 2015 23:20:00 GMT -6
that control mic is super noisy on the female voc. that cant be normal... i would love to hear these two capsules in the same circuit. i wonder how much of that vintage sound is the old tube/trafo/caps etc. seems like the new one sounds more modern because it is more modern. circuit wise i mean. i would also love to hear both the new cap in the old circuit and the old cap in the new one. just throwing it out there in case you guys get bored one day.
thanks for doing this BTW.
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Post by porkyman on Jan 7, 2015 2:13:50 GMT -6
so i emailed them a couple more times and still didnt get a reply.... turned out they were being sent to my spam folder. they must be so annoyed with me right now. such an IDIOT!!!
anyways. does anyone have the Alctron GT-2B body with blueline? if so what capsule version/holder did you use. chunger said his blueline didnt fit in his.
thanks
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Post by porkyman on Jan 3, 2015 16:55:08 GMT -6
how did you guys order your thirsch blue line capsule? theres no ordering info on their site. i sent my request for one via email to them weeks ago and still havent heard back.
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Post by porkyman on Dec 30, 2014 13:50:35 GMT -6
I emailed chunger about that unit because it says its only for the c12, but he never responded so i ordered just the mk47 kit. Thanks.
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Post by porkyman on Dec 30, 2014 0:38:54 GMT -6
You need to buy the Chinese power supply and do the universal P.S. mod. That should work and save a lot of time and money. thanks. do you know the name of the Chinese brand. ive been googling power supply dit u47 and not coming up with anything
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Post by porkyman on Dec 27, 2014 15:34:40 GMT -6
seems they both use the max kircher dual 6028/408a design. the d-47 however comes with a psu board, but the mk47 kit from studio939 comes complete minus tubes, psu and capsule. not sure how you would complete the mk47 build without psu. they're not clear about that.
the only real difference i see here is transformer options. does anyone have any experience with either of these?
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Post by porkyman on Dec 24, 2014 15:39:03 GMT -6
All you need is 3 resistors to form a u-pad to run line in on a mic preamp. Use 4k99's in series and then a 160R shunt and you are golden. This can be built into a Switchcraft xlr tube which I happen to stock at the store. Sorry to be a whore seems pretty easy. thanks jeff. you da man.
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Post by porkyman on Dec 24, 2014 10:56:17 GMT -6
Does a pad the same as line level because the copper has a pad. Its the same exact layout as the lola except lola says line and copper says pad. Are the really the same thing just different wording. i actually bought the copper to get me closer to the neve but once i finished i realized theres no line level.... thanks. please post back with results. You could use an Avedis line pad to get the copper at line level.
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