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Post by porkyman on Aug 14, 2018 15:32:12 GMT -6
My brain hurts.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 9, 2018 1:48:24 GMT -6
yotonic I respect your contrarianism...but respectfully disagree. I get where you’re coming from - there was definitely a lot of shit music in the mid 20th. But I don’t think LZ and the Beatles were that. I listen to the Beatles and hear stuff that sounds so simple but is so complex. I’m not a Beatles nerd - I don’t worship everything they did...but for something that was done 50 years ago still be cutting edge today - still be a bar that few reach...it’s just amazing. I sit here in Nashville and I can tell you with absolute assurance that it isn’t about “best song wins”. It’s about commerce. The biz has always been that - a business, but more and more due to the dwindling monetary share and rise of other media - the music is secondary. I just wonder if there is an atmosphere for a Neil Young et al... This ties in with a question that came to mind this morning on my walk..... How are record labels making money nowadays? How are they staying open? Serious question. cheers Wiz 360 contracts. They take a piece of everything the artist does.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 7, 2018 10:55:34 GMT -6
Good watch
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Post by porkyman on Dec 4, 2017 11:03:00 GMT -6
thanks for the input Brad. im not so nervous now. ive got one with a 351 card coming. i know thats the gotta have consensus. what would you say is the go to tape card? thanks i think tape machines are around $6000. not sure though. Hi porkyman. How do you like your Anamod ATS-1 and the 351 card? I hear so much about it, I thought I would ask I use it on everything. 351 going in. Atr on the 2bus. I think they're discontinued though. I know I tried to buy the atr card a while back and they told me they stopped making them. Had to talk a guy into selling me his. I won't say it's a must have. People are making better records than me everyday without it but I'm glad I have it and I never really think about selling it.
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Post by porkyman on Dec 2, 2017 12:09:56 GMT -6
I think it's the most advanced daw out there if you're not looking for music production tools like soft synths samplers etc. it also the most customizable with multiple skins and assignable shortcuts. It's really easy to adopt.
The only problem is bug fixes. Not being one of the big 3. Gonna take a while before 3rd party developers get to you.
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Post by porkyman on Nov 24, 2017 23:35:52 GMT -6
🙁
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Post by porkyman on Nov 23, 2017 11:41:15 GMT -6
Any way to bring the noise down on this thing? Will changing out all the electros do anything? Thanks
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Post by porkyman on Nov 16, 2017 21:26:38 GMT -6
First, there is a larger percentage of companies that have "net" tax rates in the single digits approaching zero. There are many multinationals that hold their cash in other countries enabling them to pay as little tax as possible. The proposed tax cut in its current form is looking to reduce the mortgage interest deduction, etc. This is a big sticking point at the moment. At the end of the day debating it doesn't matter for a few reasons (there are more), 1. We cannot do anything about it. 2. It will never be in our best interest because we do not make sizeable enough political contributions 3. They just don't give a shit. I happen to excel at mathematics but this is simple math, here you go: Tax Revenues = $2,700,000,000,000.00 Federal Budget = $4,000,000,000,000.00 So TR - FB = X, in this case the answer is ($1,300,000,000,000.00) Question for the day: If you are spending $1.3 TRILLION dollars more than you bring in how exactly do you cut taxes and reduce revenue? If you believe that it will be offset by a reduction in spending, I have have some swamp land in Florida that's for sale Ppl/corporations are holding offshore to avoid paying US taxes. We have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. The point of lowering the rate to 20% is to get them to keep their money here and pay US taxes rather than Ireland's or Singapores. We're talking about trillions of dollars that are currently taxed at zero. Tax revenues won't go down they'll go up. The simple math is would you rather have 33% of 50. Or 20% of 100. Corporations don't pay taxes consumers do. Any taxes or penalties they incur are included in the costs of goods. If you increase their costs (raise their taxes) they simply pass those costs on down to you. All taxes are a tax on the consumer. Your rich neighbor. Your poor neighbor. And you.
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Post by porkyman on Nov 14, 2017 14:59:13 GMT -6
Live wire have lifetime warranties. If one breaks you just walk right into to guitar center and replace it. I have a GC near me so it's pretty much a no brainer. If you don't have access to GC I'd say get something that'll last longer.
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Post by porkyman on Nov 8, 2017 13:48:15 GMT -6
used a 25 watt aluminum wire wound and just mounted it to the case. Works like a champ! Could probably be fine with 10 or 15 watt. Will try. Thanks.
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Post by porkyman on Nov 7, 2017 20:35:05 GMT -6
Anyone finished theirs? I've completed mine but keep burning R3 out on PSU. I've upped the value but no bueno. Any thoughts?
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Post by porkyman on Oct 19, 2017 21:57:05 GMT -6
I decided to go 100% avid bc I was having driver issues with my motu. Bought 2 HD I/o's, native card and upgraded to PTHD. Ended up having to buy a new computer bc the native card was pcie 4x and my comp only had 1x slots. Then they made me buy a digilink license, Something they just made up, in order to use all the hardware and software I just spent $6000 on. So now I can't possibly have any issues right. Wrong!!! I can't even get it to play for 10 seconds without aae errors. I'm so over avid. I'll never give them another cent.
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Post by porkyman on Oct 19, 2017 21:53:44 GMT -6
I had driver issues and got sick of trying to figure out the routing every time I wanted to change something. It's just really bad. I don't understand how intelligent ppl created it.
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Post by porkyman on Oct 10, 2017 14:09:26 GMT -6
This is totally insane. I would never let anyone get that close to my baby.
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Post by porkyman on Sept 21, 2017 12:40:22 GMT -6
Get your vocal and drums right on the edge of too loud and then push em up 2db. I know, I know...you can listen to the instrumental when you're alone to get off on all the hard work you did that nobody can hear with that vocal up so loud. Exhibit A This ruined my day. I hope the world ends.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 4, 2017 23:10:47 GMT -6
You lost me at cla. Lol. My example has nothing to do with guitars I just chose it at random. The same point holds true for any instrument. If you remove the reflections it will stick out like a sour thumb. It's not natural. Cla and a lot of the guys from the nineties use delays for reflections. All a reverb is is a series of delays. Of course the ideal is to not need any reverb. The ideal would be to not need anything at all. I think my point gets lost with the word "reverb." It brings up feelings of long lush lexicon plates or something. That's not what I'm talking about with the bricasti. I'm talking about space. Im talking about vibe. I'm talking about that room tone you wish you could get out of your drums when your compressing. Well, you did say "Imo nothing will improve your mixes more than a bricasti." And for the Slate/CLA mix that I have he didn't use any delay's either on his electric guitars. So, it's possible to have a nice sounding mix with dry distorted guitars. If you want to hear CLA's mix from Slate I'll send it to you. The Bricasti has it's uses. So does Lexicon. So does Eventide, Yamaha, Midiverb II, plates etc etc. Imo, if you can't afford the hardware get the plugins. No one reverb's gonna do it. I own the Bricasti, but I'd kill for a real EMT 140, a Lexicon 480L, A couple of Lexicon PCM 70's, an AMS RMX 16 etc. etc. I can't, so I use plugins. Man. If cla just slapped a couple close mics on a cab and threw it up on a mix with no processing at all he really is the genius he thinks he is. 😊 Definitely delay. 6k + 1/4delay = cla I think it's more likely there were closer to twelve tracks. 1 ribbon 1 dynamic and one ldc room mic double tracked per side and then mixed down through his $200k+ SSL into a single stereo track all the while saying, "hey kids. You can sound just like me using only slate plugins." If there's anyone in the world that doesn't really want you to become a better engineer it's Cla. It's not just him either. They're all like that. I watched ken Lewis mix 50 cent and the dude set the levels and I was like you're done. No further processing needed. All the work was done at tracking or the thing was pre mixed. The "raw" tracks were so far beyond any finished product I've ever produced. Same thing with scheps Even pensado though I love him. If I could just get to the point where he begins I'd be ecstatic. Btw I know with 100% certainty he not only uses bri on every mix but often prints passes to use it multiple times. Of course I use more than 1 reverb. I use a room plate and hall generally. Always use 480l for hall and to be perfectly honest with you I only use it bc other ppl say it sounds good even though to me it doesn't sound anything like I think it should. usually experiment with plates. Often have more than 1 plate. Vox and snare for ex. ive got exponential stuff. Tverb which I actually like a lot. Probably the only one I don't regret. Liquid sonics stuff and Of course echo boy delays. I just have not advanced in any meaningful way with them. They don't make the impact bri does. So serious question. If the bricasti isn't an intricall part of your workflow, and you can get there with just plugins? Why do you keep it? Why don't you put that money towards one of the other boxes you long for? EMT is Definitely on my bucket list. 👍🏻
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Post by porkyman on Jun 4, 2017 18:05:41 GMT -6
Or you could take RVerb or similar verb and take away the decay and build spaces useing early reflections and rooms with diffused non linear decay. You don't need a bricasti to make a good mix. Also you don't have to use Reverb on source audio for it to sound natural or ambient. Just say you love your bricasti and for YOU it was a great investment 😀 Most Studios need better acoustic treatment / control room and monitors 🤘 What is the fascination with running complete mixes thru Reverbs... Why? I have seen this recommended by several posters recently here at RGO. Has anyone heard the record " Happy " By Pharrell? That's Altiverb on LD Vox 🤘 porkyman"I'm talking about space. Im talking about vibe. I'm talking about that room tone you wish you could get out of your drums when your compressing." So I have to ask for more because you are making it sound like the Bricasti is going to polish your drum tone and add this magic color that wasn't there if the Bricasti was not involved? Again. I'm not saying you can't. Or whoever mixed Pharrell can't. In fact my original point was that master engineers have an innate ability to do just that. But I don't. I need an edge. Not everyone can make it to the big leagues on their own. Some ppl need steroids to get there. I would love to hear some mixes of these ppl who claim they don't need one rather than ppl like DrBill and Jim Williams having to prove themselves to you. Especially since Jim and Bill are the two biggest titans on this forum. Along with Bob of course. Adding reverb to the entire mix is a tried and true (although not talked about) mastering technique. That's why you find reverbs on mastering plugins like izotope. I'm not saying it will polish your drums. I think a lot of the resentment comes from ppl who bought one and put it on their vocal, and low and behold they still couldn't sing. I'm sure it was a major let down to them. I'm saying rather than ocean way or t-verb or lex room. Try using bricasti instead. All the things you were trying to get out of those you'll get in spades with bri. How many ppl are out there looking for "secret formulas" and magic compressors trying to get their mixes to gel. Trying to get them to move and show a little enthusiasm for gods sake. 😊 I am. All I'm saying is if you are too I strongly suggest getting a bricasti over any of those other pieces of gear you might buy. That's all. Thanks for listening.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 4, 2017 16:33:30 GMT -6
For example. Imagine going to a concert and seeing a band. All those reflections bouncing all over the place. Now imagine the guitar had no reflections. Everything would be bouncing off the walls except the guitars. Your brain would pick up on that instantly and you'd think you were in the matrix bc it's physically impossible for that to happen. This is what happens when you listen to a poor mix. I read this SOS review of the song below. According to CLA, there's no reverb on the guitars. I also got one of those CLA mixes as part of buying one of the Slate products where he uses Slate plugins only. It had all of CLA's tracked instruments and the Slate FX he used, which I could open up in Cubase or Pro Tools. None of his electric guitars has any reverb. You lost me at cla. Lol. My example has nothing to do with guitars I just chose it at random. The same point holds true for any instrument. If you remove the reflections it will stick out like a sour thumb. It's not natural. Cla and a lot of the guys from the nineties use delays for reflections. All a reverb is is a series of delays. Of course the ideal is to not need any reverb. The ideal would be to not need anything at all. I think my point gets lost with the word "reverb." It brings up feelings of long lush lexicon plates or something. That's not what I'm talking about with the bricasti. I'm talking about space. Im talking about vibe. I'm talking about that room tone you wish you could get out of your drums when your compressing. The reason im beating the drum so hard monkey is bc I believe in it that much. I want to help ppl who are constantly struggling. Reading forums like this looking for answers. Not because I want to "justify the cost " to myself (like Mac users). Jk. The exact opposite is true. I want ppl to spend as little as possible. I want to go back in time and speak to myself. I want to tell my self stop wasting money on that "pultec" or those ridiculously over priced converters. Those aren't the droids you're looking for. Space, vibe, and tone. Space, vibe, and tone. Those are the 3 pillars. That's what im trying to capture in a recording.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 4, 2017 10:47:51 GMT -6
I just wanna chime in as an amateur speaking to the other amateurs that might be out there. Imo nothing will improve your mixes more than a bricasti. I would sell every piece of gea I had (except the perfect vocal mic for your voice) to get it. No pre comp eq is worth 1/10 the real value of a bricasti. If all you did was run a little of your full mix through studio A it would have more impact than any other piece of gear you own by far. The biggest difference between a comercia and demo quality mix imo is reverb. Or space. Some of that is just the rooms they are recording in. Some of it is mic placement and proper technique. Some of it is processing. I think it's mostly intuitive and not as audible or quantifiable as ppl think. Imo the best engineers are blessed with above average spatial intelligence even though they are not fully conscience of the ways they are affecting the tracks. In other words they can't actually hear the reflections or see them in their minds but they are intuitively able to construct the tracks and fit them in the same space and make them sound whole. it is that "glue" that everybody is chasing. For example. Imagine going to a concert and seeing a band. All those reflections bouncing all over the place. Now imagine the guitar had no reflections. Everything would be bouncing off the walls except the guitars. Your brain would pick up on that instantly and you'd think you were in the matrix bc it's physically impossible for that to happen. This is what happens when you listen to a poor mix. Your brain picks up on it instantly. It knows these sounds are not coming from the same space. it sounds matrix. That's why in my opinion if you're gonna make a demo quality recording for promo or whatever reason you're better off setting up a couple room Mics and recording live. It will sound better than poorly mixed and you'll get more leeway from the listener. Every honest amateur will admit what they struggle with the most is reverb. They can't get it to gel with the source track. That is why I believe the bricasti is the most important piece of gear you'll ever buy in today's low budget world I don't see how you can get by without one unless you're recording/mixing tracks with naturally stellar ambience. Ppl always say "well how did they make all those hit records before the bricasti," and the answer is of course BIG BIG brains with BIG BIG budgets in BIG BIG rooms recording BIG BIG talent. If you ain't got any of that you're gonna have to fake it. The easiest way (only way imo) is with the bricasti. OK, I'll bite. So if it's all about putting the instruments in the 'same' space, how come you can't do that using sends ..to the same conventional reverbs/plugs? What does Bricasti do that is unique? It's not really about putting them in the same space as much as it is about instruments sounding out of place. When that guitar has no reflections it sounds isolated. Your brain can't stop noticing it. In poor mixes. Everything sounds out of place. Of course that same effect can be used to your benefit like in voice over work. The dead space separates it from the background ambience. There was an instructional video I saw. I can't remember who it was but he went down the list of all the top engineers he'd worked with and he said in all his 30-40 years he's never seen anyone record a vocal in a small isolation booth. That vocals needed room to breathe and he could always tell when someone recorded a vocal using one of those gobos bc he could never get it to sit right in the mix without any natural ambience. It's also about tone bc the environment has so much impact on the tone. Snare is the best example of this. You hear a snare sound you love so you look it up and find out it was a black beauty. So you go out an get a black beauty and get it home and it sounds nothing like the recording. The reason is. You don't really like the snare you like the way the snare sounded in that particular room. In your living room. Not so much. In a tin shed maybe even less. Under water? Who knows? I remember reading about qotsa "no one knows" drum sound and how they couldn't get the sound they wanted in one high end studio so they packed up the same exact drums and moved to another until they found it. That's how great recordings are produced. But bedroom producers/low budget independent artists don't have the luxury of chasing the sound. They are stuck with what they've got. That's why the bricasti is so important. It gives you the ability to move out beyond your own environment in to virtual space. I'm not saying it's impossible with plugins I'm saying most of us don't have the ability to do it with plugins. They are both creating virtual environments. The bricasti is like 3DCG. It's as real as it can get right now and It takes a lot of computing power to get there. Plugins are like cartoons.
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Post by porkyman on Jun 3, 2017 19:44:54 GMT -6
I just wanna chime in as an amateur speaking to the other amateurs that might be out there. Imo nothing will improve your mixes more than a bricasti. I would sell every piece of gea I had (except the perfect vocal mic for your voice) to get it. No pre comp eq is worth 1/10 the real value of a bricasti. If all you did was run a little of your full mix through studio A it would have more impact than any other piece of gear you own by far.
The biggest difference between a comercia and demo quality mix imo is reverb. Or space. Some of that is just the rooms they are recording in. Some of it is mic placement and proper technique. Some of it is processing.
I think it's mostly intuitive and not as audible or quantifiable as ppl think. Imo the best engineers are blessed with above average spatial intelligence even though they are not fully conscience of the ways they are affecting the tracks. In other words they can't actually hear the reflections or see them in their minds but they are intuitively able to construct the tracks and fit them in the same space and make them sound whole. it is that "glue" that everybody is chasing.
For example. Imagine going to a concert and seeing a band. All those reflections bouncing all over the place. Now imagine the guitar had no reflections. Everything would be bouncing off the walls except the guitars. Your brain would pick up on that instantly and you'd think you were in the matrix bc it's physically impossible for that to happen. This is what happens when you listen to a poor mix. Your brain picks up on it instantly. It knows these sounds are not coming from the same space. it sounds matrix. That's why in my opinion if you're gonna make a demo quality recording for promo or whatever reason you're better off setting up a couple room Mics and recording live. It will sound better than poorly mixed and you'll get more leeway from the listener.
Every honest amateur will admit what they struggle with the most is reverb. They can't get it to gel with the source track. That is why I believe the bricasti is the most important piece of gear you'll ever buy
in today's low budget world I don't see how you can get by without one unless you're recording/mixing tracks with naturally stellar ambience. Ppl always say "well how did they make all those hit records before the bricasti," and the answer is of course BIG BIG brains with BIG BIG budgets in BIG BIG rooms recording BIG BIG talent. If you ain't got any of that you're gonna have to fake it. The easiest way (only way imo) is with the bricasti.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 22, 2017 10:42:16 GMT -6
I'm actually considering going down to 48k to increase performance, add more I/O, and reduce hd space. Was curious what sample rates others were using. I'm at a crossroad where I can't add anymore outs without going down or doing a massive overhaul of my computer and interface. I wonder what DrBill is using. I know he's using more and hd inserts.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 11, 2017 13:50:52 GMT -6
Ditto everything Bill said. Used to be the best place in the world for riding. Last time I went to Glamis I got fined for no light. Even though I was almost back to camp and it wasn't fully dark yet. Last time I went to the desert I got fined for no spark arrester. Wasn't aware that dirt and cactus were flammable. It was getting really overcrowded and dangerous too. Eventually I just stopped going.
People have lost their minds here. It's like the crash never happened. I bought my house in a bumb infested neighborhood for 150k I just sold it for 815k and there are more bumbs than ever. They actually started pitching tents on the sidewalks and the lapd aren't allowed to do anything bc of the crazy laws here. The next neighborhood over is crazy ghetto I don't even drive through it and the houses are getting into the 4's. Compton is in the 3's. I seriously can't even comprehend it it is so insane. The neighborhood I grew up in is having trouble filling their schools bc no young couples can afford to live there anymore and the ones that can send their kids private. And these are the same little 2000 soft middle class homes selling in the millions. It has to crash again. There's just no way these houses are worth what they're paying for them.
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Post by porkyman on Mar 11, 2017 12:56:33 GMT -6
Here's my little hole in the wall. I just installed the DIY cube speakers and I'm really excited about them right now. Same piece of wood was used to make the top of the desk. Underneath the speaker stack are a couple of Mouser catalogs with burlap sewn around them, very effective and cheap monitor decouplers. You must not have any earthquakes stacking your monitors like that. I'm afraid to put mine on 80lb stands.
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Post by porkyman on Jan 22, 2017 6:17:52 GMT -6
Sold. Thanks
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Post by porkyman on Dec 15, 2016 12:13:56 GMT -6
I've had two major problems. 1. You can't change sample rates. Just don't even try. It's not worth the pain. 2. Updating the drivers fucked up my system so bad I had to wipe my drive and clean install. It might be better now but I refuse to update again. 2.5 the routing matrix is horrible. PT 12 win 7.
When I went through the update fiasco I was so pissed all I did for a week straight was search for something to replace it but I came up empty. There's just nothing that comes close in terms of price/quality/feature ratio.
Once you come to terms with its faults you just chug along and don't even worry about it. I'll also add that I've had several other interfaces audient, spl, rme, avid, etc. and all of them had there own issues so you just gotta deal with them.
I'm curious about the Rme Madi combo above. Does this mean you use rme drivers with any ad/da you want. That is the dream setup.
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