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Post by NoFilterChuck on Apr 13, 2018 11:51:13 GMT -6
Maybe things are a bit differtent now with these newfangled electronic communications, but when I was running the service departments in music stores we didn't have digital cameras and email. And such things didn't exist when the law was written, either. you aren't declaring the warranty is void. the company is. You're just the repair guy following the directions of the Company who made the gear. You don't work for the Roland, for example. you work for John's Electronics Repair and are an authorized repair center for Roland. And Roland said "We aren't going to cover that repair under warranty".
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Apr 12, 2018 15:19:37 GMT -6
What's preventing you from saying "I'm not going to fix that"? It's no different from getting asked to play your instrument on a song and they send it to you to check out first, you give it a listen, and you decide you don't want to play on it, so you tell them "thanks, but i'm not able to work on this at this time".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't warranty repairs need to be approved by the Company who issued the warranty BEFORE the repair is carried out? i.e. customer drops off their broken product to your shop, you hit up Roland or whoever that made it with pictures and a description, they hit you back with "yeah, no. we're not gonna cover that", and you pass it back to the customer with "sorry, Roland won't cover this under their warranty." That has been my experience every time I had to bring some gear in for warranty repair.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 12, 2018 1:47:15 GMT -6
How do you feel about Izotope's latest plugins, then? that stuff is basically audio AI
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 11, 2018 7:34:12 GMT -6
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 7, 2018 0:52:28 GMT -6
the guy you really want is @mbizz76 on instagram.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 2, 2018 15:14:15 GMT -6
I need to invite the Dangerous guys to come in here and explain exactly what this is doing. It's not doing anything at all to the audio when you engage that button, it's simply telling the host there are no overs..... how it does, I don't know, I just assumed that it was done in the data stream somehow. It's not soft clipping, in that when you press the button it's not telling the converter to do anything besides say "i'm not clipping" regardless if it is. That has to be in the communication from the converter to the host somehow. probably a software-based limiter built into the audio driver that is delivering PCM samples to the operating system. think about it. the Host doesn't have custom handlers for every audio device out there. they just open the device via the Operating System-provided API, and process the audio as 24 or 32bit PCM data. maybe they upsample it to 48 or 64bit before sending it to the desired hardware output. So, there's absolutely no way for their box to "tell the host there are no overs". If that were the case, EVERY daw developer would have released a software update when this converter was released, and there would be comments in the release notes saying "added support for Dangerous Music Convert AD+"
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Mar 2, 2018 0:42:39 GMT -6
yup, screenflow is where it's at. it can capture all 16 channels from my symphony's inputs simultaneously, as well as the stereo audio output from Logic. basically, whatever audio the computer is sending to the symphony's driver, it captures it as a stereo stream. It's well worth the price.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Feb 28, 2018 17:27:50 GMT -6
no idea. you'd have to open up the unit and trace the circuit to see. the OVFL pin is on the Cirrus Logic A/D chip. I have no idea if Dangerous uses those chips.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Feb 27, 2018 23:30:27 GMT -6
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Feb 15, 2018 6:44:20 GMT -6
Introduced in 1992 through Apogee’s AD-500, soft limit helps prevent digital clipping while giving you that analog warmth that everyone loves. This superior analog design prevents the digital clipping that causes distortion by instantaneously rounding off transient peaks before they hit the analog-to-digital converter while giving it a more analog-like saturation. To put it simply, it stops the clipping before it gets to your AD converter. www.apogeedigital.com/blog/how-soft-limit-can-save-you
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Feb 15, 2018 5:54:14 GMT -6
y'all forgot about Apogee's SoftLimit? How long has that been around?
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jan 29, 2018 12:17:10 GMT -6
I stopped by their booth and picked their brain about it. ESS released a new chip that this card takes advantage of. ESS has told them that they(apogee) get better specs out of their circuits than ESS does on their chip demo boards. I'm not sure if that's saying anything, tho.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 24, 2017 5:54:52 GMT -6
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 23, 2017 23:33:26 GMT -6
dogears Why do you have a problem with the idea that health care should be a human right, not a privilege? Are you heavily invested in, or work for, your local private hospital? Your posts come across like your life creed is "everyone for themselves, except for my offspring and spouse"...
Also, when has greed ever resulted in lower prices? be specific...
Also, since you're in Texas, if your place got messed up by the hurricanes, and you got some FEMA aid or whatever aid they're using to help people, you might want to look into where that aid gets its funding.. Maybe it's from the federal taxes that everyone pays?
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 23, 2017 12:30:10 GMT -6
Wall Street is controlled more by the local NYC city council than the Federal Regulations regarding banking??
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 23, 2017 1:54:57 GMT -6
Others should chime in on this, but I've been using several large APC battery backups for all of my computers, interfaces and NAS devices. The surge protection is good and they provide the additional benefit of switching over to battery in low-voltage (brownout) situations. We learned our lesson here a few years back when a bolt of lightning blew a tree right out of the ground about a hundred meters from the house. Even with generic $50 surge-protectors, everybody in the neighborhood got new TVs shortly after. I used to use one of those UPS backups, but it had a buzz and I couldn't have it in the same room as my studio. Do they have new silent ones now?
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 23, 2017 1:43:04 GMT -6
that Apogee ONE works with iOS, so he can use GarageBand on iOS if he needs a free editing tool that is super powerful. Assuming he has iOS.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 22, 2017 23:40:46 GMT -6
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 22, 2017 23:37:05 GMT -6
Oh - and his hypothetical wife should get a job before expecting the rest of us, collectively, to pay for her kid to go see the doc. My wife works and raises two kids. My mom worked and raised us kids. She can too. Is it wrong for me to hope that none of any tax dollars I pay end up benefitting you directly via public services like fire, police, food stamps, health care subsidies etc..? Because you or your kids could and should obviously get a job to support yourself, right? God forbid anything happen to you or your family such that your wife can't work and raise those 2 kids. Where's the eye roll emoji. you know, I miss living in New York City. I didn't use any of the social programs they have for low-income people even tho I definitely qualified (food stamps, health care subsidies, subway/bus stipends for kids to get to school) but I'm glad they were there for those that needed them. EVEN IF THEY DID GET A JOB and it still wasn't enough. This is 'murica, I should have some kind of choice where my money goes, right?
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 22, 2017 23:18:47 GMT -6
yeah, that Eventide Elevate plugin looks pretty bananas. I don't understand the whole "Mel" scale being used for the filters, same with what gets used on their Equivocate plugin. Seems gimmicky, but it does work really well. no color or anything, just effective equalization.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 22, 2017 16:15:26 GMT -6
I don’t know much about it, to be honest. Certainly not enough to form a coherent opinion. I do think our entire medical insturance system is a massive mess, though. So we got that going for us. So, all those people who make between $16,040 and say $60,000 (just guessing). as an example, let's pretend the 60K earner has a non-working wife, 2 kids age 11 and 13 and a before-tax take-home pay of ~$2300 every 2 weeks. their take-home pay is about $44,600 or ~$1700 every 2 weeks. Their job offers a health/vision/dental plan that is gonna cost them $850/mo because they have 3 dependents, and their deductible is pretty high, at $2500/member or $10000 annually. They could pay more and get a lower deductible, but that would cost them 1100/mo and lower their deductible to 7500 annually or 1875/member. 850/mo turns into $392 per paycheck, so now their takehome pay is $1308 every 2 weeks or $34,400 annually after tax. Roughly 2866/mo www.taxformcalculator.com/tax/60000.htmlLet's start adding up the cost of living expenses, monthly. We'll assume that they live in a co-op building in a fairly large city with a decent subway system, so they don't need to own a car. They have a mortgage on their 2-br apartment in the co-op building. Cellphone: $160/mo (tmobile's family plan @ 40/line because the kids are old enough). $2706 remains in the monthly budget Electric bill: $66/mo. $2640 remains in monthly budget Cooking gas bill: $40/mo they cook a lot for 4 people because getting take out all the time is expensive. $2600 remains in the monthly budget. Internet: $50/mo $2550 remains in the monthly budget Co-Op management fee: $400/mo. Covers maintenance, heat, water, and a parking space which they don't use for the building. Does not include property taxes or mortgage interest. $2100 remains in the monthly budget. Groceries: $200/week which is considered low-cost by the USDA. 10400 annually. 866 monthly. $1234 remains in the monthly budget. Transit: $116/mo (they live near the subway system which has stations near their job). $1118 remains in the monthly budget. HSA: the job offers to match employee contributions at 50% so they chip in $50/paycheck or 1300/annually. $1009 remains in the monthly budget They still have to pay their mortgage and property taxes. clothing, etc hasn't been accounted for either. If they give up their company's health plan, they'll have an extra 425/mo in the coffers
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 21, 2017 21:46:12 GMT -6
what do we win if we own the one that is most authentic?
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 21, 2017 21:27:04 GMT -6
Hey noah shain NoFilterChuck Do I really need Ozone AND Neutron? Need to watch some videos but they seem to be doing similar things? Honestly, something like this might be a better betterizer for me than a $2000 compressor. Iono man. You could spend that 2k on a room remodel and it would be waaaaay better than anything else, or you could spend 2k on a used dirt bike (rad) and have a good ol time every weekend... Choices...
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 21, 2017 19:41:38 GMT -6
no, it's different than freeze. it's like in ProTools when you use AudioSuite plugins. the stuff where you commit the edit to the audio file directly without being able to undo it.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Dec 21, 2017 19:39:14 GMT -6
Do you think CHIP is a bad thing?
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