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Tonex
Mar 12, 2023 4:38:47 GMT -6
Post by BenjaminAshlin on Mar 12, 2023 4:38:47 GMT -6
Maybe it’s just me…but I don’t really think this sounds very good. You're not wrong. But with a profiler you really need to compare it to the amp thats being profiled. There are some good comparisons with the tonex on youtube, and for sure it is more accurate that the kemper. But the kemper doesn't really capture the mids and the pick attack correctly.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Mar 12, 2023 4:35:11 GMT -6
Beesneez don't use a standard chinese PSU, it's custom. You would need to open it up and check the wiring compared to a new microphone.
I built a 251 style microphone using a spare beesneez PSU.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Mar 12, 2023 4:30:31 GMT -6
I use a 43 inch 4k monitor. It would recommend 32-40 inch 4k for your new studio.
I haven't found ultrawides to be very useful in the studio due to the need for vertical real estate. If you already use an ultrawide then fair play, but if you haven't used one in the studio try before you buy. They are very good for multi document use or excel use.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Mar 4, 2023 3:26:54 GMT -6
I let loose on with the drill on my Martin the day I got it. Although I do play live.
Nice guitar congrats.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Mar 2, 2023 3:32:20 GMT -6
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jan 16, 2023 3:20:58 GMT -6
Beautiful work. Its nice to see people making the full microphone including the body. I see my favorite knipex side cutters on your FB too..
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EZ Bass
Dec 4, 2022 16:10:44 GMT -6
Post by BenjaminAshlin on Dec 4, 2022 16:10:44 GMT -6
With EZ bass you can also play your bass lines on a guitar and drag them in. I have been doing this while in a temporary recording situation and don't have a bass with me. It works really well. The new progressive EBX sounds really good. www.toontrack.com/product/progressive-metal-ebx/
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Nov 20, 2022 21:37:55 GMT -6
If you can't get the spinner performing the way it should, then I'd skip the SSD and go directly to an M.2 enclosure. SATA HDD ~160MB/s SATA SSD ~600MB/s NVME SSD +3500MB/s I would never entertain using an HDD unless it is for a NAS.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Nov 20, 2022 21:32:57 GMT -6
So, when I got the Mac Studio I bought an OWC 7200 RPM drive and, to be blunt, I FUCKING HATE IT. I either get random ticks, or speed failures. I had planned to get an SSD but was advised that I didn't need to spend the money. Now I wish I had. I really don't want another OWC piece. So, what I want is a fast 2TB SSD drive. I don't have sample libraries, I just record musicians, wave files at 24bit/88.2 The drive I bought with my old computer just hummed along and never gave me any problems, and still works great even with the new Mac and newer PT. Hit me with suggestions. What do you like and why? A 7200 RPM drive has no place on a new production machine unless it is as part of a NAS or as backup.. Whoever advised you is living in the 2000s...... Any M.2 should be 10-20x faster than your current HDD. Sandisk have some cheaper 2tb usbc drives
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Nov 9, 2022 5:37:33 GMT -6
looks very nice and compact. But only 1 amp seems a tad on the light side maybe?? And it being a portable unit mainly, no handle? VPR spec is 140-150mA i think? A tube pre might draw up to 250mA.... Neve pres are about 75mA.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Oct 22, 2022 5:05:47 GMT -6
I kind of live at two extremes. Blistering full gain distortion, think Soil Works’ Stabbing the Drama or Killswitch’s The End of HeartAche. Then on the other end I want fender-ish cleans with tons of delay and reverb ala Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed, Mogwai etc. Just epic sound tracky stuff. Ahh Stabbing the Drama, classic. I enjoyed the plug and play aspect of the Kemper. The distortion did have a similar feel/quality across multiple amps though. I feel your pain with the Axefx though.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Oct 10, 2022 23:01:19 GMT -6
I notice you slander our friends at Heiserman (although not by name - see highlighted text). Not cool.
You should not spread generalisations about other builders without actually KNOWING where their capsules are from. Heiserman are not the only ones.
Build on your strengths, don't slag the competition in a general sense.
Its pretty obvious he's not referencing Heiserman as H47 is double the price. Other manufacurers are using Chinese based capsules and that's pretty well known.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Sept 13, 2022 0:50:22 GMT -6
1. Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate 2. Sound Radix Drum Leveler 3. Cubase 12 Are all unmatched for soulless robot metal. You don’t even need to pay attention to what the first two sound like for your plastic drums. Just push the sliders and compression knob up and then audio to midi, extract midi, Trigger, or whether. Do your plastic drums in Cubase 12. I don’t care what daw you use or believe to be better or more professional. Cubase 12 has phase accurate group warping. Just bounce them out and import them into whatever you want when you’re done. Don’t waste your own time and life. There's no such thing as phase accurate group warping, at least not yet. I've tried them all, and I've found problems with all of them. Elastic Audio in PT is certainly amongst the worst, but none of them are perfect. If you want truly phase accurate drum editing, you gotta slice and move, a la Beat Detective. Also, and this is critically important, ESPECIALLY for double kick metal, at least 50% of the drum editing job is tracking down flams between hands and feet, and left hand and right hand. Time stretching -- even when it eventually reaches that mythical true phase accuracy -- will not only not address this, it will cause additional headache and slop. As for Oxford Gate's MIDI extract: it's good, but not nearly as good as DRT. Not even close. The only DRT competitor I've found is the MIDI extract in Superior Drummer 3. I actually think SD 3's is better, but it's a more cumbersome workflow (esp for those of us who've been using DRT for a million years). Last, but certainly not least: drum levelers simply don't work in metal. I mean...they'll turn your drummer's wimpy hits up, but it'll still just sound like a wimpy hit, except louder. Drums get brighter when hit harder. They compress a bit. Etc. Turning them up just highlights their wimpiness, not to mention it introduces all sorts of bleed issues. Look, I get that robot metal is ripe for criticism, and I am certainly prone to criticizing it. But it's really really highly specialized work, and if you don't know the ins and outs, I respectfully submit that you're going to inadvertently dole out some really bad/unhelpful advice. I have a feeling Dan knows a thing or two about producing metal...... Cubase is very accurate for Audio -> Midi. The slip editing in Cubase is the best way to edit metal drums for that on the grid robot sound. The latest quantize works pretty well too. A lot better than that terrible BD workflow. I have a full set of Ddrum triggers, but only trigger the snare and have an electronic kick pad going straight into a preamp. A kick pad like the KD-10 is pretty common place when recording metal drums. Its hard to get a tight mix with all that double kick in the rooms and OH.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Sept 12, 2022 0:04:44 GMT -6
Very cool rendition of disarm.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Aug 17, 2022 3:39:47 GMT -6
DBX 160 VU for Vocals??
You could.... but I don't.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Aug 14, 2022 4:15:36 GMT -6
The new ones are fairly different with faster fT. ON are probably the best of the current selection. ST has a smaller die size......which may not matter in this situation as they are not really being driven hard. I can't remember which brand i used on my ez1290s but I do have some old motorollas somewhere. Would this one be better than ST or ON? www.zenproaudio.com/motorola-2n3055-nos-output-transistorI'm not sure it will make much difference. As i said i do have some NOS ones somewhere but used some from RS in my builds. I haven't felt the need to try out the NOS ones. I would buy a GAP and do some mods if you feel the need.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Aug 12, 2022 5:05:51 GMT -6
Thanks! But I already got a GAP 73 Premier Now I'm debating whether it's worth it to upgrade the 2N3055 transistor to a Motorola NOS one. There's debate as to how much it influences the sound, and some people say that it is more important than the transformers themselves (?) I've never heard that before. I would think a proper biasing of the 3055 would matter more to the tone than the part used. I certainly wouldn't expect the transistor to matter more than the transformers! But, I think the design itself as a whole is where the tone lies and there isn't a single part that dictates the majority of the vintage neve sound. The new ones are fairly different with faster fT. ON are probably the best of the current selection. ST has a smaller die size......which may not matter in this situation as they are not really being driven hard. I can't remember which brand i used on my ez1290s but I do have some old motorollas somewhere.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Aug 7, 2022 21:15:39 GMT -6
I normally just move the SSD from one computer to another. Reinstall mobo drivers and reauthorize (if required). Have done 2 mobo & CPU upgrades like that in the last few years.
(Windows default drivers are pretty good nowadays so you shouldn't get stuck not being able to boot into windows or anything like that.)
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Aug 2, 2022 22:26:34 GMT -6
Cubase if you like weird window management and German UI design. Studio one if you have a thing for dragging and dropping. Logic if you like flashy things with form over function. Protools if you think a DAW should be a tape machine (and don't like slip editing). Reaper if you'd like the right click menu to have every available option on the planet. Digital Performer if you like.... got it free with a Motu interface. Luna if you need a fully fledged DAW in a couple of years. SAW if you want that windows 95 vibe. Fruity loops if you're fruit loops. Harrison Mixbus if you want a dressed up Linux daw.
So many, pick your poison.....
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 3, 2022 17:14:31 GMT -6
I would tackle some of these suggestions before taking on a Tube mic. They are fiddly to make and high voltages tend to hurt.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 2, 2022 1:48:00 GMT -6
I have a Beeznees M7 in an ef12 u47 mic and a K67 in a fet tx coupled mic. Both are great.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 28, 2022 19:46:47 GMT -6
I'm going to own up to having bought into some of those online mixing classes like URM/Nail the Mix. I figure what the hell, it's great to see others work, especially if I like the tunes they worked on. I gotta say, I learned a lot for sure. Biggest thing was being able to hear the raw tracks and the progression of how they change as the mix is built. Tracks were a lot less "exciting" and a lot more "even" than ones I track, which explains why I always have trouble getting a mix together with my tracks without tons of carving and why I have a lot easier time working with other's supplied tracks. Overall everything was much more mid-centric and it took a while to get used to it. Yeah consistency on the tracks to the point they are dull but the final product is great.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 28, 2022 17:07:03 GMT -6
I don't know why I love the PSP42 so much. Its GUI is ridiculously tiny in 2022. Maybe I should replace it with something else, as I have to fire up two instances in Reaper to get different L and R delays, but I haven't found anything quite like it. I can't get Valhalla Delay to sound like it. I think its regular price of 199 is worth it. But if there's a $20-40 sale, get it immediately. Didn't they update the GUI this year to be scalable? Edit: Just realized it was only some plugins that got the update.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 27, 2022 19:23:02 GMT -6
I was able to get around my tracking with Amplitube issue... I simply set up the track to record in LUNA, without any plugs, so I am just recording the DI signal from the channel 1 Hi Z input, mute that channel. Open Amplitube 5 Standalone, set its input to Apollo 8 Hi Z 1, and its output to Apollo MON 1 and MON 2... and then go back to Luna and hit record... worked like a charm. cheers Wiz How can a DAW not do low latency with native plugins?
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 6, 2022 19:25:29 GMT -6
Higher single core speed? Bit of an increase A-Core Frequency 3.40 GHz 3.20 GHz B-Core Frequency 2.20 GHz 2.06 GHz
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