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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 13, 2020 7:57:43 GMT -6
19 million people living in an area you can walk across in 4.5 hours. So to that point, in my state of North Carolina, only 4500 cases state wide, 4416 of which have fully recovered and more will recover soon. And it would take someone 6 months to walk from end to end. 10.5 million people live in my state. This Covid 19 virus is NOT a one size fits all situation. We can't cripple an entire economy based on metrics taken from high population urban centers. Obviously, these are the ones who need the most help and we are doing that. But the US economy is not solely based around these areas. The urban centers need to be closed for as long as the numbers of cases allow, but my state does NOT need to be shut down IMO. And neither do many others.
If a person feels nervous about doing business during this, I understand. But again, it's not one size fits all. What NYC is going through should not be imposed on everyone. We don't live on top of each other in most of the country. Much of our economy can start up again right now and be no less the safer.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 11, 2020 9:59:55 GMT -6
All good here in Carolina. Still working everyday since Interstate construction is considered essential. Not much has changed for me but my wife teaches online now which is way different. I'm wondering if this hiatus is going to change things even after we reopen. I have colleagues in my company who were at risk with previous medical conditions etc who are working from home successfully. We as musicians have been working from home regularly for years. I'm not sure things will ever go back to how they were completely. I'm a project manager so I have to be on the jobsite to check progress and for field meeting occasionally, but even I can work from home without issues. Most of my work is done on a computer anyway. Strange times we are living in. God bless everyone here. Health and happiness to you all.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 2, 2020 11:25:36 GMT -6
I've got some good tracking phones (closed back). I'm looking for mixing phones right now.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 2, 2020 7:17:10 GMT -6
If you have a preamp, like a 1073, with input trim and an output attenuator, its good practice to leave the output atten at unity (all the way up), set the input trim till you reach your desired level into the DAW, and use the output atten to dial or fine tune the level if you still need to. BUT, if you want to push the preamp into blishful distortion, you keep pushing the input trim up till you hear the preamp breakup in a pleasing way, and keep pulling the output trim down to compensate. I usually keep my peaks between -12 and -6. At 24bit the only danger in recording too hot is clipping your converters, usually with fast transients (like drums) or really dynamic sources (like some vocalists). Even then, just because the red light hits intermittently doesn't necessarily mean you've yet clipped your converters. This ^^^^
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 2, 2020 7:11:15 GMT -6
After researching the forums last year I went with HD600’s and a Little Labs Monotor. The frequency balance seems close enough to my monitors. I think I could mix with them if I had to. If I had more money I would probably add some Audeze’s but I’m too poor right now. I was looking at the Audeze's. Those look awesome.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 2, 2020 6:59:06 GMT -6
After all the preamp talk yesterday about how mi-nute the differnce they make, this is what it comes down too lol 😂 ordered a 73 myself to test the eq one instead of dual pre version 😬 I’ve said over and over here as many will attest...I have a weak spot for Helios...it’s irrational. Same with me on the 1081. I used one for a week once and my life hasn't been the same since lol.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 1, 2020 17:59:57 GMT -6
After all my talk about pres being overrated. I’m really fighting gas for a new pre. I'll sell you one.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Apr 1, 2020 17:53:16 GMT -6
I'm convinced on the value of monitoring with quality headphones. It takes variables out of the equation. I record and mix alone and have no one to impress with the gear I own or use. I have some really good monitors and use them, but I swear I get better results with mid grade headphones (200-500 dollar range).
I'm wanting to go full bore on this. What do you guys consider monitoring grade phones? There's a lot of options and I have a few models in mind per my research, but wanted to pick the brains of the group.
Any practical experience with the top models out there? Dollar amount doesn't matter. I'm looking for the best option.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 31, 2020 15:43:51 GMT -6
It brings that special warm mojo. Vintage vibe. A treasure trove of velvety cream. Just kidding. I've never heard one. Chad Speaking of which, my wife seems to want to do this every time she hears Robert Plant (Kashmir) around 2:18. Wasn't that song recorded on a Helios?
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 31, 2020 15:23:58 GMT -6
I really think it’s about the output transformers. This won’t be a popular opinion - but my favorite Neve clone is the Stam with the Sowter transformer. In fact, when I think of all the pres I have been fond of in the past, they’ve used Sowter input or output. Still haven’t tried the Great River (maybe years ago), but I bet I’d really like it. I agree with you 100% on the Sowters. Never heard one I didn't like.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 31, 2020 5:51:02 GMT -6
I'm using a 42" flat screen tv. Those things are so cheap these days it's hard not to. Go big or go home😁 Well, it's more about me being blind these days, Eric. I can't see those little screens anymore!
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 30, 2020 11:47:56 GMT -6
you guys that are running minis......what are you using for screens... I really like my iMac 27" screen..... if I go mini, what should i look for ... or avoid as far as a screen goes... Cheers Wiz I'm using a 42" flat screen tv. Those things are so cheap these days it's hard not to.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 30, 2020 11:44:33 GMT -6
I've got one of their ribbon mics that I like a lot. I tried one of their La3a clones once and wasn't impressed.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 24, 2020 12:25:36 GMT -6
Ole cowpoke here is always looking for vintage Neumann mics at bargain basement prices. Any of you guys see them floating around cheap let me know. They are like gold and silver. Never go down in value nor ever will. Prices may, but they'll always come back up with a bullet.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 24, 2020 12:18:34 GMT -6
I don't need one, but for me it definitely helps keep the bass in perspective and the mids easier to hear. Dynaudio BM6a pair and a BM9s. But I'm in a barn, so my hearing is obviously fvcked up. Ha. But it's a cool barn. I've been in it.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 16, 2020 7:33:39 GMT -6
Wonder how many Chinese/Japanese components where used in this guys gear in his basement? I'm guessing quite a few.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 16, 2020 7:21:53 GMT -6
I don't mind gear that's made in China. There's good and bad no matter where something is made I think. But I'd say with the vast amount of information available at everyone's fingertips via the internet, we'd be hard pressed to find any modern piece of gear that wouldn't be usable. The cost vs. quality thing has nearly done a 180 since I started tinkering with this stuff in 1995. Back then, usable gear was simply out of reach for the masses. That's why everyone still went to studios even though we tinkered at home.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 16, 2020 5:18:11 GMT -6
Sounds great, Wiz. The Apollo x8 is plenty good enough to make great music. Congrats on the new interface!
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 7, 2020 14:00:17 GMT -6
All sources are badly skewed. Not "some". This nation has never been more divided. Not even during the civil war. But it will all come out alright. There's a plan to fix everything. Few will understand what I just wrote but some will. Except thst it's not true, not all sources are skewed. It's possible to determine truth if one is good at fact checking and is willing to put in the work.
It also helps it one knows and understands history. If you kow anything abouty the fall of the (democratic, small "d") Weimar Republic in '30s Germany you'll have a pretty accurate playbook for what's been going on in the US for the last few years. It's actually pretty chilling to draw the parallels.
Yes, absolutely. It would help if there were people in the Federal Government who had a bit of compassion.
You and I are the Federal Government. They work for us. We can fire them every 2 years in the house, and every 4 years in the senate if we choose. Only half of the US electorate casts a vote. 50.3 percent in 2018, 36.7 percent of eligible voters in 2014. But I'd venture a guess that 99.9 percent likes to bitch about the current state of affairs. Half the country is too lazy to even vote. I'd say if you don't care enough to take 15 minutes to vote, not much hope for that person making a difference except for hot air on the internet.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 7, 2020 12:52:55 GMT -6
He said there was no coverage. That wasn’t true. Well, it pretty much depends on what your"sources" are. Some "sources" are badly skewed/have agendas and therefore don't report everything, or don't report fairly.
It's pretty sad.
All sources are badly skewed. Not "some". This nation has never been more divided. Not even during the civil war. But it will all come out alright. There's a plan to fix everything. Few will understand what I just wrote but some will. Praying for Nashville victims and their families (of every color). So sad.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 3, 2020 17:15:07 GMT -6
I did notice today that Ozone 9’s RMS metering was off pretty badly. I assume louder than the usual Ozone 8?
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Mar 2, 2020 17:48:48 GMT -6
The ones and zeros are data and error correction works very well. The problem is that the clock is good ol' analog with all of its quirks. SPDIF optical transceivers are notorious clock jitter generators that can swamp a lot of common reclocking methods. Moving a plastic optical cable can actually move the image around especially with older ICs. Where optical can help is by eliminating ground loops. So you would be an advocate for ADAT (lightpipe) over SPIDF? Just trying to learn.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Feb 28, 2020 17:29:04 GMT -6
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm pretty sure I am because I know nothing about digital engineering), but I thought digital was all or nothing. Either you have a signal or you don't. The threshold is set to an over/under correct? Not like a sine wave that has fluctuations in amplitude? What happens is that the digital protocol is made up of states of 1 or 0 that represent each bit, or can represent groups of bits to make the data more compact. The problem is that the transition between the physical world and digital world can cause errors in the data. Let's take a common issue, such as a cable that has a big crack through the fiber. The crack could refract or reflect a significant portion of the signal back to the end of the cable at the transmitter side. The end of the cable also had a surface that can reflect the signal back again, causing a duplicate, but time delayed version of the signal to reach the receiver slightly after the original signal. The receiver is designed to see a transition between light and no light. The receivers don't necessarily care about the brightness as long as it's bright enough to detect cleanly. The issue is that it can't differentiate between the edge of one bit, and the edge of a slightly delayed copy of the signal, and it will register multiple triggers where there should only be one. This is common in fiber optics but probably less so at such short lengths and low speeds as spdif and ADAT, but it's just one example of how a common problem might cause poor performance but not destroy the signal entirely. I don't completely understand all of what you wrote, but this seems the best explanation I've ever had. Thanks.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Feb 27, 2020 18:26:20 GMT -6
I totally get why they’re finicky and prone to breakage. I don’t get why a given cable could cause a stream of 1s and 0s to be altered in such a way as to become a different stream of 1s and 0s that sounds different. I would speculate that if enough 1s and 0s are dropped there would be some kind of signal degradation that would be audible- distortion, loss of frequency response, etc. Significant loss may result in a collapse of the stereo field similar to what happens with low-rez mp3s. Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm pretty sure I am because I know nothing about digital engineering), but I thought digital was all or nothing. Either you have a signal or you don't. The threshold is set to an over/under correct? Not like a sine wave that has fluctuations in amplitude?
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Feb 25, 2020 17:26:00 GMT -6
Bill I swear I liked mine just as good if not better than after Shannon modded the cap. I found it very usable out of the box and wished I still had it, unmodded btw. That mic was wonderful on female vocals and even male with some eq.
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