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Post by yewtreemagic on Oct 10, 2022 18:08:19 GMT -6
Hi Rob, I seem to remember you being in Texas. Are you in Houston? I’d be glad to bring some of our EQs by for a demo sometime. I have my rack but am not presently set up - wrapping up an album without it at present. Don't want to change in the middle. The Seawell review was interesting. What caught my attention the most was his mention of how they bring things forward. I posted another thread about that very thing - hardware bringing immediacy. I think that is becoming a priority. Maybe a demo later will be good. Interestingly, when I tested the Fuse Audio Labs VPRE-376 plug-in (modeled on a V376 - a solid state replacement for the famous TAB/Telefunken V76), I measured a +0.5dB bell peak @ 8kHz, which would certainly brings things forward! |
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Post by RealNoob on Oct 11, 2022 13:51:49 GMT -6
Spoke with Matt at Iron Age Audio today. If you're looking for 500 series gear, i highly suggest speaking with him. I was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge of both technical and historical aspects of gear, as well as his kindness to chat and share.
He is sending me some LH95s to listen to. Looking forward to it, especially after talking about them. Already seems like a no brainer.
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Post by ericn on Oct 11, 2022 14:07:11 GMT -6
Spoke with Matt at Iron Age Audio today. If you're looking for 500 series gear, i highly suggest speaking with him. I was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge of both technical and historical aspects of gear, as well as his kindness to chat and share. He is sending me some LH95s to listen to. Looking forward to it, especially after talking about them. Already seems like a no brainer. Rob The only thing I’m going to bring to the party is if you want to use it for 2ch, you want a switch based gain and frequency selection. Otherwise your never going to match ch and the soundstage gets funky. Matt knows his stuff. |
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Post by RealNoob on Oct 11, 2022 14:26:05 GMT -6
Spoke with Matt at Iron Age Audio today. If you're looking for 500 series gear, i highly suggest speaking with him. I was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge of both technical and historical aspects of gear, as well as his kindness to chat and share. He is sending me some LH95s to listen to. Looking forward to it, especially after talking about them. Already seems like a no brainer. Rob The only thing I’m going to bring to the party is if you want to use it for 2ch, you want a switch based gain and frequency selection. Otherwise your never going to match ch and the soundstage gets funky. Matt knows his stuff. He does. We talked about that too. The LH95s are stepped |
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Post by ericn on Oct 11, 2022 15:37:37 GMT -6
Rob The only thing I’m going to bring to the party is if you want to use it for 2ch, you want a switch based gain and frequency selection. Otherwise your never going to match ch and the soundstage gets funky. Matt knows his stuff. He does. We talked about that too. The LH95s are stepped Yeah I was just talking I general towards the discussion. Don’t get me wrong many of my favorite EQ’s are completely variable, but it’s always fun if you try them stereo to run it through a FFT and see how much they don’t match. Why the other night I walked into a soundcheck for a friend, they were giving him a stereo wedge mix and it was weird and phasey. Pulled out the phone ran the FFT at line level and the guy had “matched “ the curve on 2 old KT’s but they were 3-6 dB off in places so lots of fun comb filtering as well as phase issues in general. House engineer said “ they must need service” showed him a spec sheet on the faders, he figured out a mono mix is far less problematic and downloaded AudioTools! |
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Post by Blackdawg on Oct 12, 2022 10:37:03 GMT -6
yeah there is basically 0% chance you'll be sending those back. They are great EQs
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Post by RealNoob on Oct 12, 2022 12:18:34 GMT -6
yeah there is basically 0% chance you'll be sending those back. They are great EQs ROFL! |
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Post by pessoa on Oct 22, 2022 9:08:29 GMT -6
What is the safe way to hit converters on the return??
Having landed my peaks at about -6db before going out to the hardware, I get back to the converters at -6db as well. On recording I would try to keep it around -9 to -13 I guess. The Motu828es seem to have some headroom, but who wants to scree it up with HW.
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Post by Quint on Oct 22, 2022 17:45:59 GMT -6
Spoke with Matt at Iron Age Audio today. If you're looking for 500 series gear, i highly suggest speaking with him. I was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge of both technical and historical aspects of gear, as well as his kindness to chat and share. He is sending me some LH95s to listen to. Looking forward to it, especially after talking about them. Already seems like a no brainer. Matt's a super nice guy. When my dad was sick a few years ago, he offered to meet up. I don't remember all of the details, but I believe bourbon was going to be involved, and it's not like we really knew each other or anything prior to that, other than a discussion we had been having about some opamps. It didn't end up happening, but I still never forgot how nice his offer was. Like I said, he's a super nice guy. |
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Post by matt@IAA on Oct 22, 2022 19:33:02 GMT -6
Offer still stands! Any time 👍
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Post by tahoebrian5 on Oct 22, 2022 20:31:58 GMT -6
Well jeez that just makes want to have a bourbon!
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Post by Quint on Oct 23, 2022 13:09:02 GMT -6
Offer still stands! Any time 👍 Bourbon and talk of opamps would be more fun than talking about some other more unpleasant subjects anyway.  |
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Post by jaba on May 7, 2023 12:56:55 GMT -6
Spoke with Matt at Iron Age Audio today. If you're looking for 500 series gear, i highly suggest speaking with him. I was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge of both technical and historical aspects of gear, as well as his kindness to chat and share. He is sending me some LH95s to listen to. Looking forward to it, especially after talking about them. Already seems like a no brainer. How do you get along with the LH95s? I'm on the hunt for the same thing - EQ for 2buss and tracking - so am curious. Definitely eyeing these EQs and am curious how they are on the 2buss in particular. |
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Post by sentientsound on May 8, 2023 14:28:54 GMT -6
Recently I'm wondering how a pair of Purple Lilpeqr-M and Electrodyne 511 would work together. Not a cheap option ($ and 4 slots), but could be a killer combo for smiley curve from the Purples and low-to-mid frequency broad bell work with the Electrodynes.
Both of them seem to "bigger & betterize" most any sound and would be easy to recall, quick to make decisions with, and hard to get wrong or phasey sound with.
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Post by sentientsound on May 8, 2023 14:35:24 GMT -6
Offer still stands! Any time 👍 I feel happy when I see this kind of attitude and direct interaction with customers, or just fellow audio geeks. How far away is your V25? Is it too crowded to get the gain range switch in a single slot module? Slightly OT but have you built V2s with other (not M2) opamps from your lineup? |
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Post by matt@IAA on May 8, 2023 16:01:54 GMT -6
Yeah, it wasn’t possible to fit the gain range features on it.
We have the parts on order but some are long-lead. It’ll be a couple months yet.
Yes, we have used other op amps. The flicks sound cool in them.
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Post by RealNoob on May 12, 2023 17:11:59 GMT -6
How do you get along with the LH95s? I'm on the hunt for the same thing - EQ for 2buss and tracking - so am curious. Definitely eyeing these EQs and am curious how they are on the 2buss in particular. I have them last in the chain to sweeten. The highs are smooth and transparent. The lows are big. They are very musical. Can't make them sound bad. i got them based on the review by seawell studios (member here). there are some great options for channel processing too, like hitting the highcut and still boosting the highs, same on the bottom, too crazy for mixbuss but can be cool on something individually. |
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Post by jaba on May 13, 2023 12:18:01 GMT -6
How do you get along with the LH95s? I'm on the hunt for the same thing - EQ for 2buss and tracking - so am curious. Definitely eyeing these EQs and am curious how they are on the 2buss in particular. I have them last in the chain to sweeten. The highs are smooth and transparent. The lows are big. They are very musical. Can't make them sound bad. i got them based on the review by seawell studios (member here). there are some great options for channel processing too, like hitting the highcut and still boosting the highs, same on the bottom, too crazy for mixbuss but can be cool on something individually. Nice to hear. Do you mean you find the highcut/high boost combo to be too much for the mixbus? I believe you do have them last in your mixbus chain though if I understand correctly. I'm definitely leaning towards something with character, something I can't really get ITB. I've been lucky to spend countless hours working with a great collection of classic outboard/ tape/ consoles, but at home I'm mostly ITB and the first to admit great work can be done with zero hardware. Said that, there's something special about having some analog processing on hand so thinking I'm going to fill a 500 rack with fun, mojo-oozing stuff. Seems the LH95s belong in that club and I do want to use them for mixbuss when needed. If I need a half dB of clean boost I've got plugs that can do a bang up job. When I want to mix into something bolder, I'll hit the hardware. |
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Post by RealNoob on May 16, 2023 20:22:36 GMT -6
I have them last in the chain to sweeten. The highs are smooth and transparent. The lows are big. They are very musical. Can't make them sound bad. i got them based on the review by seawell studios (member here). there are some great options for channel processing too, like hitting the highcut and still boosting the highs, same on the bottom, too crazy for mixbuss but can be cool on something individually. Nice to hear. Do you mean you find the highcut/high boost combo to be too much for the mixbus? I believe you do have them last in your mixbus chain though if I understand correctly. I'm definitely leaning towards something with character, something I can't really get ITB. I've been lucky to spend countless hours working with a great collection of classic outboard/ tape/ consoles, but at home I'm mostly ITB and the first to admit great work can be done with zero hardware. Said that, there's something special about having some analog processing on hand so thinking I'm going to fill a 500 rack with fun, mojo-oozing stuff. Seems the LH95s belong in that club and I do want to use them for mixbuss when needed. If I need a half dB of clean boost I've got plugs that can do a bang up job. When I want to mix into something bolder, I'll hit the hardware. I do have them last. i guess it could be ok but feels to crazy for me to try on master with high-cut/boost. They do have character. The comment that made me decide on them was that they bring a mix forward. I have always struggle with that solely ITB. The mix could sound good but was missing a little life. The tracks I am mixing at present are live captures on prosumer equipment. Right now, i start a mix with 2 clicks of lows, 1 click of highs and as I go along, may add or subtract some mids but it never takes a lot. I just like what they do instead of me doing it on individual tracks on kick and bass. |
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