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Post by sean on Jul 17, 2022 5:18:18 GMT -6
For some reason unbeknownst to me I bought an AKG BX-5 spring reverb on Reverb. One of the few (of the popular ones, anyway) rack mount spring reverbs I haven't tried. The only BX5 I ever got to spend any time with was an absolute dog, I don’t know what the guy did to it, it turned me off springs for ages. The last couple I have heard sound nothing like it so my fingers are crossed on this one. A friend of mine recently had one and said “it’s the worst sounding reverb I’ve ever heard” 😆 But other people seem to like them. The randomness of springs and plates (and chambers for that matter) is what I like…they all sound different even model to model. Those types of reverbs, and the rooms themselves, used to be the identifiable characteristics of studios, whereas everyone’s UAD EMT 140 sounds identical
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Post by keymod on Jul 17, 2022 8:08:30 GMT -6
We just installed two Metric Halo LIO-8. Our Signal Arts u47 just arrived, it's wonderful!
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Post by chessparov on Jul 17, 2022 9:11:24 GMT -6
ericn[/quote] The only BX5 I ever got to spend any time with was an absolute dog.[/quote]
Essential for anything Poochini. Chris
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Post by deaconblues on Jul 17, 2022 12:00:45 GMT -6
Golden 58 and D-Comp. Thank you Ward and AudioScape! Be careful, that D-Comp is a lot of fun.
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Post by Blackdawg on Jul 17, 2022 19:46:29 GMT -6
Just scored a 1977 Rhodes locally for 1k. Pretty stoked on that. Lid isn't in good shape but the rest of it is.
Pick it up on Tuesday.
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Post by Vincent R. on Jul 18, 2022 10:40:06 GMT -6
I have a pair of Royal Blue Colour Modules coming my way from DIYRE. They have been out of stock for months through Louder than Liftoff. Looking forward to installing them in my Link Audio SL4K-E01. Once dialed in it should give some cross between a Neve 1081 and SSL 4K preamp. Should be a fun addition.
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Post by sean on Jul 19, 2022 5:27:22 GMT -6
Picked up an AKG D12E at a (these days) fair price and a vintage big meter API 525 to fill the last slot in my 500 series rack. I think I'm done for awhile!
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Post by OtisGreying on Jul 19, 2022 22:46:38 GMT -6
SPL Vitalizer Mk2-t hardware
Pretty much my go to brightening device now. I'm surprised how much smoother the brightening is then on my other analog EQ's. Maybe cause the slope is so wide, in any case it's definitely an extremely natural sounding enhancement and realling bringing certain tracks in a session to life. Super happy with this thing I wasn't sure if I was going to like it but its great. Especially elec guitars they become brighter and just sound like they were recorded that way, doesn't sound EQ'd.
That's cool to hear! I've always liked those devices, I'm a big "exciter" fan in general. I think I might try and track one down Been getting some good use out of the Bass compression tool on it too. Sounds natural and musical and is keeping bass frequencies in check for certain tracks that need it, really useful tool all around. Pretty much the main things that I usually deal with are getting things to cut through more and taming low end resonant stuff so its working out nicely for me.
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Post by gwlee7 on Jul 20, 2022 13:42:26 GMT -6
Sent back the Senn MD421 and just received a Beyer M201. I doubt I send it back.
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Post by chessparov on Jul 20, 2022 18:05:33 GMT -6
Was the 421 a vintage one? Or the newer/neodymium MKII? (It's cool they still make the 441 the same) Chris
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Post by gwlee7 on Jul 20, 2022 18:37:35 GMT -6
Was the 421 a vintage one? Or the newer/neodymium MKII? (It's cool they still make the 441 the same) Chris New one.
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Post by chessparov on Jul 20, 2022 18:44:54 GMT -6
I had good luck with the neodymium EV 767a and AKG D790.
But no bueno either with the 421 MKII. As my voice is too bright on the top for it. And the Vintage ones went way up $$. Chris
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2022 19:12:21 GMT -6
Just scored a 1977 Rhodes locally for 1k. Pretty stoked on that. Lid isn't in good shape but the rest of it is. Pick it up on Tuesday. Hope the pickup went well and the instrument checked out. Was a 73 or 88 key? Played with a guy ages ago with an 88 (would have been a Mk 1 Stage). Sounded really great but it felt like it weighed half a ton.
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Post by sean on Jul 20, 2022 19:51:09 GMT -6
Just when I thought I was done the person with the 525 told me he also had a Teletronix LA-3A. Price was very fair by todays standards so I took it. That’s one of my desert island compressor…prefer them to LA-2A’s in most cases (at least the LA-2A’s I’ve owned in tried)
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Post by Blackdawg on Jul 20, 2022 22:40:22 GMT -6
Just scored a 1977 Rhodes locally for 1k. Pretty stoked on that. Lid isn't in good shape but the rest of it is. Pick it up on Tuesday. Hope the pickup went well and the instrument checked out. Was a 73 or 88 key? Played with a guy ages ago with an 88 (would have been a Mk 1 Stage). Sounded really great but it felt like it weighed half a ton. Pick up went well! The case is worse shape then I'd hoped, but not a big deal. Just needs reskinned. Guts and keys are in nice shape on the inside. Sucker weighs a ton and is in fact an 88 key! I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet as it's so big and heavy and my room is a bit small. The new studio will be great with it though. Also Pulsar's MU compressor is on sale so grabbed that. Just waiting on the 1178 one to go on sale next.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jul 21, 2022 13:43:03 GMT -6
Hope the pickup went well and the instrument checked out. Was a 73 or 88 key? Played with a guy ages ago with an 88 (would have been a Mk 1 Stage). Sounded really great but it felt like it weighed half a ton. Pick up went well! The case is worse shape then I'd hoped, but not a big deal. Just needs reskinned. Guts and keys are in nice shape on the inside. Sucker weighs a ton and is in fact an 88 key! I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet as it's so big and heavy and my room is a bit small. The new studio will be great with it though. Also Pulsar's MU compressor is on sale so grabbed that. Just waiting on the 1178 one to go on sale next. If you need parts this is the spot www.vintagevibe.com/
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Post by Blackdawg on Jul 21, 2022 17:52:33 GMT -6
Pick up went well! The case is worse shape then I'd hoped, but not a big deal. Just needs reskinned. Guts and keys are in nice shape on the inside. Sucker weighs a ton and is in fact an 88 key! I haven't had a chance to hook it up yet as it's so big and heavy and my room is a bit small. The new studio will be great with it though. Also Pulsar's MU compressor is on sale so grabbed that. Just waiting on the 1178 one to go on sale next. If you need parts this is the spot www.vintagevibe.com/yeah thanks! I've been check that place out. They seem to have everything and thankfully new wrapping! So should be easy to make this sucker look brand new.
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Post by Vincent R. on Jul 22, 2022 6:12:43 GMT -6
I have a pair of Royal Blue Colour Modules coming my way from DIYRE. They have been out of stock for months through Louder than Liftoff. Looking forward to installing them in my Link Audio SL4K-E01. Once dialed in it should give some cross between a Neve 1081 and SSL 4K preamp. Should be a fun addition. Holy cabooses!!! These things sound incredible. Basically I have (2) transformers in the path while using it in my my Link Audio SL4K-E01; a Jensen SSL style transformer and the Royal Blue's Marinair style. Dialing it in gave me something similar to my Dan Alexander, but with more low end. I have to continue playing with levels and see how best to dial it in. I have the 5db high shelf bypassed at the moment. I may switch that and play around with that at some point. www.linkaudiodesign.de/product-page/sl4k-e01store.louderthanliftoff.com/products/royal-blue-colour-module
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Post by Guitar on Jul 22, 2022 19:37:40 GMT -6
I got a new brain.
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Post by chessparov on Jul 22, 2022 20:41:21 GMT -6
I didn't quite lose my mind. Only temporarily misplaced it. Chris
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Post by Vincent R. on Jul 23, 2022 8:50:24 GMT -6
I have a pair of Royal Blue Colour Modules coming my way from DIYRE. They have been out of stock for months through Louder than Liftoff. Looking forward to installing them in my Link Audio SL4K-E01. Once dialed in it should give some cross between a Neve 1081 and SSL 4K preamp. Should be a fun addition. Holy cabooses!!! These things sound incredible. Basically I have (2) transformers in the path while using it in my my Link Audio SL4K-E01; a Jensen SSL style transformer and the Royal Blue's Marinair style. Dialing it in gave me something similar to my Dan Alexander, but with more low end. I have to continue playing with levels and see how best to dial it in. I have the 5db high shelf bypassed at the moment. I may switch that and play around with that at some point. www.linkaudiodesign.de/product-page/sl4k-e01store.louderthanliftoff.com/products/royal-blue-colour-modulePosted some clips here: realgearonline.com/thread/14428/royal-blue-colour-module
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Jul 23, 2022 14:15:29 GMT -6
Ok, been off the forum for a while but not for lack of acquiring stuff. Among other things which I will post later I also built a vocal pedal board for my new band. I'm excited about it because I just tried it out last night for our first show with a proper sound guy and stage and.... whoo boy, it was awesome!
I was afraid the idea would kind of annoy sound people but this guy was super curious about the board and was basically like "we've got time, pull it out and let's see." In the end he felt like it made his job way easier, so that's good!
Anyway... here's what I bought for it in order of signal chain.
- EV RE420 to pair up with an EV RE510 I already had (two mics cuz I switch between guitar and piano/organ) - ART Dual Phantom - Radial Mix 2:1 (summed to one signal) - JHS Colour Box (wow, just wow) - FMR RNC (cheating, I already owned this...) - UAFX Golden Reverberator (also wow... tried a lot of reverb pedals on vocals and tried this one last cuz I was afraid I would be forced to buy it. And yep, blew away the competition for this use.) - Radial Key Largo (Keyboard mixer that also has FX send/return. I patch the UA through this. Overkill for this purpose but I also use it for other keyboard related things. Reason I'm putting my vocals through it is for the FX control and so the sound guy can have one easy knob to adjust the signal he's getting if needed.)
So playing a mid-level venue (in terms of sound quality) last night with this chain felt like singing through some of the best live vocal mixes I've ever had. And I have a point of comparison cuz I've played this venue before.
Getting a little grit from the JHS as well as a touch of HPF rolloff, then hitting the RNC hard, and with UA's reverb algorithms? It felt like sinking into a comfortable mattress at a 5 star hotel. That's the only way I can describe it. Reaching for difficult notes with a more studio like setup sort of felt like swimming in warm, shallow water. Like the mic/compressor was pushing back at me in a really pleasant way.
Hard to describe. But it sounded great and felt great. I recommend this to anyone!
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Post by Guitar on Jul 23, 2022 16:56:31 GMT -6
Ok, been off the forum for a while but not for lack of acquiring stuff. Among other things which I will post later I also built a vocal pedal board for my new band. I'm excited about it because I just tried it out last night for our first show with a proper sound guy and stage and.... whoo boy, it was awesome! I was afraid the idea would kind of annoy sound people but this guy was super curious about the board and was basically like "we've got time, pull it out and let's see." In the end he felt like it made his job way easier, so that's good! Anyway... here's what I bought for it in order of signal chain. - EV RE420 to pair up with an EV RE510 I already had (two mics cuz I switch between guitar and piano/organ) - ART Dual Phantom - Radial Mix 2:1 (summed to one signal) - JHS Colour Box (wow, just wow) - FMR RNC (cheating, I already owned this...) - UAFX Golden Reverberator (also wow... tried a lot of reverb pedals on vocals and tried this one last cuz I was afraid I would be forced to buy it. And yep, blew away the competition for this use.) - Radial Key Largo (Keyboard mixer that also has FX send/return. I patch the UA through this. Overkill for this purpose but I also use it for other keyboard related things. Reason I'm putting my vocals through it is for the FX control and so the sound guy can have one easy knob to adjust the signal he's getting if needed.) So playing a mid-level venue (in terms of sound quality) last night with this chain felt like singing through some of the best live vocal mixes I've ever had. And I have a point of comparison cuz I've played this venue before. Getting a little grit from the JHS as well as a touch of HPF rolloff, then hitting the RNC hard, and with UA's reverb algorithms? It felt like sinking into a comfortable mattress at a 5 star hotel. That's the only way I can describe it. Reaching for difficult notes with a more studio like setup sort of felt like swimming in warm, shallow water. Like the mic/compressor was pushing back at me in a really pleasant way. Hard to describe. But it sounded great and felt great. I recommend this to anyone!
The sound guy at the theater told me to stand back away from the stage doors when I showed up yesterday AM. I said, uhhh, I'm the audio engineer, I'm recording. He said "Oh your table is over there!" and symbolically let me pass into the gig. Kind of a long story with ups and downs, good moments and bad ones.
We had enough time to shoot the shit about gear, approximately 2 minutes in fact, because the musicians were on expensive time just to be in the building at all.
In the end, lots got filmed and recorded, some of it was great, and nothing really happened. I might post some links later, might be months, but who knows. Got to use my modified drbill piano technique which was pretty cool. Two Oktaba MK 012 on Steinway grand hammers up close. Two Apex 205 ribbons spaced peeking in over the lid at the soundboard. Stuck my head in there, moved around. All mics modified by me, cut new ribbons, minor electronics upgrades, etc and so on.
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Post by sean on Jul 23, 2022 20:13:54 GMT -6
MXR Auto Flanger / Auto Phase rack (2 of each)
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Post by Guitar on Jul 23, 2022 21:27:39 GMT -6
I guess I could have told that story better. Here's the post I made on the "other forum" for some more context: I just did a downtown theater gig, indoors, no audience. I used KSM137 OH, "Narrow ORTF" (not a real position, it's mine). Crimson yellow SM57 on snare, EV CO4 on hi toms and M88TG on floor tom. N/D868 "in the kick hole." Center room between Steinway, drums, and bassist (trio) was a WA47JR in omni in the "sweet spot." Self made Wolfbox on bass DI. Self-cut-ribboned Apex 205 pair pointing at the piano soundboard, peeking in just above the outer black edge of wood/body. Closely spaced pair. Spaced pair MK 012 OKTABA on the hammers, in real close. Gotta stick your head in there. Self-made omnidirectional "measurement microphone" tiny guy out in the audience connected to a MixPre6. Sitting on a chair arm. Just running. Two computers, four hard drives, free DAW (Reaper,) two theater staff, three very consternated musicians trying to work together for the first time under all these bright lights, microphones, and so on. One lead singer filming the whole thing, no shoes. Three music teachers / "real players," and two "technically adept rock stars" working together in the big empty hall, two theater aficionados making sure nothing catches on fire, handing people things, pointing things out, unlocking doors and etc. Pretty interesting stuff. Probably my most "intense" gig to date. Started at 10PM the night before, built the mock-up system in a garage, slept four hours, load 1/3 tonne or more of gear into a vehicle, commute, work for 6, commute, sleep for real, and then the long tail of additional required labor and "tech support." Pay will be minimal, don't really care. What's a couple hundred bucks between friends. And making new ones along the way! :-D "Sounds" really good, by the way. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's always nice to hear that sound.
addendum -- the most interesting stuff is the "birds ear view." Totally observing the situation as it happens, in it, and afterwards in the audio files. "How things really work," based on sound only. Utterly fascinating and its the stuff of podcast and phone conversation, not forum posting. I can only just type about it here. The tone in peoples' voices, the timing of food, breaks, etc. Jokes, insults, etc. Who's confident, who's not. How they get loud, how they pull back, who catches what mistakes, what sounds good to one person, two people, etc, the psychology of it all, the personalities, and so on.
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