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Post by kbsmoove on Oct 1, 2024 11:02:32 GMT -6
New stuff always coming and going, but some notable standouts:
early 60's Ludwig Super COB 14x5 snare - makes my supraphonic sound puny. very versatile and musical drum
soyuz 013 pair - amazing overheads, sound good on a lot of vocalists, killer on guitar cabs. really great sounding mics.
neotek series 3 jim williams modded pre/eq pair: didn't know i needed something so clean and clear in my life but i'm really loving these on overheads and especially distorted bass cabs.
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Post by ericn on Oct 1, 2024 12:57:41 GMT -6
New stuff always coming and going, but some notable standouts: early 60's Ludwig Super COB 14x5 snare - makes my supraphonic sound puny. very versatile and musical drum soyuz 013 pair - amazing overheads, sound good on a lot of vocalists, killer on guitar cabs. really great sounding mics. neotek series 3 jim williams modded pre/eq pair: didn't know i needed something so clean and clear in my life but i'm really loving these on overheads and especially distorted bass cabs. Yeah I have been trying to figure out why nobody has marketed a Neotek 500 pre & EQ clean simple missed! |
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Post by kbsmoove on Oct 1, 2024 13:05:07 GMT -6
Yeah I have been trying to figure out why nobody has marketed a Neotek 500 pre & EQ clean simple missed! i've messed around with neoteks/syteks before and thought they were fine. JW modded version is a noticeable improvement, especially in the EQ. i think stock neotek eq is usable but these sound excellent. I think the EQ pots are probably whats stopping a 500 unit from happening. preamp is dead simple. |
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Post by sean on Oct 3, 2024 8:51:57 GMT -6
My RME ADI-2/4 Pro SE wasn’t the “perfect” home solution I was hoping it would be so I decided to give the Neumann MT 48 a try. I really needed two more inputs and the occasional preamp for testing gear/whatever from home, and it was more than I wanted to have hooked up to make the RME work.
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 3, 2024 9:01:57 GMT -6
New to me..., working Sonnet PCIe expansion box to use with my laptop instead of tower and some new mics, so fun!   |
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Post by sean on Oct 6, 2024 7:09:05 GMT -6
Traded my Fender 57 Custom Champ for a Marshall SV20C. The Champ is cool but limited and was pretty impressed with these little Marshalls.
Also, don’t laugh, an Ovation Legend 1117 guitar. I’ve recorded a couple on projects for people and they blends so well in a track, for $300 figured what the hell.
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Post by chessparov on Oct 6, 2024 8:57:29 GMT -6
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Post by ericn on Oct 6, 2024 9:03:05 GMT -6
Traded my Fender 57 Custom Champ for a Marshall SV20C. The Champ is cool but limited and was pretty impressed with these little Marshalls. Also, don’t laugh, an Ovation Legend 1117 guitar. I’ve recorded a couple on projects for people and they blends so well in a track, for $300 figured what the hell. Sean the Ovation is prooof you are a better AE than I, because every time I someone has brought one with them in the studio or live it sounds like the intro to “ Time for me to fly” usually I would in fact love to see it fly out the window! How do you track the milk bottle guitar? |
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Post by sean on Oct 6, 2024 9:59:29 GMT -6
Traded my Fender 57 Custom Champ for a Marshall SV20C. The Champ is cool but limited and was pretty impressed with these little Marshalls. Also, don’t laugh, an Ovation Legend 1117 guitar. I’ve recorded a couple on projects for people and they blends so well in a track, for $300 figured what the hell. Sean the Ovation is prooof you are a better AE than I, because every time I someone has brought one with them in the studio or live it sounds like the intro to “ Time for me to fly” usually I would in fact love to see it fly out the window! How do you track the milk bottle guitar? I will say that as the only guitar in a track it’s not great but it sort of sounds “pre-EQ’d” without a lot of low end, and it’s a very “tight” sounds so there’s a lot of separation in the notes so it doesn’t take up a lot of space. It kinda sounds like a high strung guitar but not an octave. Pretty interesting tone. It’s probably the only guitar I mic around the sound hole. Getting anyone to pick it up and play it is another story haha |
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Post by ericn on Oct 6, 2024 12:47:16 GMT -6
Sean the Ovation is prooof you are a better AE than I, because every time I someone has brought one with them in the studio or live it sounds like the intro to “ Time for me to fly” usually I would in fact love to see it fly out the window! How do you track the milk bottle guitar? I will say that as the only guitar in a track it’s not great but it sort of sounds “pre-EQ’d” without a lot of low end, and it’s a very “tight” sounds so there’s a lot of separation in the notes so it doesn’t take up a lot of space. It kinda sounds like a high strung guitar but not an octave. Pretty interesting tone. It’s probably the only guitar I mic around the sound hole. Getting anyone to pick it up and play it is another story haha Yeah the one thing that King Crimsons Guitar tech would always remind me about Ovations is that often once you put one in the hands of a guitarist they would be seduced by how comfortable it was to play. |
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Post by drumsound on Oct 7, 2024 7:49:03 GMT -6
I will say that as the only guitar in a track it’s not great but it sort of sounds “pre-EQ’d” without a lot of low end, and it’s a very “tight” sounds so there’s a lot of separation in the notes so it doesn’t take up a lot of space. It kinda sounds like a high strung guitar but not an octave. Pretty interesting tone. It’s probably the only guitar I mic around the sound hole. Getting anyone to pick it up and play it is another story haha Yeah the one thing that King Crimsons Guitar tech would always remind me about Ovations is that often once you put one in the hands of a guitarist they would be seduced by how comfortable it was to play. So long as the player doesn't have a belly. We got one on trade back in the day from a jeweler who said it wouldn't sit on his belly in a playable position. |
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Post by Darren Boling on Oct 7, 2024 8:03:28 GMT -6
Basically only mastering now so I took advantage of Sequoia 17 being half off last week, it also included SpectraLayers 11. Mastering a record this weekend that had some troublesome over widened guitars and unmanaged, over splashy cymbals, all fighting a harmonic battle royale with the vocals losing out. As an experiment I tried SL 11's unmix to see how well it separated the elements so I could maybe fix some things. I tested SL 10's unmix a while back and thought it was good but lalal.ai was better. Well, SL 11 is now basically as good whatever lalal's new AI engine is called, just leaves the stems a little drier. I made the fixes and sent to the band so they can decide to remix or move forward with these 'stems'. Not that I ever what to make this workflow a habit but it was impressive it was able to be split and then recombined so well.
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Post by EmRR on Oct 7, 2024 10:04:45 GMT -6
Bought a second WA-44. Three 44’s here now counting the 44-BX. Kinda stupid. But feeds the 3 channel RCA preamp perfectly. Used one on the radio show for an opera singer, 8-10 feet away. Perfect for that, took the MKH40 option down immediately. Kick drum 20 feet away sounded amazing. Thinking some RCA red enamel paint infill on the WA logo would be the perfect touch.
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Post by thehightenor on Oct 7, 2024 14:03:47 GMT -6
My wife has just bought me (for my birthday) a cute little Sire U5 Marcus Miller short scale bass.
It’s really well made for the money - I can’t put the thing down, it’s a whole heap of fun to play.
Sounds great too!
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Post by lowlou on Oct 9, 2024 4:05:24 GMT -6
One of these weeks...  |
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Post by sean on Oct 9, 2024 7:36:20 GMT -6
Orded a Celesion Gold 10" speaker for the Marshall SV20C I just picked up. These are really great amps, super impressed with their tone but I think the Gold will give it a bit more of the "classic" Marshall crunch.
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Post by deaconblues on Oct 9, 2024 7:49:15 GMT -6
One of these weeks... HELL YES. Just run the Olympics straight into the Poms and your work is done  |
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Post by lowlou on Oct 9, 2024 7:57:12 GMT -6
Thanks <3
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 9, 2024 9:53:36 GMT -6
Not very sexy unless you're a nerd like me...., +16/-16/48v external PSU i built as small as i possibly could for a quad of api 312 pre's with bourns attenuator's on em, five fish pcb that i had to relocate the regulators to squeeze the toroid in there, made my own cable, works a treat. Wish someone made these to buy, quite the pita    |
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Post by poppaflavor on Oct 9, 2024 22:41:33 GMT -6
One of these weeks... Wow. Tower of power. Very sweet! What does one do with 4 channels of POMPYE? Drum tracking? And is the PL-2 for use in confirmation with a POM, or is that a different purpose? |
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Post by poppaflavor on Oct 9, 2024 22:46:59 GMT -6
Not very sexy unless you're a nerd like me...., +16/-16/48v external PSU i built as small as i possibly could for a quad of api 312 pre's with bourns attenuator's on em, five fish pcb that i had to relocate the regulators to squeeze the toroid in there, made my own cable, works a treat. Wish someone made these to buy, quite the pita So tiny and even cute! Thanks for sharing the gutz pics. I'm a sucker for ingenious arrangements. The specialty pedal maker Decibelics has some real lilliputian circuits :-) |
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Post by lowlou on Oct 10, 2024 4:42:41 GMT -6
One of these weeks... Wow. Tower of power. Very sweet! What does one do with 4 channels of POMPYE? Drum tracking? And is the PL-2 for use in confirmation with a POM, or is that a different purpose? The POM PYE are my first PWM so I don't really have an answer yet. I want to try them on drums, BGV, synths too (curious to see how a Pye compares to the AML 54F50 there), speech synthesizers etc. I think I'll have to avoid them on kicks as I need my low frequencies pretty clean & extended most times. But there are no rules. The Pendulum limiter is something else entirely right ? Sonically speaking, it's free loudness. Excited about the Furman too. Months in the making, & 20 hours on the road to get the weighty unit in here... |
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Post by poppaflavor on Oct 10, 2024 17:57:43 GMT -6
Wow. Tower of power. Very sweet! What does one do with 4 channels of POMPYE? Drum tracking? And is the PL-2 for use in confirmation with a POM, or is that a different purpose? The POM PYE are my first PWM so I don't really have an answer yet. I want to try them on drums, BGV, synths too (curious to see how a Pye compares to the AML 54F50 there), speech synthesizers etc. I think I'll have to avoid them on kicks as I need my low frequencies pretty clean & extended most times. But there are no rules. The Pendulum limiter is something else entirely right ? Sonically speaking, it's free loudness. Excited about the Furman too. Months in the making, & 20 hours on the road to get the weighty unit in here... Awesome, those POM's should be an incredible exploration and journey. It'd be great to hear thoughts as you get acquainted with them. I think the PL-2 is out of production, I was looking for a quite a while but the used ones were pretty pricy. And actually I've been really getting burned by used defective gear that takes hours of testing and weeks to get my money back. As as much as I'd love a PL-2, I didn't have the energy to go through 3 of them at $3K each and do returns on 2 of those just to find one that's functional. I've been through 3 BSS DPR 402 and all were listed in great condition but all had broken functions (which if you know the DPR402, that takes hours to go through the functions). Been through 5 dbx 118 just to get 2 working ones. At least 30-40% of used gear I buy of Reverb or eBay is brown in some critical function. Sorry for the off topic rant. Enjoy your gears sir! |
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Post by lowlou on Oct 10, 2024 18:42:11 GMT -6
These guys sent the PL2 from Spain to France with only 2 layers of bubble wrap and a tote bag lol. I won't go into more details, but it's an ongoing business. People stepping on my toes sometimes walk away with an unpinned grenade in their back pocket.
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Post by lowlou on Oct 11, 2024 5:40:19 GMT -6
Two Aphex 661 on their way, too.
I wanted some Elysia comp with their auto-fast attack, but the Aphex bundle was so cheap I couldn't resist.
Elysia will wait !
Dan's signature on the Aphex faceplates would have been a nice touch honestly !
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