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Post by matt@IAA on Jun 14, 2019 11:57:50 GMT -6
I put this before on the 1073 for you. My recommendation for a small patchbay: 1RU XLR patch point into Preamps into TRS patchbay normal to AD inputs If you don't have a lot of I/O needs, you can split the patch bay so that the above portion is on the left. Then on the right you do: DA outputs into TRS patchbay normal to hardware into TRS patchbay If you have enough AD inputs, you can normal your hardware back in, and then do true hybrid inserts from your DAW. If you don't, you land the hardware on the patchbay as THRU, and when mixing or if tracking with them you simply patch them into the signal chain before the AD. It seems complex, but the first time you want to plug mic A into preamp D and use your hardware comp without changing anything in the DAW session on the fly...life is good. And in "normal" use you don't have to patch anything, just plug your mic into XLR 1, which goes to preamp 1, which goes to AD input 1, and you make music. You could do something like this.
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 14, 2019 12:29:50 GMT -6
Not in your patchbay To keep things simple, connect your mike to your pre input: remember it needs the phantom power. Connect the pre output to say the first hole on the top left of your patchbay, so that space is always receiving the output from your pre. When you insert a male trs patchcable in that same hole, it receives the pre out signal, so now, using my example above, you would insert the other trs male end of that same cable into the eq input hole , column 2, bottom row of your patchbay, so now you are sending the pre out signal to your eq. The eq output would be the whole above, column 2 top row. You’d insert another male trs cable in it to receive your eq out signal and patch it to what ever input channel you want on your interface and then select that input for your armed daw channel to record it.
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 14, 2019 12:33:04 GMT -6
There isn’t a contradiction above ,you can get xlr or trs patchbays. You have to decide which you prefer. All my pres have xlr inputs on their front faces so I just cover the my mikes there but the trs outs to my patchbay. i don’t have any xlr on my patchbays, so trs works for me.
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Post by notneeson on Jun 14, 2019 14:12:17 GMT -6
We have a snake with an XLR breakout box for mic inputs. At the bigger rooms the XLR inputs are on panel in the tracking room wall, usually right under the control room window and maybe other key locations that allow you to keep xlr runs tidy.
Patchbay is more about the ability to route the subsequent signal chain, often mic pre to compressor to EQ to A/D convertor.
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Post by ragan on Jun 14, 2019 15:17:49 GMT -6
I’ve got a 1RU XLR patchbay at the bottom of my rack. Mics go into it, it’s ours go to mic pres, mic pres outs go to TRS patchbays that handle all line level I/O.
I’d never go back to getting around the back of the rack for stuff.
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 15, 2019 15:44:54 GMT -6
I’ve got a 1RU XLR patchbay at the bottom of my rack. Mics go into it, it’s ours go to mic pres, mic pres outs go to TRS patchbays that handle all line level I/O. I’d never go back to getting around the back of the rack for stuff. I have this exact same setup, actually. Honestly, Derek Reese, I don't know if I would be worrying about a patchbay right now in your situation. I would probably suggest just using your gear for a few months hooked up one piece into another until you have a really intuitive sense of signal flow in your setup. Just my opinion.
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Post by Derek Reese on Jun 16, 2019 7:35:59 GMT -6
I’ve got a 1RU XLR patchbay at the bottom of my rack. Mics go into it, it’s ours go to mic pres, mic pres outs go to TRS patchbays that handle all line level I/O. I’d never go back to getting around the back of the rack for stuff. I have this exact same setup, actually. Honestly, Derek Reese , I don't know if I would be worrying about a patchbay right now in your situation. I would probably suggest just using your gear for a few months hooked up one piece into another until you have a really intuitive sense of signal flow in your setup. Just my opinion. I understand the signal flow of the small amount of gear i have, i don't think I'm ready for a patchbay yet as i need to add more outboard gear.But understanding the patchbay is a little trickier.
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Post by notneeson on Jul 1, 2019 17:42:30 GMT -6
notneeson - Did you ever get an email confirmation? No, I don’t see anything looking back over it now. I was pleased with Josh’s reassurance and then I got very busy. Just a note that I followed up and had a nice email back from Sori at Stam confirming my deposit end initial offer price. Thanks, stam
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Post by wiz on Aug 11, 2019 17:40:01 GMT -6
Hey stam , I ordered on feb 14 and the first one hundred price was still on the site. I’m told you will honor that but was hoping for confirmation. Yes sir, confirmed! Rosario (new worker) will send out confirmations via email this week and from now on for every purchase. I will have the new faceplate here next week and try the updated design with the filters Thanks Josh Will these have the HPF and LPF on them? Cheers Wiz
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Post by notneeson on Aug 12, 2019 21:42:13 GMT -6
Yes sir, confirmed! Rosario (new worker) will send out confirmations via email this week and from now on for every purchase. I will have the new faceplate here next week and try the updated design with the filters Thanks Josh Will these have the HPF and LPF on them? Cheers Wiz That’s a great question. Josh seemed amenable to the idea but the version on the site definitely doesn’t show filters. Curious to know which one will be produced.
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Post by stam on Aug 13, 2019 11:49:10 GMT -6
I’d venture a guess about the number of Warm and Golden Age units that have caught fire: zero. I’ll post a picture of the SA2A guts. Build quality is fair but nothing to write home about. Most of the parts are good but not all. Chinese power transformer. No name VU. Acceptable solder work. Jacks are PCB mounted and not secured to the chassis, you can feel the PCB bend when you plug them in. Chassis mounted tubes give you the creeps when removing them, that arrangement is not going to last many tube changes without breaking. There’s an IC driving the VU meter (fine by me, but authentic build it is not). The chassis has vents on the sides of the cover but not on the sides of the chassis, so those vents serve no purpose. He’s just reusing a part or got shipped the wrong one. I’ll stop here. It’s just budget gear with a few upgraded parts, at below-market prices. Just to be fair: the unit does sound pretty good. I am going to compare it to other units eventually. We’ll see how it fares. Probably the best sounding LA2A replica ever made. At least it is to my ears. Eddie Kramer and Greg Wells use it daily, the first having it on every vocal chain. Warm and Golden have had many units caught fire. I know this from a fact and it's not their fault. Tube gear is tube gear. No name VU? Irrelevant Chassis mounted tubes is safer than PCB mounted tubes. IC driving the VU meter? Irrelevant. Reusing a part? Never done that. Budget gear? Sure, that is what we do. Use the most expensive and premium components on the audio path available in the world and safe bucks con the chassis and parts that do not have an influence on audio. We have over 1.200 SA2A's around for 7 years, 10 have failed. That is less than 0.2% failure. Why? Because of our strict and professional QC.
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Post by notneeson on Aug 13, 2019 11:59:51 GMT -6
I’d venture a guess about the number of Warm and Golden Age units that have caught fire: zero. I’ll post a picture of the SA2A guts. Build quality is fair but nothing to write home about. Most of the parts are good but not all. Chinese power transformer. No name VU. Acceptable solder work. Jacks are PCB mounted and not secured to the chassis, you can feel the PCB bend when you plug them in. Chassis mounted tubes give you the creeps when removing them, that arrangement is not going to last many tube changes without breaking. There’s an IC driving the VU meter (fine by me, but authentic build it is not). The chassis has vents on the sides of the cover but not on the sides of the chassis, so those vents serve no purpose. He’s just reusing a part or got shipped the wrong one. I’ll stop here. It’s just budget gear with a few upgraded parts, at below-market prices. Just to be fair: the unit does sound pretty good. I am going to compare it to other units eventually. We’ll see how it fares. Probably the best sounding LA2A replica ever made. At least it is to my ears. Eddie Kramer and Greg Wells use it daily, the first having it on every vocal chain. Warm and Golden have had many units caught fire. I know this from a fact and it's not their fault. Tube gear is tube gear. No name VU? Irrelevant Chassis mounted tubes is safer than PCB mounted tubes. IC driving the VU meter? Irrelevant. Reusing a part? Never done that. Budget gear? Sure, that is what we do. Use the most expensive and premium components on the audio path available in the world and safe bucks con the chassis and parts that do not have an influence on audio. We have over 1.200 SA2A's around for 7 years, 10 have failed. That is less than 0.2% failure. Why? Because of our strict and professional QC. stam stormymondays Could we keep this thread about the EQ, please? No disrespect.
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Post by stam on Aug 13, 2019 12:11:28 GMT -6
That is fine with me
We are on schedule to begin shipments next month
Thank you for your interest
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Post by notneeson on Aug 13, 2019 14:33:01 GMT -6
That is fine with me We are on schedule to begin shipments next month Thank you for your interest Thanks for understanding. Regarding the SA 4000 EQ, did filters make it into production? I know it's something that was discussed here earlier on.
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Post by notneeson on Sept 17, 2019 16:19:45 GMT -6
That is fine with me We are on schedule to begin shipments next month Thank you for your interest stam Hey there, I see the date is November on the site now, is that for this first batch? Just curious. Did you end up adding the filters?
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Post by Vincent R. on Sept 26, 2019 5:27:26 GMT -6
stam, did you ever decide to add the high and low pass filters to this box? You mentioned in the discussion that you would, but I haven’t seen an updated image featuring them. I want to order this unit, but only if it has the filters, or at least a high pass filter. Please let us know. Also, is it still on the schedule for release in November?
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Post by svart on Sept 26, 2019 6:09:14 GMT -6
Someone bought all the US stock of quad 50k antilog pots in the last week.
I say this because I'm the one who found these parts to use in my 4k EQ setup and put it up here. Stocks were good until this project came about and now I can't find any recently and I need them.
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Post by stam on Sept 26, 2019 8:58:22 GMT -6
Yes, I added those! Josh
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Post by notneeson on Sept 26, 2019 9:19:39 GMT -6
Awesome! And we're tentatively looking at November deliveries, best guess?
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Post by notneeson on Oct 22, 2019 10:49:05 GMT -6
Awesome! And we're tentatively looking at November deliveries, best guess? Got a very thoughtful email from stam today with an update on this project ETA and options. Thanks Josh!
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Post by notneeson on Feb 9, 2020 20:05:29 GMT -6
stam how are we looking on this, are we on for February still? 🙂
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Post by notneeson on Feb 19, 2020 13:20:37 GMT -6
stam how are we looking on this, are we on for February still? 🙂 stam Looks like you guys changed the next batch to May on the site, is that for batch #1? Hope all is well there, I know the situation was tense very recently, but I haven't heard any news of late.
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Post by ori9inal on Jun 20, 2022 5:41:57 GMT -6
That is fine with me We are on schedule to begin shipments next month Thank you for your interest Hi Josh,
I know there has been a huge delay, when the SA-4000EQ shipments start ?
Cheers
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