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Post by iamasound on Apr 6, 2020 5:10:10 GMT -6
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Post by iamasound on Apr 6, 2020 5:03:48 GMT -6
I recently bought a pre owned Golden Age Pre73 MK3 version, the one with the Carnhills in and out. That's one really colored sucka. It doesn't do clean, but that's what I like about it. If it doesn’t do clean, it might be broken. I’ve chosen it over a DAV for acoustic guitar in a few occasions. I'll try to post something going through it later as my day progresses. My wife has me on garden duty on this beautiful sunny Swiss day. It's not filthy all the time, but it is never to my ears close to pristine and without self compressing the transients with even just a touch of upfront gain. Perhaps it is broken.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 5, 2020 21:45:46 GMT -6
I recently bought a pre owned Golden Age Pre73 MK3 version, the one with the Carnhills in and out. That's one really colored sucka. It doesn't do clean, but that's what I like about it.
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Post by iamasound on Apr 2, 2020 10:34:40 GMT -6
I too totally dig Blue Chip picks and all the hubbub about them is spot on, and yea, they NEVER slip out of my fingers but just hang on for dear life. The Vespal material is a high tech plastic polymer that has the interesting ability to seem to self lubricate and remain polished so never gets scratchy, and with something like a guitar pick is a welcome trait. Vespal is used in the aeronautics industry where heat would normally melt and/or burn and retains its ability to maintain shape. The grade that BC uses to fabricate plectrums is actually the lowest grade on the totem pole but still costs a very pretty penny to buy and so translates into a very expensive tool for string players. Because they are expensive there is actually a used market for folks like John Epstein or anyone else that might buy at full price and either wish to buy a different shape or thickness and feel that they have wasted their money. The $35 picks usually are resold and gobbled up for I believe 25 or 30 bucks. That's how I first tried one out, buying used from a fellow board member at The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum (UMGF). Since they are hard to kill they resale easily. Another company that I have supported is Charmed Life. It's a small part time outfit run buy a great guy named Scott Memmer who goes out of his way for his customers with top notch customer support. I have bought a bunch of his beautiful casein picks this last year and thoroughly enjoy using them as well. These are not cheap either but to me at least are well worth the outlay for what I have found are the varying tone and nuance of feel that all these cool picks bring to my table. I might use a thicker 60 Blue Chip (1.5mm) right after I change strings for instance on my D-18 to cut down on the glare until the strings settle in and then switch over to a 1.15 Charmed Life or the 40 (1.0mm) Blue Chip. It's been fun. I never would in my life guessed that the 5 guitar picks in my pocket would cost $185, but what the heck, if these little suckers enhance my playing experience then I'm a happy camper. At the top is an old tortoise that came with an old beat up mandolin that someone gave me. I gifted out the mando but kept the pick. It brings life a special vibrancy to any guitar I use it on. Then come the three Blue Chips. Then come three Charmed Life. I keep those German Hense picks around for kicks.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 30, 2020 1:17:12 GMT -6
Im the 90's I was using a Furman power conditioner (I no longer remember the model) and friends with studios would marvel at how quiet my mixes were. It wasn't a base model though and if I remember correctly had a voltage regulator which seemed (I am a glorified idiot when it comes to anything more technical than changing lightbulbs) to massage the rather low voltage that registered usually at around 108 volts up to 120. It seemed to work a charm.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 25, 2020 12:41:41 GMT -6
I own a poo load of analogue EQs Comps,Pres, Verbs etc.... ....but If you just want to see what transformers do and not go all the way to EQ check out the Kazrog True Iron plug in . Its not that expensive and to be honest I like it. I like to use my Rupert Neve Shelfords and Portico II channels for tracking but sometimes I use this plug to help thinny stuff. if you are looking to just meat up a bit I would seriously check the True Iron plugin . Its nothing but some emulations of great transformers. Some found in the Neve gear. Thought I would mention. I really like the Kush Omega N plugin for that Neve burr. It's pretty cheap. thehouseofkush.com/products/omega-n
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Post by iamasound on Mar 21, 2020 5:55:06 GMT -6
Sounds amazing. Thanks for the listen.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 16, 2020 9:11:41 GMT -6
My current favorite DAC is a Topping DX7s which is not even a contracted brand, it's a chinese brand through and through. I heard someone say the Chinese are really into hi-fi audio, as a culture. I think that's pretty cool because I am too. I saw that on Drop a bunch and it if I remember it was pretty inexpensive. drop.com/buy/topping-dx7s
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Post by iamasound on Mar 13, 2020 23:25:01 GMT -6
It's a non starter on a full grown out beard as the pickup pattern is too tight, but I have used it on a modest handelbar mustache with good results. Even then, getting in close combined with the natural proximity effect that the mic exhibits plus the manley strong lower register on upper lip growth, the result is a bit boomy, so just back the mic off a hair.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 12, 2020 15:50:18 GMT -6
I picked up a Golden Age Project Pre 73 MKIII Plus for very little geld. I never had a 1073 type Pre and thought that this might actually be decent what with the upgrade of Carnhills in and out, no discreet circuitry in the signal path and tantalum capacitors plus handy switchable impedance in MIC mode, 1200 or 300 Ohms. I haven't received it yet so we shall see what we shall hear.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 11, 2020 14:16:18 GMT -6
Lots of tonal options you got going with that box and it all sounds amazing. Impressed, compressed cows say, "Mu".
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Post by iamasound on Mar 9, 2020 14:36:38 GMT -6
I've got an RE20 too and never quite gel'd with it. I too. I guess I'm not Stevie Wonder or Thom York, but one day...one day....It's great on kick and bass cabs though.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 7, 2020 0:37:53 GMT -6
Uh, no, you've clearly never used a 740. oh, i thought you meant an item that sells for more used than new.. I too.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 7, 2020 0:23:49 GMT -6
I gave into my inner audiophile and on a whim made a low ball offer on a SOTA Star vacuum platter turntable that at the very least needs a new vacuum pump and it was excepted ! Oh a new project, time to hunt for a pump an arm and a cartridge! No problem, brother, all you need do is ask.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 6, 2020 16:38:50 GMT -6
Edited: snarky post.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 6, 2020 16:16:59 GMT -6
Very interesting subject, thanks for posting. I can't fast because of metabolic issues (I have a fast metabolism and I get dizzy if I don't eat every few hours) but I'm always interested in things that affect the voice. I've found that vocal training and sports training have many parallels and nutrition/meals seem to go in line with that, for me at least. I too am pretty hypoglycemic myself and have found that keeping carbs down stabilizes my system. Also I experienced a better balance if mix in a bit of protein. Years ago I was losing it by 10am after an oatmeal breakfast. An egg in addition righted my ship. My metabolism has slowed down considerably as I have overtaken 60 years young. I used to need to eat for two people just to maintain my weight. I have not noticed a difference in my vocal prowess since I have gone 16/8. The 8th note gets the beet.😁
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Post by iamasound on Mar 4, 2020 2:37:37 GMT -6
Gefell m930, off axis about 4 feet away and roll a little off of the high end. I use the same ingredients with shakers too. Also, a thigh is softer on the sound than a hand.
I've never recorded a spoon player, I bet that's a treat.
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Post by iamasound on Mar 3, 2020 16:24:38 GMT -6
A bit distorted?
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Post by iamasound on Feb 28, 2020 14:34:40 GMT -6
The Iridium has made it fun for me to play electric in the box for the first time ever. A tiny taste if verb to create some space and I am one big smile from ear to ear. I'm digging Chime the most but the the other two sound "right" and I'm sure I'll have use for them.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 23, 2020 16:24:01 GMT -6
I finally bought the Iridium. I should be delivered tomorrow, Tuesday the latest.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 19, 2020 2:16:57 GMT -6
Kinda countrified metal. Kewl.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 16, 2020 12:26:02 GMT -6
Besides the typical youthfully exuberant ignorance of gradually turning up the amps in the practice room for three hour rehearsals, two events contributed to my high frequency loss. Once at a Dead concert in Madison Square Garden somebody behind the board did something that enabled this crazy high frequency squeal that must have lasted 5 or 6 seconds that had me and everyone around me centered around row 10 in front of the stage left stack bent over with our hands over our ears in near hysteria from the ice pick like pain. It was maybe two weeks layer before I felt as if I was no longer listening to the sounds of the world from an under water perspective. The other hammer blow came one 4th Of July at a garden party with friends in Hoboken. I was standing and talking to two woman about 10 feet from the corner of the yard which had about a seven foot wooden fence when some huge asshole of a guy threw a firecracker that whizzed by my head and landed on the ground about 6 feet from the corner. The initial sound wasn't too bad, but I remember that sound of the crack, visually as well as tactily bound off of the fence right/left and hit me square in my right ear which was facing the fence corner. It really hurt and the tinnitus that afflicted that ear lasted about six weeks. Back in the day local Hobokan folk called themselves Nobos (like nah-boz) and my Nobo buddies offered to "go and destroy him to pieces" but I shook it off and that dickhead got a pass from broken dreams and a waking nightmare. To this day there are times when that ear hurts so much that I can't even turn my head from the incredible hurt. If I run the ear under hot water the pain gradually subsides, but it happens maybe 15 times a year. Fucking guy.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 16, 2020 7:52:17 GMT -6
There's not a germ of truth to any of this infected cable nonsense. All cables are contagion just waiting to infect an audio source. I say ban all microphones, ban all cables and their festering adherents, rid this world of wire awaiting to wickedly wreck the purity of our sacred sounds. Let us return to more simple times when the proximity effect had all to do with the closeness of the audience surrounding the gift of the musicians giving of themselves to the betterment of the appreciative masses. Follow me, Sisters and Brothers, follow me unto the golden dawn of aural delight. The future is the past, the past but a coming memory, the future destined to be and shall set our ears a'free.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 16, 2020 7:31:17 GMT -6
One of the most foolish things that I did when I had a load of cash in my pocket was not to buy the combo of the Beezneez Mahalia that was severely discounted to like $1100 and the UA LA-610 which I swear gave me a woody just listening to myself sing in the mic room at Dale Pro Audio in Jamaica, Queens, NYC. Fool I am, I am a fool.
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Post by iamasound on Feb 5, 2020 7:09:45 GMT -6
I hear no drums but do hear piano, vocal harmonies and minimal hand percussion. It's a sweet little song that for sensibilities need not become bigggg. Your voice as usual carries the overall message in such a beautiful way.
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