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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 20, 2023 4:53:28 GMT -6
I bought one some years ago when they were on sale. I didn’t have the the pre or the blackbird collection - just the stock ones but I was pretty unimpressed. I mean, it sounded fine in its own right as a mic but the emulations were pretty subtle and didn’t give me any kind of wow factor, at least compared to my tube mic offerings. Maybe the pre makes all the difference? I think I used a JLM 99v with it, typically, as I thought it was the least colored of my options I looked into it years back and am pretty certain that it is just a THAT chip based preamp. Clean but basic.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 15, 2023 2:11:33 GMT -6
When are girls gonna stop singing like that? It’s like they’re all impersonating the same voice. It’s weird. My Wife (who is a singer) and I just had this exact conversation this afternoon. So many artists emulating the same sound.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 11, 2023 17:27:43 GMT -6
Yeah, but what’s really fun is to sit down with your favorite alcoholic beverage and watch some you tube or tick-tok videos on something like electrical wiring, you know something that can kill you. It leaves you wondering how these guys are still alive! As a electrician in another life I can relate, but its scary for any future home owners.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 10, 2023 15:58:13 GMT -6
All I can add is that when doing these kinds of "vocals gotta be up front on all sources" is to add compressors to just about every instrument and reverb bus and sidechain those to the vocal so that they all duck at least a little when the vocals are going. Lots of pop mixers doing this kind of thing, especially for the delay/reverb busses for the vocals so that it sounds so lush but also very clear and intelligible. Music bus & Vocal bus - side chained multiband comp.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jul 3, 2023 16:54:26 GMT -6
Limited bandwidth for the PCIe could be a problem for some use cases....but I don't think it would be for audio unless you are using a lot of storage.
Since you can't use GPUs it is less of a problem overall.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 29, 2023 22:44:04 GMT -6
The new M1 macs seem like a great audio solution if you can stomach the cost of decent size storage. Another option is a thunderbolt NVMe storage solution.
I will say that Windows 11 has been much better than windows 10 ever was in my experience. Cubase 12 on the other hand hasn't been the most stable at times.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 29, 2023 5:10:55 GMT -6
Never in this case meaning really soon. Either Luna goes native or UA does some serious hardware overhaul. Guess which one is cheaper. Luna already works "natively" without an interface but you need an interface to register it. That's what I was referring too. Be cool if you could buy it outright though. Looking forward to hearing the latest clips John. Be keen to hear a Y split from the preamp out to the x8 and Buel if you ever get a chance....
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 28, 2023 16:20:28 GMT -6
A is annoying. Good choice in keeping the Burl. I think I would probably the sell the Apollo after I was the singer and engineer doing that test. Native Luna when?Never
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 27, 2023 15:47:17 GMT -6
So here we go...I just did a take through the Burl with the Burl clock and one through the Apollo with the Apollo clock. Here's a mashup of the two. First phrase starts with one AD and then the next phrase is the other AD and so on...Really, not a ton of difference. I'll post the separate files too, but wanted to see how people heard the comp first. When you hear the two separate files, you can pick out differences. COMP - drive.google.com/file/d/1IF2Q3kngvUm3qkSx723nr7zKau2G-GsH/view?usp=sharingAre these different takes? I'm surprised they sound this different TBH!
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 10, 2023 1:25:38 GMT -6
Pickup the new RME 802 FS. 4 preamps and 8 additional line ins. why is their lineup so convoluted? Why don’t they have a modular interface like Apogee, Avid, Burl, or Lynx? Because they are German. I view RME as a "utility" brand which offers digital solutions for most audio workflows. I think RMEs line up covers way more ground than any other brand out there. When I have my 802 or 9652 running the studio I know its bullet proof. When I plug in my Antelope I hope and pray (although its almost exclusively used via adat). Apogee's line (which i love the sound of) is pretty basic routing and io wise so you have to make your studio work around the interface and their driver development is total dog shit. Unfortunately they are also becoming like antelope with their legacy products. These are the reasons i haven't pulled the trigger on a desktop symphony. I don't want too risk spending that money on a 2 channel interface, that they may drop support for, but if i can snag one for a bargain i will.... Avids prosumer line of interfaces has been all over the place over the years, although the m-audio 2626 was a winner in its day. HD is of course the "studio standard". I have never had the opportunity to own Burl or Lynx, but I loved my Metric Halo when I was on mac. Only company to rival RME in terms of support IMO. Any modern interface will be great in a home studio, but when you are on the clock it needs to work.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 9, 2023 6:07:03 GMT -6
The old FireWire RME stuff will likely still work with M1, just have to chain a couple of the correct dongles. Here’s a recent thread forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=36665I’m in a similar boat, my Best Buy card and Apple cross my mind 3 times a day lol. But the 88m is calling my name and producing gas..could still use the ff400 as ADAT. But then, if total mix works could ADAT the other stuff. My real problem is I really want 24io. Thinking about older PTHD rig, but that feels backwards yeah thats one of my ideas. use the rme ff400 with adat connected to the „new“ audiointerface as i don‘t need 10-12 in‘s all the time. just for drum recording. but i am not convinced by using a firewire>tb dongle … RME have managed to get their firewire devices working on M1 and performance is the same. You need to use 2 adapters (TB3 -> TB2) -> (TB2 -> Firewire). And Apple may disable firewire in the someway in the future.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 9, 2023 6:01:48 GMT -6
Pickup the new RME 802 FS. 4 preamps and 8 additional line ins. can i use all 12 inputs simultaneously? Yes. 4 pres on the front and 8 line in on the back.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 9, 2023 6:00:18 GMT -6
Even with advances in the chipsets on the PC side. I haven't heard anyone brag about them being silent the way the silicon chips are in the new gen Macs. Speed is great and I'm confident they'd perform well. But to work with audio and not have to hear a fan, ever, is really a step in the right direction. If there's something else out there with that, then go for it. My PC is completely silent while running any cubase session. Silent case & noctua fans. Lower than ambient room noise. Now you've heard it. M1's are quiet though because the fans don't spin during audio/DAW tasks
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 9, 2023 3:16:10 GMT -6
Pickup the new RME 802 FS. 4 preamps and 8 additional line ins.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 8, 2023 20:49:11 GMT -6
I have one of Bens M7's in a EF12k based U47. Its my favourite microphone. Very smooth and takes eq well if you need a high end boost.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 7, 2023 17:00:32 GMT -6
I never recommended 8 gig nor would I, i think 16 g ram is the minimum, but as I said, no probs here . Yeah 16gb is fine.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 7, 2023 16:01:20 GMT -6
Not really more efficient, macos just sends to swap more often as it is faster than previous storage solutions. The issue is that less ram means your SSD will wear out faster. (not sure if it has a real world impact) I think we are confusing the soc ram and some ssd. My understanding is the soc ram is more efficient due to its on chip proximity and design. Some macs ssd do swap which is related to demand and total ram: analysis I ‘ve seen suggests issues were blown out of proportion: for most a non issue in terms of computer longevity. I don’t worry about it at all, never seen my m1 mini, 256 ssd and 16 ram, break a sweat, heard fans come on or seen high cpu usage. I was thinking in general about library size. I think 8gb will get filled up very quickly with a big daw session because all the instruments have to be stored in ram or moved to swap as its about size not efficiency. SOC design does improve RTL and buffer size processing, because the system only has a certain amount of time to fill up the buffer before it has to be sent out. Any requirement to access memory is improved and those improvement do make a difference for realtime audio.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 7, 2023 15:49:18 GMT -6
I have done 50Ft hdmi runs with a good quality cable.
The cheaper solution that I have used may times is HDMI to RJ45 extenders. They will do over 50 meters easily (164 ft for people still in the dark ages /jk)
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 6, 2023 19:32:11 GMT -6
100%. We share this scenario almost verbatim.
I don't hang out on 32 buffers though, I track and lower to a stable setting and on some jobs wind up all the way down. It's less about 1 particular synth and kind of more what a given combination of them is. Anything U-he gets frozen on sight, it will not share it's toys or play nicely with others like SD3 and a big ABR Spitfire patch, for examples sake
My other underlying motivation is I'm strongly considering moving to Logic full time. I no longer need to be exclusively PT so I want to pull the plaster off and make enroads to get this change over done in the next few months. Some stuff I will continue with my monster PC's, mainly heavy lifting on tuning audio restorations ARA integration etc. A lot about the Mac solutions really appeal to me.
Looking for that ideal situ to get my feet wet and see if the migration is something I can deal with and continue to make a living. Maybe I shouldn't word it quite like that, often my backup plans are more considered than my leaps into the advancing future with regards to tech stuff!
100% for me on under 24 raw track productions that often need everything I can throw at them. You’ll max out a single core or the buffer on your interface drivers long before ram or multi core for audio. These new mac pros might be barely better than a Mac mini if you’re maxing out a single core on a heavy fx send or bus processing. They’re for editing 8k video in final cut. I was maxing 4gb and then 8gb of ram with old school digitalfish phones and Sonnox plugs. 32-bit days were rough at the 4 gb limit on OS X. Now I have 128 gb of ddr 4 now so I can have web browser open while I mix hardcore. Ill hit 32 gb or so on windows 11 for reaper alone. My tracks have lots of uhe satin (runs at 384 khz), Tokyo dawn on insane (many functions running at 768 khz), sound radix and newer Sonnox plugs (lots of lookahead to kill your buffer and slow your faders to a crawl), tons of psp and fuse plugs sometimes, and the high end fx sends I use can really cripple a cpu. And I have cool stuff on everything. Usually at least… at least some Massenburg plugs on the lightest weight tracks. Guys refuse to commit in tracking now. They either need cool mix to have cool sound more than ever or it was recorded totally screwed up. Often both. I often have to freeze to 32-bit float to ride the faders at a lower buffer. Or I’ll render out stems out as dithered 24-bit (what hits the monitoring converter) and reimport to a new session if stuff gets really unwieldy with these crazy unwieldy sessions that just grow and grow and grow. Especially if I’ve edited stuff and was processing in sections totally differently with high overall track count. I did a master recently where I had to chop up, process, and eq a 20 minute track recorded and mixed in the late 90s and then fade it all together again verse by verse. Pita and gross. Depends how the DAW handles multicore audio. Is one core dedicated to the monitor path/whole project/certain busses/single VIs?
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on Jun 6, 2023 19:30:15 GMT -6
The new m series ram is more efficient than previous ram. Do you have many very large sample libraries, use lots of vi, why do you think you need so much external drive space and memory ? Not really more efficient, macos just sends to swap more often as it is faster than previous storage solutions. The issue is that less ram means your SSD will wear out faster. (not sure if it has a real world impact)
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on May 22, 2023 20:57:18 GMT -6
Well you don’t move somebody 500 miles and make them work on the campus and say He knew it was only a matter of time. Dave upended his life here in L.A. to go work Bock/UA. It was another psychopathic corporate maneuver. There are no excuses for this kind of behavior. Yeah, some people here are crazy for thinking that this was all planned by David and UA together. There's no doubt, even said by David's own word, that he was surprised to say the least. They cut David's presence on the company short, and at a difficult personal time for the man. This. It will influence my decisions regarding the purchase of UA gear going forward. I think don't think I've had any UA gear since the blackfaces anyway.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on May 22, 2023 5:10:11 GMT -6
Great performance Josh. I would be equality happy with either of these microphones.
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on May 21, 2023 17:01:17 GMT -6
Color: Silvery hahah
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on May 11, 2023 19:23:10 GMT -6
FWIW my understanding of the (last incarnation) U195 I have is... David Bock's team followed his stringent QC requirements, and it's a very fine mic indeed. Even though it has (gasp) a Chinese capsule. Ref C? Same deal.* The U195 isn't toooo...expensive for what it is. Around $1600? $1250 corrected by Chessparov - didn't realize it was this cheap! But my wallet would never pay ref c pricing, knowing it has a $50 capsule in it. They can only charge those prices because of its bigger brother. If you are paying top dollar for a microphone it should contain a top quality capsule. Chandler TG uses a cheap capsule, but again that retails for around $2000. The Aztec at $3,299 is pushing the limits of price to quality imo, the introductory offer is more reasonable. This what what my original comment was referring too. (The solid-core Kimber OFC will make little difference to audio quality. Its about 20cm worth of wire total.) Roswell need to run a business and pay their people and I doubt they are getting rich building these microphones and I wish them the best
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Post by BenjaminAshlin on May 9, 2023 16:54:33 GMT -6
I'll keep that Behringer in mind if I ever start tracking more than one or two people at a time. Those little Behringer HA400's are a good cheap option. I keep one around as a headphone splitter when we have jam sessions. They wouldn't be my main headphone amp but work great for tracking. Pretty sure you can get them for like 20-30 bucks
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