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The main reason that stuff is expensive unobtanium today is because every studio threw their units right into the trash once solid state gear appeared and made tubes uncool... See the pattern here? Also there's that cultural osmosis factor of what we expect a record to sound like. I've spent plenty of time with a Fairchild clone and it's very woolly and 3D but sucks a lot of presence right out.. The Beatles mainly parallel processed vocals thru theirs if I remember correct. Wouldn't hate a Chandler REDD preamp though.
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Beatles aren't the greatest example for that, EMI made history building that ww2 surplus looking gear and inventing designs for them (stuff from that REDD console is still being cloned today)... But other than that you're right, people played tight back then and didn't need fancy signal chains or a gajillion tracks. Stevie Wonder's Superstition always astounds me as out of 16 tracks, 8 were Clavinet overdubs and everything else had a pair of channels each at most, from drums to horns. I think back then it was so hard to record in the first place that you had to pull off the maximum S/N and sound just in the soundbooth.
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No more stuff to buy, ever again!
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Mixers don't need a lot of fluff, just a decent transformer pair at the output. What about Neve 5059 Satellite or the little brother 5057 Orbit? How much mixer do you need in your mixer, something like Radial Space Heater might work? The right sound might be anything from some grungy toy to a Steinway. Loads of people on GS and beyond confidently claim that discrete and class A don't matter, and it's probably true, but whenever the sound of something wows me, those two terms tend to pop up in the specs. I'd love for the naysayers to be right as Class A is pricey, power inefficient and generates heat. There are loads of exceptions of course. Prologue, P6, OB-6, OB-X8 - didn't wow me. Old Roland, AJH Minimod, latest ISE-NIN demo - certainly wows me.
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I only hear about OB-8's being a nightmare to upkeep so I dunno, but I don't think the X8 compares. It is a lot more modern and tight sounding, kinda like the P5 rev4. It'd be superb for some woolly pads but the asking price is a lot for what it does.
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In better news, Black Corp just posted a new ISE-NIN (Jupiter 8 clone-ish) teaser. Just need to figure out which of my kidneys I like the least.. https://fb.watch/cG0BJkfKH3/
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It's also ZenCore, i.e not even ACB which is their best modeling. A used Juno doesn't cost much more. I'm guessing this will fail and R will take that to mean the retro fad is over so they'll focus on new uninspired crap as usual.
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Haha, wow at these stubborn idiots...
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The prestigious DOA standard.
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Yes, their long time collaborator and posterboy cenk left at the same time, no official connection between the two. It's simply not competitive today to make & support a Machinedrum every ten years, but the backlash is getting pretty sour on this one. It's already sold out so only time will tell. This has to be Knobs' studio... Beats me, at some point all the features are spread too thin to really amount to anything, and the pricing is insane, you're competing with serious gear. You need a pair of tweezers to adjust the panning and aux knobs. For any recording other than DI:ing your Moog® Grandmother® into your Apple® Macbook® Pro with Logic® you still need preamps. Field recordists? They have Zoom H6 and F8n. DJ'ing? Really? Hell you could get a Babyface and a fairly decent digital mixer and still have money left over for a Youtube-friendly FX pedal or two.
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$5K+ gear is also toys.. Doesn't sound half bad, looks like a better Digitakt for the drum part but consequently, a worse Rytm (except for the 2 vertically spaced rows, which is neat & ergonomic). Guessing the sequencer doesnt extend beyond the Digitakt (funny looking at the demo artist showing off old tricks), no song mode probably isn't going to cut it for a lot of folks. No sep outs is kinda crazy too, can always trust Elektron to fumble these things.
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Right outside my workplace, this time of year a bunch of toads make their perilous journey from a brook (their Tinder) to lay their eggs in seawater. The males hitch a rather progressive ride on the females' backs. When I saw a couple on the nearby road, I offered them an express shovel to some bushes, which leaves them a stretch of wood- and grasslands that should provide cover from hungry birds. Later in the day, another pair of lovetoads appeared on the road and recieved the same service. Incredible experience... Godspeed little ones!
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Fat sound as always from Dave. Hope he'll be back up to speed from now on.
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I have an old 1402 vlz pro, not sure how much lineage is shared. Physically it's an insanely sturdy piece that has proven handy in lots of weird setups and gigs, and hasn't suffered a single scratch. Soundwise it does the job but it's kinda dark & metallic sounding, fine for live & fooling around but I wouldn't want my tunes through it today. Aside from the no-input trickery posted earlier, DNB heads used to abuse the distortion in these on their square basses. Using mixers to record in 2022 is kinda icky... Sure there's no ADAT option on your interface? Usually a modestly cheap way to extend the ins.
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I don't think it's a good example of Russia's vulnerability as much as it is the western hemisphere's ability on the global platform to shut anyone down right now. Don't like you? Bam - drop all credit, drop all citizen credit, etc etc. Again, as EU citizens we have a vested interest in this going the way it's going, but It's pretty scary. People who have been vehemently against arms have been for Ukraine civilians arming themselves every step of the way. I regret to say it but I really don't care, Russia needs the blowback.
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Sounds.like busking with a looper is up their alley then?
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In the middle of a move, sold a bunch of gear, no time to make music due to work, yadayada. I was thinking up song ideas based on an old riff and remembered a delay-heavy house organ patch I played around with on a microkorg way back, probably 15 years ago, with a vocoder line. I also stole the idea from Kavinsky to combine a whisper with the vocoder patch, but the execution turned out different... Beefing up cheesetastic CR78 drums with a 1176 was really fun.
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Most of it is volume balancing and EQ. After that the world's your oyster, waveshaping/saturation, parallel processing (mixing dry/wet) everything under the sun from chorus, reverbs and distortion to exciters and compressors. A series of various fx with single-digit percentage wetness can do wonders for some material. Remember that you need lots of oversampling when saturating, especially on the mix/master bus. Clippers in various shapes are a popular transparent alternative to compression, but ambient material doesn't allow cutting a lot of peaks before ruining the source. In fact, heavily coloring devices like old compressors and reel tape can bring a lot of thickness and depth at the expense of some definition. That's why parallel compression was invented around in the 60's, to add thickness but retain some presence. I think your track is mostly fine but a little flat and harsh in the high mids. -
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time
chim replied to triachus's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
Has probably been posted before but I really dig his take on Imagine. I think anybody who has played around with ring modulation and other tricks would recognize it's not very easy to have something as legible but markedly different come out the other end. Easy or difficult in music is a pointless gatekeeping talking point, much more important whether it speaks to you in some way. Some good music is certainly difficult to make and maybe yeah, it'd suck if everybody just pitch shifted ballroom music. But we're not, and V/VM is obviously making an impact on people.- 262 replies
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Before Epic acquired Artstation, there were fewer, wider categories to put your stuff in (from traditional 2D to environmental or character design). Now there are 63 and every addition represents an industry specialization in video game or film graphics. There is no category for fine art or other classical genres, but there are categories for web design, hard surface 3D props, video game level design and even a separate section for the art of Halo Infinite. There are more contests, job offerings and the various tutorial/brush/print shop ads are bigger. There are no further community tools except facebook style likes & comments. BC has been great for its indie freedom & longevity (anybody remember Putfile? lol), even though the user interface is kinda wonky and the streaming part has lagged behind considerably. It's been practically unusable on mobile devices (don't even mention the stupid app). There are examples of Epic having a hands-off approach to some of their acquisitions, but my fear is that BC in it's current state is just too weird to live on in this shit timeline.
