It’s probably normal but just checking, I have these PMC’s set at there minimum sensitivity adjustment -8dB and I’m still having to use the main out on my Berry 1820 set at about 8/9 o’clock to get the volume at a low enough comfortable level. This is strange as the Berry has quite a low output. I'l ...

It’s probably normal but just checking, I have these PMC’s set at there minimum sensitivity adjustment -8dB and I’m still having to use the main out on my Berry 1820 set at about 8/9 o’clock to get the volume at a low enough comfortable level. This is strange as the Berry has quite a low output.

If a synth costs this much, and you have "any" doubts, don’t buy it, simple. Didn't you just sell your Grandmother though? [sorry, I just couldn't resist that!] :) I didn't have any doubts, though. I foolishly got swept along in the general enthusiasm instead of doing what I should have done and d ...

Some chaos, some wires, things plugged and unplugged in the heat of battle don’t bother me at all. In fact I think they are better for physical health and eyes or you forget to stand up every 20 minutes or even move your head and focus on anything beyond what’s directly in front of your face. There ...

I became a member of Apple Music awhile back, hardly used it.

IAA wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2026 11:22 am I was quite enjoying the hypnotic effect until the cowbell. What possessed him?! Reminds me of the Saturday Night live sketch.

But I agree on the musicianship being able to hold and weave those rhythms.

Ian.

I thought the cow bells added a nice contrast

If a synth costs this much, and you have "any" doubts, don’t buy it, simple.

Never been into his more percussive work, that much, but after seeing this, I hear it in a different way, strange, like it breaks it down, clearly. Beautiful polyrhythms, and tone colours, not to mention the actual skill of playing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK04ng3RIQU&list=RDSK04ng3RIQU ...

You have to be pretty keen eyed to spot it, in fact where is it? and why something so unimportant? and the OP has vanished.

resistorman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 2:53 pm I'm more interested in why he's micing the fan?

It’s for when they do a cover of Blowin In The Wind.

OP hasn’t returned after posting. A strange obsession with clocks (most old clocks were far more readable than modern clocks with no numbers) which to me has nothing to do with studio workflow. The answer to the question is obvious. I say AI bot. This is happening a lot here lately, one post, and t ...

I’m sure many won’t get my issue. Having a well presented music app on your phone or tablet sounds perfect. But for me, the physical presence of an object and a limited choice from which to sort is the catalyst to a time of listening. Absolutely, I could count the albums that I could listen to at an ...

I hardly ever listen to other peoples music, I wanted to buy another pair of speakers for the hi-fi, but my other half said "why? You don’t even listen to what we’ve got”
I make my own music because no one is making anything I want to listen to, so I make it.

tacitus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:51 pm Plus there was a cake to discuss.

You must realise, and I have great experience, recording comes way down the priority list when cakes are on the menu.

Nazard wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 4:15 pm
I said, "On the other hand, the D minor Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565, definitely doesn't read, or sound, like a Bach organ work..." not that it didn't read or sound like Bach.

So, it doesn’t read or sound like Bach.

resistorman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 2:51 pm It is a very handsome instrument!

It’s a happy looking instrument, just like my Granmum.

My A&H MixWiz is configurable, via jumpers, pre or post fade direct outputs, I think, even EQ can be post if you want it. Or, get a mixer with a few group outs, and have the best of all worlds, like on my MixWiz, these are very flexible mixers. Which model do you have ? I have the 14-4-2, but they ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:39 pm
...but really, the online marketplaces are awash with good quality used analogue consoles at attractive prices with highend facilities.

Anyone for a nice Midas Legend 48 for under 2k?

In situations like this a couple of carefully placed floor mounted shotgun mic's would do the trick, we used to do this quite a bit in interviews with musical examples. Too late now though.

My A&H MixWiz is configurable, via jumpers, pre or post fade direct outputs, I think, even EQ can be post if you want it. Or, get a mixer with a few group outs, and have the best of all worlds, like on my MixWiz, these are very flexible mixers.

I’d also be interested in hearing how he gets on with it, the analogue mono synth concept has been stretched beyond oblivion. I just sold my Moog Grandmother, after owning it for about five years, I’m not a "performance player" by that I mean using the wheels and knobs in real time to enhance a per ...

Fascinating, these two words "work" and "flow"
For a start music is not work, if it was I wouldn’t be doing it, as for flow, that takes care of itself, music should "flow" naturally, and the more I have to concentrate on steering it the more I’ve failed.

Actually this reminds me that a number of producers complained at the time that the DX7 didn't sit well in the mix. But this makes me wonder; say you come up with a lovely idea on synth A just noodling with the presets. You quickly capture it by recording it (cf the origin story for "satisfaction ...

I've taken up using the iPad again... completely forgot about this synth. I'll give it a whirl today. Yes, I managed to get an old iPad up and running as a music tablet, TC11 is so cool, great for semi-musical textures. The world of music electronics is unlike any other branch of music, I almost ...

Listened to that Buxtehude, you can tell where Bach came from. The D Minor Toccata Fugue is heavily contrapuntal, isn’t it? Bach was king when I was a boy, all other music was rubbish, Bach was God AFAIWC. It was very formulaic, and mathematical, it had a clearly defined effect on me, that I u ...