This was given to me as you probably know, I was thinking of getting a pedal to use with my Moog Grandmother but thought this will do. I gave it a good test drive yesterday, learnt it, and saved a few sounds, but I don’t know? It sounds unlike anything else I’ve got, very dark, in a nice way, and the ...

Might be £300 in 2026 but back in 1999 a Triton 61 was £1799. That’s worth roughly £3500 now. So very similar pricing in relative terms. In 25 years the Poly Brute may well go for £300. But we are where we are now, and for me personally, that extra £2,700 doesn’t give me a proportional increase in i ...

I’m with Hugh about stretching credibility, I would be a bit worried about this gain control thing, side effects.

I now interrupt this thread to include a "perspective reset" :D "Bang per buck" The other day our very own Eddy came to my place and brought his Korg Triton Rack with him, as he knew I had some disks of my own sounds I’d like to hear again. Fine, all great, had a lovely time playing some very b ...

Yeah, I've been thinking about whether the summit might be a bit more versatile in terms of variety of sounds vs the polybrute. But the polybrute might be more expressive to play vs the summit. I'm finding the decision very difficult! Have you played either of these to any depth? versatility is not ...

My advice is to work through your own existing CD collection — material you know and love — and marvel at how some will reveal sublime quality you didn't appreciate before, After all, thst's what a monitor speaker is supposed to do. Exactly this Dave, hopefully the KH150’s will be very neutral, they ...

As usual, no one keyboard can do it all, a friend has a Summit, it’s great, I’ve also played the Polybrute, it’s very expressive as Eddy says, but IMO it’s not worth it just for that aspect, as I found the overall sound to my ears just a bit thin. I’m in the market for something similar, and I'm look ...

Yes I've had my eyes on one of the Project turntables for a while. It's on my list of things to get but I really do have to prioritise. Maybe a guitar is not higher priority, but paying for work on our house before we put it on the market is! Project are really, er, good. I wasn’t expecting mine to ...

but . . . I'd rather not be sending audio signal "through it (?)" if I don't have to . . . Thanks !!! Is that for operational reasons or sonic reasons? I can understand why you would want to keep things as simple as possible. In the short time I had my UCX I found Total Mix way too complex, but, if ...

There are some amazing young organists coming up through the ranks these days, I was at a service recently at Anne Marsden Thomas's church, one of her students actually took the service, she couldn’t have been more than about 18/19, played brilliantly, concluding with some Bach. It seems like a ...

Again, where are you monitoring? do you have a room somewhere to set up your monitors or listen on phones? It’s the only way to judge if you’ve got it right. I take it you have someone to bash the keys while you’re setting up? It’s such a faff doing take after take and listening after each one on pho ...

If the quality is good enough to convey that, then I'm fine. Some music is so poignant, the essence of it so obvious, that it will come across on anything, no matter what it is. The opening bars of Beethovens fifth, I’m there straight away, the opening of A Kind Of Blue, Brian Eno's track Another G ...

It's impossible top recommend a preamp/DI without knowing exactly what the sound source is... So yes, it's ideal*... ...or no it's completely the wrong tool for the job* *delete as applicable. Thanks Andy, Hugh, I just thought it may come in handy for my mate the accordionist, I think he has a ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:03 am ...and utterly ridiculous that vinyl mastering is still often more dynamic and better-sounding than the CD release!

I guess it’s about who cares at the mastering stage, some don’t.
Indefinitely feel that things like reverb, and spatial stuff, stereo, comes across better on vinyl.

I thought this was going to be about the use of caffeine in music production.

What gets me about vinyl is that when I’m listening to it it sounds more than good enough, it’s fine, and then I think, hang on, if I had to listen to this and nothing else it wouldn’t bother me. I’m not interested in convenience, space saving, or portability, I don’t want to have music everywhere. B ...

My turntable is still the one she got me, the Crosley "suitcase" style one. I'm fully aware the needle thingy is too heavy and will wear down the records, but I rarely use it these days and I don't have any records that I use particularly frequently. I plan to get a better turntable one day, when I ...

zenguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 8:50 am I presume you mean the Radial Engineering ToneBone PZ Pre, like this?
https://www.radialeng.com/product/pz-pre.

If so, we can edit the title of the OP.

Andy

Sorry yes, it’s a Radial.

So many quality compromises... yet still they demand vinyl and pay extortionate prices for the privilege of an archaic analogue format :lol: I started collecting vinyls back in 2015 after the now-Mrs Endi got me a turntable for Christmas. I know vinyl has lower quality, headroom etc etc.... But ...

MarkOne wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 8:56 am Yes, grey utilitarian should be the way to go, and you of course have to wear a white lab coat to operate it correctly... Oh, and smoke a pipe.

A beard? and the obligatory slightly upper-middle-class BBC type accent.
How much are these?

So many quality compromises... yet still they demand vinyl and pay extortionate prices for the privilege of an archaic analogue format :lol: As a listener the only vinyl I have bought in the last 25 years is a couple of albums containing music that I really wanted and which were not available in ...

https://www.abbeyroad.com/news/chandler-limited-abbey-road-announce-the-redd-mixing-system-3543 Looks fantastic! Am I the only one that feels like the wood frame doesn't work here though? No, it doesn’t work, it just doesn’t look right, the original much more utilitarian metal housing was more in ke ...

So many quality compromises... yet still they demand vinyl and pay extortionate prices for the privilege of an archaic analogue format :lol: I’m constantly surprised at how good vinyl pressings are these days, I’m buying more "records" than ever these days, and the sound quality really is very good. ...

I haven’t seen my friend yet to try this out, but I'm wondering if this EHX TB Z will be useful for his accordion as he has a pick up for it, or is it a completely different thing? I think, it’s a piezo pick up he has, not sure?

Your clip of the blower reveals constant tone and volume, it's when they change that blower noise becomes noticeable. When I turn the blower on, (if I'm not on a remote console), I hear the blower, then the sound disappears from my consciousness. The same here, where I wasn't aware of blower noise ...