My 2013 review of the smallest twotwo monitors is here: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/pmc-twotwo-5-6 The larger twotwo 8 came later and was the best of the trio imho, but the twotwo 5 and 6 were very welcome replacements for the DB1 and TB2 and raised the benchmark for small monitors. The ...

I’ve just bought them, looking forward to using them, I’m not jumping to any conclusions, I’ve got to give myself time to get used to them. Yes, good idea. I really don’t care, they’ve got to be better than my Behringer’s, if it’s not "night and day" fine, I’m not going to do my usual and freak out, ...

I’ve just bought them, looking forward to using them, I’m not jumping to any conclusions, I’ve got to give myself time to get used to them.

adrian_k wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 7:53 am Maybe buy them, run them for a while, if you like them great, if not sell them? You’ll probably lose on the deal but it’s only money and you’ll surely learn something and have fun in the process. They look impressive anyway

Good thinking!

I don't record anymore, but back in the day I always thought that if I had speakers that gave me a good mix that travelled well then that was good enough. I found that a pair of acoustic solutions bookshelf speakers from Argos and my home-made mono grot box did the trick. I have other speakers and ...

This is similar to the sound in my local Aldi, I thought about sampling it too, ours has a lot more high frequency content, it could easily make a base for a track.

Just got a reply, they are in great shape, no issues, they belonged to a mastering engineer who had them checked over by PMC, looks like I’ll have to have them, no excuses not to.

This has proved to be a very good find, it’s so expressive, I’m wondering, if it’s possible to install a fan? I’ve heard Ventrex mentioned, although that would make it less expressive as the hand pumping gives you great volume control. It’s a very haunting instrument though, I mic’ed it up and put it ...

Just seen a pair of these for sale at my usual dealer, just wondering if I should take the chance, cabinets are a a bit "dinged" but otherwise fine.
They are a reasonable price, just not sure about the sound, but it would seem like a good way to upgrade my monitors.

Not that I’ll be buying either, but the Behringer has no display, apart from its tablet control, which I’m not into. But, the bottom line is always this, when I look at an analogue mixer all the functions are obvious, there is no menu diving, the increased functions of digital don’t make it worth ...

If that had truly 18 inputs, not a stereo, and subs inc the 8 outs, it’d be here. Er... it really does have 18 balanced inputs. 8 mic/line XLR, 8 mic/line combi XLR, and stereo line on TRS. (The CQ20 has 20 inputs: 16 mic/line and two stereo ins). It doesn't have conventional audio subgroups, but d ...

I used to have some great ethnic percussion stuff, metallophones etc from EMU in a free sample pack, but they died years ago on an old comp. I’d like something similar, don’t mind paying a bit, they need to play on Kontakt.

Originally I was looking for a small mixer that had up to 6 sends. Good luck with that. A&H CQ18T. 18 inputs, 8 outputs (stereo main plus 6 Aux), very small footprint. https://www.allen-heath.com/hardware/cq/cq-18t/ Depending on how many sources and what you want to do with your effects, the Boss ...

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 10:32 am Possibly the fig 8 version of the Sennheiser MKH series to with the shotgun for an M/S array?
I'm not sure how tonally consistent they are though.

I use MKH30/40, never noticed any tonal variations, but I am 70, all I know is that they are a very compact convenient solution.

ajay_m wrote: ↑Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:35 am Is it just me, or have we passed through the event horizon of weirdness when even your speakers need rebooting

My Behringer Truths have never once took their boots off, so I've never had to put them back on, but if I need to I keep a shoe-horn handy.

I was just looking at a few videos, of Eurorack modules that I was interested in, about 10-15 years ago, and no longer own. They tended to be expensive, interesting well designed ones being around the 3-4 hundred mark or more, even basic "affordable" ones were around 1-2 hundred at least, Doepfer ...

Bob Bickerton wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 10:46 am Here you go Tony, have a crack at one of these:

https://somasynths.com/dvina/

Bob

Bob, actually not bad, at all, and, it would solve this constant faffing around trying to mic up my violin.

Good for you. I prefer to have no constraints on my creativity. If I had to go re-plugging pedal cables, just to try a new combination, I simply wouldn't bother. I've discovered wonderful ideas just by trying odd fx chains on the hoof - all in a few seconds. I just prefer to have a lot of decisions ...

Same approach here: lots of (mostly old) pedals all accessible through a patchbay. I can patch anything, in any combination, to any source in a few seconds. I've done this for decades. A patchbay is one of the most creative tools you can have in a studio. I've tried more than once, to integrate ...

FrankF wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 9:11 am

Arpangel wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 8:34 am every time I played a record it sounded different!

Eno would have loved that. Was it coated in wub fur, perchance?

All of my records are bathed in Wub Fur, if the dictionary definition is correct.

I would say it’s a wonder anything close to what left the studio is heard at all. What are you talking about? you can hear it, can’t you? :D I remember when I had my Fons turntable with a Hadcock arm, every time I played a record it sounded different! One owner of the Hadcock recommended that I set ...

"t’s really difficult to screw this up." But it is surprising how often they do in a live situation Tony! See the thread I started about live sound. Just yesterday on the One Show there was a singer backed by a small orchestra and I couldn't make out what he was singing about! OK, viewers with b ...

There literally are no hard and fast rules here, it’s been done so many ways, and it’s really difficult to screw this up. You see videos of all sorts of set-ups, they all sound fine to me, I’ve used anything from one pencil cardioids carefully placed, figure of eights, and expensive valve LDC's, basi ...

I had a drastic reorder yesterday, may as well, putting the place back together after the flood……….. now it goes into a Boss SE70, followed by a Fairfield Shallow Water That struck me as a strange juxtaposition. Did you lose tapes in the flood, as mentioned in a post about backing up hard drives? ht ...

I had a drastic reorder yesterday, may as well, putting the place back together after the flood. Instead of tying up all my FX sends with pedals, I decided to share them across my synths, it’s limiting in the way that you can’t use them on everything, but the pay off is that you can come up with som ...