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Re: Analogue Console Subgroups & Pan Control Vs. Stereo Image

Also on panning... (1) note that some consoles with mono groups have pan pots on the group channels, while some don't. If they do, and you wish to work in stereo, you can wide pan things on the channels if you really want to, and then use the subgroup pan pots to narrow the stereo image to taste. (2 ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 30, 2025 11:10 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analogue Console Subgroups & Pan Control Vs. Stereo Image Replies: 7 Views: 296

Re: SSL unveil the Oracle analogue in-line mixing console

Forum Admin wrote: Thu Jun 26, 2025 4:57 pm Aren't most of this type of 'purchase' taken either on HP or Lease Finance, thus spreading the cost?

Does this mean you're mulling over getting one for SOS? :tongue::bouncy:
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 26, 2025 5:14 pm
Forum: New Products + Industry News Topic: SSL unveil the Oracle analogue in-line mixing console Replies: 5 Views: 280

Re: Trolley/cart for PA?

If it doesn't need to collapse to fit in your vehicle, I might go for something more robust, with bigger wheels (better in mud/gravel) and axles front and rear (which makes wheels buckling on uneven ground less likely). Eg. something along these lines: https://www.theworkplacedepot.co.uk/turntable ...
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 26, 2025 12:11 pm
Forum: Live Sound | Performance Topic: Trolley/cart for PA? Replies: 39 Views: 695

Re: Analog mixers with DAW workflow?

Yes, I think we've been over this one before, James. My main point here was that there are significant differences other than channel count between different models in the range. Personally, I valued the recorder side of things more than the mixer side. Which is why I ended up with the StudioBridge ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 24, 2025 1:08 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analog mixers with DAW workflow? Replies: 14 Views: 531

Re: Analog mixers with DAW workflow?

I will look at the more $$ sensible alternatives suggested: RME w/ Totalmix, the SSL Big 6, and the Tascams. If the mixer side of things appeals, do bear in mind that you can use a control surface with Totalmix. Also that not all of the interfaces have the DSP effects (eg my MADIFace USB doesn't ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 24, 2025 9:17 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analog mixers with DAW workflow? Replies: 14 Views: 531

Re: Ditto VS Landr

I definitely preferred using the LANDR plug-in to the online version. Btw, on the subject of loudness, another nugget that I took from that Ian Shepherd interview was the notion that LUFS-I isn't necessarily a great indicator of how loud a music track is... which in turn makes it not a great thing ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 23, 2025 4:02 pm
Forum: Music Business Topic: Ditto VS Landr Replies: 10 Views: 259

Re: Ditto VS Landr

Spotify Loud is a user-controlled setting that basically just raises the loudness limit in the app so that songs that have been mastered louder can actually be louder. I may well not be up to speed on this — I last looked into it when interviewing Ian Shepherd a few years ago — but IIRC the keys thi ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 23, 2025 2:56 pm
Forum: Music Business Topic: Ditto VS Landr Replies: 10 Views: 259

Re: Analog mixers with DAW workflow?

Happy to attempt to offer advice, but this is probably a bigger question than you think... 1. before I spend a buncha loot... This bit is important. What sort of budget are we talking about here? Are we focusing on used consoles and if so does the budget need to cover any initial repair and ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 23, 2025 2:46 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analog mixers with DAW workflow? Replies: 14 Views: 531

Re: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours

my AKG K712 Pro's ... sit a damn sight more comfortably on my head & ears for hours at a time And just to prove my point about different strokes for different folks... I didn't have a problem with the sound of the AKGs (well, a similar but earlier model), but they didn't fit me physically at all ...
by Matt HoughtonFri Jun 20, 2025 3:41 pm
Forum: DIY Electronics + Studio Design Topic: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours Replies: 16 Views: 315

Re: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours

Yeah, HD25s are decent but not comfortable for long periods. I had HD650s for many years. Did lots of good work on them. I'm now using Audeze LCD-X. A little heavier physically, but better quality (if a tad polite in the mid range — nothing you can't correct for) and incredibly comfortable. But d ...
by Matt HoughtonFri Jun 20, 2025 3:15 pm
Forum: DIY Electronics + Studio Design Topic: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours Replies: 16 Views: 315

Re: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours

I've done a reasonable job of soundproofing my double-garage conversion without quite going to the expense of building a floating structure or using posh plasterboard! The garage is mostly single-skin brick with a flat wall, but it shares a cavity wall (brick either side with rockwool in the cavity ...
by Matt HoughtonFri Jun 20, 2025 1:50 pm
Forum: DIY Electronics + Studio Design Topic: Best way of stopping (minimizing) sound getting through to neighbours Replies: 16 Views: 315

Re: I now own an SSL

As for RME, software is ... complicated I guess different people have different preferences, but I couldn't agree less! :headbang: The Matrix view for routing is about as simple as it could possibly be — inputs on one axis, outputs on the other, click to create/break the routing. The three-mixer v ...
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 19, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: User Reviews Topic: I now own an SSL Replies: 14 Views: 930

Re: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket

It's a combi socket if its got a hole in the middle of it. And if it's got one there won't be a separate jack socket for a guitar input. Depends on the device. Some gear has combos for mic (XLR) and line (jack) on the rear, and dedicated high-impedance instrument inputs on the front. Eg I think ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 17, 2025 4:46 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket Replies: 21 Views: 967

Re: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket

:lol:

That's almost worth recreating and filming for SOS, just for the YT and TikTok views that would follow :headbang::beamup:
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 17, 2025 4:26 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket Replies: 21 Views: 967

Re: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket

One addendum to the above: while the XLR and jack components of combo connectors are physically separate, and should be treated as such, designers can choose to wire them up in parallel, such that the jack (not just the XLR) carries phantom power when it's switched on. I've seen that on more than ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 17, 2025 1:20 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: You can plug a 1/4" jack into a female XLR socket Replies: 21 Views: 967

Re: Similar Adat Optical interface like rme with good drivers, converters, and pre amps under $600?

Just to chip in... I'd also agree with the advice given above. About five years ago I bought an RME MADIFace USB and have just never had to think about it since I first plugged it in. My previous interface was an RME Fireface 800 (Mk1). I retired that largely because of the inconvenience of getting ...
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 12, 2025 12:00 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Similar Adat Optical interface like rme with good drivers, converters, and pre amps under $600? Replies: 11 Views: 496

Re: Analog Summing

You can add distortion to anything very cheaply, you don’t have to spend thousands, it’d be interesting to build a really vintage looking box, big meters, knobs, all the ingredients that prepare us for a certain type of sound, but there's nothing inside, it just lights up, demonstrate it with a 24/9 ...
by Matt HoughtonWed Jun 11, 2025 9:54 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analog Summing Replies: 25 Views: 946

Re: Looking to integrate analogue 40ch mixer to AVB system

Obvious question, not answered in your plans... Why the requirement for AVB? ^ Yeah, this! Do you need to use the PreSonus mixer or will the Megas perform all those functions for you bar the interfacing? If the latter, I'd personally choose to sell the PreSonus, and decide on an interfacing option ...
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 05, 2025 11:29 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Looking to integrate analogue 40ch mixer to AVB system Replies: 10 Views: 315

Re: Analog Summing

I don't see why not! Right? Coming from you, Technical Editor... And technically, the advice is correct: if you wish to perform analogue summing, then you can do that with any analogue mixer and audio interface that have with sufficient analogue inputs and outputs. But I did not read that as a ...
by Matt HoughtonThu Jun 05, 2025 10:49 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Analog Summing Replies: 25 Views: 946

Re: A Windows 11 laptop

The first application you install a year down the line that requires "x" update, will cause you large amounts of frustration as you try and figure out which update that was. ^ This. I froze the last Windows 10 studio machine I had built five years ago, thinking along the same lines as suggested ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 03, 2025 11:02 am
Forum: Windows Music Topic: A Windows 11 laptop Replies: 61 Views: 1946

Re: Portable Touch Screen Monitors

What a twerp, I am writing this on my iPad, which I keep forgetting can be a remote controller, AFAIK I only want to control faders, I have 2 hardware controllers but with something like the iPad, I could sit back, put my feet and do a comfortable mix :lol: :clap: Yep, an iPad would do it. Lots of ...
by Matt HoughtonTue Jun 03, 2025 6:46 am
Forum: Windows Music Topic: Portable Touch Screen Monitors Replies: 7 Views: 368

Re: AI - The workers who lost their jobs to AI

Well there is that which you cannot control, so put your mind to that which you can. Employ your own discriminatory intelligence (your very own brain still exists and is vastly superior to AI for being a human being). A blanket non usage policy works for me right now. I am currently a satisifed ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 02, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: Music Business Topic: AI - The workers who lost their jobs to AI Replies: 36 Views: 1245

Re: AI - The workers who lost their jobs to AI

If both the right and the left complain of bias doesn't that suggest that the BBC are navigating a course pretty close to the middle? Maybe, but not necessarily. Perhaps the biggest charge against BBC news/current affairs is of false equivalence — treating every issue as if there are two sides of a ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 02, 2025 5:48 pm
Forum: Music Business Topic: AI - The workers who lost their jobs to AI Replies: 36 Views: 1245

Re: Portable Touch Screen Monitors

I have a touch screen in the studio and it is great for large buttons but lacks the precision that a mixer needs. I'd say that depends on the software, really. I can be precise with it if I have large faders on screen, and with Cubase you can configure different MixConsoles for different things ...
by Matt HoughtonMon Jun 02, 2025 3:57 pm
Forum: Windows Music Topic: Portable Touch Screen Monitors Replies: 7 Views: 368