Another vote for ART DTI box. Very useful bit of kit and built like a tank. For passive, I've been using Orchid electronics transformers. They do the job! https://orchid-electronics.co.uk/Single_Isolator.htm

Yes, not a bad price IF you already have some mic pres (or a mixer!).

I did think that M6 would have been better with ADAT?

It's great if you have a line only setup and happy mixing ITB!

Chet Leeway wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:54 am Check out MOTU's new 16A: It's got 16 in, 16 out, all line. Can be expanded with optical I/O.

Hey this is great! Price is decent too.

If you have dithered and non-dithered files of your audio, you can always sum and difference them. That should leave you with the dither to inspect. A bit meter will show you what's going on at that point but it's so negligible at those levels. I remember the Rosetta 24-Bit/16-Bit switch ...

Very interesting piece here from Benn Jordan on his investigations into how to make audio files un-ai-able: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA This is crazy and should be a feature in every render dialogue of every DAW lol. yeah, many thanks to Drew for posting the link, very interesting ...

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:15 pm Very interesting piece here from Benn Jordan on his investigations into how to make audio files un-ai-able: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA

This is crazy and should be a feature in every render dialogue of every DAW lol.

The Buchla Paradigm sounds like the title of a Len Deighton novel.

The Central Line release date fits with Jupiter 8 but the timeline is a bit close being the same year for both. My money's on a Prophet 5 which, according to the internet, Larry used on Taanya Gardner's Heartbeat remix, also released in 81. https://www.matrixsynth.com/2011/12/sequential-circuits ...

Yes, their JP8 and Prophet 10 were also on display. Saw pics on twitter but can't find them now.

BillB wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:28 pm £8190 for “A 'LINNDRUM' LM-2 ANALOG DRUM MACHINE”

Someone got conned…

Guess it should go without saying that they weren't buying just a Linndrum.

Here's something I learned about myself today. With the advances in music generating #AI, I have discovered that if someone uses AI in their cover art, I immediately question whether they've also used it to generate their music. I know that's not really fair, but that is my immediate reaction. Does ...

Another vote for Midjourney. Easy to use and you quickly get drawn into prompt design. It's very fun and the results are only as good as your prompts. There are plenty of example prompts and the results they yield so have a look at some of those and work out what you want from it. It's very much ...

I remember the first time when I noticed my old Wavelab 4 would not always allow me to edit at a certain precise point. From memory it seemed to move the waveforms slightly until it found matching amplitudes, which became the new splice point. Would this have been so or was something else going on ...

MarkOne wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:23 pm

ken long wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:12 pm …some of my favourite disco tunes from the 70s had interesting chord progressions and it never took away from the danceability.

Earth Wind and Fire? Fantasy?

Yes, and anything by Rod Temperton.

Having watched the Avicci doc on Netflix, I was a bit baffled to learn that he was a musical genius but not one song was played to substantiate this. Every song seemed to be a straight up major scales with no chord progressions or modulation. I get it, it's EDM but some of my favourite disco tunes ...

Looking good James!

As I said... specialist applications. Used to be done on tape at 30ips and replaying at 1-7/8s — the analogue equivalent of recording at 764kHz and replaying g at 48kHz.... although the upper frequency limit is still defined by the mic rather than the medium. There was a tape machine that ran at 6 ...

some ultrasonic bat recorders need to sample that fast. I don't have experience with these (or bat recording tbf!) so can't say how well they perform.

This one offers rates of 192kHz, 256kHz, 384kHz, 500kHz

https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/produ ... ter-sm4bat

Don't mix as much as much as master these days but in both cases if the label hires me then I'll deal with them as they're the ones paying. If they CC the artist in the email, I'll make sure to continue to copy them in to any further correspondence. IME, the label gives final say to the artist but ...

Seen Toft ATB16s go for a couple grand on eBay, Ameks for not much more. Soundcrafts and DDA's going for £500 all day. All of these things will need some form of service but just to say there are great, affordable options for someone who really wants to get into it. Of course none of these have a ...

I was amused by this quote: "Our lacquers are then plated in a specialized process that protects transients in the musical signal. (Due to this process, there may be occasional pops or ticks inherent in initial play back, but as the disc is played more, a high quality stylus will actually polish ...

I take all this with a bucket of salt! Not tape product but: Sourced from the Original Master Tapes: 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP Presents the 1958 Standard in Definitive Stereo Sound 1/4" / 15 IPS Dolby SR analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe https://mofi.com/products/mfsl1-374_miles ...

the Cocteau twins one sounds like a pro one but could be anything. The Prince joint is much newer. Could be anything. Both are 1/8th note. 1000 ways to skin this cat.

I haven't done any tape transfers for years, but I would often move the tape from lesser-quality shells to known good-quality ones before recording, to improve stability and consistency of playback. I'd also re-splice the reels if there was an issue with them. I recall having had some sort of high ...