in the bread lines mostly...or doing IT work if they're out on parole

I'm glad to hear this story. I buy Drawmer gear from Thomann even though I live in the US. I've always been a bit nervous about that approach, now the red flags are up and I'll just pay the US distribution upcharge from Sweetwater! Also, I had an iffy experience with Focusrite many years ago and ...

I don't know if it's officially defined, but I've always thought of "the alley" as just being the short stretch where Atlantic storms are funneled between FL and S. America. Once, they come out of the alley, they could go any direction. ah monsoonish then. and I accept your definition of hurricane ...

artificial intelligence is only half right.

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:38 pm If you need to mix sources, then perhaps a keyboard line mixer would work. Something like the Samsung SM10, perhaps, which has balanced line inputs in a 1U rack.

Samson SM10?

Almost all of those cities are along the gulf coast and all are in Hurricane Alley. I'd bet they get most of that in 5-8 storms a year. Too lazy to see how many overcast days/year versus the wet spots in the isles. Out here in the hinterlands of NY, COVID policy decisions destroyed the gasping ...

or just pretend your hard drive is a tape machine...

Are you recording tracks one at a time or multi-tracking?

But once the depravity of over consumption squeezes the last drop of oil out of the ground and we can't distract ourselves with video games and constant social media ego stimulation, people will once again find the joy of building community through shared expression. Until we realise that our ...

Music used to be a valid format for artistic (emotional/communal) expression. It had relevance based on many social factors. Once upon a time pretty much everyone played some form of instrument and informal group play was common. To my tired old mind, the interesting question has less to do with ...

I have an M2 Pro mac mini 32GB RAM that I regularly track 16 channels live with my buffer at 64. Latency is about 5ms, no stutters, no lag, no drop outs - but I don't load plug ins for tracking. It's basically a tape machine. Like Luke, I use peripheral SSD drives for session files and a separate ...

Not even a little bit. "A picture may be perfect painted imperfectly." Everything is subjective. What's perfect for a K-pop A&R bird is unlikely to appease a trad jazz cat. The perfect ambient balance will not suit punk rock. In one's own explorations, at least in mine, the solace of a sense of ...

I wonder whether this is to comply with the demands of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,m which gives US authourities the right to have "warrantless surveilance" powers over the communications of any person in whatever country - now hang on a minute, I thought it was 'rogue ...

Drew - I have a ceiling cloud that's about a 1.2 square meters with 2" Corning 713 and a layer of 1lb/sf limp mass (MLV) floating on top of that. I could easily increase that as I have mad carpentry skills. Under the monitors (KH80's and HS5's) is a 3/4" plywood case, 15" deep x 100" wide that is ...

Open question: How is this effectively dealt with? With broadband acoustic absorbers and bass traps placed intelligently to minimise strong modal reflections at the frequencies of interest. Diffusion can also help for higher frequencies. This is exactly it. I'll have to research a bit more to ...

Treatment has been a priority. The bookcases are 80% broadband absorption and 20% SOS magazines providing diffusion. :D No doubt there's room for improvement. The Neumann MA-1 app shows a dead zone at ~114Hz, not horrible after that. I probably have a screen capture somewhere but as my studio Mac ...

So, I'm pretty slow when it comes to the physics of sound, but it's eventually dawned on me that there will always be a null at the center line of every plane in a room. (*edit: I'm only discussing 1st and 2nd axial modes, way too complicated to think about O&T modes) Paradoxically, it seems that ...

It changes with the room in my experience but generally there's a center area with audio and visual monitors symmetrically positioned behind or on a desk. This is the mixing position. Usually on my right is outboard/hardware. On my left, patchbay and paper. A bit further right is another video ...

I've used regular old burlap on a few panels. Being in America, we don't have "Cara" but I use this:https://www.atsacoustics.com/Sona-Acous ... abric.html

Same thing I reckon. Much easier to work with, much prettier to look at, not as itchy.

Seems to have morphed into the MPK261 these days: I shall investigate. Almost the same box - colored pads and annoying colors everywhere, but functionally equivalent. I can't believe how inexpensive it is. I use the transport function alot when recording myself on guitar or vox. I have my little ...

I'm no keyboardist and have a controller for exactly the reasons you describe. I've had my AKAI MPK61 for gosh, I don't even know how long. At least a decade. Super versatile, utterly reliable and supports all the functions you mentioned. Highly recommend you take a look. No idea what they go for ...

Yes, that's the way it's done. Load you up with everything because it's just too damn hard to write programs that read licenses. I hated Waves, invested in Universal Audio instead and will never download another software update from them again for exactly this reason. It's simple mediocre managers ...

I'm in Canada... and the paper just said: "You, ____________ may share this music with the performers listed as who performs the songs and they may credit the music as their own writing." Then I signed it. The recipient was in the US. Walk away. You have two jurisdictions to settle before the ...

by the quality of their tailoring

Arpangel wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:56 am

Watchmaker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:23 pm Whatever it takes to keep you centered and growing!

Equipment has made me anxious and poor.

srsly. It's my retirement fund in liquid assets guaranteed to return -50% on my investment