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bobbydj wrote:I think the big question here is what the fuck does amortize mean??

It means "go talk to your accountant".

I've owned both the PCM-81 and 91, and the 91 is a noticably better reverb in my opinion. If reverb is what you are after, then go with the 91. I recently picked up an Eventide Princeton 2016 reverb unit, which sounds very nice and has a great easy to use one knob per function interface. A less expe...

Yeah, ultimately you may just be better off picking up another Effectron on eBay. I recently asked a repair shop what they would charge to fix my Effectron II and they wanted $100 just to look at it. After all will be said and done, probably cheaper to pickup another used Effectron!

My iBook only has one firewire port. That may make a difference, as the FCA202 worked fine on my desktop, which has two ports. I really wanted to like the FCA202 but I just couldn't get past the crackling audio thing. If you have a dealer that would accept a return if it doesn't work, it might be wo...

The Digi 002 is a firewire interface, not a USB interface. So you need a firewire port and a firewire drive if you are going to chain the 002 and the drive.

I bought one of those recently for use with my iBook, but I ended up sending it back. The problem I had with it was that it wouldn't work properly if there was a hard drive on the same firewire buss (on my laptop). There was a lot of crackling in the audio. It would work fine if the sounds came off ...

I've had Jim modify a couple pieces for me. He does good work and the gear comes back sounding better.

I also have an early SC 2.2 that doesn't have the "dark" button. It very much has its own color and compressor action, which is what's nice about it. I've found it useful on bass, it can tighten up a bass nicely. Gtrs and vocals too, as has already been said. Worth having, as there isn't anything qu...

I use a Furman AR-15 II power regulator feeding an Equi-Tech balanced power unit, which in turn feeds the gear in the studio. The Furman is there because I have seen bad power fry gear. Fry my gear, fry other people's gear. Not here, but in various venues where I've worked. So it's there for protect...

I choose the sample rate depending on the delivery format. If it is going to end up on a CD I'll record and mix at 24/44.1k, and if it is a score destined for film/video I'll work at 24/48k. If I had to use higher sample rates I'd use the higher rate that is easily divisible. So 88.2k for CD work, a...

I like the EI Yugoslavian manufactured ECC 83 12AX7 tubes in my PRO VLA, the gray plate copies. Supposedly manufactured on the same old machines that made the Telefunkens. The thing is, I have owned both a recent Chinese made PRO VLA and an earlier Made in USA model. There are differences in the sou...

If you carefully cherry pick the best that Behringer offers you can come up with some decent gear for stupid low prices. Build quality is very lightweight and cheap though in most cases, so don't expect it to last forever. It really feels like throw away gear.

If you find a place to buy one, let me know--please post the info here. One of my Effectron II's has a similar problem. I only get negative feedback, not positive, and I'd love to fix that.

I had a similar experience with Abe's Music in Florida. They ripped me off for over $400. Paid with PayPal, they said they had the item in stock, repeatedly told me I'd have it "next week", it was "on the loading dock", etc. Ultimately found out they didn't have it in stock, had never had it in stoc...

I've been dealing with the after effects of a major hard drive crash. My system drive went down (Mac) and unfortunately a lot of stuff wasn't backed up. The lesson I learned the hard way is: backup, backup, backup! So now I clone my system drive every few days. Ideally that will get down to about on...