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Did Jesco Lohan have a hand in the trap design? That looks like his work. How does it sound? Nope! Wonderful Berlin-based company called Kiss Your Ears. They're fairly new and did a terrific job for about 1/3 the cost I would have expected coming from Los Angeles! The extreme low end is constrained...

An update - how it turned out - thanks so much for all the help, everyone!

Hey, no problem - I'm happy to advocate for any position I hold, but the manner in which it came up seemed kind of odd - I'm sure you can understand. The Orion does sound great! I would have zero hesitation about tracking and mixing entire records with only that interface (and did exactly that for m...

Yeah, the two-computer solution may be the thing longer term. I've thought about it - will have to see how this round goes. I suppose there's a certain extra fussiness factor implied by that move - not necessarily an unwelcome one, but, as they say, the first step is admitting that you have a proble...

Thanks all! Digitaldrummer, that was pretty much what I feared - kind of hoping someone with some deep tech knowledge on the convertor side of things would come along with a reason why one way was decidedly better than another. The frustrating thing here is that it's often only after many hours or e...

Hey all! I have a very practical question that I’m hoping one of y’all can offer some guidance on. Sidestepping the whole nightmare external clocking vortex (to keep it brief, yes I have heard digi converters sound markedly better when clocked externally but this is a known design flaw, in general t...

This will be utterly unhelpful I'm afraid, but nonetheless: I was tracking a record several years ago where one of the guitarists had an Echoplex as part of his pedal rig that was more or less always on. The join on the loop was a bit funny, and would make a little sound every time it passed over th...

Keep your gallbladder machine away from my LP records!!!

Pure magic. I shared a studio with one of these in Chicago many years ago - I will have one again someday. Totally unique sound, all its own thing... a deep, nuanced instrument. And preparing it John Cage style yields some truly incredible results. Electric gamelan. Wonderful stuff. Hope someone can...

Scodiddly - totally - that really sucks. I have some friends in similarly compromised positions. It's horrible. Maybe I didn't put a fine enough point on it - my view is that this kind of social imperative is not a joke. To me it has nothing to do with government or politics; it's a simple, dignifie...

At the risk of ruffling some feathers... I should note that I'm in LA, and like 70% of my clientele are queer leftists/anarchists who want the patriarchy to burn... so, the few vocal sessions I've done over the pandemic, getting people to mask up until they're in the booth with the doors closed has ...

Thanks all! Good to have some stuff to try. Giving some time for the system to settle in after booting up does seem to help. Running a UAD satellite but not UAD converters, so that sample rate issue hasn't reared its head. @digitaldrummer totally - and that's the thing, I remember the old computer h...

Hey all, After years of getting by on a maxed-out 2008 mac pro, I finally bit the bullet and got a new studio computer this year. Catching up on a decade's worth of plugins has been exciting! And it's nuts to have basically unlimited plugins available without the system breaking a sweat. Imports and...

My first 16 track studio ran on one of these + its little brother the 208 for fx returns etc. The 208 stayed in use for some time after that as a monitor mixer. Now it's with a drummer friend who occasionally needs a crunchy submixer to bus down mics before they hit her interface. Glad to hear you g...

Since no one has mentioned it yet - a subharmonic synthesizer can really help with this problem too. DBX makes a bunch of good ones that are all pretty cheap, like $100 ish - great to have in the rack for all sorts of things. The low end it generates is usually way too low (it works in the 25-50 hz ...