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Mystery solved. I'll record my findings here for posterity. Yes, the old card is definitely PCI. Contemporary PCs all seem to have PCIe slots. Lynx offers two logical connectivity solutions for weirdo PC people: The LSlot addition can go into an og Aurora 16 which gives it a USB out (you can also ge...

Update: looks like I need to add Lynx's L Slot to the converter and run it through USB. I'm sure new fangled USB can handle 16 ins and outs with low latency but if a current user wants to reassure my stoneage ass I'd like it

Hi gang.

I'm a stalwart PC user due for my once-a-decade computer upgrade.

Somehow PCI slots in PC towers have disappeared from the market.

How would you connect an older Lynx Aurora to a modern computer without using a PCI card?

I just bought my second Symetrix 501 toggle version. I hadn't planned on getting one but I've had an Overstayer SVC on order for about 7 months and I've become fixated on having a grindy stereo thing for parallel drums. I've got a heap of mixing to do so I'm going to try stereo linking a couple 501s.

^Those guitars look and sound great. The only thing that kept me from picking one up is the body contour. It felt really flat to me like I couldn't rock and roll strum it without changing my technique or getting a blister on my wrist.

drumsound wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:33 am

I feel that it can also allow me to have the reverb be more felt than heard.

That's a great way to articulate what I'm finding my reverb goals are more often these days.

I'll go first since it's a broad question. Recently I started coming back to just a pinch of smallish to medium rooms on a lot of my lead vocals. After falling in love with the EMT plate emulations on my TC 4000, I think I started to make some things to dense and foggy with it, and have been appreci...

No not a shootout between plugins/hardware. I realized reverb is like much of what we do: it's aesthetic and abstract, yet totally quantifiable. I go through phases and habits, and often do a correction when I realize that some of my impulses when mixing don't always match what I appreciate as a gen...

My room will never be perfect. Yeah, I feel that. At least with measurement we know our rooms' weak points. This way I won't go crazy boosting underrepresented frequencies with eq when mixing. Kind of suspension of disbelief, but at least based on data. The other thing I realized when I started mea...

^ Yes, to clarify. I made two changes this week. Step one: move speakers, big improvement. Step two: add trapping, small improvement.

Next is step three: more trapping. I hope for another small improvement.

^ Yes.

To put it another way, think of the geometry of the following variables: sound source, wavelength of any specific frequency, distance to a wall.

I can almost imagine putting the speakers on a moving walkway and playing the room modes like a wah pedal.

^ It was radical.

Also means that next time I ask for notes on a mastering job you hopefully won't have to explain how you needed a lot of dynamic eq to tame some wild lows on the bass guitar..... Hopefully.

^ You caught me- I skimmed the article. Thanks for taking the time to clarify. I think adding a sub might be my final step. Especially one that can be tuned into a narrow frequency range. For now I tried some ideas Morespaceecho was kind enough to share with me. I moved the speakers as close to the ...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:53 am

Do that for starters.

How far are the speakers from the front wall?

They're only a couple feet away, but close to my panels, so they can't move closer to the wall, but I shot the room with them another foot or two out and the null was identical.

The problem is large, physical and very centered as a null around 80hz The only way you'll fix that is with a sub, probably two of them. https://mehlau.net/audio/multisub_geddes/ https://carltatzdesign.com/downloads/elephant-room-article.pdf I'm a little skeptical. Especially considering the second...