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by chconnor
Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:46 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

FLAC support!

Version 2.39 released. New features: 2.39 fixes a few seeking/looping bugs, enables check for new version on startup (optionally), adds FLAC support via conversion to WAV, as well as MP3 support for linux distros that lack the needed system libraries, and adds a config.txt to set configuration varia...
by chconnor
Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:22 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

And! I've just released a web-based (javascript) version of my ABX/Shootout tool. You can check it out here . It's a free-for-non-commercial use tool that you can put on your web page so that visitors to your site can do ABX tests or shootouts. It has some other fancy features, too. Let me know if y...
by chconnor
Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:34 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

Version 2.36 released -- * in shootouts you can now optionally score each file 1-10 as you go * auto-detect changes to audio files and prompt to refresh/ignore (except on Windows due to Java bug) * keyboard shortcuts * prompts to prevent accidental loss of test results * lots of little UI improvements
by chconnor
Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:32 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

Version 2.35 released -- fixes a hang/lockup that some Mac OS X users were seeing. If you had that issue, give it another try. Thanks!
by chconnor
Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:37 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

Lots of little UI fixes and improvements for 2.34:

http://lacinato.com/cm/software/othersoft/abx
by chconnor
Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:09 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

2.32 adds support for drag/drop of *.abx files and opening *.abx files directly (once they are associated in the OS to "open with" the program.)
by chconnor
Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:06 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

Version 2.3 just released! - now you can save/load sets of files/gains/offsets (with absolute or relative paths, so you can save a fileset along with the audio files in the same directory and share your tests with others) - set the play position with its own slider, optionally set the start/end slid...
by chconnor
Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:51 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: making cardioid from omni + fig-8
Replies: 11
Views: 7879

Interesting. I had assumed that the same kind of imperfections would be present in a cardiod capsule, which if i understand things correctly, is achieving the same kind of thing by opening ports in the back plate and allowing phase cancellation and that would result in similar things (e.g. proximity...
by chconnor
Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:19 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: making cardioid from omni + fig-8
Replies: 11
Views: 7879

But from what i've learned, you haven't happened upon a new paradigm. Yeah, I suspect this is the case. :-) Besides the contrived situations i described above where it might be handy, it's hard to see it as much better (or even different) then using a couple cardioids. But when/if i do the experime...
by chconnor
Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:27 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: making cardioid from omni + fig-8
Replies: 11
Views: 7879

Thanks for the response -- my point is just to wonder if there is a functional difference between two cardioids facing away from each other and my theoretical setup which uses an omni and fig-8 (with O+8 and O-8 as the two channels) to achieve the same thing. I'm not trying to get a stereo image of ...
by chconnor
Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: making cardioid from omni + fig-8
Replies: 11
Views: 7879

making cardioid from omni + fig-8

(Nerd-out warning; abandon all sense of utility ye who enter.) Question for anyone interested: Back in the day, they made a cardioid pattern by combining an omni with a coincident figure-8. Since the omni hears in-phase all around and the fig-8 hears out-of-phase from the back, the result is that so...
by chconnor
Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:47 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: I gotta "bedio", you?
Replies: 4
Views: 1954

Re: I gotta "bedio", you?

Shame no one replied to this. :-) A couple old spaces for me: the first from ~2005 in the upstairs hall of our shared house. Doing bad vocal overdubs in the hallway takes a certain amount of releasing of your inhibitions, which i think is very healthy: http://caseyconnor.org/images/studio-c.jpg The ...
by chconnor
Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:56 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Interface for laptop mixing
Replies: 11
Views: 4696

I used a Tascam US-1641 at my rehearsal space and an ART USB DualPre at home. I would lug my computer tower back and forth. Lately, I've just been carrying my laptop back and forth. I use the onboard soundcard for playback most of the time while at home. I just plug in some headphones and I can wor...
by chconnor
Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:30 am
Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade
Topic: WTB: Cheap, broken LDC mics
Replies: 1
Views: 946

WTB: Cheap, broken LDC mics

Hi -- I need a mic body (or three) for a project... if you have any super cheap LDC-size mics that are broken that you'd like to get rid of, let me know. Thanks!

-c
by chconnor
Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:44 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: New blind-testing ABX software!
Replies: 31
Views: 15839

2.2 is now out... adds drag-and-drop support: drag a file (or group of files) to the program for easy setup of your tests. If you drag a single file to a particular row, it will replace that file. Otherwise it will insert them.