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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 ...

I don't think people should feel like they've failed in any way if their ME has to do some stuff. A little eq/compression/limiting/whatever is just a totally normal thing, I mean literally almost every song we've ever heard has probably had some stuff done to it in mastering. I don't think this sho...

Chiming in to add that I don't think this is as meaningful of a distinction as it used to be. Big tracking rooms are always going to be that - maybe there are soffited mains for excitement, but people are gonna stay on the NS10s or whatever for familiarity. Plus tons of reflective surfaces - gear, i...

Wow, flutter & dropouts are part of the magic! Unavoidable on even the best-maintained and most stable of cassettes. The inertia of the reels isn't a significant part of the system, mass-wise - unlike even smaller-format reel to reel recorders where the reel motor assembly + tape pancake + reels the...

Input sheets anyone? I have a big ol accordion folder with alphabatized slots for manila folders. Every client gets a manila folder with their name on the tab. Input sheets, recall sheets etc all go in there. Also chord charts, lyric sheets etc hastily scribbled down during sessions - I pick these u...

UAD has a huge sale going too - good timing!

Thanks again everyone. This has been incredibly helpful.

I need to explore dynamic eq. Seems like a bit of a learning curve (excuse the pun). Fab filter multiband has been blowing my mind recently. It has a feature I have long dreamed of - sidechain input can control any band, AND you can filter the detector path if you want. Super flexible, intuitive, i...

For example, long ago I bought a UAD2 solo card that came with a bunch of plugs including the Lexicon 224 and the 1073 - both of which I wanted. I think there were a couple I already owned. Once the license was transferred to me, all the plugins I didn't already have got moved onto my system 1 (I t...

Great stuff, thank you!!

Oh man. My extremities are numb with fear! This is making me realize that after years of religiously backing up session files daily, separate HDD for sessions even during the workday etc... I have completely neglected to back up my (SSD) system drive. With years of custom Kontakt instruments, sample...