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- Mon May 06, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mono Auratone - who knew??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 58
Re: Mono Auratone - who knew??
I start mixes as often as possible on a mono auratone. By starting I mean getting the faders up and setting the relative levels. I don't get into EQ or any of the fine details but as i do much of the broad strokes as possible on the auratone. Which begs the question, did you do the tracking on more...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mono Auratone - who knew??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 58
Re: Mono Auratone - who knew??
I always check in mono, though summed to both speakers. It's too easy to get fooled by the stereo spread. Will have to try the mono Auratone thing, now that I have them!
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1948
Re: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
That's a lot of lumber! You're really kicking butt on this build.
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:47 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: LDC issue in Fig.8 & Omni (but fine in Cardioid)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 208
Re: LDC issue in Fig.8 & Omni (but fine in Cardioid)
Probably an issue with the backside, as that capsule (and the associated circuitry) is only used in non-cardioid modes. The super high impedance section, the part the capsule sees, is usually pretty hard to measure in any meaningful way. AT official repair will probably just replace assemblies until...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: The Pro Jr.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 331
Re: The Pro Jr.
If you bought it used, make sure it's all working 100% before you change anything. Find somebody with a tube tester, test the tubes. Use an ESR meter to check that the caps are good.
Etc. Probably wouldn't cost much to have a good tech give it the once-over.
Etc. Probably wouldn't cost much to have a good tech give it the once-over.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1948
Re: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
Something I was looking at a couple years ago was a "duct booster fan", which is a fan designed to be mounted in the middle of a round air duct. Some models have quite low noise specs, and can be used with soft flex duct to really decouple the vibration.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mixing with Hardware - Hybrid
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2575
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
One of the more interesting areas in working on old pianos is voicing. Over time the parts can stiffen up, but there are great modern lubricants designed specifically for pianos - Protek CLP is kind of the standard, the WD-40 of the piano world. Oddly enough you don't want to go too crazy with this ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
So yeah, free pianos. Easy to find, not so easy to move. Here in the Chicago suburbs it cost $275 to have the current piano moved from one house a half hour away to my house, 2-3 steps at each end. So that's the first expense, though if you've got access to a van, a ramp, and a few friends you may w...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
Earlier I mentioned the "previous" piano. The current piano is a 1967 Cable, another upright but tall enough to have a proper action, not a dropped action. The Wurlitzer had the kind of action that is dropped several inches to allow for a smaller case, and as a result has the connection to the keys ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
I still keep expecting your first post to start out with "...but I play one on TV." Ahh, so I'm not the only one. Was tempted to make some videos, but probably won't. At this point maybe it would be good if somebody did that whole ultra-long "back from the dead" type of rebuild series, and there is...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mixing with Hardware - Hybrid
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2575
Re: Mixing with Hardware - Hybrid
I'm a weirdo and should probably just be doing classical recording, because I like everything as clean as possible. When I got my first decent digital converter it was great, finally things just came out the same way they came in. That being said my own vocals now always go through a transformer pre...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
I would add that after spending an hour plus tuning, I walk away with extremely fine pitch perception for a little while afterwards. Or so it seems, anyway.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 19
- Views: 891
Re: I'm not a piano technician
So I've always heard about the idea of "stretch tuning," which I understand to be something along the line of, "once you make it out of the middle, ignore the tuner and train/ trust your ears, as harmonic truth and perfect equal temperament are both false trails." True? Or have I misunderstood? It'...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: The bottom of the snare
- Replies: 53
- Views: 13584
Re: The bottom of the snare
Just flip the snare over, and you have everything covered! Easy peasy.