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- Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:14 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Plug-in suggestions for the minimalist studio
- Replies: 48
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Re: Plug-in suggestions for the minimalist studio
If you can make it till cyber monday you could probably get every plugin ever made.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:59 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Tube amp guru, help me
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18346
Re: Tube amp guru, help me
What's your wall voltage? 120, I suppose. Horribly naive question but ........ why do you ask? (cause wall voltage affects performance and tube life?) Yes, higher wall voltage raises all the voltages in the amp. So if your screens are right at their limit (440v for JJ's for example) at around 120V,...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:08 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Tube amp guru, help me
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18346
Re: Tube amp guru, help me
I've learned a few times over the years that 3 is the magic number for tries to really verify whether or not you are just unlucky with tubes. If you are gonna have to ship the amp back anyways or whatnot, it might be worth the gamble. another quick note; I've been fooled with microphonics before. I ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
I don't THINK I see any zener diodes. Do they ever look black like generic/schottkey diodes? There's a couple that look they're coming off of and bridging the outer legs on that voltage regulator, but I can't read the numbers to see what they are. They sometimes do look like that. Double check with...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:55 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
double post
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
triple post!
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:21 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
Yeah, sounds like a problem with the chassis.DrummerMan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:41 pm
Either way, if it was a problem with one of the pres, I should have gotten a solid 48v from the pinout in the chassis, right?
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 2:11 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
Can you take stuff out easily? You could pull each unit one by one and re-test, there may be a chance one of them is faulty and effecting the rest. Disclosure: I've never owned a 500 series anything. I wouldn't worry about, or F with reading amps that much since that's when stuff tends to get toasted.
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: limiting busses in rock music - digital
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6627
Re: limiting busses in rock music - digital
In lieu of this thread I thought I would share a really fun limiter plugin I just found. It's the D16 Frontier Self-Adaptive Limiter. Some of you may know, but if you get an issue of Computer Music magazine you get a fantastic plugin suite with some real gems, including this. I just updated mine and...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 15982
Re: Low Phantom power from 500 rack?
Grab yourself an auto-ranging digital multimeter (a must have tool for life in general). Set it for DCV (DC voltage), touch the black lead to pin 1 of the XLR from the pre (or the case if it's metal and that's easier), that's ground. Now touch the red lead to either pin 2 or 3, while still holding b...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: BBE Sonic Maximizer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3453
Re: BBE Sonic Maximizer
I was just kidding. It's slightly embarrassing to ask persistent questions about widely reviled pieces of gear, I should know. At least there's no obnoxious answers like "the only way to use it properly is to throw it out" type answers, so common on other forums. Those are neither clever nor helpfu...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:08 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10050
Re: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
Do you want a DI that's going to add to/change the sound coming off the guitar or something that's just going to give you the pickup? Chris Garges Charlotte, NC I don't even know really. The main use would be for reamping rock guitars, but will be used for pretty much all the standard DI things if ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10050
Re: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
What does going through a DI into your interface buy you, vs. straight in? Needs a through output. Interfaces never have those (that I know of anyway). Yeah, but good point brought up earlier that I just need a splitter to achieve the same thing. I may just do that, or I've been looking at the hamm...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:49 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10050
Re: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
Get yourself a Radial JDI and be done with it. You'll have and use it forever. Hmm, that one wasn't really even on my radar yet. My thought was instead of anything around $200 I might just go all out for the Neve. Or, a Warm Audio, something more eccentric.. Used around $100-130 though... a used Co...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:04 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: instrument DI box bang-for-buck
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10050
instrument DI box bang-for-buck
I'd like a DI mostly for getting a direct track when tracking mic'd guitars. I've always used my interface for non-thru DI (which is good) or a sansamp bass driver for bass. I've done some research, but it seems to be mostly marketing talk. Basically I would love to have someone tell me to get a sim...