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Electro-Harmonics NY2A Stereo Optical Compressor/Limiter. Mint condition, in a non-smoking mastering studio, one of the early units to roll out of the factory. I got it new, straight from JC Morrison who designed it. These are no longer being made, because EH's Mike Matthews doesn?t give a damn abou...

Oddly nobody has mentioned the origin of M/S mic'ing -- an M/S pair. A figure 8 mic with the lobes facing hard left and right, with a cardioid mic facing forward, as close together as possible. The 8 gets multed to 2 channels, panned hard L/R and one channel is flipped out of phase. You then have th...

hello everyone. .i just joined in. .as an avid reader of the magazine i look forward to participating in this online forum. a friend recently pointed out the thread of discussion between doug henderson, joel hamilton and others regarding antony's record. i was responsible for most of the tracking a...

thanks so much for all the information... this record has been on constant rotation for the last week and a half. ps when i say smeary, i don't mean it in a negative sense. i mean it in the sense that i feel i am in a big room and the sounds are bouncing off of the walls and washing into each other...

Not one mention of the lowly Paia tube mic pre, I am surprised... Sure you have to build it yourself, which means you get to see just how basic the circuit is, and of course no fancy transformers, just plain jane differential coupling, a frighteningly saggy power supply and no Burr-Brown parts, but ...

Re: smeary (am I liking this word?) -- the mic bleed probably has a lot to do with it -- especially on the songs with strings, which had some isolation (maybe gobo's?), but not much. Like I said, I didn't track it (and of course I wish I had), and I would have kept mics a bit farther off the piano a...

Hmmmm, it is a large question, but I can answer some of it. I didn't do the tracking -- most was done at ye olde Sorcerer, now defunct, and some bits at a place called Dubway, both in NYC. The Sorcerer stuff sounded the best coming in, not sure what the mics were though they had a nice collection of...

There should be no need smother the Federal with H-pads, though as a last resort that would be the way to go. This isn't like a Gates SA39B, designed to drive a transmitter at +26 with 2 6V6's driving the output. It's a mildly tuned +4 unit. The key is to get the threshold set properly, and the thin...

Sorry to disappoint honkyjonk, but I have to agree with Hamilton, Tonebass and of course the emminent Greg Calbi: the NY2A is superb and probably cheap at twice the price (OK 1.5 times the price). I got a loaner from EH and it made its way into the chain immediately. Ran signal through it and right ...