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Is a Scarlett 18i8 in your budget? I have the 2nd gen version, have never used the ADAT / optical input.
https://us.focusrite.com/products/scarlett-18i8

It looks like the first and second gens also have the optical input.

Great looking studio, and great ideas.
Life goal: get enough D'Addario points to get that stool.

Pawnshop score: mini USB keyboard - Akai LPK25. Mini sized keys with springy action. Suitable for couch noodling (sits over MBP keyboard without touching its QWERTY keys). Also shown - Slipdrive pocket with Crucial SSD 4TB. mini kb.jpg When I first saw this photo it looked like a merged keyboard an...

Pawnshop score: mini USB keyboard - Akai LPK25. Mini sized keys with springy action. Suitable for couch noodling (sits over MBP keyboard without touching its QWERTY keys). Also shown - Slipdrive pocket with Crucial SSD 4TB.

I recently got a "Slipdrive" adhesive/elastic pocket to hold an SSD drive (Crucial X10 4TB), since it's a little cheaper than buying a Macbook with a big SSD drive. It keeps the external drive handy (the pocket glues to the laptop lid), and the cable fits in it, if I want to disconnect. Now I can do...

Not sure it counts as gear if it's software, a synth plugin called "Polymode" (a Moog Polymoog simulator). So I can play along to Gary Numan's "Pleasure Principle" album using the "Vox Humana" preset he used all over the place on that one. I've spent $29 on stupider things. https://cherryaudio.com/p...

Nice article on "Dream Weaver" - I wonder what that opening chord is. Probably every note on the scale.

https://www.mixonline.com/recording/cla ... el%20deck.

I love the drawing on the page where the interview starts - little diagrams of his gear (Tunde Adebimpe drew it, I assume)?


What's on the lower left near the rhythm box and Zoom?

An iPad 2 - my Dad is finally cleaning out his office. Anybody got a line on a good 30-pin to MIDI interface? I have that model, and a newer one. I wonder if one of these will suit your needs? https://www.alesis.com/products/legacy/io-dock-ii My older one has iStrobosoft installed, it makes a nice ...

Just finished this book (a friend borrowed from the library - I need to do that more). Featuring a few well known characters - Leo Fender, Les Paul, Paul Bigsby, etc. My take is that Les Paul was not the ideal husband, and Leo was somewhere on the spectrum (I also didn't know about his eye and ear i...

My experience with XM has been weird. I have been engineering a client's XM show for over 12 years now. It used to be fun, lighthearted etc. Then the suits came in with : 1. You cannot EVER speak over music, not even a bed. 2. The music HAS TO BE FULLY CLEAR OF ANY VOICEOVER. I've heard a lot of su...

I guess this still beats a ~ 35 year period where they weren't doing anything with the brand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer

And the ending...

Spark "Go" 5w amp. Not that I needed another battery powered amp, but maybe it does something my Roland MicroCube, Vox DA-5, other mini Vox, mini Marshall, Danelectro Honeytone, Danelectro amp-in-a-bag, and Smokey don't. Maybe I'll run its line out/headphone into a big amp, and see what's what. IMG_...

I've gotten Tape Op email as recently as May 18th of this year.