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Yeah, the two-computer solution may be the thing longer term. I've thought about it - will have to see how this round goes. I suppose there's a certain extra fussiness factor implied by that move - not necessarily an unwelcome one, but, as they say, the first step is admitting that you have a proble...

Thanks all! Digitaldrummer, that was pretty much what I feared - kind of hoping someone with some deep tech knowledge on the convertor side of things would come along with a reason why one way was decidedly better than another. The frustrating thing here is that it's often only after many hours or e...

Hey all! I have a very practical question that I’m hoping one of y’all can offer some guidance on. Sidestepping the whole nightmare external clocking vortex (to keep it brief, yes I have heard digi converters sound markedly better when clocked externally but this is a known design flaw, in general t...

This will be utterly unhelpful I'm afraid, but nonetheless: I was tracking a record several years ago where one of the guitarists had an Echoplex as part of his pedal rig that was more or less always on. The join on the loop was a bit funny, and would make a little sound every time it passed over th...

Keep your gallbladder machine away from my LP records!!!

Pure magic. I shared a studio with one of these in Chicago many years ago - I will have one again someday. Totally unique sound, all its own thing... a deep, nuanced instrument. And preparing it John Cage style yields some truly incredible results. Electric gamelan. Wonderful stuff. Hope someone can...

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...