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Hi all, On the "running the biz" side of these things, taxes & deductibility are certainly something I wonder about yearly. I know there's a routine deduction that's been available for a long while now. Section 179 Deductions (A part of the IRS tax code, Section 179 allows businesses to deduct the f...

Got it, thanks for the confirmation, guys — the Lucid seems (now that it's long since out of production) to be the cost-effective route. I briefly looked at those used on reverb, but never snagged one. The RME seems to be most costly (and their stuff is pretty awesome from what I hear, so not surpri...

Hi there, Just a curiosity; I have this older PCI-based synth card, and it runs fine in my vintage Mac — it has a pair of TRS outputs coming out of the PCI card, but it's also got optical in/out. Its max sample rate is 48KHz. I commonly run my DAW at 96KHz and I have a bunch of analog inputs, but al...

Scodiddly wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:02 pm

The world needs more mic preamps about as much as it needs more coffee mugs.

But when I really need that warmth, I have to use the British mug.

Given that they're having a crazy "we finally have chip suppliers again" sale at Metric Halo, I grabbed an LIO-8 mkIV to round out my I/O system. The preamps on the ULN-8's are great, but I didn't need a bank of more preamps to handle my external mic pre's — not pictured I have a UA 4-710 https://li...

Radial Engineering has a whole line: I’m using Radial Catapults live. Can’t say enough wonderful stuff about audio over cat5. That said you have to be thoughtful of phantom power. If you wanna throw phantom down any of those channels you need to ensure you get a special cat5 cable for the handling ...

eeeesh... well that's no fun at all. Thankfully I'm not doing anything that involves music, with them. It's just stand-up comedy. That said; I'm still waiting on a reply back (but I don't anticipate hearing back until after the July 4th holiday) about a tech spec for content, tagging-wise.

Okay wow... hacker-level sounds about right. My question is: "if this is what's required to embed those tags, then are they NOT commonly used?" — I mean to say: If using the RIFF architecture's tagging is the expected norm, then wouldn't it be pretty much a default thing in the file export of EVERY ...

I have an artist who's just finished a comedy record, and they're putting it up through Sirius XM, they're hoping to upload the content tomorrow. I handed over the files 3 weeks ago, but at the 11th hour, they're asking a question about file tagging for which I can't easily find the answer. It's a w...

I'm required by law to tell you that this is amazing.

I am not able to listen to this without smiling my face completely off.

Please listen: Rubin & McCartney: All Star Jam

Oh... that's just the multiplier column... in my head "extended replacement cost" is what made sense at the time. In hindsight, it's not that intuitive of a term for "total units cost" or whatever you might prefer to call it. In that spreadsheet, if you have "units" 1, and "Replacement cost" $100, t...

splitting days for tracking basics and then doing overdubs another day - that way you can reduce the number of people that have to be there. That was my thinking — I'm sure they might want to be there to listen back, etc... but my first instinct would have been to try to arrange it so they didn't n...

If you want to download the google-sheet of my Studio Inventory document, it's linked here.

I don't know if this info is still relevant. All posts seem to be from 10 or more years ago. Joe Montarello The Recording Studio Insurance Program Joe retired last year. The woman who took over servicing the policies (at least my policy, anyway) is named Donna. She's been cool & helpful. Pretty str...

TapeOpLarry wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:17 pm

We have a cheap Hafler amp that works fine. Hafler Trans-Nova P-1500. I've worked in studios that had McIntosh powering the NS-10m's, and I don't know that I could say the speakers got any better!

Thanks Larry! I grabbed a P1500 cheap on eBay and it’s great! Very happy with the sound.