Recent content by Folkcafe

Hey Scott, welcome aboard and all that but holy shite. No really, I've got some 20 something year old posts I'd love your perspective on. The minute I decide to take a break from this place, I get tons of notifications on these long dead posts. Enthusiastic much? Did you read the thread at...

I'm unfollowing this post and am out. The fact that the OP of this cannot even answer the simplest of questions is f'n stupid.

If you go to Windows Settings and select Systems, at the bottom of the list is an about option. Click it and it will list your device specification including the CPU model number. A modern I5 will kick the crap out of an old I7 for performance. We've been saying that generation of CPU is the...

He does qualify the statement in the beginning by saying "almost". Most EQ is modelled after analog EQ which we perceive as being sonically pleasant. Back in the early 90's, Sony came out with the Oxford console which changed things up a bit. We had considered one for the studio before...

The EastWest drive is a Samsung T7 which I use for video editing, and I have a dedicated one for all my samples, plugins and VST's.

The OP doesn't even mention what CPU he has and yet states, that is his issue. The Elite line was introduced in 2008, so who knows what he has. Huge difference between a 5th gen I5 vs a 12th gen. I'm back to the Mac for the second time around. Swapped to PC when the Intel Mac first came out...

I was very much in the same boat a few years back. I too had used ProTools for many years and figured that's what I'd get. Fast forward a few years and that ProTools subscription was the first thing to go. If you recall, ProTools wasn't that great at Midi. That hasn't changed unfortunately...

You can solder your own or purchase insert cables. The main thing is you'll be using them differently than a typical insert cable. The cable itself is a Y cable using a TRS (Tip-Ring-Sleeve) connector on one end and two TS (Tip-Sleeve) on the other. The tip is return and ring is send on the...

Please be aware that the UMC1820 Adat doesn't work in stand alone mode. This means that one cannot simply be plugged into another and be expected to work. The easiest way and also cheaper is to use one UMC1820 and add a ADA8200. Two interfaces will be difficult to get working on a PC. On a...

What, not even some bare bone Millennia HV preamps? This test sucks already. :LOL: On a serious note, not sure what a comparison of stage vocal mics will tell us on unknown voices. Crowd seems into it so why not.

For some maybe, but I am a lost soul when it comes to time. It is fundamentally why I ended up as a recording/live sound engineer vs a musician. It is also why I eventually ended up working with Folk artists. If ever there were a group that viewed time as a loose guideline, well, these are my...

In some of my previous posts I enclosed a couple of interface comparisons that showed the Presonus AudioBox as having a super high noise floor. It was bad to the point where some suspected the unit must have been faulty. To your point about input impedance, the Presonus was the lowest of the...

I've always had issues with following just a click. Drums & bass, I'm a lot better. Even better for certain things is a metronome that includes a visual indicator. I've got a lot of things going on that my ears are paying attention to, and my eyes are not really being used for much. I...

This is a far more rational argument vs POS. It just seemed like you were telling all the people who liked chocolate that it is terrible and that any other flavor is preferable. This is the subjective part to some extent. The other thing I learned when selling HiFi is that people have all...

"Hive Mind" is an interesting description. More so "POS" for a microphone that was introduced in 1966 and that has probably outsold any similar mic by huge ratios. So, I get that you don't like it. So not trying to convince you otherwise, just pointing out a common selection bias. As a...