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To illustrate my point, here's a plot of a signal showing quantization noise, harmonic distortion and aliasing effects. As you can see, the aliasing distortion shows up at multiple points in the spectrum despite originating above 20kHz. Cheers :)

I don't really record anything at home because I use my home studio mostly for editing and mixing so I can't be much help there. However, the steps are myriad an varied. Obviously recording at home brings it's own challenges of acoustics and sound leakage (neighbors) so a few methods must be...

I'm very surprised to hear that an AT4040 turned out brighter than and NT1A. In my experience AT series mics lack the hyped top end of other cheap condensers and have much mellower sound. Maybe treat your room with bit more dampening (blankets, mattresses, etc), turn the gain down a little...

In addition to what Rob pointed out, you're dealing with how the ear/brain complex perceives spatial information or, rather, perceives an auditory object in space. This is actually what we're manipulating when we create a stereo recording; we're tricking the ear into perceiving space that...

As far as terminating the word clock goes, here is a diagram: This goes on the slave end and the vertical end of the T-adapter goes in the word clock INPUT. Cheers :)

We settled on gun metal black - sort of the like the originals. Don't wanna go too flashy with them as I prefer classy and understated as opposed to loud. I also ordered some 300 Ohm output trannies from Coles, which will triple the output compared to the stock 30 Ohm ones. One of the...

The title of your thread was XY recording and your OP doesn't even mention it. What exactly are you asking? There are two ways to accomplish XY techniques with LDCs. First: Second: If you don't have those kind of stereo adapters, it can prove difficult at times to get the positions...

So I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet right now. I found some country dude that worked in radio long ago that sold me a bunch of gear for $150 just get it out of his sight. The other stuff was a few Siemens console modules but particularly awesome was a pair of pre-Coles STC 4038...

Hi guys, I have a dilemma with my UAD-1 system and I thought I would share it on here to find out if anyone else has had the same issue. Now, before you jump on me and tell me to upgrade, I am fully aware that the UAD-1 is old and unsupported. Regardless, I have a few UAD plugins that I use...

Just wanted to say that. Why? Besides the kickass new mixer design, the strip is pretty damn useful. It basically negates having to look to plugins for 90% of my processing. And you know what? The saturation and tube compressors ACTUALLY DISTORT LIKE ANALOGUE PROCESSORS. No more looking to...

UAD-1 cards can be finicky because they're old. I know, I have two. Did you install the software before you put the cards into their PCI/e slots? That is the correct procedure. Open the UAD Performance Meter and click on the little downwards arrow thing. Select UAD Control Panel. Does it...

Actually the panel cost me $7 for materials and laser cutting and the faders (Alps K Series) cost me about $120 including the fader caps. There's a total of seven (one stereo, six mono). The big costs are still to come. Gotta find a place to engrave the dB scales next to the faders after...

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A second Chilton console, this time a QM1 (I also own a CM2)! I bought it for about $110 because it needs some work but the channel strips still all work and it's worth it for that alone. Check it out: For those of you that don't know, these are known as a "poor man's Neve". The...

I think most of my recordings sound the way they do because of my room. I can't change physics, no matter where I put my mic. It's roughly the size of a one car garage with a narrower end. All the walls are non-parallel, except for about a three foot section at the narrower end but the...