Recent content by rob aylestone

We are a little confused about why you posted this link to another forum, when we have a pretty healthy mastering section here. As a new member, you've probably not noticed its quite rare to start a new post, with a bizarre title and just post a link with no comment. Sometimes folks do, but...

It was in that nice slanted wooden cabinet like the 377. The one where horizontal, is sloped upwards at the back, or vertical the top was tilted back a bit, so the spools didn't fall off! The 388 just duplicated the pcb to give two extra channels with the same design, and the two sliding record...

Yep the one I remember was the 388. Very reliable and easy to lace up. No 15ips version though. It couldn’t do sync though so not too useful for our sort of stuff

There are a few studers popping up from time to time and other higher price studio machines like of course ampex. Sony had a 4ch version of the 377 intended for quadraphonic systems, plus another of a different design. I think there was a Philips one too but very plasticky. This would have been...

Rich summed it up - if your target audience is phone listening, then nothing at the bottom is worth chasing. Plus decent HF response might be nasty sounding on a phone. The Michael Jackson example has octaves at the bottom (or maybe mega 1st harmonic) - but you still think you are hearing the...

Ben, did you start two accounts up at the same time?

Pretty much the usual choice is that if you want a sound for any instrument to be the same on speakers and small devices, you have to mix for the feebler one. That means some eq and treatment choices must be constrained within areas they both can manage. Michael jackson’s Billy Jean was a good...

Excellent! Glad you got there!

I did a show for Peggy from Hi-de-Hi the other day - great fun.

Well, in fairness to Steinberg, they cant stick with an ancient out of date system for ever. They did send people reminder after reminded, but of course i left it till the last minute and lost a lot of sounds. I got virtually all back, plus one that hadn't actually worked for years. They...

Yes - he is very frail but we have one other doctor too, we hope. Don't know much about it yet, but we've said yes to whatever it is!

The thing to remember Rob, is that not every instrument is a good one, for tone or just ease of playing. I have a friend who was told classic saxophones are very collectable. Last time I was at his house he was going through his collection. He had a Yanigisawa he had paid quite a bit for, and a...

The thing with trying to create an organ sound with a different class of instrument is that you have two separate things to consider. The sound. You can produce an organ sound (piano, or even a saxophone), but you have to play them differently, or they sound wrong. A violin can play or off the...

We have tom baker coming to our theatre next year, if he is still with us. Looking forward to that!

Just a thought? The old steinberg activation system with elicensers and real dongles was retired and people converted to their current online system. I wonder if this might have been the trouble? Did you shift to the new system? Maybe the losses occurred then? Steinberg were very helpful when i...