Recent content by rob aylestone

I thought the same as manslick - the waveform looks unlimited to me - I certainly cannot hear limiting.

Nowadays, RF interference from HF, as in Short Wave stations is getting less as they all seem to be closing down. The thing with these RF sources is the power is related to audio, as they are AM in the main, so interference has a music 'rhythm' to it. Constant interference tends to be from FM or...

I've recorded people who can barely play, and at the other end, a guy who refused the paint finish on his hand built guitar because he liked the tone at that point. Compression and EQ are not things that can have any kind of rule, because every player is different. They are simply tools to make...

I bought two of these - and they are great for isolating line level signals, or mics - xlr or jack in and out - just transformers and ground isolation. aliexpress

I suppose its down to capacitance and impedance. It might not have huge issues with audio, bar guitars and long cables where it just performs like a filter, but with square waves, being squirted at ever increasing frequencies down cable, those nice square edges probably start to become curvy...

Raymond - I do understand people like Linux, but it also means so many really good apps are sort of banned from the club? Mac OS and Windows let you have access to amazing stuff I could not do without!

Seeing the other recent post on interference, I thought I'd share this one. In my video studio there's an old mac with a firewire Presonus Firepod - I quite like this, and being rack mountable - it's useful. The PC runs Cubase, through a red 2 channel simple interface, you know the type, and two...

As an interesting experiment, you have probably learned a lot. Sound wise, the big players in sampling would actually sell this and call it super mangled-tron and people would find a use for it. Is it a mellotron? No, of course not. Its an effected instrument, and some people make music that...

My first rule now is that predicting acoustic treatment is pointless. I finish the room then treat what I find. One thing I always do since studio 1, is never have 90 degree corners, and on longer walls I pull out the middle to help reduce parallel surfaces. Even a few degrees make huge...

Glass fibre or rockwool is what Dave means. Pics wise I didnt take any of the actual building, sorry. Plasterboard here in the UK is quite cheap compared with plywood. Its crazily expensive, and sometimes the non-marine types are a bit variable in usefulness for sound. Compare the weights. The...

One studio I built I put neoprene acoustic decoupler strip under the bottom timber. A few years later it got demolished. That foam had compressed from it's 6mm down to a thin hard (and pointless) hard lump! Loads of people swear by green glue. I used it once and I vowed never to repeat it. The...

Subs Tops Vrx is odd. It’s not a line array but a constant curvature system. The venue it’s in is very deep and wide but one big tiered space but with a low ish roof. Deafen the front row but it’s quiet at the back. No place for delays. I tried vrx and I like it. Hang one sub and three tops each...

Are you certain the relays are faulty, or are the relays fine but the drive circuitry has failed? Those little dip relays do fail with age, but i could be something else?

No, the opposite = hear the room, make the adjustments - My two studios sound very different, but now I can swap between the two seamlessly as I have 'learned' their differences - so in one, bass is different. So I can put a double bass into the mix (as an example) and have it just a bit too...

Actually, I find the venue sound far more tricky because often I am trying to create tracks that will get played there, so I've got a wider need to make sure the studio sound, works live, where the volume is up, the bass goes lower, but the acoustics wrecks the music more. Next time you record...