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Oh by the way, you can't really tell from the pics, but the racks are set back about 18" from the console armrest, which means the engineer sits about 2 foot away from the equipment. It was a compromise that I thought was worth making in keeping the whole shebang nice and compact. I'm in no...

I hear what you say about the racks being under the desk. I don't plan on doing a whole load of patching and now at the ripe old age of 52 reaching under the desk and squatting on the floor for a few minutes each day may be the only bit of stretching and exercise I get in a day. Once I get...

I thought that definition of what 'best' constitutes for me was plain enough. Also, old mixing consoles, if they haven't ever been serviced are probably now running way out of spec and introducing a level of hiss, pops and wheezes that were never there on release. I digitised my CD library a...

My remarks were more observations to stimulate discussion around how to achieve the 'best' solution to recording. Al

If you've been following my threads over the years, you'll probably think I'm mad. I've setup various analogue studios, then ripped them down and sold stuff only to set up analogue studios a few years later. I don't think I'm mad. I've been trying to get the 'best' possible sound I can from my...

OK....just for Miro....pics and audio! Here's a quick recording I did (two guitars and two vocals) to check out the system: https://altruistica.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-these-days The M-Audio Sputnik mic I was using for vocals was playing up. I have two so I could troubleshoot through this...

Here's a rough recording to checkout my new setup. Features a Tascam MSR24 and a Tascam M3500 desk. https://altruistica.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-these-days Al

Just wanted to say, man my studio is beginning to look good....pics to follow. What with the MSR24 in a roll-around stand next to the M3500, we've got a TASCAMFEAST going on.... Hell it sounds good too, with the RME UFX. Al

Some of that thinking I think comes from guys like us doing it all ourselves. That's not to say we can't recognise a great vocal when we hear it, but we're far too hard on our own singing. Liam Gallagher, Bob Dylan, Mark Knofler, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and hundreds of overs are not good singers...

Loved the song. If you ever re-mix it, I'd love to hear the lead vocal treated differently. Rather than the slapback echo and short reverb, I'd treat it like Peter Gabriel does, with a type of chorus / flanger type treatment.......really overdo it too. I think it'd give it real presence and...

Awesome stuff...........really creative and off the wall. Loved the '20,000 Leagues'.... Al

Great feel, great sound.......but what's hard to believe is that after 20 odd years of Pro Tools (does anybody remember early Digidesign stuff?) and the obsolescence of equipment on pretty much a yearly basis, this song sounds great. Not just creatively, but sound wise. The tops aren't over...

Spent more than 12 hours tearing down the studio now I've decided on which gear I'm keeping. I needed to re-do the table I had built for the M3500 and decided to re-locate all the rack gear to the space underneath the desk. I'm going to move the MSR24 back into a roll-a-round stand that I have...

Revox G36 valve reel to reel tape machine GWO & serviced with modern Revox heads | eBay Al

Maybe you could have a word with my wife?..........'are you not finished with the studio yet?' she said. I think it's taken me about two years to get to this place, but at least now I'm beginning to hear something I like and I think that some of that is down to each part in the puzzle, the...

That's fixed it...same links. Al

Sorry guys....operator error....I'll look at that now. Al

If you've been following any of my current threads, you'll know I have a hybrid setup now featuring a Tascam M3500 console, a 24track 1" reel to reel (at present TASCAM MSR24) and an RME UFX convertor / preamp. I took some source material from an old Yamaha AW4416 demo recording (I haven't...

I was perfecting the mix running the Fostex D2424LV hard disk recorder, to save wear and tear on the multitrack. Once the mix was perfected the D2424LV was unpatched from the patchbay, returning the multitrack's mormalised outputs to the mixer and doing a final pass from the multitrack. This way...

My new RME UFX converter arrived today and I'm gob-smacked. I haven't used RME stuff since about 2005 when I bought a 2nd-hand Carillon PC which had a Hammerfall 9652 card in it. At the time I'd moved onto the AKAI DPS24 and used it for a good few more years so never used the Hammerfall much...