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Fredric..

Funny you should mention minimum-7's, If you were to look closely at my temporary monitors and imagine them in a diecast box you would be right there. These are actualy realistic speakers. They are the next generation on speakers after the minimum-7's. I know I need to get them off the wall this is sort of temporary. I ripped them out of the living room last week. I have got my eyes on some tannoy proto-j's or I might step up to the reaveals. depends on how much money I can scrounge. I will most likely get some swivle wall mounts. I will still be stuck with them in the corners for now though. I am working on getting some deadening matireal for the corners though.'

So far I am getting away with no word clock. I am using the internal clock on my layla 24/96 and wave out on cakewalk. Seems to be working well. It took me a while to figure that out though. It is all still a little new to me.

Thanks for the suggestions

F.S.
 
Re: Fredric..

Funny you should mention minimum-7's, If you were to look closely at my temporary monitors and imagine them in a diecast box you would be right there. These are actualy realistic speakers. They are the next generation on speakers after the minimum-7's.
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Way cool. The next gen is the optimus 77, right? I do know they are made by RCA, based on a Bose design.

I know I need to get them off the wall this is sort of temporary. I ripped them out of the living room last week. I have got my eyes on some tannoy proto-j's or I might step up to the reaveals.
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Reveals are nice. A friend of mine has four of them for 5.1 mixing. I would not complain if I had a set. Also to consider, the Behringer Truth, the Event 50/50 though my recommendations are a little larger than your current tastes. I prefer to mix with larger speakers, without a sub, unless I have a specific LF channel configured (5.1 mixing, of course). Subs annoy me. They add a lot of thump. I haven't been able to afford a good sub, I guess.

depends on how much money I can scrounge. I will most likely get some swivle wall mounts. I will still be stuck with them in the corners for now though. I am working on getting some deadening matireal for the corners though.'
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As a temporary solution, go to K-Mart/Wal-Mart and buy four polyfill pillows for $30 for the set. Shove them in the four corners where they are vertically higher than wider. Then, toss an old blanket on each. While really ugly and definately a dust collector, this is a good cheap solution. Me, I'd spend the money on monitors rather than foam. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree, and thats really okay too. We each make choices as to what works.

So far I am getting away with no word clock. I am using the internal clock on my layla 24/96 and wave out on cakewalk. Seems to be working well. It took me a while to figure that out though. It is all still a little new to me.
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I was able to until I web bananas acquiring digital gear. Then the amount of headaches went up exponentially for each piece of digital gear I added. And its just because they each have their own quirks that don't like to co-exist. For example, my aforementioned problem with my DR16's is caused by a default setting on the recorder "Sync to Wordclock - Yes" and another setting "Sync to first seen - Yes". So, if its set for wordclock, and the adat interface comes up first off the mixer, then the recorder gets cranky. Of course, the Tascam TMD-4000 polls the adat cards upon bootup, which my recorders think is a really messed up wordclock. Reboot it twice, ready to record.

Grrrrr. LOL.

Glad I could help. Also, don't take my advice as Gospel. A lot of people here have a lot more experience than I do. After all, my vocal booth will have carpet on the ceiling :)
 
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Hey Frederic, if it's the order you boot the machines up that is screwing eachother up, couldn't you just score a power conditioner so all turn on at once? Or would make that worse?

Forgive me I know nothing about word clocks.
 
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hokypokynose said:
Hey Frederic, if it's the order you boot the machines up that is screwing eachother up, couldn't you just score a power conditioner so all turn on at once? Or would make that worse?

Forgive me I know nothing about word clocks.
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Thats what I do now. The problem is I have to turn on the recorders 1 and a half seconds after I turn on the main power, which I do with a power strip so they all sync up. When they all go on together (mixers and recorders), the recorders boot up faster and complain there is no wordclock, which is supposed to come from the mixer.

My theory is a centralized wordclock device, will be "instant on", thus as things boot up in whatever time it takes, they see the same wordclock and are happy. They don't need each other, so to speak.

Wordclock is nothing more than a 44.1K or 48K square wave pumped through 75 ohm video cable so all the digital gear knows when the start of a sample begins, and when the end of the same sample is finished.

Remember that digital gear "slices" up the analog signal, and they all need to look at the same slices. If a device (say, recorder) starts looking at different slices than the mixer is sending, you get grungy nasty noise which is bad for monitors and ears :)

If you're interested, I'd be more than happy to give a more detailed explaination, but in a nutshell, wordclock is the timing thing that digital equipment uses to keep in sync.
 
Fredric

It seems totaly reasonable to me that with that many machines you would have to have a central clock. I have heard people preach it on much smaller systems. I would certainly invest.


I am not sure what these speakers are ( as far as the name is concerned but they are not as new a optimus (well rethinking) they are as new as optimus because I bought a receiver that was an optimus at the same time. Optimus was just coming out. It must have been the late 80's early 90's. They are kick @ss for what they are. the one reason I am not too concerned about the corner thing is that they are a little weak in the low end. I am going to try a remix before I move them or pad the walls. That will be the true test. I have several boom boxes and a couple of very different car stereos to try the mix on. I always take a note pad with me to the cars and boom boxes to make remix notes so if I end up with way to much bass I will have to do some changes.


Later

F.S.

You can hear my last mix (done on $200.00 headphones) at
www.mp3.com/freudian_slip1

It is called Filth. I am in the process of remixing it as we speak because of the headphone factor. It is only the second song I have done at home. It has a couple of problems I see (headphones), but I think it came out pretty good for my situation.

Don't be afraid. I have had very good reviews. (not at mp3.com)
I really dislike that place but it works for now.
 
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Freudian Slip said:
...I have had very good reviews. (not at mp3.com)
I really dislike that place but it works for now.
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Try IUMA, great community there!
http://michaeljones.iuma.com
Oh yeah, and just to toot my own horn a little bit, I'm rated #1 in 3 out of 4 self classified genres there.:D
(New Age, Classical, and instrumental)
 
I read your sight.

Michael: I read your sight. I am downloading some songs right now. I like what you said about feeling the music. I am in to emotion in my music (no bubblegum). I am also very into lyrics. You mught want to check out "the coffin song" it is not what the name would lead you to believe. It is actualy about a.....well I say average man who finds that after his and his wives death is forced to live with his regets. well you will see what I mean if you check it out. You should also look at the lyrics while you listen.
I guess I am really into lyrics, but I do love to feel emotion in the music as well. It is all sort of one big picture to me.



Well all of this is better in a different forum......:)


Later I am going to listen to impending doom right now.

F.S.
 
Cool!

I like. I will check out some longer pieces.
BTW I can't get you sight to stream mp3..??

Thought you would like to know. I am using winamp.



Later

F.S.
 
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Freudian Slip said:

BTW I can't get you sight to stream mp3..??
Thought you would like to know. I am using winamp.
Later
F.S.
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Me either.:confused:
I dunno what's going on there. Internal server problems I guess. mad:
(I'm using winamp too)
 
Re: Fredric

It seems totaly reasonable to me that with that many machines you would have to have a central clock. I have heard people preach it on much smaller systems. I would certainly invest.
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It is extremely reasonable, no argument from me. my lack of one is a temporary solution until I finish my homemade unit, and if that stinks, I'm buying the Lucid unit and its sister product, the 6 port distribution module.

I am not sure what these speakers are ( as far as the name is concerned but they are not as new a optimus (well rethinking) they are as new as optimus because I bought a receiver that was an optimus at the same time. Optimus was just coming out. It must have been the late 80's early 90's. They are kick @ss for what they are. the one reason I am not too concerned about the corner thing is that they are a little weak in the low end.
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Yes, I my minimus 7's are kinda weak in the low-end (not as bad as I expected mind you, but still a little weak). I did notice moving mine off the wall surface made them sound a little flatter, and I was offering the experience as a suggestion. Not mountains of change in sound mind you, but a little bit. Noticably so, I thought.

I am going to try a remix before I move them or pad the walls. That will be the true test. I have several boom boxes and a couple of very different car stereos to try the mix on. I always take a note pad with me to the cars and boom boxes to make remix notes so if I end up with way to much bass I will have to do some changes.
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That is the best way to test recordings. Car stereos, boomboxes, quality home stereos, etc. I couldn't agree with you more. THis is why I keep my minimus 7's in my studio, I use a speaker switch to flip to them just to hear how it would sound on something else than my monitors.

You can hear my last mix (done on $200.00 headphones) at
www.mp3.com/freudian_slip1
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I'll snag it when I get back to the hotel, looking forward to it.

Don't be afraid. I have had very good reviews. (not at mp3.com) I really dislike that place but it works for now. [/B]
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mp3.com hasn't been kind, huh? Regardless of the outcome, remember you enjoy it, its your passion, and F--- everyone else :)

I remind myself of that anytime something doesn't come out the way it should :) heh-heh
 
Minimus 7's I read in Electronic Musician that Bob Leventhal uses those as Studio Monitors.
 
I was thinking?

I thought they were called minimus-7 but it has been so long. They are long gone now as far as I know.. My speakers are the same basic thing I think but I can't see using them permenent. They seem to have no low end with out using an eq. I will see how they compare to the proto-js. I am hoping they will have a little more low end. I can not locate specs on these so it is hard to say how they will compare to a flat response speaker.

Later

F.S.
 
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Minimus 7's I read in Electronic Musician that Bob Leventhal uses those as Studio Monitors.
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That actually rings a bell, I have to say.
 
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Freudian Slip said:
I thought they were called minimus-7 but it has been so long. They are long gone now as far as I know.. My speakers are the same basic thing I think but I can't see using them permenent. They seem to have no low end with out using an eq. I will see how they compare to the proto-js. I am hoping they will have a little more low end. I can not locate specs on these so it is hard to say how they will compare to a flat response speaker.

Later

F.S.
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Hey FS.

I still have mine in the studio, though right now they are in a paper bag for lack of better place to put them.

They definately aren't flat... I never tested them the way I test some gear, but they sound better than anything that size that I've heard (other than some JBL stuff, but still, weak bass).

Anyway, I snagged some of your MP3s... very good stuff. Can't wait until I get home so I can listen to them with real monitors (among other NOT to be away on business), instead of the .75" speakers I have in the laptop. Through headphones, they sound well mixed, if you don't mind my saying so.
 
Couldn't resist, just thought I'd throw in a pic of my "Baby"!
 

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Thanks

Thanks Fredric. I am trying to get more volume out of my mix now. I need to do some real research on dynamic processing. I am happy with the mix my self considering it is only my second (The Coffin Song then Filth). I love the fact that I have all the time in the world now to perfect things. It cost me 3k plus to do al ive in the studio demo, but now for 3 grand I have all the studio time I want:). Well let me know when you get a chance to hear it for real. Hope you get home soon. Me and my wife are in the middle of upsizing our jobs. It sucks, but we rarely have to travel at least.


Michael:

Very classy... I like the atmosphere. There is somthing about atmosphere that can really boost performance. When prracticing in a band we always had every color of light bulb exept white.
I know..... hey dude coool...... But I think dimness gives you a little privacy to realy get in to what you are doing.




Later guys


F.S.
 
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Michael Jones said:
Couldn't resist, just thought I'd throw in a pic of my "Baby"!
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Very nice. I volunteer to offer you free babysitting services.
 
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Thanks Fredric. I am trying to get more volume out of my mix now. I need to do some real research on dynamic processing.
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BBE and others make awesome analog expanders, been around for a decade plus.

If you have a high quality 2-track, you can cheat :) Run analog out of your board through the deck, where you can saturate the tape slightly, then pipe that into your CD player.

A good compressor will help too.

in the studio demo, but now for 3 grand I have all the studio time I want:).
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super!

Well let me know when you get a chance to hear it for real. Hope you get home soon. Me and my wife are in the middle of upsizing our jobs. It sucks, but we rarely have to travel at least.
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I will. My new job requires 2 weeks of travel a month, which takes me out of my studio.

baaaah LOL


Michael:

Very classy... I like the atmosphere. There is somthing about atmosphere that can really boost performance. When prracticing in a band we always had every color of light bulb exept white.
I know..... hey dude coool...... But I think dimness gives you a little privacy to realy get in to what you are doing.




Later guys


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