tubedude's eventual setup. My prediction

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I've noticed that tubedude has recognized that one cant really get a neve sound with a peavey(except that one is sjoko2)
and he is buying accordingly.

SO I want to predict what he is eventually going to have in the next year or so.

microphones.
TLM 103
AKG c414
earthworks qtc1

Cable:
monster studio 1000 all the way

Preamps:
DAvisound TB-1
Vintech NEVE
Sytek mpx4a

COnverters: lucid 88824

Wordclock: Lucid genx-6

MOnitors: Meyer hd-1 or quested 3208

AMP: hafler or better.

Auralex foam.

Reverb: nothing less than either a pcm 91 or a TC m3000

Compressor I would say the goerge massenburg but its like 5g, so I'm going to have to go with la-2a.


Dang tubedude, I am already scared of the output with this setup. Its going to kick some major behind. Nice Choices I must say. :D
 
Ha! You're a fucking nut... :)
I'm getting closer to having this huge bill paid off, hopefully I can start buying in a few short (long) months.
The only definites that I've made as of yet...
1st preamp setup will be the Sytek so that I can get 4 to work with right out of the gate, immediatly followed by an empty API 200 series self powered rack (a $700 ripoff) and probably a single API 212 to go into it for awhile. I eventually plan to fill it up with 4 212s, or 3 and a line amp. The others are up in the air, but the Langevin dual mono will be under serious consideration, as well as the Vintech, great river, and yes, the Peavy VMP-2.
My only definite mic, that there is no doubt in the world that I will have, is Stephen Pauls 3 micron better-than-a-Neumann that he plans to produce sometimes in the future. Est price is $1000. Fat.
Oh, I am going to buy a Shure Beta 57a, too... love that mic, kills the SM57, imho.
My only other definite right now is the Lucid AD, but I WILL have a clock, waiting patiently for some input to come back on some others.
Probably gonna get the MOTU 1224, most likely. Leaning towards it quite heavily, but its not certain.
Peace.
 
Isnt the 88824 a kind of crappy Digidesign converter box, rather than a Lucid? :)

Oh, you were right about the cable, but I'll probably use some premade Mogami or Canare mic cables from Full Compass.
 
hey tubedude,

I've also been thinking(make that dreaming) about the peavey vmp-2 myself. It makes a tlm103 sound PHAT. At $750 new for two channels.

you can hear a sample of the tlm103 into peavey here:

www.cellardweller.com

APIs are good. I've heard a lot of stuff about them.

Hey, dont forget the monitors and reverb though. WIth that stephen paul mic, you better have a great reverb making it bigger.
I heard that the difference between a mpx-1 and a pcm91 is not small.

What monitors do you have in mind to purchase?
 
did you receive the chart comparing the jitter on the lucid genx-6, aardsync, and lucid ssg clocks. I have it.

Let me just say get the lucid genx-6
 
oh, by the way,

you MUST get a pair of ns10ms . Your setup simply will not be compplete without the nasties
 
Tube Dude,

Did you get a Stephen Paul mic?

I'm jealous
 
Zeke, No SP yet, he's working on it, though.

Cyan... I dunno about the NS10's... maybe just for the sake of having them to mix on, but I'm kinda thinking going with the LSRP25's and a sub. I dunno.

Send me the clock sheets.

The Peavy is reputed to be very nice, its actaully AMR, a company they took over. May make a great DI too. Hell, even Sonus remarked that it was very nice, and he hates just about everything. Except the ART, that is... he's a weird one.

As far as verb, I'm probably going with Sonic Timeworks reverb X and hoping for enough CPU to hold it, or maybe the Universal audio card with realverb. The UA card is quite nice, and doesnt suck up CPU. I think you can get like 2 realverbs and 10 compressors and EQ's or something to that effect running like 5% CPU ususage.
And, the API's are more than good. Most likely the best money I'll spend next to the SP mic, followed by the Lucid stuff. I'd take the API's over almost anything, I think. After hearing them, I can't get over it. Still don't like them better than the Focusrite Reds, but I love em both, and I'll probably never afford the Focusrites. Not sure how the API are on voice though, but Fletcher said they work out pretty well on voice, way better than average. I'm looking at the 212's, which are about $525 per channel, but it was the 312's I heard. They sound pretty identical, less features on the 212's. I can have the rack and one 212 to put in it for about $1100, not bad really, then I can add a pre for $525 whenever I need em/want em/can't do without em/feed the addiction/yeah baby yeah/!/!/!
 
API's are very good indeed. But....... try the new small single channel Grace 101 before you do anything else, its a killer and around 500 bucks.
The graph Cyan is talking about is one George Massenburg did for us when we lend him an SSG192 clock to compare to the clock he used to use. The GEN6 actually tests even better than the SSG, which is a feature packed clock aimed to run entire studio complexes for audio and video.

Regarding the Focusrites - just my opinion, but I find them way overrated and much to colored.

The day Stephen comes up with a "home build" mic for a thousand bucks I'll promise I'll boil and eat a 57. Don't hold your breath. He charges more for putting a diaphragm in a mic.
 
hey tubedude,

Are you interested in selling your TLM 103? I am interested in buying.

The genx-6 has roughly the same amount of jitter as the ssg and the aardsync(very low). Much less jitter than the internal clock on the lucid ad9624. Its a no brainer since it costs 1/3 the price of either the ssg or the aardsync.

As far as jbl lsrs for monitors, I've been hearing some funky things about them lately. You might want to do a search on musicplayer.com and duc.digidesign.com.

Hey, did you see my post comparing the lucid vs the delta 1010? listen to it and give me an opinion.

Man, software reverbs? what are you talking about. THey might be good, but you wont get the characteristic lexicon sound. And I doubt that TC will make a plugin that rivals their thousand dollar units. You should hear the lexicon sound. Its big.
 
WHy are you discounting the davisound handbuilt pre.

Did you not hear it on Recording Engineer's post. It simply does not get better than that. And If I am correct, its going for less than one G for two channels.
 
TC's TDM verbs are very much equal to their hardware versions, and not much cheaper either
 
Not discounting the davisounds stuff, I just gotta hear it do its thing in person, and with the DS stuff, it doesnt look too likely I'll get to. Therefore, well, you get the picture.
Dying to get ahold of the Grace 101 to check out, I;ve heard very nice things about it, nothing bad ever, and its supposedly kind of "great river-ish" clean. Its another one I can't find to check out, though, so I dunno. Have you actually got one of them, Sjoko?
Keep in mind that digital reverbs are digital reverbs, no different than digital inside your computer plug-ins. Its just the quality you decide to go with, high end or lesser. Download the Sonic timeworks demo and see for yourself. But, watch that CPU meter. Scary.
 
I've had one here for 2 weeks and had to give it back, so now I have to go and buy one, or two. They really are amazingly good, especially for the money.

My latest favorite on the preamp scene is the forcell CS1, a pretty mindblowing piece of gear http://www.forsselltech.com/CS-1.htm
 
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