having used, really don’t like the buttonfeel on that one, they’re all a little too wobbly
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I’ve been thinking about biamping lately… nobody biamps anymore! but earlier this week a guitarist friend & I cludged together a solution where I was running through both an svt and his silverface twin (svt getting full frequency range from the bass, twin with some intense filtering to protect speakers) and it sounded amazing, I kinda want to see if I can get someone to build me a nice aby box with integrated variable hpf & lpf on one of the outputs to simplify things. lately I’ve been v interested in being able to access all parts of the frequency spectrum at different times & w different timbres, getting a lot of use out of an octave pedal with a kill dry switch and the tensor’s harmonizer function.
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i will probably attempt that at some point, i have the equipment
I’m having visions of sound guys just saying they got no inputs for more than one mic on the guitar cabs regardless of if they do or not.
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i saw a local 2 piece band recently (drums/guitar) where they had a custom guitar with 3 outputs into different amps. it looked/sounded so good.
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I own a solid state Ampeg from the early 90s That I haven’t parted with for exactly that reason. It is an SVT 200 T and it has a variable crossover with a blend knob (for the two preamp out signals - one into the power amp in the head, the other to guitar amp in my case).
I only have a still-disassembled-for-modification bass and an 810 fridge so I never use it, except sometimes for guitar in the style of all the bass amp using heavy rock folks and the master John cipollina’s comical biamp guitar rig. but I keep holding out for myself acquiring a smaller bass cab that doesn’t live in storage.
None of the many many dual bass preamp pedals have a real crossover for some reason, I’m sure you know this, like they have clean and drive channels and blends and maybe HPF on the drive but never the full lpf/hpf thing I ask for.
I think the way to do this today that’s not custom or rackmount or 500 pounds is getting a “rolls” brand crossover and some class d head or pf20t or something or some little combo
but for real I’ll give you the SB special (just take it honestly) it you want it or want to fuck around with a (poor condition, extremely heavy, good sounding, solid state, 6 band eq with 4 push pulls, 350w?? fanless just heat sinks so quiet) head that does this from the start
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a crossover is not exactly what I’m looking for (I’m actually already using a tiny one in my effects chain to split at ~200hz and run just the higher part through modulation), esp if it’s happening at the amp like the solid state svts (I think the 4pro also does this?) or some older gallien krueger heads. part of the goal is to have it at the board so I can switch between one/both amps mid song, I’ll probably end up getting something like the radial aby and sticking one of these broughton hpfs after it for the guitar amp side. but then I’ll probably need a larger board, also my power supply is already maxed out, plus I could use a larger bass cab than the 210 I got to spare my back, and this is all sounding like a “when I’m employed again” kind of thing.
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we’ve got an ost with over a hundred exported tracks and they’re all, uh, very different volume levels. this is probably very domain-specific knowledge but is there any sane way to make them consistent with each other
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lol welcome to mastering
lufs meter will tell you pretty reliably where they all sit for perceived loudness of each, you can equalise them with compression and limiting
sonible’s stuff makes this pretty easy, steal their smart series plugins - a sane and practical and sensible use of ‘ai’! still requires some human input to truly dial in something world class, but you can worry about that at your leisure, key thing is it’ll prevent silly errors like exceeding a true peak threshold as you turn shit up (-1 dbfs is a typical ceiling)
you can even select one track as the reference for all the others and calibrate to that
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re: lufs monitoring, here’s an interesting outcome of normalisation and attempts to game it
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oh i see
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phase8 available for order, now, at $1,150 usd.
Ballard’s Goodwill will sometimes have music gear come through, things like mixers and keyboards, and yesterday they had 2 midi controllers. I picked the Roland Cakewalk A300 for $60.
It’s mainly a big USB keyboard with some knobs and sliders. I was able to hook it up to Bespoke and it was able to read stuff from it, and i was able to play around a little. The software it ships with is no longer supplied anywhere and was ancient when it was new. Not sure what I’ll use it for since I can’t play the fuckin piano but it is smaller than my full size Midi Keyboard so I might have this put into my other synthesizer instead. I got this one because it has USB power and Goodwill tends to ditch whatever DC adapter they come with, which renders a lot of electronics kind of useless!
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baffling company policy wow. nice find though! grats
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Map the joystick to a VCS 3 plugin
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if you make a dance beat and fuck around with the piano over it and have the slightest idea of how harmony works you don’t have to be able to play the piano to make something that sounds good with one
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has worked for more house n techno producers than not
one of my favourite MPC features is the Pad Perform mode that literally binds a bunch of chord progressions to the control surface and you can just fuck around with them until you have something dope, even fresh
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got the trap, pop, diaspora production bug recently because of bad bunny
torn between music production via ipad route (garageband or other daw, my ios moog/jupiter synths, usb dongles for my mic/etc)
or just using reaper and doing whatever i was doing a few years ago
or getting into ableton/fl studio / whatever the cool kids use nowadays
mainly i want to reduce the time between idea and sketching it out as much as possible. having a bunch of great presets, sounds etc, and a good drum workflow. i thought the ipad might be good for moving around the house, especially cuz all my lyrics and song ideas are in icloud
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