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I used to record stuff straight out of the output of my pc onto type one cassettes, no synths or anything, just basic Cubase VST that came with the package hehe. Then about 15 years ago got a load of warez #vlt stuff, then some actually hardware synths that require maintenance, but are a lot of fun to mess around on |
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I'm thinking if I can do some tracks worthwhile digitally again, then I might invest in more hardware in the future to get some better sounds but not that bothered about sound at the moment just ideas |
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plus all my synths and my mixer are in the coldest room in the house, will go back there in the summer |
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what really threw me off was I accidently kicked the volume knob off my korg z1 and then all the weights fell off the keys of my JD800. |
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your experience will improve with a good pci /pcie sound card. latency will imporove. you can still use your motu midi interface too. .but i would recommend a pci or pcie version not the usb version. the 04040 patch software has a steep learning curve ...as you have to internal patch to get sounds into your sequecer ( like a patchbay ) and in and out of a sequencer but once mastered after a n hour of messing about its very cool indeed. any review that says its over complicated is to warn away the tards. EMU is emulator like the emulator samplers, Creative bought the company if i remember. |
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yes USB can be very troublesome, ive been having mirco stuttering issues under windows 10, I think its spike in network activity causing it for some reason |
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you mean the thing peter Gabriel uses in sledgehammer? |
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are you using a laptop? or your tower. remember what freqy said about noctua. freqy say get soundcard. dont get a dat. dat is mechanical and uses old an old ADC. the emu 1616'm' uses the same chips as digidesign around that time. the upgrade from the 0404. they are cheap now as they are old. both record at 24 bit 192khz. get great sound into your sequencer on the fly nice and easy. and cheap as chips |
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Using my tower with the Noctua. Yes I should avoid Dat its obsolete, and equivalent to just recording with soundcard. |
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ebay search 1616m. |
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I bought my first synth off of ebay from a guy called andre Andre is the kind of name you remember I bought hereoquest board game as well |
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thing about 1616m is some are cardbus some are pci. emu 0404 is pci/pcie and usb i actually had the 1616m cardbus and used a pci adaptor. anyway i think ive bored you enough with it all now. |
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just checked, no buy it nows, so would have to do some ebay sniping when I have the dosh |
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I don't get bored, that's one of my virtues, conversely I can bore people quite easily |
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well i hope i was of help. at least you wont have any motor or tape head ware issues did you know the tascam da-88 multitrack required new heads every few hundred hours of use. absolutely insane cost. the cost was insane to get get tascam to replace the heads. |
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1200 hours life expectancy. |
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yeah my brother is older than me but is very happy to have any physical media anymore, so he doesnt have to deal with maintenance issues. I saw some device on techmoan that had 40 tapeheads on the other day, if that went wrong you were rightly screwed. |
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120 days ( 10 hours a day work) the cost to replace was around 600 pound. |
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why did they wear out so quickly, what were they made out of? balsa wood! |
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with a soundcard you have to worry about a mechanical HD or SSD. but at least you can back up. you cant really back up a tape head? lol unless you have dual machines running in case one fails in a session. |
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its to do with errors. i think it had error checking but could only cope with so much .. with analog they ware out, but i suppose you just get more and more noise. |
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*error checking and correction. |
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I have a stack of dead hard drives with all my holiday photos and good torrents i downloaded, i dont think ui wll ever get around to extracting the data offf |
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some of them are very hard to repair. WD made it real hard. you have to replace preamps and chips and transfer the code over from donor boards and all types of stuff either that or send it off to be repiard by a guy who will actively seek out the pics of your naked nipples and email contact list then blackmail you for life. |
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yeah lucjily i never downloaded any porn really, juist loads of embarrassing music on there, funny noises, i used to love making funny noise |
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and you need spacers to stop the heads on the platters touching. |
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i was only kiddin about your nipples. |
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I think i could do it, one of the burnt out 'I was using a write blocker my brother had leant me to access all my old drives and i had my feet and fluffy socks all over irt, and one of the silicon chis just overloaded |
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my new hard drive is full of a quarter of a million copies of this |
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why did you do that ? |
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did you use his nipples to error check all sectors? |
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it kept my feet warm, actually didn't have much space on my desk so stuck it down in my foot well, now i have a larger desk so wouldn't have happened now. What is the oldest file you still have on one of your drives, I have a drive with stuff going back to about 1997 i think . the oldest file i personally created is a cassette save of acorn electron football manager by saved in the mid 90s |
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I think he would make an excellent conan with tits like that |
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but why so many pics of him? not sure, i have so many drives with so many files cant search them they are not plugged in. |
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is it like the end of raiders of the lost ark, imagine what treasures they hold, probably loads of HTML saved webpages because y9ou still had dial up |
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what mixing desk you got? |
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its a mackie, i cant remember the model |
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are they shit? i really dont know i bought it when id dint know anything |
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ive heard they are good for the money some people love em. |
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im not too convinced they are that great, but perhaps i never looked after mine well enough |
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it depends if you are monitoring via the headphone out it maybe they used shizen circuitry in that part of the circuit board to save of cost. You want to monitor from the master outs through a good amplifier |
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yes i was having all sort s of issues like getting mono signal from my technics and all sorts, i bought a variable temp soldering iron to replace the cables on my deck and the problem turned out to be the mixer |
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Mackies are good budget mixers dude. |
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i was messing about with a soundcraft desk once and i sent a sine wave through. I noticed the wave form would not start to distort until around +5db on the master VUs So used to aiming to around -1db in the box mixing for safety sake. it was quite bizzarre. so you may be able to run your signals a little hotter on the analogue desk +3db?) who knows. i would send a sine wave through ( various frequencies) and see at what point it starts to distort if you can run hotter ( with no distortion) it will improve signal to noise. you will need a sound card to test. |
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i lent it to my mate for a couple of years, thast probably where it when wrong, loads of biscuit crumbs in the faders or something lol |
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not sure what you mean about your issue with an amp? you wont know the quality of your Mackie until you hook up to the master outputs. they will be the highest quality out on the mixer. ( best op amps ) |
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yes, i will have to get it back u and running, the sound of it i think is quite decent, its the build quality and seemingly faulty outs, i think i will have to check my cables as well |
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yes im not sure i got the best out of it now you mention it, |
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get a vacuum. to clean pots and faders you just need to turn or slide them about 30 times each you will actually hear an improvement in sound in some cases. you have to switch the eq in/out and line/mic buttons 30 times too there are so many switches and pots in line on a desk if there is any dirt oxidisation on any one of the parts the signal will likely suffer. if you buy an old desk it is a good idea to sit down and flick each switch and slide each fade and twist each pot 30 -50 times takes over an hour but is a very very good idea. and on the insert jack on the back there is a type of switch inside the jack socket itself that breaks when you insert a jack if that is dirty that is also inline on the channel strip justa tiny bit of dirt on that and the whole cahnnel can sound fuzzy and weird. to clean this you can insert and outsert a jack plug 30 times and it will help clean the switch break on the socket. you can twist too so to clean the contacts also |
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