Gear Lust Part 7

hubb · February 15, 2016, 11:23am

cable itself maybe

swerver · February 15, 2016, 11:36am

you can get a phenomenon called cable capicitance if you have long cables coiled up which can produce a hum…other obvious cause could be your decks not grounded properly on the mixer

Phigure · February 15, 2016, 11:50am

you got everything connected to the speakers on the same ground (ie outlet)?

i had one that wouldnt go away no matter what i did too, finally said fuck and just used an old transformer to run everything off of

AxeD · February 15, 2016, 1:26pm

Yeah if the speakers and mixer are on the same group, it’s not ground hum.

cyclopian · February 16, 2016, 11:11pm

What do you by transformer?

_ronzlo · February 19, 2016, 7:49pm

Walls are bare yo. Where’s your Farrah Fawcett poster?

fragments · February 19, 2016, 10:21pm

New Machinedrum is waiting for me at home : )

I’ve got Overbridge VST running on FL Studio 11.x on Windows 7 Pro. 5/6 channels of live audio. No latency I can here. Haven’t tried recording from the Overbridge VST and my MOTU at the same time yet, but I’m excited and don’t think it’ll be an issue.

I also got FL Studio to recognize the A4 as an audio interface just fine. I got ASIO4ALL to recognize the MOTU and A4 simultaneously, but I couldn’t get audio from the A4 channels and only got it to recognize two channels.

My girlfriend asked me why I spent 25 dollars on a sixteen foot long USB cable lol…"'audio nerd stuff!"

It is pretty great I can sit down at my computer and load up four voices of the Analog 4 right in my DAW if I feel like working ITB.

zm1 · February 20, 2016, 12:39am

this

fragments · February 20, 2016, 12:45am

Just when I once again convinced myself I didn’t want a modular…

zm1 · February 20, 2016, 12:58am

rossum back doing the work he SLAYS at

cyclopian · February 21, 2016, 2:18am

hubb · February 21, 2016, 12:38pm

ive got the keeanu filter too but i want a zardoz filter innit

swerver · February 23, 2016, 1:16pm

Finally time to dump the trusty old Mackie 24:8 in the bin and get a new mixer. The 24:8 has been suffering with crackling pots/switches, dodgy faders, etc for years. Been using Caig Deoxit D5 to try and keep it usable but now most of the groups and the stereo bus are fucked and a repairing it will cost more than it’s worth.

Most of the stuff I do is in my DAW with software, but occasionally we get the guitars, mics and drums going so still need some channels, so am going to go with a Mackie Profx16v2 and rack it with the rack kit you can buy for it…anyone else had experiences with this mixer or the profx series?

http://mackie.com/products/profxv2-series

hubb · February 28, 2016, 10:40am

going to expand the thread to general item thirst

lololol

also lol

_ronzlo · March 7, 2016, 11:06pm

zij · March 24, 2016, 12:55am

I was thinking, what’s a way to record from ableton while the track is being made? Audacity doesn’t work while abletons open, otherwise that could have been recording the process. would i need something outboard?

AxeD · March 24, 2016, 1:54am

I use an audio interface and a dj mixer. USB out of computer, channel 1-2 out goes
to line in on mixer. Rec out of mixer goes to any available input on the interface.

zij · March 24, 2016, 10:49am

Yeah that’s simple, thanks. I’ll probably grab a Focusrite and see what mixers are good for around 400

Edit: actually, this looks like 2-in-1 http://www.juno.co.uk/products/allen-heath-zedi8-compact-hybrid-mixer-with/593638-01/

hubb · March 24, 2016, 11:32am

http://www.voxengo.com/product/recorder/

zij · March 24, 2016, 12:59pm

broo that saved me a fair bit of money, cheers