I've been out of the TT game for years (seriously, mine hasn't even been plugged in for two years and I didn't use it for two years before that). If the market has changed significantly, then ignore me. That said, I had good luck trawling ebay for a used technics. The SL-1200, before it was...

I just jumped to this cuz of the picture. I have to do new knobs on one of my synthesizers that came with rubbery coated ones that are just gross now, so I'm going with colored aluminum and using set screws to adapt them to the shafts of the pots on my synthesizer (an Arturia Matrixbrute). I'll...

Remember how I was writing about my ideal mastering room a few weeks ago? Add about $20,000 of these things to the BOM. I wish the website didn't have so many broken links where the pictures used to be, it honestly looks a little sketchy. :smirk:

Clearly he and I are two different kinds of insane. I can't imagine looking down at my screen all day and having to bend over every time I want to tweak outboard gear. Can't argue with the results, but that just looks miserable as a place to be all day every day to me. I see the wisdom in the...

I thought about what I'd want for my ideal listening room (to use for mastering). Let's just say there's a reason I use software corrected headphones...

You haven't lived until you've crammed all the music you love onto a single CD in 96kbps MP3 and pressed shuffle on that. The music blends into a seamless (slightly sub-optimal) experience. Bonus points if half the metadata is just wrong.

I wish this unit was missing a knob and scratched to hell, but you get the idea.

I use Acustica Sienna in system wide mode. I started using it for mixing/mastering, but it was so jarring to turn off that I eventually decided to just leave it on if I'm using headphones. I still check mixes with it off every now and then, but it's on 95% of the time. Other than that, I get a...

Yeah, I end up 95% of the time coming up with a great idea on one of the synths, and then recreating it in software and doing the full song in my DAW. I'm not exaggerating when I say out of all the songs I've done, 3 actually have any of these synths on them. It sounds super wasteful, but this...

Very nice setup. I love the palm rest for your typing keyboard that matches the wood on the Prophet. As my studio comes together I find it's all those little things that are hard to really nail. In my case, close to 100 velcro cable ties and collectively probably 200-300 feet of cable manages to...

So actually, I've seen both of these done in the synth world, but none of the synths that implement these are cheap synths. They're all trying to solve pretty much the same problem - the problem we've had with synthesizers since the first ones with patch memory came out in the 70s. That problem...

I sure hope not, I'm testing a new louder-maker VST right now, just sent my notes off to the programmers last week. And the new version of Ozone has to come out in another two years, without another version of IIRC what will we do?

That one and "pro". I can kind of get it with Macbook Pro (as in this is geared towards power users/creative professionals who are going to make use of the extra power). But iPhone pro? Playstation 4 Pro? I guess Apple in their trillion dollar wisdom decided to just carry the Pro moniker from...

No, I'm going to have to go with Sony's new naming convention for Playstation Plus (which is already an upsell of Playstation Net) going to: Playstation Plus Essential, Playstation Plus Extra, and Playstation Plus Premium. As a Sony shareholder, I want whoever came up with this travesty fired. I...

Hahaha, I have a Moog they don't make a cover for myself.

They have meds for that, no matter the age. I'm a culturelle man myself. No joke, look up decksavers. Synth nerds will question your devotion to the hobby if you don't have one of those for every synth you own. And if they don't make one for your synth, you are expected to pester them until...

I don't know, Ikea is competing pretty directly with Schiit's niche if this thing does require self-assembly. :P

After spending the last 7 years reading your book, I'm finally living the "start your own business" nightmare. Got off the ground printing and selling T-shirts on Etsy for less than $300, including product samples, photography, and listing fees. I don't keep 100% of my profits, but hell, Etsy...

That's totally possible. In mastering I make moves around that region and about that level (up or down) all the time. My software lets me go to values as low as +/-.1 db and I use that all the time. It all adds up.

LOL, I live right in the middle of that LA/OC red blob in a place called Downey. Sometimes on an especially clear night I can make out one of the dippers and a few other stars. A lot of times I think I saw a star and it's a plane coming into LAX or LB. On a clear night I can see the line of...

Fingers crossed it could be Gadget/Schiitpie. I wrote about this in the Sonarworks thread, but I demoed a lot of the headphone correction/roomsim programs out there and I was impressed enough to buy and start using Acustica Sienna as part of my monitoring system for mixing/mastering. And my...

Maybe this should go in a different thread, but I'll go here for now. I've been shopping for headphone correction software for a while. I use a pair of LCD-X for mixing/mastering my music and occasionally doing masters for friends. I noticed that my mixes weren't translating as well as I'd liked...

I think the ONLY thing that is good for is sports. Believe me you don't want any interpolation etc. for videogames. If it runs at 15 FPS (and there are games that do) then give me those 15 real frames and not one more. Conversely, when a game is running at 120 FPS it is a very different...

I started with Izotope Ozone, figured out signal routings I liked and such, and since then I've been replacing the individual modules in there with more specialized tools when I feel it's needed. So these days instead of the IIRC limiter in Ozone, I mostly would run Newfangled Elevate. Instead...

No pressure, but with 20 - 40 relays per band and a mid/side/stereo matrix all wrapped up in 4-5u rackmount chassis, the market does currently bear near enough five figures for that, if you're interested. Certainly not in MY wheelhouse to make such a thing. But I do know someone who's halfway...