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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:07 pm    Post subject:
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Got one of these PCM-D50s in October on a grant, finally having a little time to play with it. I started wanting it in July when listening to the sounds of BART subways as we raced through tunnels. Note the stereo mics on swivels.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:08 pm    Post subject:
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Acoustic Interloper wrote:
Got one of these PCM-D50s in October on a grant, finally having a little time to play with it. I started wanting it in July when listening to the sounds of BART subways as we raced through tunnels. Note the stereo mics on swivels.


What are the advantages of swiveling the mics in various configurations?

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:47 pm    Post subject:
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Got one of these PCM-D50s in October on a grant, finally having a little time to play with it. I started wanting it in July when listening to the sounds of BART subways as we raced through tunnels. Note the stereo mics on swivels.


What are the advantages of swiveling the mics in various configurations?

Close-up versus long range stereo separation, apparently. Haven't actually tested that yet.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:14 am    Post subject:
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Acoustic Interloper wrote:

Close-up versus long range stereo separation, apparently. Haven't actually tested that yet.


This was one of the things I thought about getting (got new reference monitors instead), so I was curious about how having swivel mics help. I'd be interested in hearing back from you what you learn when you get a chance to mess around with it.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

My new Christmas pressies:

Korg Monotribe

Electro Lobotomy 'Sonic Forest'

Early-70s vintage Magnus Chord Organ

Good times. Smile

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Sonic Forest is wicked cool!
How does one procure it and what does it cost?I didn't see any info on the site.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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Sonic Forest is wicked cool!
How does one procure it and what does it cost?I didn't see any info on the site.


They're about $100 [US] I think. He sells them on Etsy, along with several other varieties of DIY & circuit-bent synths & noise boxes, as well as oddball vintage vinyl.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/WaxxMuseum?ref=seller_info

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Do you guys know this thread has 143 thousand views?

I noticed the what my digicam thread having over 100 thousand and was curious if that was the highest number. Nope. This one seems to be.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro
$237 on Ebay not a bad deal.A few scratches and dents,but it works just fine.
It'll replace my original 14 year old 1604 in my pop up rack for live use.The 4 busses will come in handy.
The old one will get relegated to mixing some rarely used stuff that's now only accessed via a patchbay.Both of them and a SR 24-4 are integrated via a Mackie Mixer Mixer so all of the sends function (more or less) as if it were one big mixer. Cool

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Now I gotta buy more cables AGAIN! Crying or Very sad

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro
$237 on Ebay not a bad deal.A few scratches and dents,but it works just fine.
It'll replace my original 14 year old 1604 in my pop up rack for live use.The 4 busses will come in handy.
The old one will get relegated to mixing some rarely used stuff that's now only accessed via a patchbay.Both of them and a SR 24-4 are integrated via a Mackie Mixer Mixer so all of the sends function (more or less) as if it were one big mixer. Cool


I wonder if the 1640 is based on this. It looks similar and differs in name by a re-arranging of a couple of numbers.

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Now I gotta buy more cables AGAIN! Crying or Very sad


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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I wonder if the 1640 is based on this. It looks similar and differs in name by a re-arranging of a couple of numbers.


The 1640i is actually in the Onyx line,if you mean the 1642 there are some notable differences:

1)The 1642 only has 10 mic preamps vs 16 on the 1604 vlz3

2)The 1642 doesn't have the switch that sends FX send 3/4 to the 5/6 outs
(that's a biggie for me being an FX junkie,I wish there were even more than that)

3)The 1642 only has a sweepable mid eq on the first 8 channels and a 4 band on the rest vs. sweepable on all 16

4)The 1642 has 8 mono and 4 stereo channels vs. 16 mono.

That's all I can see in a quick perusal of their website.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I meant the 1640. Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:11 pm    Post subject:
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One of Joo Won Park's students was playing the zero-input mixer as an instrument in an ensemble performance last month, all done with cabled feedback loops, adjusting filters, etc. I have an old Yamaha second mixer with a nice fx unit that I am planning to try along those lines soon.

That would be a cool electro-music festival ensemble: nothing but 0-input mixers Smile

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

The 1640 looks to be the same as the 1640i without firewire. There's a few more features and the quality is higher,I think.(for a price)
It also has:
Talkback section
DI on 2 channels
pre/post switches on all 6 sends
different eq with hardware bypass.
better preamps

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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The 1640 looks to be the same as the 1640i without firewire. There's a few more features and the quality is higher,I think.(for a price)
It also has:
Talkback section
DI on 2 channels
pre/post switches on all 6 sends
different eq with hardware bypass.
better preamps


My beef with the i series is the whole ProTools hack thing. I was really disappointed that Mackie decided to do this rather than show some professional integrity and try to compete by making their own system. If they believe so much in making things open, they could have designed their own answer to ProTools and made it open source. They could still profit from the software. They can still sell binary installers, and if the software was well-designed and caught on, they'd see an increase in profit from hardware sales.

I hate how so many businesses these days have lost their brain pools.

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By proTools hack you suggest the integration with a DAW like ProTools? Or?

Question

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:34 am    Post subject:
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Acoustic Interloper wrote:
One of Joo Won Park's students was playing the zero-input mixer as an instrument in an ensemble performance last month, all done with cabled feedback loops, adjusting filters, etc. I have an old Yamaha second mixer with a nice fx unit that I am planning to try along those lines soon.

That would be a cool electro-music festival ensemble: nothing but 0-input mixers Smile


Maybe a good new topic, Dale. I myself haven't heard of this before. It sounds interesting.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I got two excellent plugins over christmas.

Geist : http://www.fxpansion.com/forums.html?page=120

Diva : http://www.u-he.com/cms/113-diva

Both are very highly recommended indeed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:29 pm    Post subject:
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mosc wrote:
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One of Joo Won Park's students was playing the zero-input mixer as an instrument in an ensemble performance last month, all done with cabled feedback loops, adjusting filters, etc. I have an old Yamaha second mixer with a nice fx unit that I am planning to try along those lines soon.

That would be a cool electro-music festival ensemble: nothing but 0-input mixers Smile


Maybe a good new topic, Dale. I myself haven't heard of this before. It sounds interesting.

Started a thread in Circuit Bending, thanks for the suggestion, Howard!

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

This reminds me, I have a Mackie Onyx in need of repair - does not work as a regular mixer, and as a Firewire interface the audio is wacked up.

I've heard horror stories about the official Mackie repair shop in the DC area (Pro Tech). Is the one in Baltimore more trustworthy?

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elektro80 wrote:
By proTools hack you suggest the integration with a DAW like ProTools? Or?

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Well, there's this: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/09/11/new-mackie-onyx-i-series-promise-protools/

And you can search for "mackie onyx i series" + "protools" and variants.

Avid has (had? Mackie broke it) a proprietary system. I'm totally down with open systems so that users can pick and choose, BUT it is their right to create and sell the product of their labor and be protected from infringement. Now, obviouly, Mackie didn't (that anyone knows of) do anything illegal, but it kind of turned me off to their products. Sonar and other software DAW's don't require specific hardware; this is by design. Protools does, and this is by design. I don't like that one company decided to bust their way into another company's proprietary systems without permission. I'm sure there are lots of customers who like using Mackie hardware with Protools, but it feels like an underhanded move to me, which is not cool.

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Close-up versus long range stereo separation, apparently. Haven't actually tested that yet.


This was one of the things I thought about getting (got new reference monitors instead), so I was curious about how having swivel mics help. I'd be interested in hearing back from you what you learn when you get a chance to mess around with it.

I was out doing some field recording today, and I found it useful for unidirectional versus omnidirectional, in the sense that when swiveled out, the mics picked up extraneous sounds that I didn't want to record, various noises in the distance.

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Acoustic Interloper wrote:

I was out doing some field recording today, and I found it useful for unidirectional versus omnidirectional, in the sense that when swiveled out, the mics picked up extraneous sounds that I didn't want to record, various noises in the distance.


That makes sense.

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