Bil Whitlock Mic Splitter white paper

Posted on 20130218 by Anthony P. Kuzub

a good read: http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an005.pdf

Eugene was there

Posted on 20130216 by Anthony P. Kuzub

I got asked today how WBS “NOW” is connected to WBS “THEN”

Here on the drawing board (1976) is the man in charge today.

I’ll have to ask him when he started…

RENTALS – I’ve spent so much time with this stuff in the shop, it’s time to hit record!!

Posted on 20130213 by Anthony P. Kuzub

I’ve decided to open my racks up for rental in town and in at the studio

It’s VERY reasonably priced
http://www.WTFYW.ca/RENTALS

The whole thing started with Jägermeister. Kill Bennedy, may he rest in peace, said: “Every studio I go to has the best of the best, and sometimes it’s really just too good. Sometimes I need nasty, gritty and shitty”

I’ve tried to maintain a combination of both amazing and horrible. Some things I consider: “rack-mounted plugins without a computer”

Everything comes with Recall sheets and Mogami breakout snakes (XLR and TRS) Each rack has a EDAC90 on the back for quick connection. I’m working on LF and TT patchbays…

REVERB RACK

-AKG BX-5 – Spring Reverb
-PEAVEY Peavey Addverb III
-TC ELECTRONICS TC Electronics – FireworX
-Yamaha Yamaha SPX90 Reverb
-ROLAND Roland – SRE-3000 Reverb with delay trick
-Yamaha Yamaha SPX900 Reverb
-Warp Factory ELECTRIX – Flanger / Vocoder

DELAY RACK

LEXICON PCM42
LEXICON PCM42
DELTA LABS EFFECTRON II ADM1024
DELTA LABS EFFECTRON II ADM1024
TC ELECTRONICS D-Two
DELTA LABS EFFECTRON I ADM1020
LEXICON PCM41
IBANEZ HD1000 – Delay / Harmonizer
ROLAND Roland SDD-320 Dimension D

COMP RACK

VALLEY PEOPLE Valley People 610
TC ELECTRONICS FINALIZER
BSS DPR-402
BSS DPR-402
UREI UREI LA4 Compressors (STEREO PAIR)
DBX DBX 902 – De-Essers
DBX DBX 902 – De-Essers
DBX DBX 900 – APHEX Aural Exciter
DBX 911 – Noise Reduction
DBX 911 – Noise Reduction
DBX 911 – Noise Reduction
DBX BBE 702

Sony MDR-7506 foam replacements

Posted on 20130206 by Anthony P. Kuzub

I’ve got (6) pairs of Sony 7506s and all of the foams are shot. I REALLY like these Beyer Dynamic Headphone Foams. TREW audio has a few sets of Beyer 942704 in stock and I highly recommend them to anyone who uses these headphones on a daily basis

Dan Dugan Override issue

Posted on 20130130 by Anthony P. Kuzub

I had an interesting bug with a Dugan the other day. Almost lost my mics to air, but when bypassed at the channel insert… I got to air (although I did get skunked on a mic slipping).

I recreated the fault, and found a way out of it by switch the control bus from A to B.
Here is a Video of the override acting funny

Micro Delays

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I’m sure I’m not the only one to do this:

In an effort to avoid feedback and improve intelligibility, I push it back. It’s like giving the mic 2.5 feet extra away from the driver.

its un-noticeable to the audience and the poodles don’t start noticing it until 10ms (so don’t worry)

Hold ALT and Click

Posted on 20130122 by Anthony P. Kuzub

A helpful trick for the multiple interface user

BBC studios 1932 – via http://www.orbem.co.uk/

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I love the 30s

http://www.orbem.co.uk/bh32/bh32_i.htm

Modern Recording

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Shared From The Rukkus Room

This is a great illustration of where quality has gone. (and a good drawing of the actual gear helps). We the content creators, and broadcasters care about this long gone thing called fidelity and dynamic range, but we’re at the mercy of Apple right now. The compression is moot with even todays data transfer rates. If you’re releasing a record I must now suggest not making CDs and go right to HiFi uncompressed downloads, or Vinyl (or Both). CDs are just something I rip and shelf, I’d rather have LPs on my shelf and I have limited choices when it comes to portable music and it may as well be a 24bit 96k master. Not holding my breath for a 1bit portable player and 100gb/µs fiber to my door.