#2204

Colour them in with a felt tip

#2205

And damage the resale value?!

as if I’m ever going to sell a pedal

#2206

Bit of tape?

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#2207

Hnnnnngggg

Been excitedly waiting for Chase Bliss to announce a release for this since it was first announced, but it’s come at a crap time financially. Interesting that they’ve decided to do crowdfunding for it, but the video launch thing explains the reasons why pretty well. Pretty much everything they create is incredible so 100% in for it, it’s just whether I put my money down now or not…

#2208

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARIDOOS?!

… I’ll have a t-shirt.

#2209

Yes but the pound is so strong right now it’ll work out as a real bargai… oh.

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#2210

Some really significant savings at roli. Seaboard Block keyboard midi controller is super useful

https://roli.com/sept-sale-usd/#saleshopnow

#2211

Got a pair of Presonus Eris E5 monitors and it’s like I can hear through time. Haven’t even calibrated them yet.

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#2212

I dont understand the calibration on my rokit monitors, has a high frequency and low frequency knobs, seems far too blunt for things that are supposed to be super flat response

#2213

I should get some monitors shouldn’t I
:grimacing:

#2214

was thinking there is probably some app, play a full frequency range audio clip (wonder what that would sound like) at the same volume and see how it comes back, guess then the microphone accuracy would be an issue

#2215

yes

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#2216

it is a bit blunt but it’s supposed to help to correct for your room/sitting position

of course there’s lots of other things you can do to set up your room that will probably have more of an effect than the standard high & low +/3dB cut/boost - simple monitor placement and decoupling make a big difference

there’s quite a lot of software for testing room setup

to make up for mic biases the shop bought packages come with their own calibrated mics, like this one

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/arc2/

but any dynamic mic with a decent frequency range will still give you enough to make improvements. I set mine up with with a ‘borrowed’ version of the ARC software and an SM58 (though I should probably redo it as I’ve moved my room around - for the better - since then)

There’s doubtless apps calibrated to your smart phone mic too

you can also do it DIY using white noise and a spectrum anaylyzer (though your white noise source will have to be pretty pure). The IK ARC version I have uses a low-to-high frequency sweep which is LOUD. It’s quite disconcerting actually to be able to hear your own room resonances, holes and monitor response in real-time with a 10 second tone sweep (and your own hearing limitations). Kind of cool though

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#2217

thanks, i’ll look into that white noise method, the arc looks pretty pricy. i’ve got an sm58 so would it be a case of seeing what the white noise looks like in a spectrum analyszer, and comparing that to the sm58 known frequency response?

#2218

that would give you a rough guide yeah. If you have several mics to try out you can probably get rid of a lot of the mic bias that way ie if your room was showing a 6 dB peak at 150 Hz on 3 different mics then you can be sure the peak is room resonance rather than mic response

I’d try some other frequencies too, or a sweep if you have some kind of pure sine oscillator that can do it.

Might be worth watching how it’s done with the software so that you can figure out a DIY version (though this one uses impulses & the dude has his monitors way too near to the wall) and don’t forget to actually sit in your seat so that your modelling includes all the frequencies that bounce off you :slight_smile:

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#2219

The process of getting monitors:

Holy shit, these sound incredible!

It’s like I’m hearing my favourite music for the first time!

I’ll just listen to some of my old tunes, I bet they sound great!

…

giphy%20(7)

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#2220

when i got my monitoring headphones (AKG701s) i had this

single biggest improvement to my work was getting them, all else has come in small steps

#2221

Mixing/production question: when using MIDI instrument drums, should you have separate tracks for e.g. kick, snare and cymbals (all fed into a drum bus) so you can apply different EQ/compression/etc to them, or is this total overkill because they’re already quite processed?

#2222

do what sounds good :man_shrugging:

edit: Id try and keep them separate as much as possible so I can tweak if needed

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#2223

I like to do seperate tracks sending to a drum bus* as I often add levels of reverb/delay to the snare/hats that never sounds quite right on the kick.

*I only realised this was more resource friendly than running seperate plug ins on each track in the last 48 hours

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