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Thanks, amigo! I'll definitely start tuning in on Wednesday mornings regardless. Just looked at your playlists and you have some killer taste. My compliments to the chef.

You're both welcome! Thank you for listening! Also, you recognize those names?!

There are two options. First is to tune in live via this stream. My show airs every Wednesday at 8:00 AM EST this semester. The second option is Spinitron, which is where WZBC posts its shows' playlists and hosts a live chat during broadcast. You can listen to an archive of every show within a two week time frame. After that fortnight, they disappear. You can find my past show playlists here.

I listened back to the beginning of this week's episode and I am partly amused by how rusty my commentary has become. I sound like I'm discombobulated. I've become too used to the editability of a prerecorded remote show, which we were doing biweekly last semester in the midst of social distancing. We're transitioning back to weekly live shows now.

If you're looking for some indie pop/rock with synths and guitars, maybe I can interest you in my band's EP? The title track "Surrender" is the only one that was recorded, mixed, and mastered professionally so that's "the single," such as it were, and probably the one that would work best on the radio. But I've put all the tracks into the folder linked below, so if there's anything else you think would work better for a specific show's format, have at it.

Also, anyone else who mods here, feel free to grab the tracks on the house. Hope someone, anyone, enjoys 'em.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/atd26ulgqbfwvs8/AACFVP4dDiDh8fPlIuqt4QD6a?dl=0

Thank you so much! I'd love to play this.

By the way, Jim, "On Your Side" was on yesterday's show. ;)

https://equipboard.com/pros/transilmania

No problem!

don't actually take ns10s apart though, okay?

I wouldn’t be getting my money’s worth if I did. ;)

Will this be incorporated into the Gear Recommender?

It’s Jerry Jones

are you kidding, i've disconnected the tweetersand sent a shielded cable out of the woofers on these many times for kick and low tom... they need a lot of gain, a lot

Did you continually reassemble them? How does that work?

are you kidding, i've disconnected the tweetersand sent a shielded cable out of the woofers on these many times for kick and low tom... they need a lot of gain, a lot

Did you continually reassemble them? How does that work?

at the moment I was thinking of just buying the whole system.... so its not a plugin on ym master bus or anything, the iLouds auto claibrate and you can adjust flat or bass/treb cuts or what have you, ttis all hosted itnernally, although the bummer is I'm dependent on their converters on either end of that amplifier, but I do have other monitors up, I just want something quiet and fairly flat that Ic an lsiten to real close, lie DIRECT field monitoring while I dial in my main sounds and get that balance going, then I'll probably kick to the A or B setup, tannoys or JBLs (or something, I'm still feeling weird about the JBLs at the moment they're a bit tubby like all JBLs and they have a dip I can fucking hear it).... these are a smidge cheaper than similar genelecs and they work sideways which will allow me to have stuff above them if I want whereas the genelecs are inferior in the lows and taller when upright as they're designed to be used. 600 bucks is a good size investment on an untried company so I keep chickening out

I'm not sure why you would want anything to sound like an NS10, its the way the glued paper cones in a sealed box produce transients that makes them good to mix on and you can't emulate that. Its a physical thing they do when powered the right way... the actual frequency response is grating. I pretty much stopped using mine this year LOL. In a treated control room I do like them to dial in my midrange and dynamics really well on certain instruments but I can't use them for extended periods of time or I get fatigued. I don't really use my mix cubes anymore for the same reason. I 'm convinced that even at the very low volumes I monitor at these 2 sets of workhorse, industry beloved speakers are murdering my hearing.

I'm trying to get something that's really flat in any room, sounds best quiet and is small enough to sit on my meter bridge at arm's length from my ears so i can listen even more quietly and hear everything and avoid ear fatigue for longer... save the bigger boys for finishing up a cut and maybe move some air right at the end

Interesting. Very interesting. I cannot speak to the iLouds, but they are certainly compact.

Have you thought about converting your NS10s into macrophones (big microphones)? It’s fairly popular for bass drum miking.

I suspect it needs new gain trims and it'll be fine... did you test the line amps as ell as the mic amps? they're actually separate circuits on a switch, not just padded down, there's even a different impedance load. If the same problem is true for both modes then its the gain pots. If the problems are different then its something else. My brief testing indicated the issues were common to both the mic and line amps before I sold it but that's as far as I went. I decided to shop for a bigger desk instead of pulling my hair out...

I don't currently have a means to test the line input. I can always grab a cheap 1/8" to 1/8" interconnect, plug it into my Hosa MHE-310 and use the output of a phonograph or Bluetooth speaker.

I don't typically hire repair people, its against my relgiion. I encourage you to do so though.

I'm thinking of choosing AudioProz in Watertown. I called for a quote and the guy says he used to be a Ramsa salesman. He also said he had a tight schedule but proceeded to talk my ear off for an hour on a tangent about mic specificity and Republican monopolies. Not because I asked, but because he assumed (albeit correctly) that I understood little about mixer assembly. 'Twas a bit condescending.

Here's his manifesto. Do you approve?

I'm still impressed you got your college to buy you a small mixing desk... I mean, you don't get to keep it, but by the time you graduate you should also be graduating to a bigger desk

It's surreal, man. Part of my pitch was that it's a historical piece.

Dude, Tom, off topic here but speaking of recommendations what do you think of IK's ARC system? I'm eyeballing a pair of iLouds with the dual woofers and ARC mic for my meter bridge, I was thinking genelec but these are smidge cheaper and can fit my space without having to change a lot of stuff around because they can go sidewise, yada yada

do you find that ARC software genuinely fixes your sound issues in an untreated room? How bad is the latency?

my home studio is untreated, the loud JBLs are a bit much for it beyond a check here or there, I like them to track synths and stuff, but that's all... my tannoys are my tannoys, they are a really specific sound and they're kinda bulky for a passive.... I'm retiring my NS10s

I've been trying to modernize my monitoring.... I'm so set in my ways, its time to shake things up

I'm also using my JBLs in an untreated home studio. I got ARC 2.5 because I was NOT about to pay $1000+ for foam.

It does genuinely work. It acts primarily like an EQ, but I think it adjusts frequency-specific latency based on your room's acoustics. One does risk clipping from the EQ boost, however, so I'd recommend turning down the plugin's master volume.

Another cool feature is that is has speaker emulation. It takes your measurement and combines with preset curves. There actually happens to be an NS10 emulation.

1. Not yet, but they will be soon. We're going to be rolling out an updated Gear IQ system soon. It's long overdue!

2. Mods can delete for the time being. However, this is just the initial phase of this feature. Eventually, we want voting, tagging, etc which will make recommendations more useful and will dilute any bad data.

Would mods retain the ability to delete in the near future of an item gets really low votes?

The mixer has arrived! All channels but 10 are outputting signal, but only 1, 11 and 12 seem to be doing so optimally. The rest are rather quiet.

I do have a few questions.

• What's that white tab thing under effects send 3?
• Are the yellow marks at the gain trims for channels 11 and 12 optimal settings?
• Why did you send me spare faders? They all seem to be working fine.

So e.g. Boss OD-1W is no Super Overdrive even if it’s on the pedal?

Which kind of submissions should I do?

"Boss SD-1W Super OverDrive Waza Craft" would be fine since it is part of the official name. Something like "Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Overdrive" would be the different, since "overdrive" is not part of that pedal's name.

No, unfortunately I’m not able to edit all of these because I need 240/250 point to edit most of these pedals.

You just need a few more submissions. You can do it! ;)

Just to put it in a nutshell: generally every item above doesn’t need a description like reverb, overdrive, reverb or so even if it’s part of the item name or manufacture’s description?

Correct, unless it's part of the main product name.

I'm pretty sure you can do all these name changes through your own account. Regarding the "Tremolo" part, pedals on Equipboard did use to have their effect types as part of their names, but the introduction of effect type categories rendered that relatively unnecessary. The general practice is to use just the brand and product name.

Very interesting... So you distorted the song though what your pickups were sending to the amp? Ingenious, good sir!

Done!

so waves at 16bit 44.1k quality? or 24 bit 48k youtube quality?

24 bit 48kHz, please.

I'll take it all. Trash Godz, Under Your Bed, Dog and Pony, anything. If your friends have anything, too, send it this way.

do you want CD format? high sample rate 24 bit wave file? Reel of 1/2" tape? Cassette, 8 track (j/k)? We're not doing vinyl yet but will be

These all sound awesome! A CD would probably last the longest and be a source for WAVs/FLACs. On the other hand, WAVs would be easier to send. How about we start with some WAVs?

I'll get you a trash godz mix if you have 2 uninterrupted hours to broadcast LOL

but seriously I'll radio edit them because the Godz would want to be on... I think... do you want me to link you to something or like send you soemthing. I want you to have the most hifi mix your station can play safely, right?

What do we do here because i want to promote all the bands from Party HQ (the main 'live studio')? its all weird, underground music.... I dunno if I should give you my music which is less weird usually then the guys I work for

I'll take it all. Trash Godz, Under Your Bed, Dog and Pony, anything. If your friends have anything, too, send it this way.

Attention recording artists, label reps and music aficionados! Hello!

As you may have read on my Equipboard author page, I host a radio show called The Holtz Effect on WZBC, 90.3 FM in Newton, MA. Run by students at Boston College, WZBC broadcasts to the greater Boston area and are always on the hunt for gems new and old. This includes you! If you or a friend have any music you would like to submit for air play, whether that be your own or someone else's, drop it here in the forum or reach out to our music directors at [email protected] (rock, jazz, electronic, folk, reggae, and other pop ilk) or [email protected] (musique concrète, experimental).

Besides standard FCC regulations (no obscenity, indecency or profanity), we have one criterion for air play. In keeping with a tradition of a focus on underground music, I simply ask that you submit music that is not considered "mainstream". I understand that is a very relative word, so I will give some examples of artists who are considered by WZBC to be "too big to play":

1. Artists with at least 5 songs that have 1M+ streams on Spotify
2. Artists who have not yet achieved 1), but who had equivalent success in a period predating Spotify
3. Artists whose success is equivalent to 1) and 2) through other media (e.g. acting, comedy, sports)

Note that in the event of a direct song request via phone (617-552-4686) or live chat, the above is overruled and we can play whatever song you want, provided it meets FCC regulations.

Some Quick Station History

WZBC has been around since 1973 and has always been about underground music. Ironically, the station has been host to some of pop music's most pivotal moments. In early 1981, R.E.M. finished editing the original "Radio Free Europe" radio single there after an interview. They later met DJ Jim McKay (now a prominent director and a longtime R.E.M. collaborator) that same year. In 1991, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic were interviewed at WZBC on the night Nevermind was released. In 2009, at the request of Animal Collective and Domino Records, WZBC (through Newbury Comics) was among the many stations to host an official listening party for Merriweather Post Pavillion.

Here's a partial/incomplete list I've put together of some of our other guests:

On-Location Guests

• The Police
• The White Stripes
• Sufjan Stevens
• Greg Hawkes (The Cars)
• Stereolab
• Sigur Ros
• The Legendary Pink Dots
• Interpol
• Low
• A Place to Bury Strangers
• John Zewizz (twice!)

Remote Guests

• Antibalas
• Becca Stevens
• A-F-R-O
• Michael Imperioli

Notable DJs

• Brian Carpenter (Beat Circus, Ghost Train Orchestra) - Hosts Free Association on Fridays, 7-10 PM EST
• Jim McKay - Director
• Herb Scannell - President and CEO of KPCC, former president of Nickelodeon and TV Land
• Joe Tessitore - ABC and ESPN sportscaster
• Brian Coleman - Author of Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

UPDATE: I was wrong! The kit was modded by Rick Erickson to create his own PFL-1 Pro Flanger. Check it out here.

Imagine a page styled like this, but for “plate reverbs for vox ac30 style amps”.

Doesn't the "Related Items & Pairings" carousel make that redundant? How would they differ?

So for example, we would create thousands of dedicated pages like “best overdrives for blues”, “best PAF style humbuckers”, “best nitrocellulose safe guitar stands” and they would live forever and change over time.

These would all be linked to the item pages so that people could easily see which products are in what lists.

That could conflict with the Gear Guides, though. "Thousands" might also clutter the recommendations. It might be better to keep each item to one megathread, or at least as subsets of overarching recommendation topics.

Regarding linking, perhaps a collapsible mini module could be made on item pages. It could be a button on the side like "See Similar Recommendations" that reveals the "Related Items & Pairings" carousel next to a shortlist of those user-generated pages. A little "See More" link could go with the user-generated pages to open up the main hub.

Also, if we bring in the ability to tag and self tagging (for example, Michael is a guitarist that likes lo-fi rock and blues), we could make some really interesting pages based on personal preferences. Roles, genres, styles, types of products, you name it.

I like the concept, but that sounds vaguely similar to an algorithm. One risks being bombarded with miscellaneous items just because he/she selected a single genre tag. Maybe a filtering system could be added so people can pick which items they wants suggestions for?

But yeah, I still love my Talisman. I'm a man of simple taste, and this works for my Zeppelin, ZZ Top, etc. music where the focus is on the dirt. It's replaced my Bassbreaker's onboard reverb.

But it's listed as "Had" on your page! Did you take a break from it?

https://equipboard.com/pros/nomakills-official

https://equipboard.com/pros/benjamin-ian-taylor

Here's my idea: Bulk submissions. You know where you find a photo of an artists guitar collection or pedalboard or something where there's about 10+ items in the photo? Insted of submitting them seperatly, one at a time, I suggest a seperate submission category where a user makes a list of some sort and it'll submit items in bulk (excluding any items that are already on the artist's page). the user can also make a text that applies to all of the items, e.g. "here we can see ______'s pedalboard, the pedals are from left to right...", or something like that.

Feel free to criticize or suggest something on this idea, I'm always open to feedback.

This would be such a time saver.

I think we need a manuals library... sometimes old gear manuals disappear into obscurity as hard copies are lost by owners and websites are rebuilt by businesses so if someone has a PDF we should host it.... even new stuff we should store manuals if its ok with the manufacturer because when that gear is discontinued who knows how long the manufacturer will host the PDF manual? And software too, sometimes you open an old plugin you like, hit the help button and you get a dead link. Developer is gone. Domain cancelled, manual lost forever.

Really great stuff stays in service long after the creator has moved on.

This a very good idea. I have a similar idea in mind for old ads.

not at all

you just caught me before bed

Thank you! I appreciate it. Good night!

It seems our exchange timed out. Would you mind reaffirming it?

This pedal is not at all similar in sound to the Roland Space Echo... Isn't that right?..

Yes and no. It's by Boss, a Roland company, so they probably have a mint condition unit in the archives to reference and get impulse responses from. However, the RE-20 is a digital pedal rather than an analogue tape unit.

I haven't used either one, so I can't give you an opinion. I do know that Johnny Greenwood uses an RE-20 live instead of hauling Radiohead's vintage RE-201.

The best option is probably the RE-20 Space Echo, Boss' own compact digital emulation.

Nice! Thank you for the tip!

So Rupert Neve died...

Wow. Just wow. May he rest in peace.

Nope. Not yet. Best Service is a sample library company that's been around forever. Saw some of their products pop up on the store recently.

Oh, cool!

Best Service! Nice!

Did you just make a purchase? How was it?

We both know you must complete your quest to top kkolar before you ghost. You will deny that this is something you aim for... but none of us will believe you. ;)

XD Believe it or not, I actually don’t care. But who knows?

I'll keep you guessing, but I think I'll stick around here even after that. ;)