jimmarchi1's forum posts 8022

at the moment you can just tag them, but yeah I agree!

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I had to....

https://equipboard.com/gear_photos/6659

dead clean, needs the volume pot and few faders cleaned but once its warm they're fine. Sounds like it should. Spanky, plucky, focused. Arpeggiator with dual filter sweeps is instant stranger things. Its not anything like the mks30 or mks50. Where have you been all my life? I forgot how sweet this synth was. Not getting rid of the poly6. But ooh.

I could lose my whole day doing this.... actually I'm just hovering by the door waiting for my Juno6 because I need to sign for it. But this is killing some time!

this feature is so great.... I can finally catch up on cool gear photos I've missed! Having a blast with this.

AGREED... loudly! Show us your stuff section!

thanks, man!

how do we delete them, I added a couple photos I want to delete

dancing

I try, as soon as I try to describe things subjectively I get all idiotic and then i go listen again and change my mind... a lot of my perception of something measurable is based on mood and source material LOL I objectively know what its doing but don't know how I feel about it all the time.

okay, you definitely want to have things adjusted in your DAW and also NOT be clipping the converters, your ears will tell you. But the meters are just too small on the unit, one of my small gripes (not a pun). So really you're usually getting the preamp darned good before the red led in 4k setting. Its a bit of a balancing act. It really needs a trim control because the 'saturate the preamp in $k legacy mode' routine can go sideways if you're not careful. It needs concentric puts where one is gain and another is trim so you're not risking the clipping converters and you can get safely into fizz turf.... my work around for heavy dirt was to take an odyssey, a hot synth on the xlr jack, boost it up so its clipping, then roll back the SSL gain a little using it as a master control. FOr more subtle effects like one would usually use its fine just running damned hot at the gain knob.

Interestingly my MOTU has optional limiter on the 2 preamps that are set at like -0.5dBV I would guess and when I decied to clip soemthing yesterday to see how those preamps sound they allowed me to run full throttle when engaged. Also I hate to say this but I liked the overloaded sound of the no name preamp quite a bit. It really seems bland used correctly but when abused its really not too shabby.

another thing against the 2+ I'll add here... I plugged it in last night and there's actually a good bit of distortion on the headphone amp with various headphones that didn't jump out at me until now. Compared to the motu's headphone amps its pretty audibly inferior. My take is this thing is great FRONT END on the go and the monitoring was an afterthought but is tolerable. I would not mix my record on it though some premix, broad decisions can be made.... I don't mix on headphones anyway and the main outputs are clean enough. I wish I had a current focusrite here to A/B against now. There's now ay it'll outperform the MOTU monitoring with its pricey mastering covnerters and robust power supply... I have to amend my previous comments though. All the effort here was on teh front end and total mobility. And yet there's nothing wrong with it. The speaker outs are pretty clean even if the covnersion's not up to par with an interface costing 4 times as much.... its like, what do you want for this money? What's your intended usage?

UPDATE: this whole question had me bothered so I checked out the buzz a minute ago and the SSL press is that these are high end converters like in some of SSL's flagship digital products... but I don't know how those fare against the motu's covnerters as they are the converters used by a lot of mastering gear and in the newest, top of the line apogee gear... so, hmmm. Its a quagmire. I have a feeling a 2d gen will be perfectly rounded out... I suspect the power supply culd be improved, a lot will rely on your USB cable and what kind of power your computer is getting. Something like this needs to take that 5v and regulate the hell out of it, split it into multiple rails at different voltages.... then there's the addition of a trim for the preamps, they might add it in V2, and you know these sold like hot cakes, so there will be a V2. Its an excellent product for the money. V2 needs an even more robust power design, always on 4k legacy mode, none of this modern mode bullshit! Trim for easier overloading of mic amps and perhaps an improved phones amp, a switch to change impedance for different cans would be swell, something worthy of all manufacturer's attention. Putting it on a USB C type plug would be wise, give it a thudnerbolt3 mode as well as USB 3 (not 2, meh). Maybe an option for Wall or bus power as well? Want to be best in class, SSL? Address these issues. You're out in the front, but the perfect product would be more adaptable to different musician's methods in different environments and no one's doing that in 2x2 or 2x4 interface...

I think you're right, you did more research than me.... I did NONE and just combed my memory :-)

that's its real strength for me

I mean to say SSL preamps like most british preamps, sound great run into clipping or close to it. Its a bath of harmonic goo up to a nice broadband fuzz. Working the 2+ too hard in 4k mode definitely adds some great color at the front end, assuming you're sure that's right for your song.

on the serious side man, I've not tried the wall-wart pwoered scarlets so I can't say if they outperform the bus powered SSL headroom-wise but the SSL's mic amps want to run out of headroom :-) You'll put 4k legacy on and forget there's another option.

looks like an alembic or a Japanese copy :-) Matsumoku made basses like this for various brands like Aria, Greco etc...

You already know the answer: swap out the big stuff for their rack equivalents... vintage rack gear prices are getting crazy.

man, mks prices are through the roof, and I thought I amde out like a bandit when I sold my matrix1000 for about 700 afterineting maybe 200ish, but now? WOW! I'm so glad I have an mks50 and 30 already. I need a 70 and 80 but dude! used car prices!

This pedalboard planner/layout/flow chart feature should be true to life: "small gig board", "large venue pedal board", "acoustic cafe pedal board", "box in closet", "box in garage", "box in storage space", "box in living room that we use as an ottoman"...

drawer of valuable shit from the 70s and 80s I seldom use... electric mistress surrounded by worn out socks? shit you wish you had because you weren't alive when they made it but that actually isn't so hot... so drunk don't know I'm lugged into the output pedalboard, why won't this shit work?!!!

ever since I got lazy about keys like 30 years ago I've been feeling the guitar shame off and on, this is a curse for guitarists who read music but aren't John Williams or like Larry Carlton... its irrational but my old man loves to tweak me about my musicianship or lack thereof

I'm sure the PHDs at work would have a field day with my constant sense of musical inadequacy versus my enormous gear horde. Horde is starting to be the word too... I gotta liquidate some things just to make room. I don't even know where to put the juno next week.

I'm just surfing equipboard while I record additional tracks and mix for this crazy organist, so its no problem, its all hands off when I'm tracking ebcause its a giant MIDI file and I can justhave at it with the hardware arsenal of badassery

if there were a problem I wouldn't have moved this here for you :-) anyone who knows me could tell ya if it were a problem I woulda said "what a stupid idea"... but its not stupid AT ALL, its great

I'm standing in front of 200 watts of vintage british and american fury in my user picture, I dig guitar.

Its a very guitar centric viewpoint but most of us are guitarists, many of us primarily or solely guitarists....

As the token non-guitarist here, this statement feels about right. If the EB folks have data that shows otherwise, I'd be surprised.

I only play guitar anymore when I want a guitar sound and then that guitar sound is usually generated very simply (even during my MIDI rig period or the multi amp rigs my hands, choice of guitar andthe tube amplifiers do all my heavy lifting tonally, FX are just that, special FX, my sound is my sound) ... but given how most guitarists these days use their amps like power amps and their tone is their pedalboard? welp, this makes sense. And my live synth rig has stomp boxes in it, not just rack units. And I'm not alone in this approach.

https://equipboard.com/forums/general/topics/equipboard-page-ideas?page=3#post-20365

I already copied it into the newest suggestions thread for you ;-)

quote user Kristopher Sundberg > The order of your pedals make a huge difference. Also, with looper, switcher, blender, mixer, and order pedals becoming more of a thing, a very usable feature would be the ability to visualize singal chains. It could really spark conversation and inspire people to get the most out of their pedals.

Its a very guitar centric viewpoint but most of us are guitarists, many of us primarily or solely guitarists.... signal chain, sure, but lets not get into gain staging or I'll have to school yall

I'm going to copy this to the suggestions thread

I was a tech for sam ash for a day

the SSL2+ is great, if you're let down complain to my manager LOL

I'll be honest I've not run a condenser on it yet but I should.... I ahd no problems with the mic amps using dynamics when i did a quick test in front of a guitar amp. The headphone amp functions fine for me. Its not the ebst quality in the world but its fine. Idon't like mixing on headphones anyway, the idea of the SSL was something I could do on the go and that's more like sketchpadding ideas with softsynths and its fine for that. Fr a fixed location studio interface that you're utilizing mainly for DI synths I can't say enough good things about MOTU's 828es. Amazing sound quality in and out, good ehadphone amps, very clean pair of mic preamps that really sound good with the XLR output on an Odyssey... expandable with over lightpipe so you can add color preamps. SUPER LOW LATENCY. Like can't tell there is ANY latency even tracking with plugins on. Its like a UAD without al the otehr nonsense. And the MIDI, oh yes, MOTU know clocking. All my stuff is so tight.

I haven't been using it a lot because I don't go anywhere in thiswhole plague, but it sounds hella good for a bus powered device. That's like 5 crappy volts that I guess they charge pump up considerably. I'd call it best in class. Much better preamps than a focusrite scarlet if not claret. MIDI timing's fine, latency is low if your computer is up to snuff which mine is. But as far as playback quality and latency go it ain't touching the MOTU that's installed in a rack here so its kinda sitting right now. I preordered it back before covid19 hit so I thought I would be making music on the gomore and also didn't expect to buy the motu in august etc etc. Iw as just thinking new laptop and SSL2+ then

that's the plan...

bonus points if you keep it all metric.

HA!!

that's the plan...

I willadmit me and my best friend have AtAts and other kenner star wars stuff and I keep a 90s tick action figure on part of my live stream rigin the communal studio we share... my home studio is bedroom based now, just moved upstairs to give my son more play space and my shit is a mess right now. Functioning but there's gear everywhere. I'm computer based in theory but I don't use a lot of virtual instruments and I do more hybrid mixing so like there are lexicons and compressors around although the compressors are getting pointless these days with converters being so good and having such low noise and THD and what with the latest generation of software comrpessors sounding better than anything I own anyway! I don't think I'll ever let go of the hardware synths or like my vox ac30s for guitar. It doesn't matter how good a VSTi or amp plugin is, just no.

definitely... the game's afoot

your very computer based setup is a lot more intelligible...

I've got access to a helluva drill press...

Kenneth, I just realized the juno 60 doesn't have a continuously variable high pass slider, THAT was the other reason I wanted a 6!!!!!!! For polyphonic odyssey style dual filter sweeps with the arpeggiator running! Its been so long on the quest I plum forgot. and you can't do that on a polysix!

Yeah I understand bigger pages mean longer loading times. I didn't consider that, but I guess if you had 1,000,000 profiles, that would introduce performance bottlenecks. I was unaware of the lists, so I can divide mine up by type I suppose. I do that in FL studio with custom folders so I'm used to it =)

don't you wish your plugins were as easy to organize in mixbus as fl studio? I'm feeling mixbus 32c plugin frustration this week. I saw you use it too and its great and all, but its just underdeveloped and finnicky. Feeling miffed.... totally off topic, but yeah, that's how I roll, totally off topic

even Marc Mac?

that seems fair, if you're out there putting music out periodically, like legit music for humans with ears, maybe selling a few copies or getting youtube hits on a video or something. It seems weird when its a guy who isn't really doing anything.... I come down on a lot of people like that for making pro pages but I don't see myself as a pro. I'm done with that right now and I'm really an enthusiast. I don't release everything I create and I don't finish music very often and I seldom play out. I rarely even turn up to live stream with my boys in trash godz. I wish there was a way to distinguish btween guys who are taking it seriously and if not monetizing it are out there attempting to reach people andlike 12 year olds with a crack of fl studio or oldsters like me who from the 'making it' era who never 'made it' really and mostly stopped worrying about an audience a long time ago.

well that's cool, who knew?