pkennethk's forum posts 2051

https://imgur.com/HPCI4Vo

Your knowledge in this area is superb and much appreciated, Jim.

I live in a pretty quiet urban neighborhood, if someone is watching Die Hard or one of those Transformers movies in their living room, the whole block can hear it. So amps... probably not gonna happen. A buddy of mine in a similar neighborhood situation, who still plays shows around town, swears by the UA OX for driving his tubes when he's at home... but I don't own any amps these days, and probably best I keep it that way. I'd have to sell some keyboards to even make room.

If I started with a decent SG-style guitar with hum buckers, what are the pieces in the chain that I MUST keep analog/outboard, and what are the pieces Universal Audio or Neural DSP could handle for me ITB?

The first time I ever heard Kyuss was when they opened for Faith No More in like '92/93. My buddy and I were like "whoever this guitarist is, he's killing it and he needs a better band"... nothing Kyuss ever recorded & released sounds as good as they sounded live that night.

Electric Wizard's Dopethrone is what gets me there in terms of recorded stoner/doomer tone. Dopethrone hits that spot few others dare to try for.

Friends, we were so close: it's the discontinued Pigtronix OFO Disnortion

https://rvb-img.reverb.com/image/upload/s--ZXxB5kNh--/a_0/f_auto,t_large/v1691412520/v2s1oxhhshy0nfg1zfxp.jpg

Just to lock it in, here is a photo of one of their pedal boards from a photo shoot:

https://www.sverrehjornevik.com/media/pages/stories/slomosa-battlingguns/3d1ac4c48c-1714935987/slomosa_frontfilm_sverrehjornevik-06045-1000x.jpg

So it's not Distortion, Octave, Boost (a la Sunn Life), but Octave, Fuzz, Overdrive.

All 4 Slomosa boards are live and ready for gear. Thank you @Michael !!!!

https://equipboard.com/band/slomosa

@phil_e Any bites from Ben on Insta yet?

I asked Ben what it is on insta.

I’m about to put in a request for Tor’s board which only has one pedal I’m not sure of.

Excellent.

I asked to Admins about getting the whole band into the EB database. They are busy men, but perhaps we will get lucky.

Thats pretty weird. A million is a lot of spins (I refuse to say streams) these days. Maybe it just needs a few more days to catch up? @Michael !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slomosa, the band, is in the MuiscBrainz database, but the members aren't also in the database... which is very unusual. I blame their label.

I will talk to the Admins about fast-tracking the Add Artist request (no promises), IF you'll go on social media and ask Ben what the pedal is. They are not so huge that they can't be reached in the comments or via DM. I see them answering questions.

Re: adding Ben and Tor as Artists, It's odd, I've never seen artists with this much career traction/notoriety/buzz not be pre-approved by the database EB uses for vetting. They've broken 1M streams on at least one track...

The slim orange pedal is likely an MXR Phase 95, right? I mean, it's got the shape and the 1 knob, but so grainy.

The green pedal at the end is a Boss RE-20

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2D8AAOSwggBm4g5F/s-l1600.jpg

But that big black pedal in the middle is a mystery. With the 3 switches a the red band in the middle, it screams Eventide PitchFactor, Space, or Blackhole, but it's not any of those, because the knob config is way off.

I looked through the new and discontinued products of:

• Walrus Audio
• EarthQuaker Devices
• Meris
• Strymon
• Collision Devices (the Black Hole Symmetry is sooo close, but no)
• Source Audio
• ... and several others, but no match.

My current guess (and it's a very wild and random guess) is that it could be a clone of the Earthquaker Sunn O))) Life pedal that Benjamin either built themselves from the online schematics and kits available, or bought from one of the many boutique clone makers on Etsy or Reverb. A "real" v3 Life pedal is nearly $600 at retail in Norway, so there is a strong incentive to buy a clone made in-country (or within the EU at least) to save a ton of cash.

...but, I mean, if I was gonna make good on my threats to get back into guitar and start a high desert stoner rock band, a cheap clone of that life pedal wouldn't be a terrible idea.

(this is where Jim will chime in and school me with 2 dozen superior ways to sound like Kyuss)

...but yeah man, this is a good challenge. Legit mystery pedal on our hands.

Some alternates:

https://imgur.com/a/qI3qaD5

https://imgur.com/a/yuAOuj6

Can you share what pics you do have of Benjamin's board, to get us started?

I Googled around for live shots at this guy's feet. Didn't find much.

Community member hashimoto has been doing a heroic job of keeping up with all your daily add item requests.

I can tell you from personal experience, that it's a bit more work than it seems to turn a seemingly-simple item request into a new entry.

So THANK YOU, hashimoto for diving in on your own accord and helping to keep things running smoothly!

If you haven't already, consider giving hashimoto a follow, they definitely deserve it. :)

Yeah, I thought of having a "Revox A77 (all revs)" and the other models on the side like the guitars, but I think having one item "Revox A77 (general)" and merge all in it would be better.

OK, got it. Mods don't have the ability to delete entries, so if you want the MK3 and MK4 entries you made to go away, just submit them as duplicates and explain why you want them removed in the duplicate notes. You're right that it will take months for the dupes to get looked at, most likely, but I don't think the entries are doing any harm in the meantime. In general, when it comes to adding gear to the database, only add gear to the database if you need it there to complete an artist submission, or you own the gear yourself and want to add it to your Equipboard. Adding gear for the sake of completion is something the Admins have asked us to refrain from, for a range of database-health and SEO-related reasons. If you added any other entries for the sake of completion, don't worry about it, just leave them be -- someone will use them eventually, I'm just mentioning this for future situations.

As far as adding the word "(general)" to the name of the Revox A77 entry that's been getting used, if that is what you're suggesting, we need to consider that this entry has been in use for 9 years and submitted to 14 different Artists over that time without anyone raising a concern... sometimes, things annoy me or seem too vague to me, and I want to change them right away, but I have to stop and ask myself "is this something that confuses other people, or is it just me?"... very often, it's just me, lol.

I have a Revox PR99 in my room since quite a long time now, that I have to check the power supply if it would be safe to turn on (but I don't have the power cable :/).

Sounds like a very cool piece of decoration to have in your room :)

Though, I think we should find a way to mention that it's all revisions (and also I have to remove the MK3 and MK4 I added yesterday (I'll use duplicates once we have all settled, but it might takes time :/)).

For guitars, as an example, we have generic entries for all the major makes and models, like "Fender Telecaster", "Gibson Les Paul", etc and we don't list them as "Gibson Les Paul (all versions)" or "Gibson Les Paul (all models)" because then the entry looks strange in the Artist's profile or in someone's personal Equipboard.

Would mentioning that the "Revox A77" entry is for all revisions within the item description be enough, or were you thinking we need to list that it's for "all revisions" within the title?

Also, what if we had one general entry that was "Revox A77" and then separate entries for MKI through MKIV?

Another question: how did you happen across this issue in the first place? were you trying to submit something for an Artist? Did you start getting into old tape machines?

Great question, meb.

There are definitely items in the database that need separate entries for MK 1, 2, 3, etc -- The Elektron MK2 and MK3 products come to mind: there are meaningful changes between each revision, to the point where some owners agonize over whether or not to sell their current MK1 Octatrack (for example) to fund moving up to the MK2 or MK3.

But in the case of the Revox A77, a product discontinued almost 50 years ago, their use of model revision designations seems to be more old school: they were making subtle changes to the product almost every year, in the name of continuous improvement, aesthetics and/or parts availability, and not making much of an effort to market these changes to customers.

For things like this, I ask myself these questions:

Q: Would distinguishing between revisions help when submitting items to an Artist?

A: Looking at the current A77 submissions, I'd say no -- many of the submissions are from mentions of the A77 in interviews or official gear lists, rather from photos or videos. It doesn't look like many of them (if any) specifically mention whether they used a Mk2, Mk3, etc... they just say "We used a Revox A77".

Q: Would this help users shopping for gear?

A: I'm no tape expert, but from what I can gather about distinctions between revisions, its way more important to find an A77 that has been well maintained and calibrated, than it is to make sure you get a specific revision. The MK1 may have been slightly noisier than the MK2, as a theoretical example, but that was back in 1968 -- in 2024, the machine that was taken care of or recently restored is going to be the less-noisy machine, the few parts that distinguish between a MK1 and MK2 may have been replaced or upgraded over the years anyway. Also, it looks like there were some interchangeable parts between each Revision, so (in theory) machines still in operation today might have a capstan from a MK3, the body of a MK2, a meter from a MK4, etc.

3. Would community members who own this gear care about these distinction?

A: Some might, for sure, but if the Artist submissions are any indication, a lot of artists actually using these machines don't really care to mention the revision. There are some clear aesthetic distinctions between some of the revisions, as you point out, but I don't think any of the machines had "MK II" or "MK III" actually written on the unit anywhere, you have to look up your serial number and/or ask a tape forum to figure it out. In some quick research, I'm seeing people who have owned an A77 for years asking for help figuring out which revision they've been using.

So based on the answers above, I'd vote to keep this one simple as "Revox A77" and let it apply to all revisions... but what do you think?

Done.

I hope their questions concern the logged-in homepage, because nobody asked me to log out.

...the background image of the survey is the logged-out home, so I wasn't sure.

Thank you!

I downloaded the trial. Haven't installed yet because I'll get too distracted from work, but I'm looking forward to checking it out and seeing if I can figure out how they do what they do.

I'm 90% Live, 10% Logic.

Bitwig-interested, Renoise-adjacent.

To see if a plugin in Live adds to the buffer, hover over it's name in the bottom-window area thing:

https://imgur.com/rGs5xn8

Right, but it if can remove cymbals without adding any additional samples of latency that your DAW has to compensate for, that is of interest to me. Things like this have traditionally needed their own tiny look-ahead sample buffer to analyze and do their magic, which is fine if you're working with pre-recorded material, but adding to the total system latency your DAW is compensating for means that any VSTi/instrument plugins you are using become that much more sluggish in terms of how they respond to live midi-controller input.

The bump in total system latency is NBD when mixing or sequencing stuff with a mouse, so I doubt any Silencer customers would be hampered by the plugin adding more total latency, but when you live and die by a midi controller triggering plugin instruments, they become a pain.

You're a tough customer to please, Jim. This is quite an accomplishment.

Completely left-field question unrelated to how this plugin is intended to be used: how much latency does the plugin add?

I'm curious for the sake of a Max for Live thing I was working on. If you tell me this thing introduces no additional latency, then I'm very intrigued... for all the wrong reasons.

OK, I see where this is going... I'm here for it.

Thanks Michael :)

That page is broken for me too, odd. I pinged Admins about it, but no promises on timelines.

Thanks for reporting!

Also, is there a way to contribute further in the duplicated (than just submitting duplicated (like making stuff moving faster or something?))

At the moment, the best thing you can do is to clearly voice your desires for how you'd like things to be here on the forum.

(Also, about my Codanova uhh equipment stuff. I've pretty much did everything I wanted to do for the VMX V64, I want to sync lights and have push buttons. I need to modify the thing, and most likely change the firmware. Well I managed to get in touch with a former employee of Codanova, and he gave me tons of files, and unreleased software! :D)

I'm so glad to hear the former Codanova employee was so cool! That's great!

Yeah, just submit it as a dupe when you have a free moment. No big deal.

As you probably know, there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of entries on the site for the same exact guitar models, that only differ by color. This goes against the guidelines we're asked to abide by, but people want what they want when it comes to what shows up in their own Equipboard. In this case, if it's an instrument you don't own personally, and you don't care about what color shows up in the item entry, best to keep the database as streamlined as possible and submit it as a dupe.

I'm not sure I fully understand what it is you think you did wrong.

Are you saying you created a new entry that didn't need to exist?

Welcome!

I have done my best to consolidate articles the best I can by renaming pages as duplicates, with the version which has the highest equipboard score, most artists, and most reviews taking precedence. Is there a way to merge the numbers from the duplicates into the authoritative entry?

Adding "Duplicate" to an item's name is likely to annoy anyone who has that item in their own Equipboard. Best to submit the item as a duplicate through the site's own process:

https://equipboard.com/duplicate_items/new?original_id=13616

When you do a search for an item, you'll see "Submit as a Duplicate" next to the name of each Search result.

Your Duplicate submission will sit there for months, but they eventually get tended to.

Also, it would be awesome to have a heirarchy level for the model. As a prime example, the Fender/Squier Precision Bass occupies probably 40% of the sales of bass guitars. It would be cool to be able to search by this and see the different submodels of this and see larger statistics of them mashed together in a parent entry. Just a thought.

Where have you been all these years, Vagen? I've been shouting about this for years, mostly to a chorus of crickets. It's nice to hear the someone else in the community is also down for some structure.

Fender (10k Artists) > Fender Basses (5k Artists) > Precision Basses (2.5k Artists) > '57 AVRI Precision Bass (40 Artists).

The good news is Equipboard's Lead Engineer/Cofounder has assured me he gets it, and wants the same -- but it sounds like it's one of those things where adding Instrument hierarchy now is gonna require a major database overhaul. In other words, they need like an extra million users a year to start clicking on ads and using those affiliate links :)

I've been seeing increased reports of this.

Can you share a few example links that are not working? I'll log them with the Admins.

FWIW: the internet says Oberheim VCF-200, which has a sample and hold function, as heard here and here. Whether or not he had that circuit built into his console, and whether or not you believe these hearsay sources on the internet, a filter being modulated by a sample and hold circuit is a highly plausible explanation for the filtery-bit of what you're hearing.

It was nice to see Equipboard get a little screen time in the latest Bad Gear:

https://youtu.be/q322y4evhNA?t=263

Bonus: this episode is about my beloved DR-660.

Cool, I'll fix this one, and add this to the list of powers to give mods.

Thank you!

So it really exist and we do not have a Image and no Infos ? The company is IIII and the Headphones are called .... ? I will not change it, someone might do it , thats too hot for me, hehehe. But was a funny finding.

You are 100% correct that it is a problem, thank you for bringing this to the forum's attention, sorry to be vague in my response, I was rushing. Beyond what eyesee has done, there isn't much else that can be fixed. Most of these entries, including the nonsense brand page, should just be deleted, which requires an Admin.

Naming a music brand or product "IIII" is not beyond the realm of possibility for Musical Instrument companies, but that's not what is going on here. This user just thinks they're Jodi.org.

It's from this brand: https://equipboard.com/brands/iiii

OK, I have added this guitar for you:

https://equipboard.com/items/lunacharsky-12-string

Thanks for the advice! :D
Well it's just that I'm afraid that this user might not look at equipboard stuff since this picture was posted long time ago (and I hoped that mods could change the tag to the actual keyboard).
Thanks!

It's a good point that it'd be nice if we had the tools to correct things like this.

The item being wrong on the user's profile isn't so much the problem, but the fact that those photos auto-feed to the item landing page is kind of an issue.

This happens every once in a while.

I wish there was a way for mods to fix it, or to at least stop that photo of the NI keyboard from showing up on the Korg SV-1 landing page.

...but consider this: that photo is the first and only thing that community member has added to their profile so far.

When folks are just getting started on the site, I'd recommend one of these 3 approaches in a situation like this:

1. Go to the actual Community Photo post and say something decent like "hey, nice NI keyboard. Welcome to the community. Good to have you here." (Don't even worry about the error, focus on bringing more people into the fold and growing the community.)

2. If you just can't help yourself, go to that photo and say something like "hey, sweet controller. Good to see more producers here. NBD, but the photo details list this as a Korg SV-1 digital piano... strange."

3. Do nothing, let it go. This is always the safest approach if you're not sure you can say something positive.

OK, now you have my attention.

Respect for going full GitHub on this one.

OK, I finally checked it out.

So far, it's a way more compelling read than I would have guessed.

You're underselling it a bit.

Thanks!

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I logged the Art Blakey and Elvin Jones ads years ago, but the Mel Lewis stuff is still up for grabs.

https://equipboard.com/submissions/344989

https://equipboard.com/submissions/344978

Nice to hear some music this time around. Great job! Are you all done with reconditioning/modifying the hardware itself? Everything else you want to add is just via software, right?

I can tell you revived this one to see if I would rant and you will not be let down. I would say that a studio mixer's job has more in common with a front if house engineer. When I occassionally work as a tracking engineer my focus is a lot different than when I'm mixing a record or at a performance at a venue. My methods vary depending on whether it's a record or FOH, but I might rack up some of the same tools I use in my home studio for a sound reinforcement gig. That said, sound reinforcement is very different as it's entirely environmental.

When I say I am "fine" to lump all Engineers together, that does not mean I think it's a great situation... it's just that teasing out all the very different Engineering roles feels too granular for where EB is at right now.

You mentioned Manny Maroquin, there are a slew more guys out there deserving of a separate category. Bob Clearmountain (the OG), Alan Moulder, Andy Wallace (king of the 90s), the Lord-Alge bros and especially Michael Brauer (wanna here a perfect mix, put on The New Radicals) come to mind immediately. They all like really specific stuff and use it in specific ways. The Brauerize method of mixing is particularly deserving of a separate category.

At least the Engineers you mentioned have profiles here. It's a start.

If we did this category I would immediately start populating it with engineers and their gear and plugins. I would also include detailed explanations of how they use this stuff. In many instances I have it straight from their mouths.

There is nothing stopping us from beefing up the profiles of these folks right now, and if you were into a specific Engineer, you could look them up and see what gear they used via Equipboard without any changes to the site... but there would still be no way to see, for example, what monitors are most popular with Engineers as a category.

I bring those 3 guys up because they're all dead now. A separate category would make it easy to search gear and someone like me would preserve their methods in the entry for that gear providing an easy reference for people trying to figure out ways to use this stuff... mix engineers are pretty sophisticated, out of the box (even when In The Box) thinkers. It would be great to document tools and methods before some of this stuff is lost to time.

Agreed. But, again, there is nothing stopping us from logging all this stuff right now, it's just that we end users can't look at Engineers, Mix Engineers, FoH Engineers, etc as a group to see what tools are popular for that slice of the Artist pool. We can only look at each Engineer's choices individually, or look at all Artists in one huge lump.

Sorry to make it about dead guys but as I said, I went there for a reason! I too am surprised how little respect the current top mixers get here. On other forums some of these folks have whole cults formed around them.

What got me wondering was seeing that Audeze has a line of headphones co-developed with Many M., and the dude didn't even have a profile here.... surprising.

I don't mix on headphones, nor am I an aspiring Mix Engineer. Mixing on headphones for brave people who have no reasonable alternative and/or only care what their stuff sound like on headphones.

Good. Thanks for staying off my lawn. I might mix 3 songs without doing a headphone check if everything sounds cool on different speakers. Every once in awhile I'll do a check on some AKGs. Everything always sounds better on cans to me which makes me lazy if I do a headphone check. If I mistly check on my crumbly 90s tannoys or ns10s they really prevent early onset "close enough syndrome" (my term)

I can understand folks that are way early in their journey, who have roommates, or otherwise don't have access to their own sound-insulated space, needing to make do with headphones as their primary listening device for a rough mix... 100% sympathetic to that situation, that was me in college, and me whenever my housemates were home at the same time I was during my early 20s... but it's the folks who can spend $500+ on headphones, who have the means to mix on speakers, but stubbornly insist that headphones are still the way to go for mixing, just because they want that the be the reality, because they have a headphone fetish... IDK, I hope that I'm just imagining those folks exist, and all the folks arguing for hours about which expensive headphones to mix on are just stuck in situations where speakers aren't an option... because I agree that it's too easy to make things sound great on headphones, and making everything work out in the wilds of the open air is still priority #1.

When I see a YouTube video urge me to put on headphones so that things "sound their best", I judge... I judge hard when I see that. To me, this is someone saying "I couldn't be bothered to make this audible on a smartphone speaker, HiFi speakers, etc. and/or I don't trust that you already know how much better things sound on headphones."