scotteh




A bunch of other stuff in the closet. Synth at bottom is Chroma Polaris.


Scott
www.scottfromcanada.com

bapu

inaheartbeat

Hey speaking of sub-woofers....I am wondering how I can integrate a sub-woofer into my setup. I have two channel stereo output from the Octa-Capture. It has four output pairs which is good. I put my main out into the input of my amplifier. Not sure how to get a sub-woofer into this however. Any ideas welcome. 

Ken

Most sub woofers (ala my Adam Sub 8) have stereo in and stereo out. Nothing else to do but set the right sub freq and level. 

Highly recommend these http://www.parts-express....chext=cat&srchcat=536./ I use one of these with my m&k's in 2.1 setup

inaheartbeat

bapu

inaheartbeat

Hey speaking of sub-woofers....I am wondering how I can integrate a sub-woofer into my setup. I have two channel stereo output from the Octa-Capture. It has four output pairs which is good. I put my main out into the input of my amplifier. Not sure how to get a sub-woofer into this however. Any ideas welcome.

Ken

Most sub woofers (ala my Adam Sub 8) have stereo in and stereo out. Nothing else to do but set the right sub freq and level.

Thanks man. I figured it couldn't be real complicated given the audio interfaces available on the market and the general need for subs. That is going to be my next purchase after my next purchase right after my next purchase.....;-)


Ken

bapu

The VOCAL BOOTH:

Rain

bapu

The VOCAL BOOTH:

Don't mean to derail this thread, but all those pictures are giving me ideas for our own home studio. I won't record live instruments there (other than direct) but I might want to record vocals (wife) and voiceovers.



In keeping the setup as lean and clean as possible, I've considered one of those portable vocal booth that you just clip to the mic stand. 






Any of you guys has had a chance to work w/ these? Worth anything or should I stick to a more traditional approach and reserve a space to build a proper booth?

Rain

bapu

The VOCAL BOOTH:

Don't mean to derail this thread, but all those pictures are giving me ideas for our own home studio. I won't record live instruments there (other than direct) but I might want to record vocals (wife) and voiceovers.



In keeping the setup as lean and clean as possible, I've considered one of those portable vocal booth that you just clip to the mic stand. 






Any of you guys has had a chance to work w/ these? Worth anything or should I stick to a more traditional approach and reserve a space to build a proper booth?

scotteh


Ken, MIDI is done with an m-audio midisport 8x8 (in the rack). Long cable goes from the m-audio Keystation pro all the way around the front of the room to an input on the front of the midisport then another one goes all the way back around to M3m (it's now a moog Voyager RME and the M3M moved over to where the microkorg was). That whole stand with all those synths, creamwares, plugiator, SEM-pro and now the Voyager as well are all on the same midi channel so that all I have to do is turn up the volume on the one(s) I want to use.

The synths in the rack get their own midi ports since I have extras. In the rack is Moog Slim Phatty, Roland Super JV-1080 with Vocal card (LOVE the choir sounds!),  Midisport, Roland M-GS64 (just put it back in for some drum sounds but it has a ton of other good sounds too), Oberheim matrix 1000, Alesis Midiverb 4 (Slim Phatty going through this) , Alesis DMPro (dead at the moment, nothing but a clock-like clicking sound at the output), Lexicon MPX-100 (OB-8 is going through it for chorus and flanging sounds) and a Behringer Composer compressor I'm not using at the moment. I'm sick of compression and don't do very much any more. I REALLY miss hearing DYNAMICS in music.

There's also another midi in coming from whichever synth I have on that chair. Usually the Gaia SH-01 or the D-50 or for a while it was the Polaris after I got it. That gives me a synth keyboard I can play instead of the heavy weighted keyboard (I have short, weak fingers and went 20 years without a weighted keyboard so sometimes a synth keyboard is MUCH easier for me!!). Or I could take the MIDI out from the OB-8. 

Generally the OB-8 is stand-alone and I just play the keyboard. You can't sync the arpeggiator or LFO to MIDI so it's a bit limited in that sense but it's still my go-to keyboard since everything is right there on the front panel. Love programming that thing!

(synths in closet are Sequential Circuits Sixtrak. Yamaha DX7-IID, Korg O5Rw, TX81Z, K1r, a couple of others I think)

No MIDI at all for the 2 Yamaha synths, of course. Now that I have the 40m I don't use the 20m much but I do have volt and trigger cables going to it from the 40. Works like a charm! Kinda cool to use both at the same time.  They have a slightly different sound than everything else which is useful at times, especially the analog ring modulator on the 40! (Although the Voyager does ring mod sounds amazingly well considering it doesn't have one!!)

As for syncing everything up... I don't. I just record one thing at a time and build up my songs that way. I get an idea, record it, add more sounds one at a time. I actually rarely use midi sequencing other than for the drums which obviously need to be pretty close to perfect and the occasional sequence. I play everything live on the keyboards.

I really dislike music that is robotically perfect. Subconsiously we always know that it's not played by real humans, it's just too damned perfect and just doesn't have any human feel or soul. My timing is getting better and better but I still prefer to be off just a little bit because it just sounds... friendlier. More alive. I'm also hoping to do more stuff with free time, less rigid. I'm still extremely impressed with Tomita's music and how he did that kind of thing.

So I don't really do much syncing or sequencing at all. If it's not close enough I just delete and play it again until I get it right!

Scott
www.scottfromcanada.com

Razorwit

Hi Bapu,

I couldn't help but notice that you don't have a pop filter on that 84. If you're using it for vox you probably want one....in fact, you probably want one regardless of the source. Wind can mess up your ribbon and I hear that getting them fixed is an expensive prospect.

Dean