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    I'm a bit amazed by this response I got to a post I did on Facebook...

    So there was a post talking about how vinyl out sold CD's. And the guy went mentioned how superior to CD's they are. So I posted a counter argument - based on technical reasons. I eventually posted it on my Facebook page. I got one comment.... from the guy that wrote the book on disc...
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    Amazing what you could get out of a Trashcan 80-8

    What we used to call the 80-8 from Teac/Tascam. I did this in 1985 or there abouts. It was during the whole Zappa vs. Tipper/PMRC thing. We were in the studio and got tired of hearing about it. So Kevin came up with a lick, he and the drummer worked out the arrangement and we cut it in less...
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    Some great references for creating Ambisonics using Reaper

    Great general info on how it's done
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    Wonder why the Focusrite vid shows an SSL console...

    Why are they showing an Solid State Logic 4000 G Series with plasma metering at 37:47 into the video - see this: ? That's def. an SSL - SSL was Focusrite and Neve's big competitor back then. And I've talked to Rupert (RIP) about his time with Focusrite. Wasn't pretty... SSL 4000 G: This...
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    Lou Ottens - Inventor of the Cassette and CD has died

    I guess for the most part so has his inventions. Yea I know, there's still a lot of people who love the stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/11/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-dies-aged-94 Note: "Ottens, who died on Saturday, had little patience with the renewed popularity...
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    Rupert Neve has died...

    Oh my God... I can't believe this past week... I was invited to meet him in 1997 at AES. He was working at Amek at the time and I just installed a console with his mic pre's in it. All he wanted to talk about was the IoT thing I was working on - I recall the studio owner trying to get the...
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    One place were cables might make a difference

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables-11608028200 I know a guy that makes sub-nanosecond switches/routers used int he same industry. Evidently you can lose a a lot of money being a few nanoseconds behind...
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    Facebook is muting the video of an artist's own music

    They say he and I don't own it... even tho I've provided Copyright info from the LOC ; including numbers. They mute it within seconds of it being posted - so this seems like their f'in AI algorithm is outta control. Yea, AI... when you get that ready - throw it in the back of my jet car ...
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    How I spent the summer...

    Ended up recording more Jon Fritz music. https://www.facebook.com/ajawamnet You can access it even if you're not signed in. Some it is up on Spotify. Interesting story about the song called One More Day. In the mid 2000's , he was out in L.A. visiting a guy that worked at ABC Family, which...
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    AP's blog - "...hardware analyzer often became just a large and superfluous dongle"

    Huh - the 555 is a "Large Dongle" ??? https://www.ap.com/blog/using-sound-cards-for-audio-measurement/ "APx500 software has supported the use of third-party ASIO audio interfaces since version 4.2. This was originally added at the request of manufacturers of these devices who wanted to be...
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    RIP Neil Peart...

    ...saw their first show in Pittsburgh. Neil had such an impact on that band - totally changed their direction. The story of Alex Lifeson playing Caress of Steel to Paul Stanley of KISS (Rush opened their tour) and him not getting it. Then later, them holding the course, calling their tour with...
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    Distortion reducting rack... WTF, Over?

    https://quadraspire.co.uk/products.html https://quadraspire.co.uk/why.html Noticing how the siting of his HiFi made a difference to how good it sounded, Eddie Spruit developed a rack to address the issue of component resonance. In 1995 he set up Quadraspire and launched the Q4 HiFi rack that is...
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    Here ya go - for your media PC - a $20,000 I9 processor

    Usually only used for stock traders and only sold at auction: http://www.cpushack.com/2019/01/24/intel-everest-goes-to-auction/ "Last summer we wrote about the Intel Everest series of high end CPU’s. These are processors which Intel makes for very specific customers (in this case High...
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    Hey old timers - here's a site fer ya... old GUI's

    http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html I used a lot of those. Geos was one of the newer ones. Note the AOL install from 1990 at the bottom of this page: http://toastytech.com/guis/geos122.html I recall cancelling AOL way back in the early 2000's ... when the person asked what my user name was...
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    Has anyone here used this - Vituix software?

    I searched the forum... didn't find anything. https://kimmosaunisto.net/Software/Software.html I noticed he links to other forums.... Like wow - check out the vids VituixCAD Merger Adding off-axis responses with VituixCAD Diffraction and Calculator tools VituixCAD SPL Trace (1.1.18.1 or...
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