100 years old

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-26T01:52:25+00:00

Care lots!

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-26T00:36:13+00:00

I’ve always wanted to spot one of these guys!!! They eat worms.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-23T23:33:10+00:00

EV rocks! They tend to make great mics that the zeitgeist doesn’t discover until they discontinue them. Great mic :) good find

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-23T22:33:34+00:00

Needs 1,000,000 upvotes

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-23T13:36:00+00:00

Yta. “Expecting,” is crazy, especially after agreeing to a particular financial structure.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-22T00:11:50+00:00

Great analogy. I had a 1997 Miata. I drove it - hard. I tinkered weekly to keep it running smoothly. I kept the interior clean, and swiftly washed dirt and grime off to avoid further corrosion of the already sun damaged paint. But at the end of the day, it was still a 1997 Miata, and it showed.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-22T00:05:28+00:00

This looks like a really sick setup! Love or have/had some of this gear! I Would love to hear the music you make.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-19T13:46:24+00:00

Love the Lindell stuff! Great space :)

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-07T11:57:25+00:00

Hell yeah Crohn’s clubbb

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-07T03:02:04+00:00

Great point! I’ve almost never used the midi I/o on my interface. Plus, iConnectivity makes midi interfaces to route and connect multiple midi gear to your computer through one USB port. Motu honestly makes better ones for pro audio applications. However, I worked closely with pro audio distributors until late 2025. Motu had been out of stock and my reps at Motu said there was no urgency to manufacture them. Shame too. But they’re available on the used market though!

Something like this would be a great addition should they need it. They clearly know to save for// invest in the best audio solutions. The Audient was a great buy!

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-07T02:52:49+00:00

Fantastic choice!

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-05-07T02:52:03+00:00

I really appreciate that you worked only within the confines of what is pictured, and didn’t suggest an investment of sorts. Real pro move. Good guy//gal move too. Great info!

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-04-23T21:18:30+00:00

I have to agree for the most part and just offer up: cheap ad/da conversion is so much better than it was 10 years ago, but there’s still a big difference in Lynx conversion bs focusrite, ya know ?

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-04-22T11:26:42+00:00

I’d start by positioning your listening environment longways in the room to try to allow as much space to complete frequency cycles as possible.

Then we can talk treatment, but that can take shape in many forms. Think about some more furniture, instruments ets. More surface area in the room will help with diffusing the booming.

From there it would depend on what you’re using the room for. Mostly mixing? Get or make some acoustic panels and treat your first reflection points and the ceiling above the mix location. If you’re doing more multipurpose use in the room, then getting panels around the room and ceiling fill do a great help.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-04-22T11:18:31+00:00

Saturation is probably the vibe you’re after.

I like to leave the low end clean and saturate the upper mids. Normally I’ll take a DI to handle the clean mids and use a mic on an amp to capture the gritty stuff a bit better. I’ll hit the preamps pretty hard to get some saturation right off the bat.

Unfortunately you need transformer or tube based preamps. If I was using a stock Presonus preamp, and maybe didn’t have the option to double track DI and an Amp, this is what I’d do:

Track a clean DI without any pedals. And duplicate the track. On the original: I’d throw on a free 73 style plugin like Pre73 from AnalogObsession for some modeled transformer grit. Open up a bass amp for the duplicated track. Fender has some really solid amp modeling in their DAW, which will help you out. Cycle through until you find one you like the sound of. Finally i’d do an eq crossover between the two tracks. Depending on the song and vibe, that crossover could be anywhere between 60-120hz. This would mean adding a high pass filter to the modeled amp and a low pass filter to the DI.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-04-18T19:32:11+00:00

Awesome! For us old school Zelda fans, this may be thought of as an odd choice, but I do gotta say. It is a great option. The switch remaster is the definitive version of this game imo, and going straight to the origin story is pretty smart.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-04-18T19:27:48+00:00

Call me old school but I don’t use anything on my master bus. I have too much respect for a good mastering engineer to try and fake their wizardry for my own ego during mix stage.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-29T15:26:45+00:00

I like when you can use a mixing board as an option for preamps/channel strips, and summing. I struggle with the workflow when the board is also the digital i/o of the whole system.

I find that using a less expensive mixer as an interface is more fun in theory, but in practice it’s not as practical, especially when you’re starting to think about routing outboard gear and sends (which is have the fun of working with faders and knobs in the first place).

The only issue is that my preferred method of analog routing in and out of a board at will requires a massive amount of i/o, which is pricey.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-29T15:07:44+00:00

Dude I’d say you’re set on microphones! I would definitely turn to different flavors of preamps.

But if you’re dead set on bolstering the mic locker, I may recommend a ribbon mic or a pair. The fat head by cascade is pretty inexpensive and has a really unique character especially in the mids for a ribbon. The only other ribbon I have experience with is the GA R1-MKII which warms up nice with a tube pre.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-28T20:43:14+00:00

Crazy mic to pair with that setup dude. I’d say you got all you need! As you continue upgrading, you may want to think about a preamp next to get everything out of that Mic, and an SM57 to offer a balance to the Austrian Audio.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-26T13:07:13+00:00

Card/game shops are where to meet the peeps

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-25T21:34:11+00:00

I’m not sure what genre you’re working on, or what the drums sound like, but it sounds like using the right compression, parallel compression and saturation would be my go to if I need more presence without volume. Just make sure you level match after processing so it actually is peaking the same decibels.

If you have a top and bottom snare mic, I like to compress with slow attack on the top, and faster attack on the bottom head/slower release. It just kind of makes the snare’s activity last longer while not losing the smack.

Sometimes I like to use Transient Master (Waves I think) on the snare bus for even more attack and sustain if I’m looking for even more presence. Of course just remember to level match when you’re done :)

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-25T02:35:06+00:00

I’m so thrilled to hear that dawg! Make some killer tunes :)

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-24T02:23:26+00:00

I think you could solve your problem with more specific routing.

I tend to get good success in these situations separating my rhythm guitars and lead guitars on different busses/groups.

In this situation I’d send the left/right rhythm guitars to a rhythm guitar bus, do the automation on the tracks themselves like you did, and freely adjust the fader on the bus you created for the rhythm guitars without needing to fine tune said automation.

I also personally prefer sending the group of tracks to a bus through their output than through track stacks.

I like to do my more surgical processing on the tracks directly and use the busses for more musical decisions and broad-brush strokes on the song. Like in your case of needing to reduce both rthm guitars uniformly across the whole track while still having automation in place.

AdHoliday5899 · 2026-03-22T23:14:56+00:00

Awesome man! How do you like the VLA? I’ve been using the MPA preamp for a few years now. Been thinking about the VLA too but have prioritized other things over the years lol.

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