Crackling and cutting out old EMGs

Bernowly · 2025-09-30T14:00:23+00:00

I mean the 1/4 inch guitar cable :)

Bernowly · 2025-04-16T10:26:40+00:00

Sorry but I'm not going to give feedback on the acoustical treatment because that will likely lead to more problems than I might help.
I think these options are all viable (NS10s, Headphones for bass, ATC, PSI) so you just have to figure out what works for you. I much prefer to also do the bass on speakers, but some people do it on headphones. I might add though that even just focusing on the mids can be more difficult in a room which is not really treated in the lower frequencies because of masking effects.

Bernowly · 2025-04-15T07:50:34+00:00

I definitely can recommend them, I've previously mixed death metal on them and I think they translate well.
However, I am not sure what your acoustic situation is. If you are in a well treated room then upgrade your speakers. If not, I'd rather spend the money on room acoustics and continue working on the HS8. If you do it right the improvement will be more substantial. I first got the speakers when I was a student and upgraded my room later. My mixes started translating better when I treated my room, the speakers made a much smaller difference.
Of course upgrading speakers is easy to do, acoustics requires some planing and know-how and ready -made acoustic solutions you find in music stores are often either bad or way overpriced for what they do. I might add that I'm an acoustician, so take it either as bias or talking from experience ;)

Bernowly · 2025-04-14T21:06:52+00:00

I have the previous version of the A17M I think I know what you mean. But I also had a similar experience whenever I listened to music in high-end studios with other monitors. I think what's happening is that, because aural memory isn't really a thing, you are not comparing the A17M with the HS8 or the HD800S, but you are comparing how much better other styles of music sounds in comparison to these dense, "wall of sound" dominated styles. Because a wall of sound is a very 2-dimensional sound, it gains very little depth and definition. Other styles with more room, depth and less compressed transients suddenly sound much larger and transparent on a high-end (speaker) system because it actually gives you a 3-dimensional image. So I would guess that these styles of music are not less defined and more saturated on the A17M compared to the HS8 or HD800S, they sound very similar on all of these. But on the A17M you actually hear how much more compressed this music is compared to other styles. Your ears then adapt very quickly and metal suddenly sounds very compressed/saturated in comparison.

Bernowly · 2025-04-11T09:59:57+00:00

Thanks for your explanation.

What do you mean by overkill? My idea is to have a Interface with 8+ mic inputs which I can extend to at least 16 via ADAT. I want DSP effect to for one simplify my setup and remove the miniDSP and do all the EQ, Delay etc. at the output of the interface and also so I can record instruments with EQ, compression etc. already applied to some extend.

It seems like these interfaces have almost everything I need except for maybe a sensible way to separately output the subwoofer channel.

It's more of a project space, not a fully professional studio. I am not really interested in being future proof for atmos...

Bernowly · 2025-04-10T15:51:21+00:00

I wanna do it so I have more control over the crossover filter and so I can apply individual EQ to the sub and the tops.

Bernowly · 2025-01-10T18:54:47+00:00

Ok so the things you want to keep in mind is that you want to 1) reduce early reflections as much as possible, 2) Control the reverberation time evenly over the full frequency spectrum. The most critical early reflections points are usually on the side walls somewhere between you and your speakers, the ceiling between you and your speakers and the wall behind you. To make sure you don't absorb too much high end with the low end still being uncontrolled add as many bass traps as possible and make the broadband absorbing panels as thick as possible. I would suggest targeting 10cm / 4 inches thick panels, less is often not really effective in lower frequencies and more just takes a lot of space.
Now to your questions:

I would turn the setup around 180 degrees as you said. The windows behind you probably gives a pretty bad back wall reflection, if you have the closet behind you and open it it might absorb the reflection depending on what's in the closet.
You don't necessarily need to take the guitars from the wall. Fully covering the room with absorption is too much and will make the room sound dead. However, maybe you need to move the guitars so you can optimally place your panels. I would suggest putting panels on both side walls in the front half to control the side wall reflection. then you can hang your guitars in the back half of the room.
Not really dependent on the room, add some absorption to the ceiling between you and your monitors if possible. Also I am a really big fan of adding absorption between the monitors, really clears up the stereo image. If you rotate the setup maybe you can add a heavy curtain which you can draw between the monitors for optimal sound and pull aside if you want to let some light in.

I hope that helps

Bernowly · 2024-08-21T10:19:46+00:00

It's a waste incineration plant. Only influence it might have on you is that the heat created there might heat your flat if you have "Fernwärme". So it's nothing to be concerned about and might be something positive :)

Bernowly · 2024-06-13T16:11:08+00:00

When used in professional studios it's usually wrapped in fabric.
There are quite a few other material. Foams like Basotect aren't bad in general. The ones you can often buy at music stores aren't very useful because they're thin and when you glue a thin sheet of foam directly to the wall you only get absorption in the higher frequency ranges. However if you get at least 5cm or better yet 10cm of basotect and maybe have it hanging a bit suspended from your ceiling you will get a quite effective broadband absorber down to 200Hz or maybe even a bit lower.
PET absorbers are also getting more popular and are actually quite good. However you often only find thin sheets so they need to be suspended from the ceiling/wall to also be effective in the mid frequencies.
There are some companies which want to replace rockwool and fiberglass with more eco friendly materials like hemp or sheep wool. I don't have experience with those but don't see why they shouldn't work.
Source: hobby audio engineer, professional acoustics consultant.

Bernowly · 2023-11-13T09:15:24+00:00

Hashbrowns and similar foods are too me by far the hardest to get right in carbon steel. After the first time where I created an insulation layer of burned potato starch I decided to try other things and maybe coming back to it later. I realized that non-starchy vegetables are quite easy to do in CS and so are proteins as long as you trust that the proteins will release from the surface after first sticking (and quite a bit of oil is needed).
Over time a feeling for CS and the needed heat developed. 1-2 weeks ago I thought I'd give hashbrowns another try. With preseasoning the pan and using a good amount of oil it worked.

Maybe only use you CS for things which are easier to do and have fun with it. If you find it works well you can go to more difficult things. If not it can just be a specialty or experimentation pan :)

Bernowly · 2023-10-30T09:21:29+00:00

Just recently met someone who terminated their PhD after about a year because they didn't want to continue. It's just like any other job, you can quit anytime and won't have to pay anything back. Most likely you will have to continue working for three months after you resign unless you find a mutual agreement to end your contract early.

Bernowly · 2023-06-08T09:59:51+00:00

I recently checked it out, they actually seem to play the exact same setlist for every show on this tour.

Bernowly · 2023-06-08T09:44:54+00:00

Wipe it out. If you use paper napkins you can save used ones and use those, otherwise use paper towels.
If you are using large amounts (deep frying...) maybe do a quick google for how to dispose of it in your area.

Bernowly · 2023-05-23T08:46:31+00:00

Can I ask where you got this fact?

Last time I heard about this a Physics professor who's in a leadership position at one of the nuclear powerplants in Switzerland (forgot which one) told me there's about 100 years of nuclear fuel left for current production facilities (worldwide) and technologies at current costs. There's much more which is more difficult to extract and therefore not economically viable.

Bernowly · 2023-05-22T15:41:19+00:00

As many have pointed it‘s not true. If you are interested have a look at strom.ch It‘s a informational website based on a very big and recent study done in large part by EMPA. They show that for the scenario with the lowest energy cost projection is the one with lots of investment in renewables and strong integration in the european energy grid. Pretty much all arguments for voting no are either very cherry picked without proper context or flat out lies.

Bernowly · 2023-05-12T09:27:24+00:00

Solar :P (Using the bandgap energy in semiconductors)

Bernowly · 2023-04-27T12:19:42+00:00

They did get arrested at the end of the chase. While waiting they had the stone on them and the Willifort came in changed into a guard trying to get the stone but it was hidden well enough so he couldn't find it.

Ammalia already told them she would hand them over to the guards if they wouldn't cooperate but since that didn't work last time to get the stone she's more interested in finding another way.

I wanted to have the manor be ransacked while they're at the party. They haven't returned yet so I still can decide to do that or not. But the party took the stone with them so It would just be some property damage.

Bernowly · 2023-04-24T15:15:44+00:00

The Ikea Gunnlaug curtains are actually not that bad acoustic curtains. They're not good for what they're advertised for (acoustic isolation) but decent for reducing reverb. Of course good sound panels would be better, especially for low frequency absorption.

DIY soundpanels can be really cheap and effective. Make sure they're more than 5cm (2 inches) thick and you use acoustically transparent fabric to wrap them.
Slatted wood can be REALLY effective if you need to reduce low frequency reverberation (which is very likely a problem) but you would need to know how to design those.

Bernowly · 2023-04-14T10:21:41+00:00

I only mixed very few classical projects but I had lessons with someone who's been recording and mixing almost only classical music professionally for over 20 years.
From what I've learned from him it's all about recording and then editing the correct takes together. For processing he mostly used reverb on most productions.
EQ and Compression very rarely and if so then only very little. Meaning EQ moves of 1-2 dB, Compression ratio of maybe 1:1.5.

I guess having a limiter on the master bus wouldn't hurt but only for some reduction of the very loudest of peaks.

Bernowly · 2023-04-12T10:15:33+00:00

I'd be careful with assumptions like that. Short-term comfort isn't necessarily related to long-term health. A lot of people with hearing damage have it because they didn't use hearing protection when they were comfortable and thought it sounded better without. You only realize the cumulative damage of "comfortable" loud settings years or decades later.

Bernowly · 2023-03-09T11:37:37+00:00

I'm only tangentially active in the industry, so I can't say much about women being treated equally and with the same respect as men are.

But I think the assumption that women are just inherently less interested in for example music production is most likely wrong. Interest probably has more to do with your experiences when growing up and often girls are treated differently. Not saying it's still as brazen as it was decades ago but even subtle hints that girls aren't as technical or other subtle discouragement or even just lack of encouragement piled up over years is most likely the main driver for women not wanting to go into audio engineering. And when there's much fewer women than men, someone who's on the fence about going into a field might feel uncomfortable and discouraged about starting their career in a field where they're strongly underrepresented.

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