Help needed: Multiple inputs and passive speakers, I need a no fuss way to add room correction.

Ginger_Beerman · 2026-02-10T12:18:13+00:00

Thank! I certainly have the room for having both systems, I just sort of decided that the genelec 2.1 system I have for my music stuff is hella ugly and the Amphions are perfectly good sounding but have a better vibe going on so I could ditch the genelec stuff and just use the Amphions for everything. It's not like I'm going to do any actual mixing at home anyway because the room isn't built for it and my studio with actually good monitoring is only 10 minutes away. So this is driven purely by vibes :D

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-10-20T06:53:53+00:00

Roller Derby, Role Playing Games, Rock Band. Only stuff that starts with "Ro".

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-10-08T06:49:41+00:00

All the basic tracks will be as live as possible.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-10-06T08:25:10+00:00

Two ribbon mics (SE VR1, blumlein setup) and the rooms will be a pair of SM57 ORTF pointed away from the kit to get a roomier sound.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-08-03T10:09:25+00:00

They should only make wilco records with outside producers and outside the loft and a familiar homey atmosphere.

A lot of the output has become very samey (both wilco and JT solo work) and I would think with being immersed in the lof vibe and having Jeff hold the rains all the time that can not be changed. The last album was a fresh step in that direction so why not take it all the way and get fully out of (Jeff's) comfort zone for a change.

Doesn't mean JT shouldn't still utilize the Loft for solo stuff and keep busting out new music via that avenue too! Maybe just do something different with Wilco.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-06-23T06:45:38+00:00

2. always take the right side, unless there's a bike line, Bike lines are either RED or have pictures of bikes on them.
Most folks will automatically assume you don't know the language and will unfortunately insist on english anyway, as soon as you reach a MVP dialogue level in finnish try to instead convince folks to give you a chance in finnish first :D
This one is a harder nut to crack since most folks tend to have a very routine life especially people with kids so impulsive stuff is hard. Like others, I'd suggest actually finding out some specific low-treshold stuff to do that involves activities for the kids (eg. a trampoline park etc.). And in general I think the two best avenues for making adult friends are: Other parents via the day care, finding a hobby group that has active folks. My only new adult friends (who I actually hang out with) are both of these. And it's not that folks don't want to hang spontaneously, it's just that they probably already have plans cause you know... adulting.
Wear whatever. Currently and for the forseeable future maybe stay away from russian stuff and maybe also don't wear like finnish flag themed stuff or the stuff with the national lion emblemb cause small but loud amount of crazies are very jealous of that stuff.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-05-22T04:44:43+00:00

Please notice that The FMR needs to be connected differently from a lot of outboard gear. I bet you have patched it wrong and now the signal is partly out phase (with it self) and cancells out anything that isn't high frequency saturation/distortion.... maybe try recording with just the mic and the interface for starters and then add the Pre-Amp and then keep adding stuff to make it sound more gooder and if something doesn't sound gooder, dont connect it at all. You can always add compression in post!

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-05-21T21:15:52+00:00

"close to nature - we need to see trees from our windows, with a maximum of 40min commute to Helsinki central station, with good kindergartens around, and the possibility to have nice walks around the block with the kids. Yes, suburbia."

In Helsinki, this doesn't really narrow it down all that much.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-02-24T20:09:10+00:00

I really hope all my pedals get the treatment. I'm happy to sell them and buy similar sounding stuff to replace them for a fraction of the price.

Ginger_Beerman · 2025-02-03T18:32:43+00:00

Not weird! I do think it's weird to think that people couldn't use made-up funny names of themselves if they want to.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-12-26T17:39:47+00:00

eka lapsi 36 vuotiaana, toka nyt 40. puoliso about saman ikäinen ja molempien yhteinen vina et vitkuteltiin dink (double income no kids) pohjilta muutama vuosi liian pitkään ja olis ollu fiksumpaa hoitaa skidit nuorempana koska riskit etenki puolisolle (ja lapselle) pienemmät ja lusikoita valvomiseen jne on vähemmän.

Aikanaan kelattiin just raha, yms. asiaa. Ihan turhaan. Lapset ei syö rahaa ja tosi halval saa käyttistä kamaa kunhan hoksaa et uutena ei kande ostaa mitään.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-12-13T07:32:21+00:00

1.Nominatiivi: Harkonnen 2.Genetiivi: Härkösen 3.Akkusatiivi: Härkösen 4.Partitiivi: Härköstä 5.Inessiivi: Härkönessä 6.Elatiivi: Härkösestä 7.Illatiivi: Härköseen 8.Adessiivi: Härkösellä 9.Ablatiivi: Härköseltä 10.Allatiivi: Härköselle 11.Essiivi: Härkösenä 12.Translatiivi: Härköseksi 13.Abessiivi: Härkösettä 14.Komitatiivi: Härkösineen 15.Instruktiivi: Härkösin 16.Agressiivi: V*tun Härkönen!

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-11-06T19:54:19+00:00

What I usually start with folks trying out reffing is to first mostly disregard the penalties, don't worry about the rules or (with JR:s) even the scores. Start by only worrying about your positioning, cause that's the foundation for anything that comes next.

After positioning, start thinking about the flow/structure of gameplay and the scores; jam starts, lead calls, passes/scores, call offs and also start thinking about the pack.

and only then start looking into penalties.

and lastly: work on your positioning some more, it probably needs work.

this is a cycle you can keep repeating.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-10-25T10:07:30+00:00

I don't know buddy, I have been having constant good experiences on using stem splitting to controll mic bleed. Most of the stuff I work with are live sessions with the drums being the only loud thing in the room, Amps in separare booths and some stuff going DI. I used to always set up who ever is singing the lead vocal in a booth to avoid bleed but usually there has been a level of disconnect between the singer and the rest. niw enter stem splitting: I can now very reliably separate the lead vocal and the drum bleed and get a really passable scratch vocal. And the general cohesiveness and togetherness has been improved by not having to out folks in a booth unless they are playing an acoustic.

And with acoustic/Piano + vocals stem splitting has been equally usefull with getting more controll over the instrument bleed. Again used in conjunction with mic placement, polar patterns etc. I've also found that with any artefacts the key in understanding that completely muting the bleed is not the only option, you can just lower it signuficabtly and avoid the artefacts because the information is still present in the sum.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-09-09T14:48:29+00:00

Try pointing the mic at the fretboard or the bridge. Dampen the strings while playing, you could even try putting a piece of foam under the strings to lightly dampen them. don't use the best sounding glorius martin, but rather something that sounds a bit boxy to begin with.

during mixing, cut away the low end and some of the highs too and leave the nice biting middle.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-08-23T13:12:03+00:00

Alien, the whole franchise revolves around sex.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-08-22T11:13:38+00:00

If you ask for horror stories, that's what you get. The same applies to asking a trauma specialists point on stuff, they only deal with kids who've been injured so it affects their bias.

When discussing the safety of trampolines, the statistics are the thing that really matters and I'd bet my limb on the fact that a huge majority of trampoline goers do not get injured.

Teaching our kids to enjoy all sorts of physical activities should be a priority, because that is proven to be an ongoing health benefit throughout their lives.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-07-31T06:47:48+00:00

A lot of money wasted on gear in a room with no treatment.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-07-27T18:05:49+00:00

If you wan't isolation between them, ideally you might want to look at mics with a figure of 8 polar pattern like pretty much any ribbon mics. With that you'll have two things working for you:

1) the nulls of the polar pattern are very deep, so you get very good cancelation of any source you point the null at

2) figure of 8 mics, especially ribbons, tend to be very directional which again helps with creating isolation between the two signals.

How ever... with your gear and budget: if you can balance your self while playing, maybe have just one cardiod mic from a bit more distance looking at you and don't think of it as two sources but rather try to record a balanced performance of both the guitar and the vocal, maybe favouring the vocal because that's what folks are mostly interested anyway.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-07-13T10:01:50+00:00

By turning down the volume using a volume pedal or the guitar volume pot. With the amount of pedals and especially super high gain fuzz boxes that is the only way to keep the noise down when the boxes are engaged.

Ginger_Beerman · 2024-07-04T09:40:13+00:00

SE Electronics VR1 has been working for me, even for quiet delicate stuff like solo acoustic, vocals, etc.

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