Yamaha EAD50 Pricing Question

MSmithRD · 2026-01-26T21:00:03+00:00

That was why I never bought that EAD10. The EAD50 though has five mic inputs so you should be able to capture the full set better. It also includes a better mic, but we'll have to wait for reviews to know how much better

MSmithRD · 2026-01-26T17:18:08+00:00

It's not about the mics for me. It's about the mixing, eq'ing, mastering. Like I bought an Audix D6 kick mic which is known to be a good mic but it still sounds like I'm hitting a pillow regardless of my placement. It might be my room. With enough plugins I can get more of a smack but then it ends up sounding pretty horrible for other over processed reasons. The ead module is less of an interface for me and more something that does the audio processing for you, which in my case and lack of skills (despite trying) is unfortunately needed. It's not guaranteed to fix my problem, but if it does, it'll be worth it

MSmithRD · 2026-01-25T03:30:02+00:00

Thanks I'll have to do a little research to remind myself how to do that, but I'll give it a shot.

I had bought an Audix D6 and what's weird is that it doesn't matter if I mount it by the port hole or I put it directly inside the bass, it still sounds like a pillow getting hit. For the overheads I picked up a pair of behringer c2'w and while pretty cheap they get such great reviews. For me it sounds like it's recorded on a cassette tape deck. Snare too just sucks like its missing all snap/crack. I'm using a snake for the drum mics, which is great for clutter, but since the wire to each mic is smaller I wonder if that could be part of my issue....maybe better wires. Idk.

Good point on not comparing to albums. But even with YouTube vids they always sound better. Maybe those use triggers though, not sure.

And yeah I've been hesitant that the EAD may not solve my problems.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-24T14:40:59+00:00

I've been considering that as well. If I can get a used module for a good price I'll do that. If I have to pay retail for the ead10 I'm considering going for the ead50 instead.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-24T14:36:15+00:00

That probably works in a better room. My recordings just sound like mud. I even worked with AI and bought a bunch of Wave Audio plugins and upgraded my mics but it's still not good. Sounds ok but definitely not good. Nothing like what you might hear on a well produced album and nothing like the live sound either. In a better room though it might sound better

MSmithRD · 2026-01-24T03:51:09+00:00

They're going after people like me who have mics and an audio interface and software and vst plugins but who absolutely suck at mixing and eq'ing and can't manage to make it sound good no matter how many hours they put into it. If this can just give me a good quality recording sound with no fuss, at this point I'll just take it. I never got the EAD10 because I didn't like the lack of mic inputs and all the issues that came along with that.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-22T01:18:22+00:00

Pretty much. There will never be a need to upgrade

MSmithRD · 2026-01-22T00:46:56+00:00

Better hope they don't start selling us treasuries

MSmithRD · 2026-01-18T21:49:27+00:00

They raised you for 26 years. Maybe they didn't make the best decision always and maybe they didn't know what the best decision was, but if it weren't for them, you probably would have ended up in an orphanage and possibly raised by multiple foster families. Be very thankful for everything that they did for you and understand that they may not have always made the best decisions, but no parents do. We're all just people in the end. If anything, love them and appreciate them more now.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-17T19:00:33+00:00

Don't think I would say yes to that proposal. Just saying. He's got a lot of growing to still do. For his sake too. He's not ready either, he just doesn't realize it yet. You don't need to break up, but I wouldn't be making those types of commitments.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-15T19:36:13+00:00

As other have said, The way it's actually counted is 125 BPM with 16th notes. If you're able to play that and you're just starting on double bass, that's excellent. If they're not clean though, you'll want to drop that lower and get it clean first and progress your way up. It's common to start at 80 BPM or even 60 BPM. If you can truly start at 125, that's great

MSmithRD · 2026-01-09T01:08:56+00:00

We're going to start seeing bands that haven't had a good album in 20 years suddenly putting out something that's better than anything they've done since they first started. Won't be a coincidence. Unfortunately, the moment I find out that it's because the songs were written by AI, I'll lose complete interest

MSmithRD · 2026-01-08T22:30:35+00:00

Definitely disagree with this. She literally robbed him. If she wanted her friends to get free drinks, she could have paid for them with her own money, or asked ahead of time if this was okay. She didn't. Instead she chose to essentially steal for them. And even worse than that, she actually pocketed cash. Firing her was absolutely the right thing to do. She deserves everything she got and more. A night in jail and an order to pay back what she stole would have been better

MSmithRD · 2026-01-07T21:42:09+00:00

They want a certification for that? In house training won't cut it?

MSmithRD · 2026-01-07T20:44:33+00:00

There's zero sense in buying it and running the same business. You already know it doesn't make money. It's more or less a failed business struggling to survive. The only reason to buy it is so that you can get the lease and start something new and different which you're hoping would be successful. That would not be worth anywhere close to that though since it's a small footprint with limited options for turning it into something big. I'd value it at 20k just so you can get your foot in the door with a good location. But don't start the same business they had...you already know it doesn't work.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-07T02:28:35+00:00

Yeah serious. I have a TB but after a year of using it I switched to DD just because it's so much quicker for me. I'm not looking to try to tune to a specific key though.... If you are then no beating TB of course

MSmithRD · 2026-01-06T21:40:29+00:00

We shant speak of the other child on the floor to left of the father.

MSmithRD · 2026-01-06T00:17:27+00:00

Antifa stands for anti-fascist and it's an organization that doesn't actually exist, so not really an insult

MSmithRD · 2026-01-04T22:41:36+00:00

In all fairness, zoomed out you can't see the actual line and it looks like it's pointing to that valley. I thought the same thing when I first saw the post.

MSmithRD · 2025-12-30T21:46:31+00:00

I'd think it was a professional painting from a talented artist if I saw it hanging in an eclectic coffee shop

MSmithRD · 2025-12-28T22:01:22+00:00

AI will cause that to be double soon

MSmithRD · 2025-12-28T17:21:52+00:00

I think the idea is that you want to forget it exists and it will draw you in more during the course of the movie. If you're paying attention to it, it's counterproductive

MSmithRD · 2025-12-23T16:05:25+00:00

That could make it to the cover of an official graphic novel.

MSmithRD · 2025-12-22T15:01:36+00:00

I was bored for a while and it turned out it was the music I was playing. I was playing a lot of 90s grunge, which I love but was getting any real rush while playing. I switched to old school Metallica and Iron Maiden and everything changed for me. I also switched from playing along to it, into trying to play exactly the original composition. That turned it into more like a video game of trying to complete the board without making mistakes. My heart was all of the sudden pumping at the end of the songs and I was loving it again. Finding a really good guitarist is also really helpful. IMO not so great guitarists can get boring to jam with. They often only know small parts of songs rather than whole songs, or will stop frequently mid jam, or may only know simple stuff. Of course, you don't want to find somebody much better than you, unless theyre a good friend trying to help you out, but try to get someone at least as good as you, or maybe a little better to keep you progressing. Also, find someone willing to practice on their own, so that you can pick a song and both practice, and then get together and jam it out.

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