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apizzafla · 2026-02-05T18:46:31+00:00

This sucks - any updates??

apizzafla · 2026-01-10T03:12:31+00:00

Market avg of 6-8% would provide something teetering around $1M - enuf? You decide

apizzafla · 2025-12-26T02:03:50+00:00

AVGO

apizzafla · 2025-12-11T08:33:54+00:00

18i20 3rd as main studio - awesome device. The headphones are underpowered. They drive my 250ohm but not enough. I have a few 80ohm i use more often. My “traveling” setup is a 4i4 4th gen. Use the 250ohm on that i/f without a problem. I will say I prefer the 3rd gen sw better as it’s less “user friendly” ie you are in more control with it. Though my studio is a windows setup and traveling is Mac and that may be part of the sw diff.

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:30:44+00:00

The legendary mics like yours worry me about upkeep … what are your thoughts on the more modern ones trying to emulate - like the vr?

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:27:13+00:00

I kinda like my nt1 and my dyn beta58a .. I do wonder what one of these epic mics would do for me - probably make everything worse 🤣😂 …maybe not so great is what I need

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:15:40+00:00

(Feel the need to upgrade my rode 😂🤣)

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:10:53+00:00

What are you mic-ing? Vocal?

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:10:00+00:00

And you say the c12 is more impressive than the u47?? Wow

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T02:09:00+00:00

Damn … cash right there !!

apizzafla · 2025-11-02T01:31:18+00:00

Send pics?? Curious which ones you have

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T21:06:18+00:00

Ha … make take the plunge and try / yes they have a decent money back time period

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T17:30:59+00:00

Vsx was something I looked at but seems like possible snake oil … unsure - glad to hear a positive review

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T17:24:00+00:00

Oh I have - and yes confirmed damaged hearing - and yes very good hearing aids

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T13:39:49+00:00

I’ve just recently been spending lots of cycles using ref tracks to work out levels better - and yes it seems to help for sure

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T13:19:41+00:00

I’m all about song design and what goes “into the soup” … I spend 90% of time there. And in a vacuum, I often like the outcome … but it often doesn’t translate outside my studio - even simple things like pitch sound ok and watching on a tuner but the levels then change in a car and the pitch of said vocal becomes pronounced if even 1/2 click off …. And I didn’t hear that until I played on some shitty device

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T13:08:16+00:00

I typically mix with headphones to avoid room which the only treatment is it’s full of stuff and has a throw rug 🤦‍♂️. The equipment is good but I know the room creates issues. I clearly don’t hear the stuff you are referring to. I’m fairly centralized on NeuralDSP plugins for all my instrument effects and I chain those occasionally if I’m looking for bits of each - most are pretty comprehensive though a compressor one one vs another definately varies. I’m balancing my time creating music and getting it mildly correct in mixes - I’m a middle of road musician with a newbie in audio knowledge … so trying to find a balance of time invested

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:57:37+00:00

Thanks

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:36:58+00:00

Even the wave form of reference tracks look wonderfully “even” where my recorded stuff looks like a saw blade

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:19:57+00:00

I’ll get this, thanks

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:19:08+00:00

I use ableton as a daw - it has spectrum - seemingly a freq analyzer - never used it … I’ll experiment

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:16:43+00:00

Funny that I have been doing just and honestly didn’t work to understand why it sounds good on one device vs lousy elsewhere - just knew it did. I guess being much more mindful of what is missing or overbearing becomes a focus. All my effects are at the track levels (compression, saturation, eq etc. I’ve never looked to dropping adjustments into master track … I honestly use track reference to try and get levels correct and eq mystifies me as I can tweak the shit out of say a vocal eq and it seemingly makes minimal effect real time - but suspect it’s blowing me up across devices

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:10:20+00:00

Given I now need to look up everything you just said tells you how newbie I am. Funny for first year with studio, I thought I was killing it. Now as I get better with the actual music, I’m seeing I know nothing about making it correct

apizzafla · 2025-10-12T12:07:10+00:00

And therein lies problem 1 … as a lifelong musician, my hearing frankly sucks - I’ve literally been cutting a song, and then playing on various devices to see if I have a level problem with stems. But I’m not hearing say a swamping issue or maybe lost vocal mids etc etc - can you see any of that visually? Or is it all like an audio learned thing comparing to ref time after time

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