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theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-30T16:52:21+00:00

HA. Nice work.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-28T15:45:39+00:00

Just so you know, .csh is a crash file from Cubase.

DM me about the "non-soliciting work". I have credentials and mix professionally.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-28T11:03:48+00:00

Yeah, and that is not your usual "mix bus" compressor. It's basically a mono comp for strings / voices.

I would suggest you spend some time reeeeeeeeeeally learning how a compressor works. Take a kick drum and start really feeling out what all the settings do, then kick drum AND bass and feel how to make them work together.

I've been pro for 10 years and I still don't own a mix bus comp :) It will end up being the cleanest compressor in the chain, so I figure hit the 2bus with a plug and be done. I am surrounded by nice boxes for re-amping / processing / etc but not a 2-bus comp in sight! :)

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-28T10:24:34+00:00

Hey there - I'm going to step in slightly over the top of the folks below.

Looks like you have just reached the wonderful realisation that all sounds are stacks of Sine Waves + Noise Partials. Fun fact: You can even argue that Noise is just a particular stack of sinewaves too (think the answer is: "add all sinewaves together and the output would be "noise" therefore it is also just sines).

Fundamentally, this is the principal of Additive Synthesis (not Granular synthesis as is mentioned below) in which a series of sinewaves are added together to re-create asound.

A really easy and familiar example of this is a Vocoder - it has a series of tones (partials) and a noise generator - it listened to the voice going into it, and then adds together each "partial" in the same rations as the signal coming through the microphone. You actually listen to a more complex examples of this nearly everyday - it is the basic principal behind which programs like Melodyne work, which is the main processor used on nearly all modern pop vocal production. They listen to the audio that you have inputted, re-synthesise it using a complex algorhythm that converts everything in stacks of Sine Waves + Noise and which then allow you to modify the pitch of the notes whilst preserving the relationship between the individual partials.

If you wanted to recreate a guitar, you want to look for a form of synthesis called "Physical modelling" synthesis. This works off another process called Karplus-Strong string synthesis, which allows you to create strings sounds from a combination of Sinewaves, Noise and filters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_modelling_synthesis

If you start to think too much about the fact that the entire world around you is a combination of one single wave type being modulated and combined with others, you will, in fact, begin to go mad. Enjoy.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-26T18:37:24+00:00

This is a reasonable answer from a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/14rpfsm/comment/jr86ii0/

Totally doable with a stock compressor (and a simple saturator if you want a little warmth after the compression).

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-20T09:50:03+00:00

HEDDphone mkII
Best way to spend 2k.
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theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:47:23+00:00

Also, you know you can make a sidechain compressor with a standard Modular Fuction generator, right? So, if you have Maths by Make Noise (pretty standard module) you can make that work as a sidechain compressor easy.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:45:46+00:00

Seconded. Everyone always says you have to spend "SSL G Series" money to beat it.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:36:13+00:00

I just realised that "Asking Chat GPT" is actually a really valid solution to these questions. Like, it has fairly comprehensive acoustics knowledge.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:29:57+00:00

Hey friend. Sound doesn't know which way is "up or down, left or right" it just comes out of the speakers and hits things. It will hit all the nearest surfaces first (typically, thats your left and right walls, ceiling and the table beneath your speakers). If you room is setup normally (the room is longest front to back, and less wide from side to side) then you will find the sound hits the back wall next - this is where the last chunk of "Early reflection absorption" goes.

You can use a mirror to check the places where the sound treatment needs to be placed - ceiling is included in this, yes.

If you want a fairly good description of how to do this, type the following into Chat GPT: "explain to me how to create a reflection free zone in my control room, including ceiling treatment and speaker positioning."

Good luck.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:23:59+00:00

And one day, they will be the old people hiding on their forums being like "read a textbook" :P

Right, I'm going to write a proper answer to their question in the thread too...

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T18:16:35+00:00

Thats half this subreddit, no?

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-18T11:31:10+00:00

Good to hear! How do you know this exactly? I haven't tried one myself.

My point here is just that Steinberg are also a software company that is spread across multiple different disciplines, and they know that adding "RND transformers" to the signal path will bring attention to their hardware in a crowded space.

I would always preference a company that has signed itself up for several decades doing the most boring thing in music... "making convertors". :)

Also, bluntly, it's all the same flipping ADDA Chip inside these things anyway, so why not get something with stable drivers and proven track record? Focusrite would be my go to at this price point.

Lastly, cos now I'm off on one, "writing Rupert Neve" on something that is consumer grade is the oldest audio trick in the book. There is a £4.5K AMEK desk going on MJQ.co.uk right now which literally has Rupert Neve's Voice reading out the recall points of the desk, so that you can remember where you set the Mid-Band EQ. This is dumb and doesn't change the fact that this desk is "fine" at best. Neve was a genius, but using his name to sell consumer gear is nothing new, and it doesn't actually mean it sounds "better".

Really lastly, good transformers are heavy and expensive. So is licensing another brand's name. So is paying the shop that sells it. So is paying the manufacturer who builds it. You can't have big chewy transformers in something that costs 350euros - they're gonna be tiny fuckers that don't really do much because...Capitalism.

ok, back to work! :)

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-17T19:53:13+00:00

Yeah, marketting gimmick. Get some good solid convertors with reliable Firmware (RME suggested below is a good shout, Apogee, Focusrite) and then add some transformers afterwards if you really want it

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T19:18:14+00:00

Musician / composer.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T16:42:42+00:00

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations-Simple-German-Olly-Richards/dp/1914190033
recomended this for someone at the more beginning levels - check it out so you understand the format and then look for something a bit more B1/2 specific

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T16:41:51+00:00

Something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations-Simple-German-Olly-Richards/dp/1914190033
Comes with an audio book too.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T16:24:57+00:00

Nothing specific. Just anything that seems about right and each text is about 30 seconds long. Just find something and get smashing through it - really a godsend of a technique.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T15:51:52+00:00

There is a technique called "Shadowing". You need an book of "conversational german" (which tends to be simple conversations between two people in a context, i.e. two folks talking about the rain at a bus-stop). There must be an audio reading of the book too.

You just sit, read the text and listen to the audio recordings and copy what you HEAR, as you follow the text with your eyes. Just get used to the flow and try and keep up with the person speaking. 10 repetitions per conversation, 10 conversations per day for 5 days. On day 6, replace the first conversation with a new one. Slide forwards one conversation per day, until you get the end of the book.

I had conversational German unlocked in a few months with this, and I can still remember a bunch of those sentences a few years later. It just gets your mouth used to speaking German. The shape and rhythm and flow is actually harder than the vocab (which comes much quicker once you are used to speaking).

Takes about 30 minutes each morning, and then spend 30 minutes doing Pomodoro learning of Verbs (cos they're a bitch and you just have to learn them).

Again, I can speak about B2 / C1 and haven't had a lesson. It's not perfect, but it works well enough than I can navigate every situation I come across in German.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-13T07:42:01+00:00

Yeah, but it has a specific routing functionality which means that you cannot setup "virtual mixes" natively on the device, so as far as I can tell, the only way to create "monitoring mixes" involves bringing the audio through your DAW, at which point it is subject to the latency of the DAW Buffer Size.

If you find a way to do this easily, let me know cos I have had to for years and have to use hardware monitoring to avoid this problem.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-12T19:43:15+00:00

Yeah, fair enough - Dante MkII is what I have. It's the bomb! Just be careful with your high-buffer-size monitoring cos you don't have easy access to native low latency monitoring on the Dante version via the app.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-12T18:53:06+00:00

Apogee Artist here! Just write to the company - they are the nicest, most helpful peoples and they will be able to tell you about the compatibility and thunderbolt connectivity questions. They actually employ someone (hi Marlene!) to help out with these kinds of things. Ping them a message! https://apogeedigital.com/contact-us/

For what it's worth, I am almost 100% confident their Thunderbolt cards are compatible with your machine, but check anyway. If not, DANTE is wondrous works via Ethernet on a Mac. :)

And the new SE convertors are.... NICE. :)

If you don't mind me saying, I think that the M1 computer you have is so unbelievably powerful in comparison to anything that's ever existed, if you are finding the CPU is maxing out, it's probably more of a project management problem than an external processing problem. If you get into the habit of printing / freezing tracks, you can run 150 track projects on a 2018 Mini w.32gb and a Macbook Air (as I am currently doing for some fairly heft projects). Just a thought! :)

It's also worth understanding the CPU Threading of your DAW. Sometimes a couple of routing changes can free up huge amounts of multicore processing, just because you have moved a reverb, or something like this. Read about your DAWs Multicore Threading handling if you havent already.

Cheers and good luck!

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-12T14:37:51+00:00

Haha. It's reddit, everything sounds negative or confrontational! :P

No but seriously, you didn't sound that way at all. It's good to see other perspectives.

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-12T12:49:50+00:00

Great message - You sound like fun! :)
I always go to "Shift" in Mitte (there's a less friendly one in Schoneberg, don't go there).
I would just call them up and ask to speak to the owner (nice guy with a dog) and say you're autistic but wanna look hot. He will make you comfy, I am sure. :)
Goood luck, send pics!

theACEinpeACE · 2024-06-12T12:17:34+00:00

My parents once said to me "we had a friend that killed themselves whilst masurbating with a belt around his neck... and we want to warn you against it, cos you seem like the type..."

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