Olle Sjostrom

RIP Jeff. And thank you for everything.

A cable is not a tire on a car, meaning it's not the most crucial, or even nearly crucial, part of an audio setup. I tend to think of cables more in a handling sense, like on set I want cables that FEEL nice to hold, not too stiff, not too loose, not hard to solder etc etc. I have never bothered to look at specs on cables. If a cable works, it works. If a cable is broken it needs to be easily repairable and durable. And it's good if it's easily cleanable. Connectors though are a different beast, and I think you're mixing these up a bit. A cable is just the part in between the connectors. The connectors themselves should be higher quality than the cable, IMO, or at least not worse quality. If you're after a quality connector and cable, you could be easily tricked into buying too expensive cables that are hard to manage, wrap, store or what have you (some cables can get very stiff for example, or very heavy). Tip: Learn to solder. It's not hard at all. Then buy a few high quality Neutrik, Rean or Switchcraft XLRs. TRS or other common connectors, and a few meters of generic three to four core cable. Solder up! Then buy a few lesser quality connectors and try to solder them as well. You will soon realize that the connectors themselves play a bigger part than the cable. That's my experience anyway.

GARP!!!!

Looking good but also looking like you ended up in the wrong section, this should be in the "Manufacturers and Dealers" section. Police out

This was what I meant...

Iirc, but I might be wrong cus it’s been a WHILE, the monitor channels don’t actually reflect the real channels, ie if you recorded an LR mix, if you’re listening to LR you’re actually not listening to anything since the recorded order is now track 1,2 etc.. , you need to change the monitor to some other mode, but again I might be wrong .. that could be the 7 series mode actually just quickly reading the manual should give you an indication on screen where the sound is actually playing, but you’re saying the meters are moving but there’s no sound?

When you say ”digitize audio media”, does that mean you record analog records and convert them to digital? Like tape or vinyl? if that’s the case, I guess my question would be ”why do you feel the need to change anything?” I would imagine, if you’re digitizing analog recordings to digital, that you’d be in a studio and a workflow that’s working for you. And 32 bit can’t be that big of a difference, seeing as your recordings wouldn’t be that dynamic? I might be wrong or misunderstanding of course

But this is a post discussion… i rigged lavs on myself and camera’s backs once, because of us not knowing where and who was gonna say what, impossible to boom in the place (party). I didn’t do the post on that shoot, but I heard later they actually had some use of those ”back lavs” for off camera lines.

This. There are tools to make your workflow a bit faster, sure, but doing the dirty work of "mixing" in post - ie - playing the sounds that should be heard at the time you need them will ensure you get the cleanest mix. Otherwise you'll have all the noise from the other channels on at all times. And if you use plugins to mitigate noise or reverb issues, you'll end up with a very CPU heavy project and a lot of artifacts.

If anyone needs a translation that’s not Ai, hit me up. Otherwise I think at least Google does a half decent job

I second everything everyone said. I just want to add that I think AI processes makes us all just lazy and stupid, and this is sometimes the results of that, for real:

I even think SD sanctioned this mod through dealers or authorized service centers..

IIRC, there is a mod where you make one of the returns a mic channel dedicated to slate, but this is more than 10 years ago so it could as we’ll have been a dream at this point. maybe not exactly , but close:

Fascinating stuff! I read up on this yesterday and thought to myself: so why aren’t people just doing this? And then I remembered the lithium industry is huge and has billions invested… innovation is so boring when you think about all the money invested in Dino-tech still waiting for returns…

Cool! Very cool. I’m trying very hard to resist saying something about taking this with grain of salt, but it’s not going too well…