What's your latest purchase?

dwsabianguy said:
.....Incoming is an Apogee Symphony with two 16x16 analog cards for a total of 32 inputs and 32 outputs, all Apogee, all in one box, and ALL useable up to 192kHz. And a Thunderbridge (coming separately) to connect it to my computer, since this is a Mk1 Symphony. I am currently running 30 inputs and 24 outputs up to 48kHz.....
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That's one hell of a system. (y)

None of my business, I know, but is this for personal or commercial use.
 
dwsabianguy said:
Well guys, it finally shipped: I've got a whole new audio converter/interface system coming my way.

Gone will be the RME Fireface 802 (which has been really, really great for six years) with an Audient ASP880 and Alesis HD24XR connected via lightpipe. The UA 4-710d will stay for now.

Incoming is an Apogee Symphony with two 16x16 analog cards for a total of 32 inputs and 32 outputs, all Apogee, all in one box, and ALL useable up to 192kHz. And a Thunderbridge (coming separately) to connect it to my computer, since this is a Mk1 Symphony. I am currently running 30 inputs and 24 outputs up to 48kHz.

This should be a pretty massive step up in quality, compatibility, synchronization, and connectivity.

I'd thought that's what I was getting a month ago, but it was not. This is finally the entire thing I've been searching for.
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Nice!

Which preamps are you going to use for the new setup?
 
wildbill said:
That's one hell of a system.

None of my business, I know, but is this for personal or commercial use.
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It's my own personal studio, but it's been my primary source of income this year. I'm trying to get into doing more mixing with outboard analog gear, and ran into timing issues with the four boxes the Apogee will replace.

Drum Mer said:
Nice!

Which preamps are you going to use for the new setup?
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Same pres I have now: a bunch of Neve and API clones, two real APIs, the four UA 710s, and eight channels of Sytek pres. I did the math a couple months back and I've got 32 channels of pres.

But I've also got a 20-channel Biamp Legend console that was gifted to me that I'm slowly trying to put back together. Right now it doesn't provide phantom power quite right, so I have to figure out where that's coming from...
 
AzHeat said:
Damn! For that price they had better silence my neighbors too!😳

More importantly, how do they sound compared to other “quiet” hats…assuming you had a chance to compare them.
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Didn't want to be the first to say it, but I was a bit shocked at the price - for silent hats. :eek:

If those hats are going to be used for low volume gigs, maybe the cost could be justified.
 
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Ordered Beato Pro 1 bags for my incoming Tama Starclassic walnut/birch kit . Fred is such a joy to do business with . I ordered a bass drum and a two tom combo bag.

I also placed an order with Gary Posey of Sunmit Drums to have a steambent Birdseye maple shell made for me . 14 x 6”
 
After much hemming and hawing and hours of frustration, I decided to bite the bullet and get a Drum Dial.

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It's taken me some learnin' but I think I finally got the hang of using it. And it's given me much better results than the Drumtune Pro app. My drums, now, sound like drums.
 
Jeremy Crockett said:
After much hemming and hawing and hours of frustration, I decided to bite the bullet and get a Drum Dial.

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It's taken me some learnin' but I think I finally got the hang of using it. And it's given me much better results than the Drumtune Pro app. My drums, now, sound like drums.
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I never heard of it... how does it actually work? What I love about it it's got my initials on it DD. LOL
 
Drumdame said:
I never heard of it... how does it actually work? What I love about it it's got my initials on it DD. LOL
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According to their literature, it measures the "tympanic pressure" (tension) of the heads. Given my miserable experience with the $12 app I was using, I had to try something different. I liked that the dial uses physical measurements, which I find more appealing than what Tune Bot offers by measuring the frequencies.

I guess I am a bit of a Neanderthal.
 
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Jeremy Crockett said:
According to their literature, it measures the "tympanic pressure" (tension) of the heads. Given my miserable experience with the $12 app I was using, I had to try something different. I liked that the dial uses physical measurements, which I find more appealing than what Tune Bot offers by measuring the frequencies.

I guess I am a bit of a Neanderthal.
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I watched a video on that and found it quite interesting. I can't always depend on people but I did have the drummer from church come over this week to align the snare wires on the new Supra snare that I just purchased.

He also tuned the resonant head and batter head but what I've never saw a person do was use the metal part of a drum key instead of a drumstick to go around each lug and tuned it in perfect pitch!

I'm not good at that... my son comes down every week and if my drums need tuning he does it for me but I wish I could learn for myself. But I do have something against me, I loss my hearing a year ago due to a virus so that doesn't help either.

The instrument that you have presented it's an actual visual and that would be a great tuning instrument to have for people that have hearing loss.

Any thoughts on ever hearing someone using the metal part of a drum key to tune drums?

Cheers!
Drummer_D
 
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Drumdame said:
I watched a video on that and found it quite interesting. I can't always depend on people but I did have the drummer from church come over this week to align the snare wires on the new Supra snare that I just purchased.

He also tuned the resonant head and batter head but what I've never saw a person do was use the metal part of a drum key instead of a drumstick to go around each lug and tuned it in perfect pitch!

I'm not good at that... my son comes down every week and if my drums need tuning he does it for me but I wish I could learn for myself. But I do have something against me, I loss my hearing a year ago due to a virus so that doesn't help either.

The instrument that you have presented it's an actual visual and that would be a great tuning instrument to have for people that have hearing loss.

Any thoughts on ever hearing someone using the metal part of a drum key to tune drums?

Cheers!
Drummer_D
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I have been using the drum key to tap around every lug for pitch when tuning for many years its very effective for me.
 
Tiges said:
I have been using the drum key to tap around every lug for pitch when tuning for many years its very effective for me.
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Same.
 
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