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WinterMute

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  1. WinterMute
    Some lovely basses there fella. I have 2 fretted and 2 fretless currently, my main fretless is a beautiful ACG Krell 5 string Alan built to my spec a few years ago, it's a work of art, seen here with it's fretted brethren.
  2. WinterMute
    Off to the recycling centre in the morning, please lock tomorrow.
  3. WinterMute
    It lives...!
  4. WinterMute
    It's perfectly capable as a buss comp, I had it on the master buss for years, but it also works as a pair of tracking comps, which is now its main function, maybe as a drum or guitar buss comp in the mix. It's a very versatile unit, sounds great.
  5. WinterMute
    Chased the power in for the rack and the desk, used some extra sticky gel tape to secure the annoying PSU's to the underside of the top shelf, very useful stuff that. Re-ran all the signal for the main interface and the summing mixer, then re-did the patch-bay. A slight redesign needed a new patch-bay template, came from Printographic who do custom labels for a range of patch-bays, a very good service. Checked the power for the desk and rack, all good. I'll put the desk back in position tomorrow and run the interconnects, the UAD comms cabling and all the USB stuff, then testing.
  6. WinterMute
    Found the cage nuts, lost the driver twice, I love this job...
  7. WinterMute
    staying up till Monday, then it's going to the recycling centre.
  8. WinterMute
    New rack arrived this morning, guess who can't find the cage nuts...
  9. WinterMute
    My wife (who runs a major UK fashion company) designates anything electrical/mechanical as a "blue job" sadly, so I'm stuck with those in the house. Beedster, there are these amazing new things called "patch bays" change your life mate.
  10. WinterMute
    I have, on occasion, wired a d-sub before realising I'd left the cable support clamp off... Thats why I now use the ones that come in 2 parts... Grazed knuckles... check. Bumped head... check. Swearing... check.
  11. WinterMute
    Steel 18U 19" rack cabinet with front door and removable side panels. Castors and stabilising feet. Fully adjustable and/or removable cable management to rear, Rear rack strips included. Door closes but has no key. Aperture to top for fan system. Fits in a big estate, otherwise van needed. Perfect for servers (obvs) but also studio rack kit, PA amps etc. Nr Windsor. Edit: I found the fan unit! not currently working very well, I think the 9v PSU is kaput.
  12. WinterMute
    Finally getting round to updating the studio, I've been doing it piecemeal for years and the cabling has gotten scruffy, plus I need to move some rack units around to make room for some new kit. Having a new rack unit built to house the amps and storage, and adding 2 new units to the upper racks, an RND Master Buss Processor and an RND Master Buss Transformer, a second Shelford will eventually be added and the UAD X16 will go into the side rack. I foresee an extended period of cable wrangling in my immediate future...
  13. WinterMute
    8U 19" rack unit Front and rear rack strips (although one set is that annoying sliding captured nut system...) Handles to sides, 4 good rack wheels, 2 of which lock. Catches for front and rear lids, but no lids. Black Tolex covered. Nr Windsor, London
  14. WinterMute
    Steel 18U 19" rack cabinet with front door and removable side panels. Castors and stabilising feet. Fully adjustable and/or removable cable management to rear, Rear rack strips included. Door closes but has no key. Aperture to top for fan system. Fits in a big estate, otherwise van needed. Perfect for servers (obvs) but also studio rack kit, PA amps etc. Near Windsor, London.
  15. WinterMute
    Saved me a trip to Sheffield...
  16. WinterMute
    Can you comment on the neck profile? Is it like the earlier, thinner necks or the more chunky D shape? String spacing still 16.5mm?
  17. WinterMute
    I played a 5 string Thumb for 20 years, just got another one, luckily I love the sound they make. I get on fairly well with MM SR5's and I had Alan at ACG build me a 17mm spaced Krell fretless which is a beauty. I'd love a Pedulla Pentabuzz or a Mark 3 Wal, but the spacing just doesn't work.
  18. WinterMute
    Yes you can, works with anything that has the EUCON protocol, it doesn't;t work as well as Protools however, some of the really useful mixing functions are absent.
  19. WinterMute
    Unfortunately Protools soft-synths aren't anywhere near as good as Logic/Abelton, but then its a different beast. We've taken to using Logic as a writing platform so as to preserve continuity between the various set ups, then In throw it all into PT once the demo is done, re-record everything and add or subtract for the arrangement and then mix. I have a few 3rd party synths in PT to expand on the Logic parts, SSD5 for Drummer replacement parts etc. but often I simply bounce the audio from the Logic session files. Logic/Abelton are perfectly capable platforms without a ruck of 3rd party soft-synths. I prefer PT as a tracking/mixing environment as I have an Avid S3 desk, but I think Logic is much better for writing/programming.
  20. WinterMute
    I remove all the UAD2 plug-ins not in my library and put them in an folder marked "unused plug-ins" saves you scrolling through a list of plug-ins you don't have access to. Only needs doing every time they release an update... 🤣
  21. WinterMute
    Depending on what you're planning to house in it, you may want vents to the top and bottom too, you may want to leave a 1/2 rack space between the units too, some people leave a full rack space with a vented blank panel for valve or class A kit between the units. Have a look at the cases of the units you want to put in the rack, if they have vents to the top and bottom of the case and/or fans to the rear, you'll need some way for the air to get to the interior of the units. I have a 2U rack for the bass amp/management for my studio monitors, I had to cut vents to the top to stop it overheating.
  22. WinterMute
    Such great basses, but I can't get on with 19mm either, GLWS.
  23. WinterMute
    Kate Shaved I'll get me coat...
  24. WinterMute
    I had an 87 NT 5 string, with the single piece bridge, played it for 20 years and sold it on when I thought I'd quit playing. I recently replaced it with a wenge/bubinga NT 5 string with MEC pups. Neither one suffered from neck dive, both sounded immense. Best fretted 5 string on the planet IMO.
  25. WinterMute
    Used sparingly it can be very effective, I mainly use in on fretless in very sparse arrangements that feature quite a lot of reverb on other instruments, and I make sure to apply a HPF to the reverb itself to ensure the bottom end doesn't get bloated and unfocussed, set at about 150Hz if I remember rightly.
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