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Post by thecolourfulway on Apr 7, 2024 11:28:49 GMT -6
Just heard about this today and I didn’t see anyone posting about these yet. Who’s got the scoop on more details? I am almost certainly going to swap my pair for the stepped version.
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Post by FM77 on Apr 7, 2024 17:08:37 GMT -6
I got an email about it Friday, that is all I know. Starts with the EQP-A Mastering edition. Production 1-2 months. I appreciate the crossgrade offers at Audioscape.
50% of my tracking/mixing hardware gear is mastering versions. I like that level of detail with hardware. I don't really need stepped pots with gear like compression, but for EQ it is very cool. Pultecs style EQ on the 2 buss for the mastering chain are fantastic.
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Post by niklas1073 on Apr 8, 2024 3:55:15 GMT -6
I am a huge fan of stepped pots. Like FM77 I use mastering stereo units in my mix bus. My pultec is stepped and easy to recall. My vari-mu has only thold stepped. It does not matter too much most of the time, but I was recently printing an album and had to do a few tweaks here and ther over the time of a few weeks. And despite taking pictures or writing up settings, it never really the same. So I would prefer stepped on that too. When you make some tweaks here and there and the mixbus is not completely constant it’s always harder to compare. But I have taken the approach that “today it sounds like this”
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Post by FM77 on Apr 8, 2024 5:56:46 GMT -6
I am a huge fan of stepped pots. Like FM77 I use mastering stereo units in my mix bus. My pultec is stepped and easy to recall. My vari-mu has only thold stepped. It does not matter too much most of the time, but I was recently printing an album and had to do a few tweaks here and ther over the time of a few weeks. And despite taking pictures or writing up settings, it never really the same. So I would prefer stepped on that too. When you make some tweaks here and there and the mixbus is not completely constant it’s always harder to compare. But I have taken the approach that “today it sounds like this” LOL, I have a mountain of unlabeled photos of the racks in my phone!   |
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Post by niklas1073 on Apr 8, 2024 7:35:10 GMT -6
I am a huge fan of stepped pots. Like FM77 I use mastering stereo units in my mix bus. My pultec is stepped and easy to recall. My vari-mu has only thold stepped. It does not matter too much most of the time, but I was recently printing an album and had to do a few tweaks here and ther over the time of a few weeks. And despite taking pictures or writing up settings, it never really the same. So I would prefer stepped on that too. When you make some tweaks here and there and the mixbus is not completely constant it’s always harder to compare. But I have taken the approach that “today it sounds like this” LOL, I have a mountain of unlabeled photos of the racks in my phone! Yep, i was just cleaning pictures off my phone the other day and all those “what song is this?” Pictures of attack and release time. But all and all I think it’s cool AS is releasing one. I think bus units will be a growing trend for small and itb studios too. Usually when some friends come by my studio and i turn on the 2bus they will message a few days later… I've been thinking about getting a 2bus comp… 🤣 |
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Post by Dan on Apr 8, 2024 10:07:18 GMT -6
LOL, I have a mountain of unlabeled photos of the racks in my phone! Yep, i was just cleaning pictures off my phone the other day and all those “what song is this?” Pictures of attack and release time. But all and all I think it’s cool AS is releasing one. I think bus units will be a growing trend for small and itb studios too. Usually when some friends come by my studio and i turn on the 2bus they will message a few days later… I've been thinking about getting a 2bus comp… 🤣 I used to write down settings in a composition book with just X o clock. PITA. Unless you have something super colored and cool that does a lot of fun stuff in on unit, digital is just far easier now that there's a ton of crazy stuff itb. And I don't mean anything like someone saying "REAL SSL Busses are better than plugs and I need muh vocal chain" I mean something like a Drawmer 1968 / 1969 or a Fatso that will replace 4 plugs and 4 normal pieces of equipment for mixing. |
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Post by Dan on Apr 8, 2024 10:23:29 GMT -6
LOL, I have a mountain of unlabeled photos of the racks in my phone! Yep, i was just cleaning pictures off my phone the other day and all those “what song is this?” Pictures of attack and release time. But all and all I think it’s cool AS is releasing one. I think bus units will be a growing trend for small and itb studios too. Usually when some friends come by my studio and i turn on the 2bus they will message a few days later… I've been thinking about getting a 2bus comp… 🤣 That already happened 15-20 years ago. You do it all itb and you get something colored and darker like an API 2500, Fatso, or Drawmer 1968 / 1969 to shove on your two bus that does a lot of stuff at once with a ton of color to mask all the bs you were doing itb with nasty old plugs. It stopped when the crazy, smooth colored stuff started coming out itb like Presswerk, the og free Molot, MJUC, Vulf, Faraday Limiter which was originally free, that stole their colored thunder. Why would you use a Fatso when you could use U-he Presswerk into U-he Satin? Nasty highs? What highs? You can turn a couple of knobs and set the U-he and Goodhertz stuff to obliterate the highs. |
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Post by FM77 on Apr 8, 2024 10:24:03 GMT -6
Yep, i was just cleaning pictures off my phone the other day and all those “what song is this?” Pictures of attack and release time. But all and all I think it’s cool AS is releasing one. I think bus units will be a growing trend for small and itb studios too. Usually when some friends come by my studio and i turn on the 2bus they will message a few days later… I've been thinking about getting a 2bus comp… 🤣 I used to write down settings in a composition book with just X o clock. PITA. Unless you have something super colored and cool that does a lot of fun stuff in on unit, digital is just far easier now that there's a ton of crazy stuff itb. And I don't mean anything like someone saying "REAL SSL Busses are better than plugs and I need muh vocal chain" I mean something like a Drawmer 1968 / 1969 or a Fatso that will replace 4 plugs and 4 normal pieces of equipment for mixing. I am with you man. I think that is why I really started to enjoy the WesAudio and Bettermaker gear I have. Digital recall for analog hardware. But in the case of my SPL PQ, a picture is helpful. Too many details to manage. I have a small stack of index cards I use for daily work/intent/goals and have been grabbing one and writing the name of the tune on it and snapping the pic. In truth I tend to gravitate towards recreating similar settings regardless if I jotted it down to took a pic. |
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Post by matt@IAA on Apr 8, 2024 10:38:46 GMT -6
Stepped pots are pots lying about being switches 😜
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Post by niklas1073 on Apr 8, 2024 11:16:16 GMT -6
I used to write down settings in a composition book with just X o clock. PITA. Unless you have something super colored and cool that does a lot of fun stuff in on unit, digital is just far easier now that there's a ton of crazy stuff itb. And I don't mean anything like someone saying "REAL SSL Busses are better than plugs and I need muh vocal chain" I mean something like a Drawmer 1968 / 1969 or a Fatso that will replace 4 plugs and 4 normal pieces of equipment for mixing. I am with you man. I think that is why I really started to enjoy the WesAudio and Bettermaker gear I have. Digital recall for analog hardware. But in the case of my SPL PQ, a picture is helpful. Too many details to manage. I have a small stack of index cards I use for daily work/intent/goals and have been grabbing one and writing the name of the tune on it and snapping the pic. In truth I tend to gravitate towards recreating similar settings regardless if I jotted it down to took a pic. That is a good direction with the digital controlled units. I was drooling over the upcoming locomotive vari mu 😄. But I guess I’m getting by due to the fact that I am mainly mixing stuff I am producing and mostly tracking myself. This means my mix bus does not usually shift that much. I think the only knob I’ve turned lately on my pultec is the 10khz boost one click to the right or left 😄. The vari mu tend to live some more depending on song intensity and what gain level my mix ends up around. I keep it quite consistent in ducking at max 2db so that helps a little to find the input settings. But if I get someone else's mix on the table, then i might be lost for a short while 🤣 |
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Post by thehightenor on Apr 8, 2024 13:40:49 GMT -6
I am a huge fan of stepped pots. Like FM77 I use mastering stereo units in my mix bus. My pultec is stepped and easy to recall. My vari-mu has only thold stepped. It does not matter too much most of the time, but I was recently printing an album and had to do a few tweaks here and ther over the time of a few weeks. And despite taking pictures or writing up settings, it never really the same. So I would prefer stepped on that too. When you make some tweaks here and there and the mixbus is not completely constant it’s always harder to compare. But I have taken the approach that “today it sounds like this” Deleted my previous post.... I just checked my rack and actually only the gains are variable on the Thermionic Swift EQ. Everything else is switched or stepped! The Swift is a really fantastic "broad crayon - top down mixing" stereo mix bus EQ. It seems as if nearly all the hardware on my stereo mix bus is stepped or switched. The only PITA being my Rolls RMS 755 VCA stereo bus compressor. I've created a little project in Cubase with test tones for recalling that unit. |
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Post by bob on Apr 19, 2024 3:07:08 GMT -6
I am a huge fan of stepped pots. Like FM77 I use mastering stereo units in my mix bus. My pultec is stepped and easy to recall. My vari-mu has only thold stepped. It does not matter too much most of the time, but I was recently printing an album and had to do a few tweaks here and ther over the time of a few weeks. And despite taking pictures or writing up settings, it never really the same. So I would prefer stepped on that too. When you make some tweaks here and there and the mixbus is not completely constant it’s always harder to compare. But I have taken the approach that “today it sounds like this” LOL, I have a mountain of unlabeled photos of the racks in my phone! I record a single video, start at the patchbay and then talk myself through all the outboard. Normally comes in at around 3 minutes long.. |
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