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21st January 2006
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| Gear interested Joined: Jan 2006
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Thread Starter | first kinda really big purchase...'prom night' for an aspiring gearslut
after reading so many preamp reviews I finally bit the bullet and went for the A Designs Pacifica...plus I'm tired of wading through the endless different opinions on good preamps...(I kinda miss the artistic side of music!) My main vocal channel will be: Groove Tubes GT66 -> Pacifica -> Tube Tech CL 1B (next on list to order, in true slut fashion) -> EMU 1820M (soundcard) (GT66 can be swapped with Blue Baby Bottle or GT55). I also do alot of acoustic/electric guitar and live bass. Mostly doing upbeat and rootsy REGGAE with soulful lead vocals (male) and 3-4 part harmonies... Hope I made the right choice with the Pacifica...just kinda jittery right now since I'm destined to become a gearslut, but I just got owned by my first 'prom night' http://www.realultimatepower.net |
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21st January 2006
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| member no 666  Joined: Jun 2002 Location: Durham, NC
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Best of luck with it. Being your first... I'm sure you're going to have a great time with it. It won't be your last, and hopefully it will be a tool that will serve you faithfully for your entire career in audio. So I reckon congratulations for breaking your cherry are in order... Congratulations.
__________________ CN Fletcher Professional Affiliations: R/E/P Professional Recording Engineer and Producer forums - serious hobbyists welcome SoundPure.com mwagener wrote on Sat, 11 September 2004 14:33 We are selling emotions, there are no emotions in a grid Roscoe Ambel once said: Pro-Tools is to audio what fluorescent is to light |
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21st January 2006
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Dec 2003 Location: China
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Only for you guys, some inside information from a top producer I know. The EMU's uses the same chip NASA use in their space program. The convertion is top class. He also told me that the EMU's is better than the high end Larveys. He said that people haven't catched up on the EMU's. He adviced me to buy several EMU's because in the future EMU's will be worth MILLIONS (neve standard).... My 2 cents.
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21st January 2006
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well NASA dunno, neve dunno, millions dunno either. a lot of consumer technology ends up now in spacecraft, so it's possible. But I'm not really NASA (today  ) so capabillity to go to Pluto is for the next few months of limited use to me personally. maybe in your case its different.  Also buying a stock of 20 interface cards would seem rather funny, considering I don't have the computer for it. Ppl would think I lost it. and they would be right. I heard the EMU this summer and yes it is very very very good. I did not put it up against a lavry. but it is rich, detailed and natural sounding. easily on par with my fireface. Project studio technology in earnest! I had a little PC envy (ardent mac user) why EMU doesn't make a firewire or AES box dunno. maybe same management problems as Sony; not in touch with reality? They could sell a lot of boxes if they make it more universal invest a bit more in hardware like they used to do (when they were not CreativeLabs) and write better drivers. |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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congrats...you will no doubt do some pants pooping... quick aside on the emu thingey.... can that box be used as a standalone ad/da? using the adat and whatnots..? |
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21st January 2006
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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really...you wanna tell me which image so i can delete like a mofo... i kill it with a vengance.... my face is red...i am sooo sorry.... |
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21st January 2006
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yeah, congratulations with the pacifica! may it do to you what the DAV did to me! (a lot of good!) |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2003 Location: China
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Ha ha!!! I think it was the rubber blown up pic... I enjoyed it but "error safe!" made the journey less safe! |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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really...mr. blowup is eeevil? hrmph... |
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21st January 2006
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 It runs with the card! Or did I miss something BIG when I tested it? | |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2003 Location: China
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I could be wrong... Is he?
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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jeeezus dim...what the fuk time IS it in Sweden... bong hit time...indeed...you're making me jealous... is it too early for me to..... ah fuk it.. soon you will see my posts get even stoopider... |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2003 Location: China
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You rock! enought said... I'm heading down to the basement to play my rhodes... later son!
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2003 Location: China
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 Roots bro! | |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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this thread is now in serious hijack... i propose a new thread....i'll call it getting hih at 2:30pm....i'll put it in "The Moan Zone" see you there.... p.s. the brake out box with the 1820...stand alone? |
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21st January 2006
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| Gear interested Joined: Jan 2006
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well i woke up this morning....still a bit sore from the massive 'backside scramble' I experienced last night during my first big purchase...but let me tell you, after reading all the moral support, I'm getting ultra pumped!!! I'm gonna give the pacifica a solo run so that i can understand it for it's character and personality...once I'm satisfied that I know who the darn thing is...I'm gonna get super agro and make one of the biggest purchases of my life (aside from house, car etc.)...the tube tech cl 1b compressor with some mullard tubes (worth five times more than my purebred dog that came with papers!!)... Once that occurs, I will be obligated to make first project consist of many multi-layered wailing electric guitars...nothing else just a bunch of thick guitars wailing hard...this will justify all the purchases!! as for the EMU as a standalone converter...not sure what you mean, but I know it must be hooked up via ethernet to the card in order to get power. There is no other means of gettinig power to the thing. With that in mind, it will perform within the full range of it's functionality...not sure about standalone/adat etc... thanks everybody... |
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21st January 2006
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21st January 2006
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yo ardy, I listened to the tubetech multiband compressor last week, awesome control. I heard that the rest is good too, but make sure you A/B this new one with other compressors!! and do a search here on GS! I heard some conflicting opinions about that one, but am too lazy now to look deeper into it. (and conflicting opinions will ALWAYS be on GS) so don't be too alarmed, if you like how it sounds yourself, GO FOR IT  what kind of dog? you know there is a pets in the studio thread? http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=46128 |
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21st January 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Barcelona!!
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and it's the best thread EVER... |
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21st January 2006
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holy shiznit!!! | |
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