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Deirdre
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The name of the sound file is "Silent Booth", so that will tell you what to listen for.
I don't understand what you said in your post anyway, Kevin!
Have some mercy and tell me what
"Pooty Tang" and "Requisite Audio PAL" mean.
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I noticed Jowillie wanted to hear a Voicemaster Platinum Pro.
This is a Rode NTK into the Focusrite. Compression is "on" but the threshold is set to catch only very loud peaks so you really don't hear it in this example. The only EQ is just a touch (+1 db or so) of boost at 350hz.
After that the signal goes thru the Mackie LM-3204 mixer and the Flying Cow ad/da to the MBox-2.
www.chuckdaviscreative.com/NTK-Focusrite_Chain.wav
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Deirdre
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Chuck-- why do you do the D/A conversion before you hit the Mbox?
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Chuck Davis
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The MBox pre's sounded like they were degrading the signal.
The MBox 2 doesn't have the Focusrite pre's that the original MBox had and even when you go "line in" it forces the signal thru the pre's.
With the ad/da I can go true line-in and then s/pdf 24 bit to the MBox.
Made a noticable difference.
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Aha.
I thought going line-in BYPASSED the pre's.
And.. of course-- the Flying Cow converter is no longer on the market.
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I thought it was a bypass situation myself too. Found out on the DUC that that's not the case with the "2".
Yes, the "Cow" is no more..discontinued. Decent sounding budget converter though. Couldn't cough up the dough for anything fancier...or justify plugging it into an MBox at this stage of the game.
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Now that is good info! And it sure is quiet.
Kgenus, can you point to some examples of audio running through the Requisite pre?
Thanks.
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| Quote: | | It's a movie title and the name of that movies main character. Do you really need an example? |
Heh-- wouldn't I love to hear one.
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| kgenus wrote: | | This is not happy time audio.... |
Yes, but I will love you forever.
Sa da tay.
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| Quote: | | I got to thinking about C.W. McCall--remember Convoy?--who, as it turns out, is tha same buy behind Manheim Steamroller. |
Actually, that's kind of close...
Back in the mid seventies, some guys in Omaha did a commercial for Old Home Bread. Bill Fries wrote the copy, and Chip Davis did the music. Bill wanted to do a spot that contained everything he could think of that sounded country, "Pisgah," "Mabel," "True Grit," a big rig, and a guy named "C.W." He wrote the spot that turned into a commercial country song (a rap, really), "The Old Home Fill 'Er Up And Keep On Truckin' Cafe." He pulls up in his semi to the cafe, where Mabel is pouring coffee (looking like a sack full of bobcats). He invites her to ride down to Pisgah to see True Grit at the drive in. After many auditions and no luck finding the right voice, Bill voiced the spot himself, and called himself C.W. McCall, getting in the last term he hadn't worked into the spot.
Songs were recorded in Omaha and Kansas City; the KC Philharmonic had just disbanded, and there were a lot of musicians available any time.
"C.W." (mostly Bill and Chip) had a huge string of country hits before "Convoy " crossed over and became a number one song. Many radio stations wouldn't play it at first because it wasn't BMI or ASCAP; it was published by ad publisher SESAC, who didn't have many radio contracts.
Later Chip and Jackson Berkey put together an instrumental album called "Fresh Aire by Manheim Steamroller." It was recorded with standard 16 track analog, but was so well recorded that the LP started selling in high-end stereo stores that sold audiophile vinyl. Bill wrote a poem for each piece, and his poetry is on the back of the album cover.
If you heard radio in the 70s, you heard Chip a lot, especially in the midwest. Wal-Mart ads, KC's Worlds Of Fun jingles, Western Auto ("We'll be [clap-clap] good to you!), Independence Center ("declare...your independence, Independence Center is waiting for youuuuu {cue the banjo]).
Don't know what Bill/C.W. is doing now, but Chip is the Grand Old Man of music in Omaha, with a fabulous studio/compound out in the country, from what I hear.
And that's today's off-topic story, children. One of the all-time great voiceover spots (and characters) created by a lack of available VO talent.
(I used to occasionally do work at Kansas City's Sound Trek studios, where this stuff was done, and I sometimes rented my beloved Arp 2600 synth to these guys for KC sessions.) |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: Hmm. That's weird. |
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I posted this C.W. story in response to someone who mentioned this.
And yet my post ended up here, on a totally different topic and thread.
What the? |
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