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    BEYERDYNAMIC DT 990 PRO STUDIO HEADPHONES (NINJA BLACK, LIMITED EDITION)

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    1 hour ago, cclarry said:

    I mix almost exclusively in headphones....and I use these
    I paid like $70...and the mix translates VERY well everywhere...
    and they are METAL construction, and built like a tank,
    but, again, Headphones are HIGHLY subjective, as it's a combination
    of WHO is listening, and KNOWING your headphones, not necessarily
    HOW MUCH you pay for Headphones!  A GREAT Mix Engineer can 
    take the cheapest pair of headphones and get a GREAT mix out of them!
    WHY?  Because he KNOWS what he's doing, and WHAT he is doing it with,
    and makes his decisions accordingly!

    Just like Zack Wylde can take a "Hello Kitty" Guitar...and you know the rest.
    (and, BTW, I'm NOT a great Mix Engineer by ANY stretch of the imagination!)

    Thanks mate, I am looking for something that sounds amazing, and the BeyerD really let me down, as AKG did.
    Not looking for a great mix, but something where I enjoy (truly enjoy) listening to music where also they don't lie (too much) to me.
    Not looking for exaggerated lows, but also not highs (as lots of headphones these days seem to be).
    For example I have the Vic Firth SIH2 Stereo Isolation Headphones, and they (for me) sound a lot better, Youtube videos where people don't use microphones
    to record their voices (bad choice) and the room sound is all over the place, with these aforementioned headphones I really feel I am with them
    in their room. The BeyerD don't give me that :( (Also very low nuanced sounds with the Vic Firth are appreciated which is rather surprising in a good way,
    like ASMR artist touching the microphone a little bit or just stepping the floor).
    The only "bad" thing going on for them is that they are not comfortable, the pads are the worst (because of heat), and you have to "mold" these steel parts
    so they aren't too tight so they fit your head better.
    For me I found that the marketplace is full of sht everywhere, and we end up paying the price... that's really disconcerting.

     

    BEYERDYNAMIC DT 990 PRO STUDIO HEADPHONES (NINJA BLACK, LIMITED EDITION)

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    1 hour ago, John Bohlen said:

    I do a lot of headphone mixing, never used Beyerdynamic's so can't really tell... but you get what you pay for. Years back when I briefly worked with Bob Katz he recommended the Audeze headphones. I never looked back... 🙂

    Weird, even on the musiciansfriend another forum mate posted here, in the reviews even though he says Very Good he then continues to say they need EQ, and that they are too bright (ok he says:  if you still have good (sensitive) hearing in the higher frequencies than you will probably find the treble painful) so I don't understand his logic, either they are Very Good (they are not, cheap 4 bucks pluggers sound better) or they aren't... sigh...

    I would have expected for the money I paid for them they would be an amazing product. Not even close. How much do I have to pay for a great pair of cans?

    Your Audeze look great mate (what model do you have?), but 900 bucks... ouch... although if I was guaranteed they are awesome, maybe I'd get some... one day :P

    XLN Audio 50% OFF Summer Madness

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    Weird, now that I have my system perfectly gathered and smoothed out, I got the chance to buy AD2 Custom XL plus Trigger plus Drum Vault (which is basically 2 kits without cymbals) plus the Transient plugin they have (DS 10), all for almost the same price as the Custom XL alone (half/sale price) and after disabling any processing within AD2, in order to get the "raw" sound, I feel they are the best drums in the market so far.

    And yes, I am aware they haven't updated in a while, and yeah, perhaps a new interface it's needed, idk, asides the fact that gallery and explore are pretty neat (they look fantastic, looking at the drumkit and those pictures to me are inspiring).

    Snare sound full as I think they should sound, room and overheads sound very very good and when compressed (as they "suggest" within the patches/presets) they come much more alive and I've noticed that lot of the drum sound is the overheads, so they win there in my book. Before AD2 I got very near in a time period SSD5 and comparing the 2 I think ssd5 falls short, specially the snares. Maybe it's the rooms, I don't know, I feel comparing the 2 SSD5 feels a little sterile, even though I swear they have one of the best kicks in the market (cymbals fall kinda short too now that I can compare to AD2). And please don't mention SD3, lol. 

    I myself love Boutique Mallets and Modern Soul and R&B because it includes MEINL cymbals, which are in a totally different league than Zildjian and Sabian and whatever, but also, specially BM have a warm sound to the drums, that you can not only play 4/4 songs but can go crazy making ART.

    Jazz Sticks (haven't tried brushes but I am eager to) omg, toms sound like toms should sound (for some reason the development/progression/evolution of the toms' sound through the eras/years has changed so much to more compressed/plastic sounding (plastic for lack of a better word, here I am not trying to say plastic is bad, just comparing the Jazz Sticks sound, as it sounds more of a concert drum, more of a acoustic sound/drum) .

    My favorite drummer ever was and will be Mike Portnoy so yeah, I love his kick drum sound and all the kicks from the drum kits I have from XLN so far sound stellar (without processing, I hate processing, specially distortion, although maybe one day I will use that to make 1 frakcing song and that's it, lol).

    I liked AD2 so much more that I feel I need to buy another CUstom XL because I want 6 more kits (I went crazy before buying and did my fracking homework, time
    consuming comparing all the sets, making annotations etc and even then when time to decide it was very hard to choose, although Boutique Mallets was a no brainer)

     

     

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    All past issues of computer music magazine are just 0.99 $ each.

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    Um what a scam I can't access the vault, there is another site https://www.filesilo.co.uk/ where you have to register (again) and use keywords from the actual magazine to register said magazine, and weird the pages containing the keywords are MISSING from the magazine you buy... so I had to google the damn phrase to get the keyword, lol and register the magazine. I now can download the plugin that comes with the magazine and that's it, NOT ACCESS TO ENTIRE plugins CM collection...

    What were your favorite recent deals?

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    1 hour ago, Mesh said:

    Hi Carlos,

    What I've noticed when using the Axe is I have much more tone control (before using an amp sim) than when using the usual audio interfaces (which are thin sounding). The Axe was "fuller" in tone and once you put it through an amp sim, it was 'almost" like playing through a real amp. So yeah, I'm EXTREMELY happy with it.

    Of course, there are much better products out there (i.e. Fractal Audio's Axe Fx, Kemper etc..), but at a heavy cost. If I had the money, I'd get the Fractal' Axe FX ;) .  I've been playing guitar for about 30 years and still suck at it, but I truly love playing the guitar. 

    Best is to go to a music store and check it out before buying....your ears will be the final judge.  

    Thanks mate for taking the time writing that down for me ;) Fractal it is then, haha.

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    What were your favorite recent deals?

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    54 minutes ago, Mesh said:

    For guitar and bass players, I can highly recommend IK's Axe I/O. I've had it for a few months and extremely pleased with it. It was always a struggle to get a nice 'phat' tone with my Focusrite 2i4 and now, it's a pleasure to play my guitar through the DAW.

    I need to ask you a VERY serious question (maybe it's not that serious to you, but...): Is the difference like night and day? Are u REALLY EXTREMELY happy with it?
    Like "omg, I will never part ways with it"? How long have you been playing guitar? I ask all of these questions to see if I pull the trigger on it.
     

    Waves Weekend Deals

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    5 hours ago, Grem said:

    Lots of $29 deals that will be better with code at everyplugin.com. 

    Lots of$39 deals too.

    And $49 deals.

    $69 deals too. 

    I quit looking after that!! : )

    Who do they think they are? PA?!! LOL

     

     

    Lol Just tested it, wow... so true, everyplugin gives a better price and you can use the code... 

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    Coming Soon from IK!!!

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    On 8/22/2019 at 11:39 AM, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

    Oh I just noticed that!  Sorry.  We don't currently have an option to buy 55 or just the 5.  I can relay the requests to buy smaller amounts or "round up for purchase" and I'll also look to see if there's any other option.

    Peter, did you work your magic on me?!?!?! I need to know because if so I am morally obliged to buy the new bundle (I asked for it ofc), I noticed something, so please let me know. Thanks.

    Coming Soon from IK!!!

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    4 hours ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

    Oh I just noticed that!  Sorry.  We don't currently have an option to buy 55 or just the 5.  I can relay the requests to buy smaller amounts or "round up for purchase" and I'll also look to see if there's any other option.

    Awesome, that rounding up idea is excellent. I have AT4 Max and TRacks5 Max and xtra stuff so practically what I am missing is the Brian new bundle. :P

    Coming Soon from IK!!!

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    1 hour ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

    Thanks!  I just mentioned Jamie Humphries who did the second longer video, he did such a great job with that video and all of the audio demos.

    Howdy Peter, you quoted me but didnt' say anything about my comment: I can buy 50 credits adding to my existing 45, I'd have 95, but the new Brian bundle is 99 creds or 100, how can I get those extra 4 or 5? Because buying creds is a fixed amount, right? 25, 50, 75, etc. And I wouldn't like to overspend.

    My nickname on your site is Scarlettlol, if you could work some magic, that'd be great. 

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