I build and repair musical instruments and recording gear in my tiny home lab and share what I've learned on RU-vid. I hope you'll learn something new from these videos and will be inspired to fix or make your own things! I think that would be great.
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The real one has much sharper highs. The UAD one is softer at the top. Not a minor difference to my ears, but surprising, because digital is usually the sharper.
That looks very much like the Hakko T39-B02 Conical Tip that I use for SMD and some THT soldering. Many members on the EEVBlog forum have some mental issue with conical tips.
Hi Leo That was a very informative study you have done...... fabulous attention to detail. Thank you! One question......please? I actually have a pair of 737s, but have recently bought a UA X4 interface, and wondered which were the most important plugins that I should aim at buying? I am asking UA users for their views on this. I realise that my choices will depend on what I need to do musically, but a general overview would be handy. Thanks again for your presentation.
You don't need to understand difficult maths to understand convolution. It is just sliding one (reversed) function over the other and, at every point, multiplying them and integrating the result. I recommend watching But what is a convolution? by 3blue1brown to understand that. Even if you ignore the math there, you can get it from the visualisations.
10:35 most of us are likely looking at the legs, but he's referring to the plastic top corner of chip is beveled [where the yellow line passes]. Its blurry there, but can see clearly when sets it down. I barely caught it myself. Can see it clear at 11:49
Very cool. As a fan of both reverb and Ikea, I must try this.
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I wonder if it could be made smaller if used with thin metal sheet. I actually have thin brass metal sheet on spool, like 25cm wide possibly 0.1mm thick. Need to try this. There is one important aspect missed in this video! Corrosion! In this video it looks like steel - it will quickly rust and change it's sound. Maybe for better... But it will change over time as more rust will build up.
Wonder if the woo crowd of audiophiles could latch on to this and start to deride people who use plates that aren't either titanium stripped off of an ex-spacecraft or gold plated brass.
I wonder if a shell would improve it, to minimize feedback? Probably doesn't matter as much with small monitors at a moderate volume, or at all through headphones (obviously), but if you use it live or at louder volumes, it might start to squeal...
Thanks Leo. I appreciated the effort made to make the video as distraction-free as possible. How did you make your animated audio visualization? Also, FWIW, I heard the opposite of many others. I though the difference in the top end was cleaner and more detailed on the Apollo. There will be a big different in people's preferences based on the kind of work they produce. For VO and narration that top end detail can be important.
It would be interesting to do the same thing with 50 gallon metal drum. If you laid the drum on the side, and left one end open, you could then set a second mic up at the opening, and blend the reverb. I bet you could get some interesting tones. You could probably just get a decent size metal trashcan instead. This type of experimenting is the stuff that I like. It offers producers/musicians/sound designers, exclusive sounds, that you can't find anywhere else, unless someone copies exactly what you're doing.
Hi I know this vid is 3 years old and sorry for being so late, (I have subscribed though :). I have an issue that I hope you can help with. I have built a binaural mic, using a polystyrene head and 2 lekato lav mics, my idea was to do headphone reviews and record the audio from the headphones using the head, now, both mics work perfectly if plugged into the phone, but even using a splitter I can't get stereo, wich is the whole point. But, what i need to do is use either my audio interface (presonus studio 24c) or my mixing Desk/interface (zoom livetrack L20) and give each mic its own channel and pan left and right. The mics are trrs and came with cables to adapt them to trs, but I can not get any sound from them using either option of interface, please please save my sanity and help me out. Thanks in advance Gray
Hi Gray, I have not used these Lekato mics so I’m kind of shooting in the dark here, but do they need phantom power to operate? These small condensers usually do. Be careful when applying power as those electret condensers can be pretty sensitive (some of them need way less than 48V and, as an example, my Zoom H6 has 12v and 24v options) Not sure if this helps but best of luck and hope you figure it out! And thanks for subscribing!
@@LeoMakes hi Leo, thanks for taking the time to answer so quickly, yes it looks like these need power, both my interfaces only offer 48v, but I have a boya my b1 that has its own power and works on both interfaces, so I will order another one of those and see how I get on. Thanks again for taking the time to get back to me, much appreciated.
