Members the stranger Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 Which is more important to getting quality audio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members megadan Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 I would say coffee maker. Great musicians in a bad room > {censored}ty musicians in a perfect room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 We use the RealTraps Vienna Deluxe grinder/coffee maker - you know the kind, I'm sure, it's the third generation of combination coffee maker/bass traps so popular in higher-end studios and Starbucks. It never fails to get compliments from clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted January 6, 2006 Moderators Share Posted January 6, 2006 I usually serve a double latte with a nice frothy layer of Auralex Acoustic Foam. Delicious, although totally ineffective below 125Hz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted January 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 Originally posted by UstadKhanAli We use the RealTraps Vienna Deluxe grinder/coffee maker - you know the kind, I'm sure, it's the third generation of combination coffee maker/bass traps so popular in higher-end studios and Starbucks. It never fails to get compliments from clients. Does it have a nice glowing 12ax7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 Originally posted by Lee Knight I usually serve a double latte with a nice frothy layer of Auralex Acoustic Foam. Delicious, although totally ineffective below 125Hz. Funny!! Phil, is there any way to change this thread to make it look like I said that? ~~~~~~~~~ The Stranger, yes, in fact, it does have a nice glowing 12ax7, although you may wish to swap it out for a NOS tube for slightly smoother, creamier coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted January 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm actually more concerned about the transformer. The output transducer plays a big role, too. And where is Blue? If I don't get some of his amusingly sage insights, I'm gonna have to just go domesticate. People like me really shouldn't be domesticated. And not without a proper dose of verbiage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ethan Winer Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 > Which is more important to getting quality audio? Both. I laughed when I saw Ken mention RealTraps because there actually is such a thing as a RealTraps acoustic coffee pot isolator: It's a cardboard CD mailer box I use to decouple my coffee pot from the counter. It completely gets rid of the loud rumble so I can hear the radio in the morning while my coffee is brewing. Yes, I am absolutely serious, and this photo is not a fake. --Ethan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted January 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 I think the UL labs tried to force a recall on that very coffee pot. The cord, too. And that wall socket is looking like it's not quite modern. I would make sure and decouple any flesh from metal in that brewing scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 That's a great decoupler, Ethan!!! All kidding aside, even though your RealTraps don't make coffee, I absolutely love 'em. And so easy to install, even a moron like me could mount them from the ceiling. Just two of 'em made a huge difference in my control room. Two more were even better, but the first two resulted in a huge change in the imaging and a - I dunno what you call it - a tighter, "better" bass response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 6, 2006 Members Share Posted January 6, 2006 I was gonna say it's all about the filters 'til I saw Ethan's percolator. My family had a nearly identical percolator in the 60s (and in, oh gawd, one of the other two coffee threads I wrote about how I set it up and cleaned it as part of the allowance chores that allowed Garrard to rip me for a POS LAB 80 but that's another story)... I remember everything from that funny topknot on the lid to the proprietary power cable (notice the taper where it plugs into the pot... Ethan can confirm, I think, that there are tiny finger grip grooves on it)... Damn. That was a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members where02190 Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Cover the walls with the used grounds for mid/hi diffusion, and use the empty bean bags for bass traps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members where02190 Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Cover the walls with the used grounds for mid/hi diffusion, and use the empty bean bags for bass traps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Both shoes in one drop... We've been waiting and waiting for that, where... Perhaps you saw in one of those other coffee threads where I ceded the high moral and intellectual ground(s) to you French press advocates... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MASSIVE Master Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 It doesn't matter - Waves will introduce the FROOP'D (Frech Press Room Decrapinator) and make it all obsolete anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members offramp Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 I've also heard Digi is working on DataGrounds, a VST plug-in filter that gives all your guitar tracks that EVH 'brown' sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Originally posted by offramp I've also heard Digi is working on DataGrounds, a VST plug-in filter that gives all your guitar tracks that EVH 'brown' sound. Yeah... but the LE version STILL won't have ADC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kevinnem Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 Do you prefer balanced coffe? or unballanced? I find or short sessions it really doesn't make a diff, .. but for long ones, I need a more ballanced blend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 7, 2006 Members Share Posted January 7, 2006 I kind of like the hum I get when I use an unbalanced blend... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... (On my 8th cup, as Mr Coffee counts 'em.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members offramp Posted January 8, 2006 Members Share Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by where02190 Cover the walls with the used grounds for mid/hi diffusion, and use the empty bean bags for bass traps. You mean something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted January 8, 2006 Author Members Share Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by blue2blue (On my 8th cup, as Mr Coffee counts 'em.) I always wondered about that. My pot says twelve cups, but I know it's only four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Keithrt99 Posted January 9, 2006 Members Share Posted January 9, 2006 cup measurements on machines are always wrong. i make 4 cups with my machine and it translates to one and a half. get a french press coffee "maker" they are cheap, and you could still afford the treatment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted January 9, 2006 Author Members Share Posted January 9, 2006 Minimum distance between coffee cup and console? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted January 9, 2006 Members Share Posted January 9, 2006 Cupholder on the side... with a splash guard... just in case. (You could also put the cupholder underneath if there was someplace you could be assured you wouldn't bump it with your knee.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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