We'll be recording Session 3 on Monday, January 6th, 2003. MP3's and session notes should be on line within a few days.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

[This message was edited by Dot on 01-18-03 at 06:48 PM.]

Dan--

Can you tell us what you'll be doing in Session No. 3?

--Steve, publisher of Mojo Pie
http://www.piemusic.com

Just wanted to stop by and say hello.
I've got a bottle of lagavulin with your name on it!

Hey Eddie, good to see you here - and I'll see you this weekend in SC.

Steve, we're going after a bunch of D/I stuff for Session 3. We have a Lakland endorsement, and just got the bass in. It's a beautiful Bob Glaub Signature sunburst P&J.;

We'll be doing direct bass through a lot of the pres and D/I's and also electric guitar. We'll also be firing up some Pods.

Alos looking to D/I some drum machines and a Korg Trinity.

That's the plan for now. We'll see. : )

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

[This message was edited by Dot on 01-13-03 at 09:26 PM.]

Cool!

Just popping in to say Howdy to everyone. I'm at the studio right now prepping for "session 3". Should be a good one. Everyone stay tuned for the results.

Bruce Bailey
Sea Note Recording
Myrtle Beach, SC
http://www.seanoterecording.com

Ha! Hey Bruce, I'm on my way over there. I've got some cool "treats" with me.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

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Originally posted by Dot:
Hey Eddie, good to see you here - and I'll see you this weekend in SC.

Steve, we're going after a bunch of D/I stuff for Session 3. We have a http://www.lakland.com endorsement, and just got the bass in. It's a beautiful Bob Glaub Signature sunburst P&J.;

We'll be doing direct bass through a lot of the pres and D/I's and also electric guitar. We'll also be firing up some Pods.

Alos looking to D/I some drum machines and a Korg Trinity.

That's the plan for now. We'll see. : )

Dan Richards
http://www.digitalprosound.com
http://www.thelisteningsessions.com

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Dan, we are all standing by wondering how the Audio Buddy will fare.

--Steve, publisher of Mojo Pie
www.piemusic.com

[This message was edited by Dot on 01-13-03 at 09:27 PM.]

Well, we made it through Session 3! It's all bass DI. We used the Lakland Bob Glaub Skyline P&J; bass. 30 tracks were cut using 18 pres.

We used a Countryman direct box and went through the mic pres.

We'll have the MP3's up in a few days.


A Designs MP-1
API 528C
API 3124 w/ stock '99 opamp
API 3124 w/ Millennia M990 opamp
API 3124 w/ vintage opamp, Huntington, NY
API 3124 w/ vintage opamp, Melville, NY
Behringer UltraGain Pro Mic2200
Great River MP-2
Great River MP-1NV
HHB Radius 40
John Hardy M-1
Joe Meek MQ3
Joe Meek VC6Q British Channel
M-Audio Tampa
Midiman Audio Buddy
Millennia HV-3
Millennia M-2B
Neve 33122 - Brent Averill version
Speck MicPre 5.0
Studio Projects VTB-1
TL Audio 5051 Ivory 2

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

[This message was edited by Dot on 01-16-03 at 06:53 PM.]

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Originally posted by Dot:
Well, we made it through Session 3! It's all bass DI.

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It's exactly what I was looking for!!! I can't wait to hear it.

Edson

On the API, when you say stock '99 op amp, do you mean an API 2520 opamp produced in 1999, or something else? Confusing me, because the Millenia Media one is now named the MM-99, I believe, and there are all the true 990's in addition to the offshoots. (The Forsell and MM are both functionally interchangeable with the 990, but a different topology, the MM being the early version of Fred's current design.)

Bear

Bear's, yes, the stock '99 is the stock API 2520 opamp that came with the 3124. The other vintage opamps are also 2520's.

The Millennia opamp is indeed the MM-99. Thanks for catching that.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

I just came from the studio and have the Millennia opamp here. It is an MM-990.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

On further listening, we are not happy with some of the bass DI tracks on Session 3. Another session is scheduled for early next week to cut more tracks.

Sorry for the delay, but we want to do this right. : )

Session 4 - Mic Preamps DI Drum Machine - will be online on or about January 19th.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

John La Grou had recently changed the name to distinguish it from 990 types that were truer to the original Deane Jensen design. It's listed as the MM-99 on their website. Oddly, the accompanying picture has the product labeled as MM-990. There should be no difference between the MM-990 and MM-99.

Bear

Session 3 - Mic Preamps DI - Lakland Bass is now online.

Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions

Good job. To me, the Audio Buddy's tone is surprisingly good. But, it lags on the speed end of things. Who is the guy who hot rods the mic preamps to make the faster?

--Steve, publisher of Mojo Pie
www.piemusic.com

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Originally posted by Dot:
http://www.thelisteningsessions.com/session3.htm is now online.

Dan Richards
http://www.digitalprosound.com
http://www.thelisteningsessions.com

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Why use a DI box, when the preamps have HI-Z inputs ?

/ Peter Kaersaa

Peakae,
Some of the pre did not have hi z input. If we were going to use the DI on those, we had to use it on all of them. Just to keep the signal path identical. Consistancy is very important to these sessions. If the countryman changes the audio in any way (good or bad) before it gets to the pres without hi z inouts. We have to make sure the same excact signal is going into each and every pre.

Bruce Bailey
Sea Note Recording
Myrtle Beach, SC
http://www.seanoterecording.com

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Originally posted by FlyinFader:
Peakae,
Some of the pre did not have hi z input. If we were going to use the DI on those, we had to use it on all of them. Just to keep the signal path identical. Consistancy is very important to these sessions. If the countryman changes the audio in any way (good or bad) before it gets to the pres without hi z inouts. We have to make sure the same excact signal is going into each and every pre.

Bruce Bailey
Sea Note Recording
Myrtle Beach, SC
http://www.seanoterecording.com

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Ok that makes sense, if you don't want to use the preamp as a DI.
But as a bass player wanting to do just that the test is of limited use for me.
No pun intended !!!
Keep up the good work.

/ Peter Kaersaa