Untitled Document. Building an Output Transformer for a Tube Amp Part 1 By John Fisher As anyone who knows about tube amps will tell you, "The output transformer is the most expensive part". Not is it is only the most expensive part, but is is also probably the hardest part to come by. After much frustration I found someone on the Internet to help me with some specifics on building one. This man knows his stuff and has a good supply of rare tubes and transformers and other valuable tube related components, for anyone who is interested.
With just under $5 worth of materials and an evening of work I was able to successfully build my output transformer. Above is the schematic of the output transformer. The Winding Plan Following is how I wound my transformer. I started with a plastic bobbin that was made for the 1" square core for this transformer. Above is an illustration of the top view of the coil that hopefully will make things clearer. My Simple Winding Setup The Core. The Ultimate EQ Cheat Sheet for Every Common Instrument. Image via Shutterstock You asked, and you shall receive, Sonicbids blog readers. Per multiple requests, here's my guide to, "When the hell do I start turning these knobs, and where do they go? " But before we begin, I offer you the fine print: These references are general ideas for where to begin to look for sonic issues with particular sounds, instruments, and voices.
I'm not going to tell you "always notch this 9 dB here and add 3 dB here with a wide boost and, voila, perfect sound! " Sometimes a guitar cab gets mic'd up differently night to night, plus every voice is unique, and every snare drum "speaks" differently (just ask a drummer). A subtractive approach to EQ Not everyone's ethos on EQ is the same, and most people may never see eye to eye on EQ approach. Also, a quick note on the topic of high pass filters: use them. Here's a detailed, instrument-by-instrument guide to EQ. Drums Image by Danny Sheppard via Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Kick Snare Toms Cymbals Synth "Kick" (808) Bass Guitar. DAD/Rip – Thomas. 24bit/96kHz FLAC to 16bit/44.1kHz via Audition with Triangular dither? Steve Albini talks about some of his recording techniques.mp4. Steve Albini on Recording Drums. AIFF Vs. WAV. Perfect AAC Rips with EAC and iTunes - JetShred.
With iTunesEncode you can rip CDs with EAC and automatically have them passed over to iTunes to compress to AAC. Why do this? EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is the best CD ripper available. It can read through just about any error. There are plugins that can be had for EAC to compress to AAC, but they are not anywhere near the quality of the iTunes AAC encoder. This way you just click a button in EAC, and your tracks will show up in iTunes appropriately tagged. No extra steps for you. Step 1: Download and setup EAC.
Step 2: Make sure iTunes is installed. Step 3: Click here to download iTunesEncode. Step 4: Extract itunesencode46.zip to your EAC directory. Step 5: Setup iTunesEncode in EAC. Check Use external program for compression. Select User Defined Encoder from the drop-down box and then type “.m4a” into the file extension box. Locate the file iTunesEncode.exe. For Additional command-line options enter: -e "AAC Encoder" -a "%a" -l "%g" -t "%t" -g "%m" -y %y -n %n -i %s -o %d That’s it. Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It | Gadget Lab. Legendary artist Neil Young at the AllThingsD media conference Tuesday in Laguna Niguel, California.
Photo: Asa Mathat/AllThingsD Neil Young is right: Those songs on your iPhone do sound like crap, and it’s time we demand better-sounding alternatives for our digital music. Speaking at the D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, the outspoken musician expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the MP3 format and called for an end-to-end reboot of the consumer digital audio ecosystem, from file formats to playback devices. Young’s big beef: Digital music files download quickly, but suffer a significant loss in quality. Bitrates for most tracks on iTunes average 256kbps AAC audio encoding, which is drastically inferior to the quality of recorded source material in almost every case. “My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I’ve been practicing for the past 50 years,” Young said.
“Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.” — Neil Young. DSD-Guide.com | Direct Stream Digital Audio. AudioZ - Professional Audio Software Community. MP3 Diags. Wiki. dBpoweramp: CD Ripper & Audio Converter. Secure ripping to mp3, FLAC, m4a, Apple Lossless & WMA. Batch edit your iTunes music info tags - Applelinks.com. Okay, here's a pretty simple tip, but one you may not have known you could do. In iTunes, you all know how to edit the info tags, right? It's the same as getting info on a file from within the Finder; you just select the song you want, then hit Command+I on the keyboard (or select Get Info form the File menu). Click the Info tab in the window that opens, and you'll see the following information: Fair enough, but let's say you want to add an entire album's publication year to the info list, or that you want to change the genre to something a little more accurate, or even that you want to add artwork.
For a long time, I actually did this field by field, track by track for a whole album. Oh, foolish me, as this can easily be addressed in one fell swoop. To select multiple tracks (in this case the entire Metaphysical Graffiti album by the Dead Milkmen), you simply click the first track of the album in your iTunes library, hold the shift key on your keyboard, then click the last track.
YouTube to mp3 Converter. How to Rip to, Play and Split One-Album FLAC Files? Flac is the most well known lossless audio codec among audiophile communities. It allows you to archive CDs without any loss of quality. It is possible to rip CDs in one file per CD, instead of one track per song.
Along with the one-album flac file, we will have a cue file containing the markers and tracklist. To rip a CD we're going to use the excellent fre:ac (formerly known as BonkEnc). Click here to download. Go to Options > General Settings, choose "Flac audio encoder v1.2.1". Choose your output directory. You are now ready to rip your CD: click the "Add audio CD" icon, fill in the information, then click the "Start the encoding process" button. To play a one-album flac file, I recommend you use Foobar, an awesome audio player. To split one-album flac files into the actual songs, use Medieval, an excellent cue splitter. Codec Central Windows Media Audio.
LAME. LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the Hydrogenaudio recommended MP3 encoder. It has been developed by the open-source community since 1998, and has become the highest quality MP3 encoder for most purposes. Some benefits of using LAME: Highly optimised presets Fast encoding CBR, ABR and quality-optimized VBR encoding methods Gapless playback with LAME-header compliant decoders Supported by recommended CD rippers Exact Audio Copy and CDex Highly tunable History[edit] LAME development began around mid-1998. Mike Cheng started it as a patch against the 8hz-MP3 encoder sources. After some quality concerns raised by others, he decided to start from scratch based on the dist10 sources.[1] That branch (a patch against the reference sources) became LAME 2.0.
The project quickly became a team effort. LAME source code is maintained in a CVS repository, and the only official codebase for public use is the trunk code tagged "MAIN". Recommended encoder compiles and source code[edit] Example: -V 2. How to play FLAC files. This article shows how you can play Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files that you may have obtained on the Internet. It covers the easiest methods to just download software that supports FLAC playing, to making your current software, like Windows Media Player, support FLAC playing. Keep reading for more information on FLAC or jump right to playback instructions: If you didn't jump right to a method, then good for you!
You have taken an interest in what exactly FLAC audio is and in a couple of minutes you will know precisely what it is, how it differs from MP3 and why it is one of the best audio formats available. What is FLAC? FLAC is a lossless compression format for audio. In other words, FLAC compresses audio, but not in the same way as MP3s because none of the original audio is removed. FLAC is free and open source, and it's royalty free nature means that it enjoys wide support in software across all operating systems. Lossy vs. You can get VLC for Windows from this URL. Finally. Convert audio and video to MP3. EAC Guides. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is simply the best CD ripper for archiving your CDs while using as little storage space as possible.
There are plenty of other ripping tools that are easier to use, indeed, but no other software (so far) allows you to make perfect rips, compress the files to FLAC, and keep the CD structure so that you can re-create a perfect copy of the CD. However, if you are using Mac OS X, you may want to take a look at X Lossless Decoder(XLD). The EAC guides are about making such perfect rips; alternative ways of ripping CDs with EAC are not covered in the guides.
The guides may seem to contain a lot of "superfluous" information... If you just want to get EAC set up right, you can breeze through the guides: Follow the bulleted instructions. The extra information is there for you if you want to understand what you are doing and why you are doing it, and also for trouble-shooting purposes if things do not go as expected. There are five guides in all. Foobar2000. XLD. From Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase link title X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a secure CD ripper and a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play most lossless and lossy audio files. The supported audio files can be encoded/decoded and split into tracks with cue sheet. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs. [edit] Features XLD supports the following formats: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg) Monkey's Audio (.ape) Wavpack (.wv) TTA (.tta) Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later] AIFF, WAV, etc LAME MP3, QuickTime AAC, HE-AAC, and Opus.
Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. Currently you can choose output format from WAVE,AIFF and Raw PCM. XLD version 20080812 and later can be used as a CD ripper. [edit] Correction mechanism XLD (X Lossless Decoder) uses the cdparanoia 10.2 libaries ripping and error correcting. [edit] Known Bugs libparanoia libsndfile libflac libwavpack libape libcddb [edit] Plug-ins. Adobe audition mac. Bobby Owsinski's Big Picture Production Blog. Wickiemedia's Channel. Welcome to WickieMedia's audio engineering and production tutorials.Here you'll find in-depth information about sound-design and processing of sound. In the first season we see Dynamic processors like compressors, gates, de-essers, maximizers. In the second season: Spectral processing, we are looking at frequencies and how to manipulate the frequency content of our audio signal with the use of filters and equalizers.
Currently running season 3. Where we will take a look at mixing, mixing theory, mixing consoles, signalflow.. Fuck yeah studio porn. By Michael Fremer -- Music * Reviews * Audio * Sound * Vinyl... Stereophile's May issue includes my first of a two part review of VPI's Classic Direct Drive turntable. Does the new 3D printed tone arm sound different than the company’s standard metal one? Does it sound better, or not as good? I give my opinion in the review. You make the call here. Here are two 96/24 files. Are they both the same file? If the files are different, one file features the Lyra Atlas installed in the standard VPI JMW arm mounted on VPI's new Classic Direct Drive turntable. The other file features the Lyra Atlas installed on the new 3D printed tone arm on the same turntable. The phono preamp is the Ypsilon VPS100. Please vote and leave a comment explaining your vote. File "A" File "B" StyloBuzz - Synthesizer. GoRankem Upgrades Crowdsourced "Cheat Sheat For Music Discovery"
StereoStone High Quality Outdoor Rock Speakers. Norbert Nissel (RenoAudio) The Intelligent Music Application Platform. VIRTUAL DJ SOFTWARE - VDJPedia - Index. The Ultimate Guide to Remixing: 19 Track-by-Track Tips from Disco Pusher. MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Disco Pusher released our new mixtape Now You Know How The Story Ends. It’s a 19-track selection of our remixes, productions and songs that features artists that we’ve worked with and, hopefully, demonstrates our musical style. The artists range from the international to local, pop stars to street kids, the past and the present.
As the producer, remixer and engineer of the mixtape, I’d like to share a few thoughts and tips about each track, and you can listen along to them all as we move along. Each song was worked over in our midtown NYC studio, Min Max. TIP 01: ISOLATE & LOCK IN ON THE VOCAL RHYTHM Track 01 THEOPHILUS LONDON: “STOP IT” (DISCO PUSHER REMIX) Original version appears on Timez Are Weird These Days (Warner Bros.)
THEOPHILUS LONDON – Stop It (Disco Pusher Remix) full by DiscoPusher JT’s original (produced by Timbaland) was both popular and potent. Again, I was dealing with a brilliant original version of the song. 1. Www.samsontech.com/site_media/legacy_docs/H4n-manual.pdf. 5 Ways to Promote Your DJ Mix on SoundCloud. SoundCloud has been a game changer, not least for the number of CDs that haven\’t been burned & binned since it came along. Just last week our making a mixtape series got loads of feedback proving how popular mixtapes are with DJs wanting to promote themselves.
Of course, they’re not mixtapes or even CDs a lot of the time nowadays, and it was obvious from your comments that your favourite place for posting digital mixes is SoundCloud. But after spending so much time getting your mix just-so, the last thing you want is to post it online for it to sit there, unlistened to and unloved, for eternity. So how do you make sure it gets the attention you know it deserves?
Time to get your promoter’s hat on. What is SoundCloud? So assuming you’re up for some SoundCloud mixtape promotion: how do you get it right? 1. SoundCloud is not just a place to post your mix and let people listen to and download it. 2. You spent a lot of time on your mix, right? 3. SoundCloud is social. And tag away! 4. 5. Tape Op Magazine. Knowledgebase:Main Page. Using Audacity/Moving tracks. From WikiEducator When creating a podcast that has uses multiple audio clips you will often be trying to get one clip to start after another one has finished.
All separate tracks in Audacity sit on a timeline and can be shifted left or right along this timeline. Use the Timeshift tool to move tracks along the timeline. After selecting the Timeshift tool, select a track by clicking on the waveform and dragging it left or right to move it earlier or later in the timeline. An example of a podcast project in Audacity with multiple tracks open.
Notice how some tracks start at different times in the timeline. Track control panel In the image above you can see that a podcast may involve many tracks being worked at at the same time. Tape Op Magazine > Reviews. 4165-insiders-look-grateful-deads-wall-sound. Music Hack Day. Port Forwarding Guides for Utorrent. How to open / forward ports for uTorrent / Azureus.
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