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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT -- but worth reading: Walter Sear dies

2010-05-07 by gino wong

After a fashion, yes John. The idea is the shortest simplest signal path to achieve your task. To me, it is more of an approach than an orthodoxy. I will put a mic to a machine with a good short quad cable. Add a preamp if needed, eq if needed etc...

At a more complex level. I will use an 8 bus mixer to do routing and sending, hardwiring where possible (sidechains) and you only use a few feet of wire, ground loops and hums are easy to isolate, no difference in potential. I can even use a portable Faraday cage on a small critical set up.

I took roughly five miles or wire out of my patch bays and interconnects, that is a lot to go wrong.

gino


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM, john barrick <astroboy@cinci.rr.com> wrote:
What do you do? Wire directly from machine to machine?


gino wong wrote:
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> He was a great influence on me. He got to me to take the patch bays
> out of my studio. He told me it was three miles of wire that I didn't
> need. My noise problems immediately went away
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> gino
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