Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread John Covici
I use a humbucker by evtech if I remember correctly, much heavier but works well. On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:12:47 -0400, Tom wrote: > > Most likely you'll need a ground loop isolation > transformer. Radio Shack made a stereo one for around > fifteen dollars but don't think Radio Shack is in >

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Tom
Most likely you'll need a ground loop isolation transformer. Radio Shack made a stereo one for around fifteen dollars but don't think Radio Shack is in business any longer. Tom ** Your Message ** >I have a turntable and a preamp which I need to use to get vinyl into a PC and I'm getting

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Usually 60HZ hum is introduced by poor earthing, I’d check that first if you haven’t already. > On 23 Sep. 2016, at 8:01 am, Gary Petraccaro wrote: > > The talk about preamps reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I > have a turntable and a preamp which I

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Gary Petraccaro
The talk about preamps reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I have a turntable and a preamp which I need to use to get vinyl into a PC and I'm getting 60-cycle hum. The preamp was an old Radioshack model. I can use a filter to kill the hum, but 1. is that a reasonable thing to

RE: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah so I forgot this the P2 does have blue tooth. So you can play from blue tooth stuff on it. That's why I thought of it for a few seconds. Oh I said, I could use my Bose sound link mini with this. But when it was compaired to the LS7 I gave it up and got the 14. Though my heart really wanted

RE: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Hamit Campos
Yes I too have a 14. It's pretty good. As for the P 2 well it's little. It's a pocket thing like a DM or the LS 7 was. So it's not gonna have the big fat studio sound. I wanted the 100 and do wana work towards getting 1 some day but for now it's too much for the money I have. But I would have

RE: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Hamit Campos
Maybe not on a technical aspect, but you could give us your twist on it. What you make of the H6. It sounds cool to me but still too hissy. I wander about Zoom's new F8 $800 recorder. That one's epic. You can hook 8 mikes in it but again I think hard on it cause Zoom always hisses like tape. So

RE: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Hamit Campos
Yes you should listen to them first. I've heard the Marantz PMD671 which doesn't ixist no more apparently but I liked it kinda. I will note this and this is also a problem with Zoom for me too. It was too hissy. I don't want nor like hiss. It's to reminiscent of Casset tapes. That's why I kinda

Re: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
I’ve not been able to see a Marantz recorder as yet so can’t comment but as I said earlier, there are now more portable recorders than you can poke a stick at and I’m most interested - not only in the Marantz - but the offerings from Taskam, hard to imagine a Taskam Porter Studio for $400 now,

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yeah I could look around for one of those but I believe I’ve found what I’m looking for, going to take me a little while to get it but I think one of the Marantz models I saw might do the trick and I’m also going to take a look at the Project model mentioned on list by another member. I’ve had

Re: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! How are the marantz recorders in an accessible point of view? Are they smaller than the zoom h6 which imho is to big. I want a smaller field recorder but maybe this will reduce the quality of the recording. /A > 22 sep. 2016 kl. 05:45 skrev Dane Trethowan : > >

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! You don’t seem to be out of money so you could also check the Rega Planar something out. I read a test on it in june and if i could i would afford it. /A > 22 sep. 2016 kl. 02:26 skrev Dane Trethowan : > > Thanks for this, my Aiwa is getting a little old now and I

Re: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
Well I don’t need the preamp box but I take your point in any case, the Rotel amp I’m using has a very nice font amp as part of it. A lot to be said for using Fono amps, there are many and some have adjustments which can change the sound characteristics of your turntable. I like my Aiwa as it

RE: Putting Vinyl Studio Pro Through Its Paces

2016-09-22 Thread André van Deventer
That is what I like about my Rega - the thing is probably close to 20 years old but still functions as new. Incredibly solidly constructed with no unnecessarily bells and whistles. Andr é -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Byron

Re: The state of Olympus recorders these days

2016-09-22 Thread Dane Trethowan
You’re right there, I think the one I just don’t like at all is the DM7, its a beast to get around at times and feels so cheaply made and yet it does have some very practical features if you dig hard enough to find them. > On 22 Sep. 2016, at 1:48 pm, Robin Frost wrote: >