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Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:16 am
by twelvepoint
Kniferide wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:53 am
twelvepoint wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:51 am
I've been using my RNC for watching movies where I don't want the sound effects to be 50x louder than the dialogue
TV's need inserts.
Agree. I'm doing this at my home office thru what's my home studio, when I have something playing in the background, but it would be great to patch a comp and EQ in for my regular TV so I can hear the dialogue without turning on captioning
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:32 am
by Nate Dort
My TV has some sort of limiter I can enable for exactly this. It's not transparent at all.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:53 am
by thecr4ne
A lot of TVs have an HDR audio setting that can be toggled. I work in the AV world and the "smarter" TV's get, the shittier they are to use. Just get a big monitor or projector, olde school stereo and a chromecast.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:53 am
by cakes
Does anyone have advice for purchasing mechanical licenses? I am about to release 11 songs that are covers. I was originally just going to do soundcloud and fuck it on the licensing, but it turned out to be much better than expected and I'd like to get it up on all the streaming services, which require a mechanical license.
I've come across a ton of different sites, but wondering if anyone's had experience doing this? Just looking for something that is legitimate, it's hard to tell what is and isn't. Do any digital distributors offer this? It also seems to be quite expensive for someone who isn't actually selling anything, when the price is often $12.99/year (per song?). I have come across flat rates for a chunk of downloads, which seems more appropriate for this.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2024 11:59 am
by Owen
cakes wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:53 am
Does anyone have advice for purchasing mechanical licenses? I am about to release 11 songs that are covers. I was originally just going to do soundcloud and fuck it on the licensing, but it turned out to be much better than expected and I'd like to get it up on all the streaming services, which require a mechanical license.
I've come across a ton of different sites, but wondering if anyone's had experience doing this? Just looking for something that is legitimate, it's hard to tell what is and isn't. Do any digital distributors offer this? It also seems to be quite expensive for someone who isn't actually selling anything, when the price is often $12.99/year (per song?). I have come across flat rates for a chunk of downloads, which seems more appropriate for this.
For this I'd use
https://soundrop.com/
https://soundrop.com/blog/cover-song-li ... ep-by-step
$0.99 a song no subscription fee. Puts it up on all the streamers.
Soundrop gets a 15% cut of anything sold, but if you aren't worried about that, sure beats the subscription model.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:05 am
by Dr Tony Balls
Not a question but i'm throwing it here anyway....
I was today years old when I learned that mineral spirits and odorless mineral spirits are not the same thing. Turns out that odor is key for effectively removing contact cement from a brush.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm
by Kniferide
Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 4:20 pm
by Dr Tony Balls
Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm
Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.
What kind of switch is on the monitors? Do you think it moves and physically latches like a light switch or a pickup selector? Or is it a soft-press thing like the power button on a laptop?
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 4:21 pm
by llllllllllllllllllll
Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm
Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.
This is a great question. I was wondering the same thing about the Midas console and Ferrofish/RME interface plugged in to my Black Lion conditioner in exactly the same manner
Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 4:35 pm
by Kniferide
Dr Tony Balls wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 4:20 pm
Kniferide wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:57 pm
Little quick question. My monitors are in such a way that I cannot reach the power witches and they are big fuckers that the manual says draw 50 watts while idle. They are plugged into one of those Black Lion conditioner power strips. Is it cool to just slam the power switch of the conditioner to turn them off? Seems like it it can't be that different than just hitting the mains switch on the monitor itself being that that is just a switch and fuse, just like the strips switch and fuse. PMC haven't answered me via email and I'd like to now just leave these things on all the time.
What kind of switch is on the monitors? Do you think it moves and physically latches like a light switch or a pickup selector? Or is it a soft-press thing like the power button on a laptop?
Its a standard rocker switchlike you see all the time. only thing that makes me trepidatious is it does have a bunch of fancy shit inside it.
https://www.pmc-speakers.com/studio/pmc-6-2
Like computers and shit.