Studios and Silence: SPCR at AES event in St. Louis

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Devonavar
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Studios and Silence: SPCR at AES event in St. Louis

Post by Devonavar » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:47 pm


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Post by Poodle » Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:54 pm

This is what got me into silencing pcs. As i couldn't hear what I was doing with the sounds at the time because the computer noise was all over. Something had to be done and after a while the silencing buisness took more of my time than music producing. I had done a shit load of misstakes that I learnt from before i eventually found spcr. After doing all the homework I aslo registered...

I've also built silent pcs for other music producers. Latest was 6 months ago and a really nice low power AMD690 system with modded NSK case for this guy:

http://www.myspace.com/rude66

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rude66/

He does all the summing on a proper desk tho and he doesn't bring it on live sets (which considered to be really excellent btw) :)

New higher performance quad core system soon coming up for a music engineer-friend of mine. :)

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Post by Mr Reorg » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:48 am

Congrats on the recognition and excellent practical application of silent computing.

I'm curious to know which audio interface was used the the 3.5" drive bay.

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Post by chapmani » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:08 am

Antec NSK6500 case (NSK6580 without the power supply), with mass-loaded foam applied to the door panel for increased rigidity
Just out of curiosity, what kind/brand of mass-loaded foam did you use?

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Post by Devonavar » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:50 pm

The audio interface was a Terratec 6Fire 24/96.

I *think* the foam was Acoustipack ... but I don't know for sure — we just picked a piece that was lying around in the lab.

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Post by MikeC » Sun May 04, 2008 11:45 pm

Devonavar wrote:I *think* the foam was Acoustipack ... but I don't know for sure — we just picked a piece that was lying around in the lab.
It was Acoustipack.

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Post by DrCR » Thu May 08, 2008 7:11 am

Just had to comment I really like that hair band suspension technique! :D

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