clocking madness

So today I got the DIGI SYNC I/O happening at Studio G.
   I did some wiring yoga behind the racks with Francisco, and we moved the Antelope 10M and Trinity to make room for the DIGI sync.
   The SYNC is now distributing clock that starts at a rubidium core, atomic clock source, which is divide down from 10MHZ to our sample rate, and also provides a speed/cal reference for the house SMPTE generation in the SYNC. wow. yeah. anyway... so its all up and running and creating LTC for the UPTOWN  moving faders in my Neve console.
  It is really cool to finally have a solid "house sync" to keep everything syncronized and on the same clock source digitally, but also to have solid LTC/SMPTE/VTC at every device that wants it. there is even MTC available from the same device, all deriving it main speed/cal info from the atomic clock, in theory.
More tile in the chamber tomorrow, with some more plexiglass sealing up some places where we are losing reflections.  Also starting to catalog ALL the gear at studio G for a massive website overhaul that is way overdue.

Chamber rage

Printed the chamber on the Secret Chiefs 3 stuff I was tracking. It sounds bananas.
  I cant wait to be mixing some more stuff just so I can use it on EVERYTHING. ;)

   Happily looking at Ducati upgrades now. Some carbon fiber here... new racing tank, new carbon side panels, new tail chop... should be looking good soon.

The failure of technology...

"Here lies the difference between the automaton and all tools requiring continuous handling; its purpose is automatic and uninterrupted mechanical functioning. We are surrounded by an automatism toward which all branches of technology are developing. The greater part of our production tools work automatically. Our transport is automatized in the form of the ubiquitous railways, ships, motor cars, airplanes, elevators, and so on. Our light, water , and heating systems function automatically.
There are vending and food serving automatons, all of them designed for the task of repetitious performance with mechanical uniformity, just as a phonograph record repeats the same piece over and over. It is exactly this automatism that gives its peculiar stamp to our civilization and sets it apart from other eras. It is automatism by which our technology achieves its growing "perfection." Its signature is the independent and unchanging repetition of its apparatus."
-Friedrich Georg Junger
"the failure of technology (perfection without purpose)"
written in the summer of 1939.

This book has become my manifesto for all things engineering , audio, production, and art.. in the summer of 2010. 

Mixing a couple of the songs we did in Africa. Chad Clark will be mastering them at Silver Sonya mastering in DC. I am really excited to hear the end result of this. This will be for the first 2 singles from the forthcoming record, as yet untitled.... It features the whole TRIAD crew, but the primary vocal on the first single is by Nomvula Nkosi. Remember her name...

Got the mics set up in the chamber. It is really sounding incredible. More tile going in after the weekend, but really just for brightening the space to make it have a more useable S/N. its already good, but it could be a bit better I think, with more tile and slightly more shiny stuff around the room. Its a very diffuse, but dense sound right now. Quite good, very even decay. its the perfect snare and vocal chamber, so I am not going to change too much, but just enough to extend the useable decay a half a second, hopefully, so that the noise floor is well below when placing the returns in a mix however we want... it sounded awesome today on a mix tony was doing. On the snare, and the vocal...