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[GamerDude]

Not sure if I'd posted this, a Realme rechargeable w/l toothbrush, works quite well actually, battery's supposed to lst 90 days...

 

An assortment  of Flip 3 cases for my yet to arrive Z Flip 3

 

A replacement battery for my Mi Pad 4, a rechargeable air duster (impossible to find canned air duster) and a Spigen Tough Armor case for the Bud2 I'd also ordered with the Flip 3.

 

 

[s_k]

17 hours ago, sub68 said:

yeah thats what I thought

uhh

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234135069395?hash=item368389a2d3:g:m4cAAOSwSwthFTPz

Ohh native instruments they make good stuff.

I would get the 2 XLR/1/4 model as those are good.

Also I would try (for myself) get a iconnectivity model...

I honestly don't even know what an iconnectivity model is. I personally only use it for digitizing 2-track audio from tapes and records, that's what my studio is all about. Digtizing and restoring. 
As for the Macbook; I just can't make myself spend 500 bucks on a 7 year old computer, it just makes no sense to me. Especially with how good the M1's are, I'd try to save up a little longer. 500 bucks buys you a way more capable, new windows machine (desktop, that is)... 

 

  

8 hours ago, GamerDude said:

 

 

How powerful is this? I would love a proper 'compressor' but they are a bit too large for practicality, but it'd be so nice to have one to clean old audio equipment out. 

[sub68]

6 minutes ago, s_k said:

As for the Macbook; I just can't make myself spend 500 bucks on a 7 year old computer, it just makes no sense to me. Especially with how good the M1's are, I'd try to save up a little longer. 500 bucks buys you a way more capable, new windows machine (desktop, that is)... 

Well, I like the older models as.

1. This will be only used for music production.
2. Has all the ports I want.

I don't care about performance as older models are plenty for most audio stuff I do.

 

Most of my audio programs are better on Mac os and I don't want to run a hacentosh

[s_k]

3 minutes ago, sub68 said:

Well, I like the older models as.

1. This will be only used for music production.
2. Has all the ports I want.

I don't care about performance as older models are plenty for most audio stuff I do.

 

Most of my audio programs are better on Mac os and I don't want to run a hacentosh

Should work indeed. I do 24 bit 192khz so I don't even want to know what would happen in multi track recordings at that resolution.
If you 're stuck with certain software (because of maybe the rest of the band wanting you to) there's a good reason to go for mac. Otherwise... Well don't forget Reaper exists :D. 

As for the ports; yeah, that dongle live. My audio rig is hooked up tot he mac mini which has two USB A and two USB C ports. Soundcard is hooked up directly to the mini, there's a usb hub in both of the USB ports, one powered. It works, but it's a bit sad :D. 

[sub68]

10 minutes ago, s_k said:

If you 're stuck with certain software (because of maybe the rest of the band wanting you to) there's a good reason to go for mac.

Mostly because I am used to protools.

I am thinking of having a fl studio and of course reaper.

12 minutes ago, s_k said:

 

As for the ports; yeah, that dongle live. My audio rig is hooked up tot he mac mini which has two USB A and two USB C ports. Soundcard is hooked up directly to the mini, there's a usb hub in both of the USB ports, one powered. It works, but it's a bit sad :D. 

Another reason why is I want a laptop for a portable so I can record in my clients house or do dj setups.

[s_k]

Makes sense. If you DJ from the laptop, that is.
For what I do Audition is great but that just absolutely sucks for multi track. I mostly use it as a wave editor. In all honesty the only reason I use the multitrack section of the software is to make mixtapes :D. 

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, s_k said:

I would love a proper 'compressor' but they are a bit too large for practicality, but it'd be so nice to have one to clean old audio equipment out. 

Check out California Air Tools if you're in the USA, they have some compact and truly very very quiet air compressors.

[Bitter]

Smartphone Microphone,Comica... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KZSTSWX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I'm sure its not a great mic but it's much greater than the mic built into my phone.

[Haraikomono]

Got myself a mini fridge for my Room

[Kilrah]

A pair of BT audio transceivers

 

[zenith_lal]

Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3i 14 inch with i3 11th gen 1115G4 with 8gb RAM and 512 GB SSD

[GamerDude]

On 9/15/2021 at 11:49 PM, s_k said:

How powerful is this? I would love a proper 'compressor' but they are a bit too large for practicality, but it'd be so nice to have one to clean old audio equipment out. 

Oops, sorry, just saw your post....it isn't as powerful as a blast from a canned air duster. Think of it as a smaller hair dryer (no heating of course) that channels air through its attached funnel (the funnel is detachable, there's another attachment with a brush).

 

I'd placed the tip of the funnel an inch or so away from my palm, and noted that when switched on, the funneled air does make a round 'indentation' on my palm, so I guess the air pressure is good enough to blow away dust and whatnot when doing maintenance cleaning on my rig. Hope this helps...

 

Oh yeah, seems like Christmas has come way earlier this year, the Flip 3 I'd ordered will be arriving later today (it's morning now, here in my neck of the woods), will post a couple of pics when I get my grubby mitts on it.

[GamerDude]

Christmas did come early for me this year! I'm using an Araree Nukin 360 transparent case on the Flip 3...and a Spigen Tough Armor for the Buds 2 charging dock.

[da na]

Tiny gpu in massive box

That is literally how it was packed. No idea how it didn’t explode in shipping.

[da na]

15 minutes ago, James Evens said:

@Mel0nMan That's not how you pack it. 

The red stuff doesn't protect against ESD.

Yep.

This is a card I bought that I was pretty disappointed in how it was shipped.

[sub68]

Two packs of pens and battlefront.

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Tiny gpu in massive box

 

That is literally how it was packed. No idea how it didn’t explode in shipping.

Could be worse, one of my friends had a GTX 480 shipped to him in a shipping envelope. There were a handful of loose caps just hangin' out in the thing and yet it still worked for a good few years afterwards.

[da na]

6 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Could be worse, one of my friends had a GTX 480 shipped to him in a shipping envelope. There were a handful of loose caps just hangin' out in the thing and yet it still worked for a good few years afterwards.

I've had HDDs shipped in envelopes... not padded. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

£12 mic, with favourable reviews  

(and yes, it was sold for £30 for like a year but guess overstocked or smth?) 

 

Time to find out if it can beat my Senn game one's mic. 

[Bitter]

On 9/17/2021 at 12:02 PM, Mel0nMan said:

Tiny gpu in massive box

That is literally how it was packed. No idea how it didn’t explode in shipping.

because it's a Dell part, they're indestructible. R5 250? R5 350? HD6570? I've got a couple of those for display out when I need a display out for cheap.

[da na]

7 minutes ago, Bitter said:

because it's a Dell part, they're indestructible. R5 250? R5 350? HD6570? I've got a couple of those for display out when I need a display out for cheap.

HD 8570.

It's actually broken - didn't work in an Optiplex 760, 7010, or HP ProDesk 600 g1 SFF.

The company is sending a replacement. 

[Bitter]

My old garbage disposal broke a while back and I finally got around to getting a new one. I hate plumbing so here's to hoping this goes easily!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DLKDPZ2/

It's 1/2hp 2600RPM vs my old one which is 1/3hp and 2300* RPM. I don't know what their * next to the RPM means, but it probably means that there's some BS about that speed rating. I'll have to call up GN Steve to do a thorough investigation and testing of this model and get to the bottom of that * and it's meaning.

[Bitter]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

HD 8570.

It's actually broken - didn't work in an Optiplex 760, 7010, or HP ProDesk 600 g1 SFF.

The company is sending a replacement. 

Bummer! Glad you're getting a working one. Decent card for like $15-20 shipped, I believe the same hardware as a later model card and it may ID as that with newer drivers. I thought R7 250 but that's not it, R5 240 and a R7 340 I think are all the same card but just 'upbranded'. AMD's older low end stuff has a lot of that, same hardware new name so it sounds better.

[s_k]

 

On 9/17/2021 at 4:36 AM, GamerDude said:

Oops, sorry, just saw your post....it isn't as powerful as a blast from a canned air duster. Think of it as a smaller hair dryer (no heating of course) that channels air through its attached funnel (the funnel is detachable, there's another attachment with a brush).

 

I'd placed the tip of the funnel an inch or so away from my palm, and noted that when switched on, the funneled air does make a round 'indentation' on my palm, so I guess the air pressure is good enough to blow away dust and whatnot when doing maintenance cleaning on my rig. Hope this helps...

Went down a massive air duster rabbit hole after this. Will definitely be buying one. Thanks for reminding me :D. 
This one sounds pretty nice from what I've been able to find: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005002945099482.html

 

On 9/15/2021 at 7:58 PM, Bitter said:

Check out California Air Tools if you're in the USA, they have some compact and truly very very quiet air compressors.

Netherlands

 

[dizmo]

Bought my first wireless earbuds! They're supposed to have pretty good bass, but only time will tell if I decide to stick with them or grab a pair of DUNUs (which I'll probably do anyway...).

 

I wish I had built up an extensive Spotify library earlier.