u/Bloxskit

Hi, I've finally run my Alesis Nitro mesh kit into the ground after 6+ years of battering. Looking to upgrade. Sticking with e-kits as I live in a house so acoustic kits are a no go.

<£1000 is what I am looking for. Second hand I am totally fine with.

I don't really care about the in-built sounds any of these kits have, as I use SSD5 as a plugin into Logic Pro for my drum sounds. Ideally a kit with more zones on the pads (e.g. dual ride) for greater articulation than the Alesis Nitro had, whatever possible.

My Alesis Nitro had the expansion pack installed with an extra cymbal and tom which I would like to try and replicate that setup, as I like having two crash cymbals and I used the dual-zone extension pad as a Splash/China.

Any other information you need please ask!!

Thank you :)

I have a small-ish collection—maybe 100 LPs. But some are really nice editions, thick vinyl, remastered, some have hardly been played, they’re well cared for. My turntable is a modest Rega P3 from about 25 years ago, nothing fancy but I like it. I used to really enjoy listening to vinyl, and the ritual — record washer, brushes, shopping for those used gems.

But it’s been ages since I played a record and honestly it’s just sheer laziness. Any advice?

Looking for a new platform to distribute my music, which never makes any royalties - I just do it for a hobby. I'm looking for distributors that keep my music up even If I stop paying them a fee, I know they will take a cut if I do this but like I said I make next-to-nothing on my songs. I'm intrigued by Too Lost and iMusician. Is there are benefits to sway to one or the other? I would just be paying the cheapest annual plan for these services.

I'm aware RN offers hi-res for a small amount of people in a certain program, but I'm considering changing distribution services as I have a finished album ready to upload to streaming services in 24-bit 48kHz, yet RN does not offer anything higher than CD quality for its free users. Is there any update on allow Hi-Res files soon, or will I have to look at alternative distribution services for my needs?

I've switched to CDBurnerXP as I found it more reliable at burning my CD-Rs but there seems to be a harsh limit on the amount of characters you can put as the CD Title and individual tracks.

Compared to other software I've used previously, they allowed for much longer strings of text and after burning the CDs, this text shows up in all its long glory with no issues, so I find it a bit disappointing that CDBurnerXP has a limit? Any reason for this?

On my previous windows machine I enjoyed using the TT dynamic range meter and the foobar2000 component for measuring DR values of my files, but on Mac I can't find anything online that does this job of measuring (preferably) an entire file to give out a number.

I really don't fancy paying a fee for the MAAT stuff.

Hi, I am creating separate masters for a CD bounce I am doing of an album and stuck deciding between which POW dithering option. I've read the manual and looked online and it mentions 1 being for compressed pop/rock, 2 for vocal and 3 for classical. The music I've created is very alternative and while I have run it through Logic's mastering assistant I've knocked the loudness knob back by 0.20. I'm not sure which dither option is best to go for here, since it is not uber-compressed but its not classical or anything.

By the way, all of the tracks are mainly instrumental, in case that helps.