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We got a touch of late season snow up here in Or too. Scary to see how close those are to your pad!

The nearfield monitors are getting pretty good reviews. I was a big fan of AMT Heil speakers so I'd be interested to hear them.

Stuck at home for some reason? Google's Arts and Culture site has you covered. Street View tours of great museums is a little clunky but being able to check out exhibitions that are long gone is a gift. https://artsandculture.google.com/

Bob looks and sound exactly like he did when I visited his studio a decade ago in San Rafael. Great to hear Don Was too. I see him around the Monterey Jazz Festival all the time (he's the head of Blue Note Records). Gotta admit getting goosebumps with Ripple!

Beautiful! There's a lot of (not quite that impressive) audio cafe videos on YT. This one reminds me a little of Richard Burwen's home system that was made famous in Audio mag. http://scrounge.org/speak/burwen/

Happy Birthday Bonnie

RIP McCoy!

Huge congrats Mikey! It's great to see you guys taking the leap and taking some chances to pursue your passions! I'm a big fan of the "be bold" school of thought. Keep us in advised,..

Happy Birthday Nate!

Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but I'd never even heard of these cute little fellers until today. https://www.britannica.com/animal/tarsier

Metric Halo is a small company (mostly family run) so they have a lot of personal pride in what they do. If they say that 3D supports Linux, I'm sure they'll get it working. They do rely on feedback from end users and the number folks running Linux are probably very few. So, don't be shy and expect someone else to have already called attention to this problem. If you have a spare afternoon, there's a "Stax Thread" sized thread regarding 3D on GearSlutz. Mostly studio centric talk, but GearSlutz has a decent "search this thread" feature to cut down on the noise. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/1219789-metric-halo-3d-here.html

I can't recall a way to change the bit rate. I'd go ahead and submit a ticket to MH. It is still a beta release so it maybe something that needs to be addressed on the next public beta.

Also, the number of channels is maxed at 12. Try decreasing it to 4 in 4 out. (right click the interface icon in the inspector).

One thing that you might try first is simplifying your usb connection. It seems like the more stuff a cable/adapter tries to do, the more issues it can have ( I went through some Thunderbolt cable nightmares myself).

If you aren't getting the clicks with MHLink (ethernet) than it isn't the power supply. If you ever want to open it, there are screws beneath the rubber feet (on mine there are 2). Then pry it open on the iec end. You should submit a ticket on Metric Halo's support page (in the Help menu).

If you look at the mixer>inspector, there should be a couple of little clock faces. One is just below the MHLink Domain ... (your box and the sample rate you've set). It should say Internal unless you've set up something else intentionally. If the clock isn't connected, the clock icon should be yellow since something ain't right. Otherwise,.. Are you getting a regular clicking or is it randomish? Were you getting it with the ethernet connection? Can you "see" the click on the front panel level meter? Does it seem to be getting worse? The reason I ask this is some of the power bricks have long term issues with bad caps. The bad supplies were made by Fairway (I have one). Luckily, most can be fixed by replacing a couple of cheap 470uF 35v caps. If you have one of these and it's starting to act up, you might as well pull it apart and replace those 2 caps (or buy a new one for $75 or so).

I keep forgetting to suggest Sneaky Pete from Amazon. Fantastic characters and acting. The writing and production is also top notch.

Happy Birthday!

Yup! I'm totally excited! Spent the off season watching all kinds of F1 fluff to stave off withdrawal.

I guess that I've been to enough Dead shows that a picture like that just doesn't seem that weird anymore? It does kinda creep-out the audio engineer in me though!

The guys at Metric Halo don't do very much advertising and this was their first year at NAMM in a while (they got a TEC award I think). Even in pro audio there are plenty of flavor of the month (or year) products and the interface market has been super hot for a decade or so and the magazines are packed with full page ads from different vendors. IMHO The bottom line, there is a lot of great pro gear and software out there these days and very few dogs manage to hang in there very long with such stiff competition.

Wow! That mic'ed head amp is classic (gotta admit it took me a second).

Several of us need Analog to Digital converters in addition to a high quality DAC for playback of digital sources. jp# does needle drops of vinyl and if you want to use digital signal analysis software, you need a way to convert audio and analog sources to get them into your computer. Me, I have a pretty sophisticated home studio. I started doing live music editing, a little mixing, post production and now I concentrate on music production of my own works. It's a real golden age for guys that do stuff like me . I got my first Metric Halo interface (ULN-2) way back in 2009 IIRC. I've updated it once and I still use it for location recordings. I bought Voltron's Amarra (LIO-8) a few years ago, added 4 mic preamps and then upgraded it to 3D about a year ago. Each of these upgrades were like getting a new updated interface with improved sound and more modern connections.

Happy Birthday!