Winter Games time....! And jeezuz, I remember that TV add. Crazy!
Listen here you whiny fucker (jk!) after doing this for 35 years, I stand by my original comment. Full for the most part it's people teaching you...
YouTube... full of people to teach you how to suck at audio engineering! (literally fact, for the most part). Steve Albini's channel was (is)...
This post is the epitome of both self-importance and naivety. Pretty hard combo to achieve but it seems you've done it. Bravo.
As someone who has used a real Ampex ATR 102 extensively, as well as used, and sampled stuff for Nebula I can tell you the UA version is way more...
Once you get it, which you will, tune your headphones with EQ to how you like listening to music, which should be, once you understand, the same...
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