Wow! this is amazing! I just installed a brand new 2gb stick of RAM into my computer today. It made my mixes sound so much warmer and thicker. It's put a beautiful sheen to all of my music. Has anybody else tried this? I highly recommend it. I might experiment with different brands of RAM to see if there are some others that might sparkle up the high end. lou.

What still amazes me after all these years is how a freshly cleaned set of ears does improve my sound. Every time. Shogger

I have a new CPU and my guitar playing has speeded up. sorry ...

OK, OK, OK, have some fun, it's on me, I'm an old guy I can take it. Now can any of you folks tell me why a Phase Linear power amp circa 1972 sounded WAY worse that a Crown DC 300 of that same era, even though the distortion spec for the Crown was much worse (by the way I do know the answer if you're interested)

Probably because the Phase Linear caught fire and burned down the studio...there was a reason they were called "Flame Linear"... :D I still have an old Crown D 150A that works beautifully except for a slightly scratchy gain pot on one channel. Scott

SSTillwell Man that is funny,we used to have aa phase linear amp that drove 4 Altec Lansing voice of the theatre cabinets with 4 huge ten cell horns on top backc in the early 70's. Last thursday night we(,(the OLD members of that band), were all sitting around listening to some old cassette tapes that we converted to digtal and loaded up into REaper. Songs like "One of these Nights","Play that Funky music" "Easy", "Sure Feels Good" "Listen to the music" "Get Down tonight" When we got to talking about that old amp. THat son of B_tch was a man,It took 2 people to toat that thing,,,and when it cranked up ,it sounded like a jet engine starting up. One night we were playing at a club and one of the speaker wires came lose from the horn and was hanging down and shooting an arc of fire across to the horn. You couldn't keep drivers in those horns cause it was so powerful it would blow them out. We finally had to put big old resistors across the speaker terminals to stop it. LOL That thing was incredible and would literally burn the place down. They just don't make'em like that any more.

guys and girls... i've made a new discovery! i've found out this time that REAPER sounds slightly more shimmery in the highend while runnong on a 1ghz piece of toast. wholemeal is preferable.

I used the same Altec in one of my early bands, bears to tote around! I remember moving up to a Peavey System with 15" folded horns, a 12" Black Widow Mid, and a HUGE black horn the made the multi cell Altecs look like a toy! And those CS800 Peavey amps....I still run into the bass player from that band every now and then, and he is STILL using one for his bass rig.....amazing....

Heres waht they looked like except the horns were in cabinets.

Yup, and see my other post about what those reactive kicks did to the poorly designed negative feedback loop on the Phase Linear. And as you say, back then almost everything was using passive crossovers.