Evening all.... [Archive] - The Art of Sound Forum

Ant

14-10-2011, 22:20

Evening all,

I've been following the highly informative Beresford mod threads here on AOS for quite a while now so I thought I'd join and share my tuppence (TBC).....

First up, a little introduction:

My name is Ant (Anthony) and I'm located 20 minutes South of the Humber Bridge in North Lincs. I've been playing with Hi-Fi since I was 6 years old and now 26 years later, I still can't resist having a fiddle with the workings. My main system parted company to fund a render farm so now my humble office system is my plaything, comprising of a mildly fettled Marantz CD6003 - Marantz PM7003 - B&W 685's... Oh, and a heavily re-worked Beresford TC-7520.

My taste in music is varied - I pretty much like anything and everything - My only dislikes are two genres.... Classical and depressing/Coldplay (Chris Martin voice = nails/blackboard), I'm partial to a bit of electronica/club whilst enjoying a few or more cold 1664's.

Well - That's me,
Ant

John

14-10-2011, 22:27

Hi Ant
A warm welcome to AOS

Beechwoods

15-10-2011, 07:46

Welcome to AoS Ant! I must admit that I am very much in your camp when it comes to Coldplay. I don't know what it is but they make me want to kind the top storey of the nearest car park, which can't be good!

The Pet Shop Boys version of Viva La Vida is excellent though!

Have a good time here and get stuck in...

aquapiranha

15-10-2011, 13:28

Hi Ant, glad you made it. ;)

Nice avatar, did you draw that yourself? looks cool.

Steve

Alex_UK

15-10-2011, 13:36

Hi Ant - I agree 100% on Coldplay! Agggghhhh! Hope you enjoy the forum. :)

DavefromDorset

15-10-2011, 15:46

You're spot on with Coldplay, but their main crime against art is that so many bands want to copy them, so we have hundreds (well, dozens) of one-chord wailers.

Glad that's off me chest.

Dave

DavefromDorset

15-10-2011, 15:47

PS welcome to the forum from another new starter.

Dave

hifi_dave

15-10-2011, 18:38

Hi Anthony and welcome.

What is a 'render farm'.

Must agree about Coldplay -absolutely awful apart from their first single, which I quite liked. Their latest offering is dire and has me reaching for the off button whenever it comes on the radio..:vomfest:

Ant

15-10-2011, 19:07

Many thanks for the warm welcomes guys!

aquapiranha - Thank you for your help.

hifi_dave - A render farm is a cluster of computers built specifically to render computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Here's an example: (mine is far far less impressive)

http://www.chaosmint.com/mac/techclusterphotos/rack2.jpg

Cheers,
Ant

Reid Malenfant

15-10-2011, 19:16

Hi Anthony, that looks like a rather lot of HDDs :eek: Welcome to the forum fome me also & i hope you enjoy your stay here :)

The Black Adder

16-10-2011, 20:07

Used lots of render farms before now including Sun... Todays are a fraction of the foot print as they used to be. Back in the 90's they were far too big, slow and far to expensive for the likes of most us artist budgets. 3DS Max integrated farm management but that wasn't up to the job.

oh.. sorry.. Welcome matey! :)

Ant

16-10-2011, 20:55

The Black Adder - Thanks for the welcome.

I use Backburner, it's quite reliable for the most.

Cheers,
Ant

MartinT

17-10-2011, 06:16

Hi Ant and welcome to AoS. There are lots of us Beresford DAC modders here so dive in and enjoy.

Oh, and I like Coldplay!

Ant

17-10-2011, 13:02

Thanks guys,

My "Ants Beresford TC-7520 mods & guide" is now finalised and running HERE (http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13737)

Cheers,
Ant