First time poster, so I would like to firstly say thank you all for your continued sharing of knowledge in this forum - it has been a huge help to me! I purchased a T560 last year and have been slowly getting to grips with the machine, with the lockdown proving to be the perfect time to hunker down in the basement. So far I'm getting some really nice cuts, and also some pretty bad cuts!
Currently I am working towards removing some of the gear that comes with the T560, including the mixer, the main unit and the optimiser. I plan on adding a second PSU to the main unit for the motor, and replacing the mixer with a Mackie Big Knob. I'm absolutely no expert, but I'm sure that having the signal path run through these is deteriorating the quality somewhat.
I wanted to share an Ableton rack I made that more or less matches the Vinyl Optimiser that comes with the T560 - it uses only native Ableton plugins (v. 10.1.15) and it's very simple, but hopefully someone will find some use for it / find problems with it! Feel free to download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ulqe7v-tDMc6frn2-dEfSjEdViutKZrP/view?usp=sharing
I'm also aiming to add in an IRIAA pre emphasis at the end of this chain in the future in order to bypass the Main Unit, but am still working on getting it to sound right. Early experiments with a standard IRIAA proved pretty disastrous (nearly killed a stylus) but I'm getting there! Seems to be just frequencies above 1K or so that need treating, with the low end mostly staying flat or even needing a bit of a boost. There seems to be some info floating around on the forum about this - still working on it!
Stay safe out there
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(Edit: apologies if this should have been in the Newbie forum!)