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There was a line on the board a while back to some crazy infomercial that showed some dude going apeship playing "drums" on a little keyboard. I tried to UTFSF, but TFSF isin't turning anything up.

Joel Hamilton wrote:
Here is the same post filtered through my now rested brain:

Yes, I have noticed what you said.

Thanks.

Word.

Joel, man you are taking this to somewhere else. I'm not trying to trash anything. I just noticed the other day that one of my favorite albums had a bass tone that I just didn't like. And what I'm saying is that the surprising part is that I didn't love the album any less. Like it was a non-issue. I...

Addicted to love?

I tune out Armchair. An excercise in selective listening. Actually, I don't do anything special...I just pay attention to everything around me, especially other recordings. Critical listening, or active listening I guess. When I was considering doing live sound I was thinking about listening to sine...

The bass tone on Pinkerton. I never noticed before...and I love that album.

What else where you surprised to find out that sucked?

Wow! Lot of great ideas. I am somewhat limited in my options as the part has already been recorded through a mic'd amp, no direct signal. I can encourage the drummer to bring the drum machine in and let me take the direct signal and work from there but he's pretty convinced that nothing will sound a...

Rick Hunter wrote:

apropos of nothing wrote:And NO TOM FILLS. None. They just sound stupid on drum machines. cut-up breaks/processing fills are cool.

RIGHT ON.

Man, that should be in the "things I wish someone had told me when I started out" post. And "best of."

Zeppelin4Life wrote:one word: limiters

Oh, yeah. forgot to mention: I bussed the 3 mics to one channel, ran it through my VLA with pretty heavy compression, and then to one track in PT. I was thinking sansamp might add that extra something.

I hear stuff like that....I think the problem is really that people who don't know their ass from off-axis start spouting a bunch of BS, thinking they know something. Yay, you know what a "fade" is. Maybe he was parading his recording knowledge around? Taking it for a spin? People like that drive me...

I checked the "best of" sticky and didn't see anything...I figured this might be something people asked about. Anyway, I just recorded a few songs with Don Cab-esqe band and in one song, there's an Electribe drum machine playing through most of it. They wanted it to sound extra cool, so we tried pla...

Yep, buying a new one seems dumb. I scoured the second hand guitar shops here in SF (back in the dot com boom - when prices where unusually high) and eventually found an '89 Gibson Les Paul Custom. The Black Beauty. It was $1250. The binding on the headstock was fucked up, so I had to take it to a l...

I always used them for room mics (until the guy who loaned 'em to the studio took 'em back). Taped to the floor, pointing at the kit. Yum.

Sounds like the old Teac M3. I had the M5 and really liked it. Use it, love it. I especially like the way it FELT. So fucking heavy. The routing is a bit weird, but that makes it really flexible once you get a handle on it.

Cleaning out my closet?.please take this stuff out of my house! If you buy a couple things I?ll throw in a pedal or something. I'm in San Francisco, and since most of this stuff is so cheap it really would be silly to ship, so I'd rather deal with locals, but if you're hot to trot on an item and are...