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going to band practice. then I'm helping out with an Austin Symphony Orchestra recording.

Holy plucking shit. I wasn't ready for how awesome that episode is.

"I've got a big red one!"

move the mic back and get some of the room too? If it sounds fat live, and lame close-miked, then this may help.

joelpatterson wrote:And the next question is, why would you want something to sound "real"?

yeah, exactly. Classical music is the only type of music where the recordings are supposed to sound real. Are we here to rock out or what?

The re-amp thing, when done correctly, also works well to put some glue in the samples, which tend to sound isolated no matter how good the sampling. If you sample single hits on a drumkit with a generous amount of room ambience mixed in, and crop the samples carefully, they will sit together nicel...

ScienceOne: consider chopped polyurethane foam for carpet padding... it looks psychedelic and it's only $3 per square yard at Home Despot. I just bought a 6x5 foot piece of "8 lb" carpet padding for an experiment. It's made of mostly smurf blue chunks mixed with dark blue, red, yellow, white, and si...

The gain knob on some preamps is just an attenuator. The preamplifier has fixed gain, say 50 dB, and the knob 'crossfades' its output with zero volts. I'm not sure which preamps in particular do this, but it is common enough. with this design, the input signal level matters more than where the knob ...

why not ask the soundman to handle the compression?

The power supply needs to be 24VAC @ 800 Hz? What's up with that?

wow. guitar bot 'extends the capabilities of human players'. like, how?

If W has a boner for it, it's probably a bad idea.

Phil Owl wrote:Here's one of my other evil creations, for aspiring fusion-shredders:

it needs another knob that goes from "dirty" to "kleenex"

I could make the electric cowbell and shaker egg pretty easily. What's a hambone? I thought it was when you slap your thighs rythmically-- as in, "I gave your mom the hambone last night". Correction-- I gave your mom the electric hambone last night. total coincidence! I must have been giving your m...

I had my 163x for over a year before I plugged a bass guitar into the jack on the front ... what was I waiting for??

Milkmansound wrote:beats the hell out of CV...

wow. I wish I could take a class on CV.