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Post by leigh » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:40 am

vvv wrote:I couldn't find a plug-in, but I did find a USB powered lava-lamp.
I dunno, it kinda looks like a plug-in... and why oh why did they put this one up on the product page?

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Post by dsw » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:57 am

^ Ew!
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Post by Brett Siler » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:00 pm

looks like something you'd plug in yr butt
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Post by leigh » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:40 pm

InvalidInk wrote:looks like something you'd plug in yr butt
And, please welcome to the stage, the master of the single-entendre, InvalidInk!
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Post by JGriffin » Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:20 pm

Leopold wrote: Also one guy looked over at me while we were listening to the playback, pointed to the tape machine and said, "What is that?"

I was showing an intern's boyfriend around the studio back in 1994. He was studying audio in college. He looked over at our 24-track machine like it was a big cowpie and said, "huh. guess one day I'll have to learn to use one of those."

But at least he knew what it was...
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Post by Brett Siler » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:01 pm

leigh wrote:
InvalidInk wrote:looks like something you'd plug in yr butt
And, please welcome to the stage, the master of the single-entendre, InvalidInk!
ha!
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Post by blackdiscoball » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:45 pm

Im 24 and regardless of whether you'll ever have a chance to use hardware units, or tape machines, etc. as an engineer you should know what those things are and a rough idea of how they work. It seems that alot of people learn just there specific gear, system, and have no clue what else is out there.
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Post by Veej007 » Tue May 05, 2009 5:25 pm

I once interned at a top-shelf kinda studio with an SSL in Studio A, and people were griping one day about a session that had just ended in which a bedroom producer type had come in and tried to do everything PTLE-style, including using a Fairchild compressor plugin via the dinky onscreen emulated knob UI when there was a real one in the rack behind him.
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Post by RIFFZILLA » Tue May 05, 2009 8:27 pm

I cant wait till they invent analog D-verb
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Post by Wainwright » Tue May 05, 2009 10:41 pm

You mean that splicing block cant auto X-fade.....
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Post by BENDYmusic » Tue May 05, 2009 11:43 pm

Well, at least there is TAPEOP to teach these young engineers that there is more to audio than Fruity-Loops.
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Post by leigh » Wed May 06, 2009 1:46 am

Wainwright wrote:You mean that splicing block cant auto X-fade.....
Actually, it can... that's why they give you options on a splicing block, for 90 / 45 / 30 degree angle cuts.
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Post by casey campbell » Wed May 06, 2009 9:12 am

somewhat related:

i have a friend that was tracking an artist that had him change (i.e. - cut, paste certain syllables on words to other words) so that it would be to his liking.......on scratch tracks! not just a few, but almost hundreds...

too funny!
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Post by rty5150 » Wed May 06, 2009 9:36 am

casey campbell wrote:somewhat related:

i have a friend that was tracking an artist that had him change (i.e. - cut, paste certain syllables on words to other words) so that it would be to his liking.......on scratch tracks! not just a few, but almost hundreds...

too funny!
hope it was on the clock. what an idiot!!!


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Post by redshift108 » Wed May 06, 2009 11:53 pm

A few years ago I was in my local Guitar Center shopping for tubes for my guitar amp. I walked up to the counter and asked the gentleman if I could take a look at their tubes. The guy gave me a weird look so I pointed behind him where the tubes were sitting. He turned around and picked up the box and was looking at it strangely. He placed the box of tubes on the counter and said to me "What are those used for?".
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