are we all a bunch of snobs?

[digital eagle audio]

umm the way i have been trained as an engineer seems pretty different from a lot of what i've heard. gear is important, yes. knowledge and skill are even more important, yes. serving the music is even more important, yes, yes, yes. but the most important thing, as far as i'm concerned, is how we treat the clients. they give us all that money for a reason, and that reason generally isn't that we've got a u47 in our closet. we are members of the service industry. every client, from 16 year old boys in a shitty emo band to those badasses who come in from memphis or chapel hill with a huge budget, they all deserve to feel like rockstars while they are in your studio, and to leave your studio feeling like they are that much closer to reaching whatever it is they aspire to. so yeah, we can be snobs at times, and that's ok. as long as we use our snobbery for the forces of good, which is making customers happy. and making new friends on the way.

[brakeshop]

I know this is a thread on snobbery, but we are not... ahem..."nerds". We are much cooler than nerds whether you do this as work or hobby. I prefer to think of tapeoppers as geeks, i.e. someone who has skills that other people could get, but they prefer not to. Like circus freaks who bite the heads off chickens. Other people could bite the heads off of chickens, they just don't want to. And if I remember that photo thread from the old boards, we're bearded freaks at that. (me too!)

[digital eagle audio]

i wish i had a beard.

[NewAndImprov]

I know this is a thread on snobbery, but we are not... ahem..."nerds". We are much cooler than nerds whether you do this as work or hobby. I prefer to think of tapeoppers as geeks, i.e. someone who has skills that other people could get, but they prefer not to. Like circus freaks who bite the heads off chickens. Other people could bite the heads off of chickens, they just don't want to. And if I remember that photo thread from the old boards, we're bearded freaks at that. (me too!)

This is possibly the coolest quote EVER on this board. Or anywhere...

[mjau]

And if I remember that photo thread from the old boards, we're bearded freaks at that. (me too!)

Beard representin':

[I'm Painting Again]

i wish i had a beard.

You can have mine, its made of B though..the Le

[junkyardtodd]

So I should grow a beard instead of getting that Focusrite preamp? Or should I get that too? What about a ribbon mic?

Okay, thanks!

[Professor]

Hey man, I've got mine goin' and while it may or may not make the recordings better, it does hide the double chin nicely.

Am I the only one of us nerds who has seen the episode of Dexter's Labratory where Dexter creates a chemical that grows him a big orange beard so he can be rough and tumble and fight off criminals like his TV action hero role model?
What?
Don't look at me like I'm the only guy here who watches cartoon network.

-J

[joelpatterson]

Don't look at me like I'm the only guy here who watches cartoon network.

-J

[Professor]

Well fine look at me that way - 'cause I'll still be digging Harvey Birdman and Aqua Teen, and Sealab, and sometimes even Dexter and the Powerpuffs.


-J

[Mark]

umm the way i have been trained as an engineer seems pretty different from a lot of what i've heard. gear is important, yes. knowledge and skill are even more important, yes. serving the music is even more important, yes, yes, yes. but the most important thing, as far as i'm concerned, is how we treat the clients. they give us all that money for a reason, and that reason generally isn't that we've got a u47 in our closet. we are members of the service industry. every client, from 16 year old boys in a shitty emo band to those badasses who come in from memphis or chapel hill with a huge budget, they all deserve to feel like rockstars while they are in your studio, and to leave your studio feeling like they are that much closer to reaching whatever it is they aspire to. so yeah, we can be snobs at times, and that's ok. as long as we use our snobbery for the forces of good, which is making customers happy. and making new friends on the way.

POST OF THE MONTH!

[T-rex]

Professor, all I watch is cartoon network. I have watched adult swim for years, and somehow I just got n the habit of leaving it on cartoon network 24/7. I can probably name any episode of anything on Cartoon Network. . .man I need a life!

And I have seen that Dexter episode, althogh my favorite is when he laminates himself so he won't have to take a bath.

[joel hamilton]

umm the way i have been trained as an engineer seems pretty different from a lot of what i've heard. gear is important, yes. knowledge and skill are even more important, yes. serving the music is even more important, yes, yes, yes. but the most important thing, as far as i'm concerned, is how we treat the clients. they give us all that money for a reason, and that reason generally isn't that we've got a u47 in our closet. we are members of the service industry. every client, from 16 year old boys in a shitty emo band to those badasses who come in from memphis or chapel hill with a huge budget, they all deserve to feel like rockstars while they are in your studio, and to leave your studio feeling like they are that much closer to reaching whatever it is they aspire to. so yeah, we can be snobs at times, and that's ok. as long as we use our snobbery for the forces of good, which is making customers happy. and making new friends on the way.

POST OF THE MONTH!

[GrimmBrotherScott]

umm the way i have been trained as an engineer seems pretty different from a lot of what i've heard. gear is important, yes. knowledge and skill are even more important, yes. serving the music is even more important, yes, yes, yes. but the most important thing, as far as i'm concerned, is how we treat the clients. they give us all that money for a reason, and that reason generally isn't that we've got a u47 in our closet. we are members of the service industry. every client, from 16 year old boys in a shitty emo band to those badasses who come in from memphis or chapel hill with a huge budget, they all deserve to feel like rockstars while they are in your studio, and to leave your studio feeling like they are that much closer to reaching whatever it is they aspire to. so yeah, we can be snobs at times, and that's ok. as long as we use our snobbery for the forces of good, which is making customers happy. and making new friends on the way.

POST OF THE MONTH!

Fuck that...post of the year. Amen my brother. It's good to know that there are a few people out there that remember the magic of strapping on a guitar for the first time.