What did Santa bring you this year? (2009)

LazarusLong · Post by **LazarusLong** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:03 am

minorleagues wrote:Aunt: "How Nashville"
Me: "Great, I love it"
"What are you doing? What's your degree again?"
"Audio Engineering. I work in a recording studio, mostly bluegrass"
"Oh? What do you do there?"
"Record bands"
"Oh...(so and so) is going to be an accountant"
"That's nice"

Ah, family. How long are you going to keep those mics?

kingtoad · Post by **kingtoad** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:46 am

I got my m201 fixed (actually 1/2 price replaced as the company said that repair would be uneconomical).

I also got some time off. Oh, and some nice beer and a cool clamp/magnifying glass combo for soldering cables.

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:12 pm

Got an $80 Guitar Center gift card. Can't decide whether to be sensible with it and get new bass strings and cables that i've been needing or if I should put it towards something fun that I probably wouldn't get to myself otherwise like an ART tube mp or something.

sfsonarboy · Post by **sfsonarboy** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:19 pm

My sweetie got me a cool little "beater" acoustic guitar - Yamaha FG-110 - to keep at the in-laws while we're staying here.

The Advanced Audio CM12 and CM47 I picked up earlier this year were early deliveries from Santa

blackdiscoball · Post by **blackdiscoball** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:03 am

I got travel scrabble

I can only envision trying to teach a caveman how to play scrabble like in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I'll add to the list, I actually got it in November but a couple people in my family helped me put money down to buy a house. So I got a house for Christmas.

comfortstarr · Post by **comfortstarr** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:22 am

Some new LL Bean slippers. My studio is in my attic and these are vital to winter-time recording.

cale w · Post by **cale w** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:18 am

I got the UAD-2 Solo/Laptop for my MacBook Pro. I immediately dl'd the Roland Space Echo plug and good lord, man. That thing is fun. The pultec EQ is really nice sounding also.

This came with about a half hour of extreme frustration trying to figure out their retarded latency workaround for Protools LE. Grrrr....

Happy New Years everyone!

Z-Plane · Post by **Z-Plane** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:23 am

My first lap steel. Now trying to avoid sounding like Gilmour.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:18 pm

brother ptouch label printer
stove top espresso maker
some electronics book
coffee beans
Thelonious Monk Live at the It Club
Miles Davis Jazz at the Plaza
Ravi Coltrane Mad 6
all cool but jeez, did none of them see my amazon wishlist?
Not a single mic, stomp box or even a set of strings?!

dsw · Post by **dsw** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:47 pm

Audix SCX-1.

hasn't shown up yet though

coming from Audix

CraigS63 · Post by **CraigS63** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:34 pm

Z-Plane wrote:My first lap steel. Now trying to avoid sounding like Gilmour.

Get a set of C6 strings (C E G A C E) - you can't use a regular set for this - the lower strings will be way too tight.

Lots of info and opinions at steelguitarforum.com

Jay Reynolds · Post by **Jay Reynolds** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:10 am

Blackberry Curve
DJ Hero
The Road by Cormack McCarthy
World War Z by Max Brooks
Bob Marley pint glasses (complete with Garveyite color scheme)
T Shirt featuring the rules for the 5-way Roshambo (adds Spock and Dinosaur to the traditional Rock, Paper, and Scissors)
My third, non-redundant copy of Life's Rich Pageant

And Mrs. Superaction got one of these:

Jay Reynolds · Post by **Jay Reynolds** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:16 am

InvalidInk wrote:
cgarges wrote:
Love that wooden theramin!

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC
Yeah it's stillin the mail actually. I can't wait to get it and be playing theremin again.

Damn! I thought i was going to be the hipster theremin-guy in this thread, and then i go back and read over it after posting.

That thing does look awesome.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:21 pm

superaction80 wrote:The Road by Cormack McCarthy

I JUST finished watching "No Country For Old Men." What a great movie.

superaction80 wrote:T Shirt featuring the rules for the 5-way Roshambo (adds Spock and Dinosaur to the traditional Rock, Paper, and Scissors)

Definitely curious how those work.

superaction80 wrote:My third, non-redundant copy of Life's Rich Pageant

That's such a terrific album and not very talked-about.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Jay Reynolds · Post by **Jay Reynolds** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:17 pm

Re: The Road
I read it one one sitting. And then read it again immediately. It's that good. I'd skip the movie. There's no way it's anywhere near as good.
World War Z is good too, but an entirely different animal, even though both books are very apocalyptic in their subject matter. I'm not done but i highly recommend it.

Re: 5-way.
Spock is the Vulcan LLAP sign. For Dino you make a gesture like you've got a sock-puppet over your hand. Spock beats Rock (he disintegrates it) and Scissors (dude definitely knows how to run Scissors (he's freakin' Spock)). Paper beats Spock (it's less emotional than he is) and so does Dino (it eats him). Dino beats Spock and Paper (he eats it) and loses to Rock (gets his head smashed) and Scissors (he gets stabbed).

Re: Life's Rich Pageant
I just picked up a project and when i asked the guys for reference material, they pretty much said that LRP was it. I wanted to make sure I had at least a cd to work from as opposed to an AAC. And it is freaking amazing. Why is Underneath the Bunker the one song that gets stuck in my head?

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