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Post by slowcentury » Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:56 pm

AlexHerd wrote:Since everyone was talking about Albini and the floor mics, here are some pictures from a Don Cab session he engineered: http://graneroperro.com/doncab/pictures/adon_pics.html
Wonderful thats probably one of my favorite sounding records of all time!

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Post by slowcentury » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:32 pm

So in those pictures are those earthworks omnis on the floor?

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Post by cgarges » Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:06 pm

slowcentury wrote:So in those pictures are those earthworks omnis on the floor?
Altec 150s.

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:17 am

here's a pic of the earthworks, in the spot where i usually have them. they look a lot further away than they really are...

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Post by slowcentury » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:03 am

cgarges wrote:
slowcentury wrote:So in those pictures are those earthworks omnis on the floor?
Altec 150s.

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I like how i also read that and for some reason my brain just forced the conclusion that they were earthworks.

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Post by drumsound » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:16 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:here's a pic of the earthworks, in the spot where i usually have them. they look a lot further away than they really are...

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Dude, those drums don't even match. How can I expect them to sound good?

Sheesh, amateurs!

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:26 pm

oh, they sound terrible. i just sample replace everything anyway.

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Post by cgarges » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:28 pm

You're putting Westlakes in those big, gaping holes, right?

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:00 pm

*somehow resists mom zing*

pic taken from almost the same spot, a year later:

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Post by roygbiv » Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:06 pm

man that new drumset you got there is kinda crazy looking - does it have an old-school muffled sound?
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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:11 pm

i sit on that couch and make phat beatz in gargeband on my laptop.

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Post by cgarges » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:17 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:*somehow resists mom zing*
Somehow resists Monsieur Frontage zing.

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:13 pm

merci.

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