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Post by swurveman on Jun 25, 2021 8:23:52 GMT -6
UA 2-610 Direct
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Post by swurveman on Apr 18, 2021 9:25:13 GMT -6
I got both shots of the Pfizer vaccine. Had a headache and fatigue after first round that cleared up in 8 hours. No symptoms after the 2nd. I also got the flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine this year. Big Pharma and the government haven't killed me yet.
I'm still wearing a mask in public and social distancing and only eating at outdoor restaurants, because not everyone has had the opportunity to get the vaccine and the CDC recommends this. I'm wondering what people think about when their going to stop wearing their masks and social distancing. My feeling is that once every person has had the opportunity to get the vaccine, and has either gotten it or refused, I'm going to go mask free everywhere. For those who have gotten the vaccine and are still masking, when do you intend to stop wearing your masks?
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Post by swurveman on Mar 5, 2021 10:09:48 GMT -6
I sometimes wonder if the visual nature of the DAW, where that plugin is taking up a big space in the screen, kinda begs for attention, where in the old days the EQ was a small part of the overall system, and was more tactile.
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Post by swurveman on Mar 5, 2021 10:05:38 GMT -6
I think it’s varies with individuals where best to put your money in a home studio, but for me I would have a separate control room. For space reasons I went with a single room, but due to the loudness of the band I could never hear the shape of the song, which determines mic placement.
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Post by swurveman on Mar 5, 2021 8:40:26 GMT -6
I love all those 60’s drummers and their fills. My favorite Ringo performance is “A Day In A Life”. His tom fills and overal drum composition is beautiful. To each their own I guess. I wish there was a “no click track/no drum samples” genre. That 60’s sound when performed by great players is timeless.
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Post by swurveman on Feb 20, 2021 15:40:53 GMT -6
It’s a shelving EQ. So, it has its limits. I sold mine and bought a GML 8200.
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Post by swurveman on Sept 4, 2020 10:11:19 GMT -6
None. They lost me as a customer when I missed the upgrade deadline and are asking me to pay full price for SD3. I went from dfh to SD2 and have 2 SDX's and 3 EZX's. They don't respect my previous investment. So, I'm done.
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Post by swurveman on Jul 21, 2020 11:12:34 GMT -6
Nice work drbill, I would add a couple and flesh out the list with some examples and sound characteristics. Great post! Since you’re obviously well informed, do you know what was used for the intro of Jukebox Hero by Foreigner, and if there’s virtual synths that can come close to the mono bass sound and the pad? g.co/kgs/69aLT7
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Post by swurveman on Jul 21, 2020 11:01:56 GMT -6
Nice work drbill, I would add a couple and flesh out the list with some examples and sound characteristics. Great post! Since you’re obviously well informed, do you know what was used for the intro of Jukebox Hero by Foreigner, and if there’s a virtual synth that can come close? g.co/kgs/69aLT7
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Post by swurveman on Jun 3, 2020 17:13:22 GMT -6
I'm convinced there IS money to be made. Actually, LOTS of money. But doing things the "old" / "traditional" way is indeed dead. How to figure out what will work for the next 20? That's the tricky part. One thing is for sure. It will be different. Show me one profitable business model where the product is free and ubiquitous?
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Post by swurveman on Jun 3, 2020 17:10:48 GMT -6
I always wondered about this when I lived in Nashville trying to get a publishing deal. The glorification of women in country music seemed almost cartoonish. At the time, I thought it was a southern thing, and being from the north, I just didn't understand it. The "bad woman" idea in our culture, which we all know is real because we've all met a few, was a theme in rock and roll, but somehow country music never went there as far as I know. Too real? God forbid! lol I wonder if it is because suburban women are a big audience for country radio, or if it's a southern thing where country music keeps up the pretense. The answer is yes. Women bought the music from the 1990s on. But prior to that there were always bad woman songs. Ruby, Jolene, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry... The strange thing is, the women I know are always complaining about what bitches their girl friends are. lol Maybe if Kelly Clarkson sang a song called "Crazy Bitch" both the men and women would recognize her.
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Post by swurveman on Jun 3, 2020 16:55:49 GMT -6
I know...imagine if dudes bashed women in songs like women do... I always wondered about this when I lived in Nashville trying to get a publishing deal. The glorification of women in country music seemed almost cartoonish. At the time, I thought it was a southern thing, and being from the north, I just didn't understand it. The "bad woman" idea in our culture, which we all know is real because we've all met a few, was often written about in rock and roll songs, but somehow country music never went there as far as I know. Too real? God forbid! lol I wonder if it is because suburban women are a big audience for country radio, or if it's a southern thing where country music keeps up the pretense.
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Post by swurveman on Jun 3, 2020 16:46:56 GMT -6
$27.50 bought me infront of 3400 people. 500 of which did something. 12 went to the song. 10 clicked on my photo. No one bought the song. So obviously its unsustainable. Even though the song has cost me nothing to produce. Now I think audience targeting is probably the key. Getting the song infront of people who are willing to buy it. How is everyone managing this stuff. what sort of stats are you seeing against your investment? cheers Wiz I feel for you Wiz. I released an album in the fall. Made two videos. 400 views each of the video, tons of "you guys sound great" comments blah blah. We made around $100.00 mostly through friends and family via Bandcamp. As long as everything is free, independent musicians are not going to make money from recording imo. There's a reason very very few legacy bands record. They know even they won't make any money, and they have a huge audience. They'll make money touring. So, there will be a few artists/bands that make money through digital streaming, but they too will make most of their money touring. From here on in, I'm just going to record with friends as a hobby. Have a few drinks, enjoy the process of rehearsing and recording the songs, and be happy with making music.
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Post by swurveman on May 30, 2020 11:10:13 GMT -6
I have 7 Switchcraft 9625 TT point patch bays. And they work great for interfacing gear 8 points at a time. And I have two old 96 point TT bays for connection to long snakes that go out to three different rooms. What I need to do and will do in the future, is connect up 16 more point to the bays and have XLRs and TRS connections points on the back for more easily streamlining other gear into the system and having more control room connection points. The 8 connection point groupings of the 9625s work great for a lot of stuff but are limited too. Overcoming the limitations and finding more flexibilities is what I'm after next. I like the front-panel configurable, per channel, normal/half-normal/through aspect of the 9625 and would buy the 9625 if I ever bought a patchbay again. This was a pain in the ass with the Redco patchbays I bought. The other thing, which you would think would be a no brainer, is labeling. The Redco was so narrow and the spaces between the holes so small that it was hard to attach, write and legibly read the connections on the paper in such a small space.
I don't use a patchbay anymore, but they are a pain in the ass if you want to make changes, and anybody who uses one needs to think long and hard about a set and forget configuration. Climbing in the back to reconfigure db25's and change switches etc. isn't easy. The old adage , "measure twice and cut once" in carpentry applies to patchbays in spades.
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Post by swurveman on May 23, 2020 18:59:55 GMT -6
I really like this guy's sound. He uses an Earthworks mic and a 184.
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Post by swurveman on May 23, 2020 8:52:47 GMT -6
I started with two Aurora 16's synced (I now use only one) and all along my Aurora's have been very reliable. I will say this, I partnered for awhile with a guy who recorded with an Apogee A/D 16x and monitored, mixed down through an Apogee 2-channel D/A. I thought the Apogee was warmer for what I do, which is rock music, than my Aurora. We both thought the difference was obvious. I haven't heard the new Apogee. So, I don't know if the difference was related to those particular Apogee products. What was the Apogee 2 channel (PSX, Rosetta, etc) ? I wish I could remember, but don't. Sorry.
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Post by swurveman on May 22, 2020 9:56:39 GMT -6
I started with two Aurora 16's synced (I now use only one) and all along my Aurora's have been very reliable. I will say this, I partnered for awhile with a guy who recorded with an Apogee A/D 16x and monitored, mixed down through an Apogee 2-channel D/A. I thought the Apogee was warmer for what I do, which is rock music, than my Aurora. We both thought the difference was obvious. I haven't heard the new Apogee. So, I don't know if the difference was related to those particular Apogee products.
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Post by swurveman on Apr 29, 2020 8:33:35 GMT -6
My mom is also on an assisted living facility. A very wealthy one, where they are constantly testing employees. One employee tested positive and they’ve quarantined all the residents indefinitely. At least where I live, I don’t think your average, or poor, nursing homes are getting the same protections. How else do you explain the huge number of infected elderly where the virus is infecting hundreds?
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Post by swurveman on Apr 25, 2020 10:38:08 GMT -6
Yup! Like that BS little beauty called the Patriot Act! And income tax pays for it all!! More money going into the gov and we willingly pay for these 'necessary' things, departments and programs meanwhile more and more gets syphoned off and goes to special interests. And I don't mean the arts. I had our Shareholder Meeting yesterday. As part of the building and glass industries, we are deemed an essential business. We had our best month ever in January, but are now struggling with the shutdown The government gave us a $2.5 million dollar loan, which our CFO is confident we will not have to repay, for payroll payments to our 200 employees , some of who are still working, but more importantly none of whom we had to furlough. Our company would say that our employees well being is necessary. So, they will be able to meet their bills through June at which time we hope to be up and running at full capacity doing our part for what we believe will be a U shaped recovery. This imo is a perfect example of the importance of our federal government working with the private sector in a productive way. I wish this extended to even smaller business and the gig economy.
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Post by swurveman on Apr 21, 2020 9:32:02 GMT -6
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Post by swurveman on Apr 10, 2020 17:46:34 GMT -6
Azithromycin is an IL6 inhibitor. The main way people die from COVID19 is from ARDS caused by a cytokine storm, and IL6 inhibitors can prevent this. Does that change your view? PS. HCL is an IL6 inhibitor also PPS. There are other IL6 inhibitors being tested. No. Before he made the statement I quoted he said, "Antibiotics used to solve every problem". WTF? Show me where antibiotics solved the polio virus problem, or the swine flu virus problem, or the Ebola virus problem etc.etc. etc.. And an antibiotic is not going to solve the Coronavirus problem. A vaccine will. The man is misinforming people. He does it all the time.
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Post by swurveman on Apr 10, 2020 15:57:00 GMT -6
I would place zero stock in anything Tillerson said given all the cover ups and lies from Exxon over the years. OK, I'll put aside that you may believe that Trump is actually an organized person who reads and studies a lot of the issues and acts from a place of studied, deliberate leadership. I place zero stock in a President who is so ignorant that he doesn't even know the simple fact that you can't treat viruses with antibiotics. He actually said this today: TRUMP: "The germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can't keep up with it." WTF?
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Post by swurveman on Apr 10, 2020 8:47:14 GMT -6
"What was challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation,” Tillerson said, was “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, ‘This is what I believe.’ ” - Rex Tillerson People can play "media wars", but Trump is the worst person to be leading our country at this time.
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Post by swurveman on Mar 31, 2020 8:46:04 GMT -6
Here's an update from the doctor who is posting on my university forum:
"Just finished 5 long shifts in a row. A few random thoughts
1. We are seeing a lot of typical COVID patients now. Fever, cough, body aches. They describe the pain with coughing like being stabbed by 1000 knives. Most get short of breath just walking around the house or up and down stairs. 2. We are also unfortunately seeing more of the "typical" patient that needs to be admitted. The symptoms above as well as bilateral patchy infiltrates on chest xray (looks like little cotton balls all over the place), hypoxia, and overwhelming fatigue. About a third of these patients end up getting moved to the ICU, and most of those end up getting intubated. Our 8 bed ICU has 7 COVID patients on vents right now, and we've transferred 5 to our main hospital that has opened up a full COVID wing. I intubated three yesterday (during nights and weekends, the ER physician does all intubations/central lines and other resuscitative procedures in our hospital). This is in TWO WEEKS. I've never seen anything like this. I shudder to think what this will be like in a few weeks. We only have 9 vents total for our hospital. 3. I think the hardest conversation that I have over and over is that "there is really nothing we can do" for patients that have COVID. So many come in, they clearly feel terrible, and just want some relief or something that will help them get better. We screen them to see if they need admission, look for other potential causes (ie the flu), but then we have to explain that there really isn't much of anything. I've prescribed a lot of Hydrocodone-based cough medicine, with the hopes that it will at least help them get some sleep and ease the pain of coughing 4. BUT, the good news is that those we send home, we follow up on, and most are slowly but steadily recovering. So be assured that a) most will only get mild symptoms, b) even those who have more severe symptoms will likely not need to be admitted, and will recover 5. Testing: We are trying to follow CDC testing guidelines as much as possible. All admitted patients get tested. Select non-admitted patients I am able to test too. I can test through a commercial lab anyone that I want, but we have to conserve resources because the hospital has limited numbers of testing kits (the viral medium we use to obtain and store the sample). Those results also take about a week to come back (testing for patients that meet testing criteria go to the state labs with about 36 hour turnaround). I am commercially testing those who are older, have a number of comorbidities etc. If I can find any reason to test someone, I am. My thought is that if the healthcare systems feel the strain of possibly running out of tests, there will be continued sense of urgency to source new ones. 6. We are still not testing the majority of patients. Total numbers of confirmed cases will be dramatically lower than actual cases 7. Antibody testing will help considerably at some point, to determine who actually had it. That will be one of the keys to reopening society...if you are immune there really is no reason why you need to be quarantined 8. As the impact of social distancing and shelter in place restrictions begin to take hold, we will continue to see case/death estimates go down. I really hope people don't interpret that as meaning the restrictions were unnecessary. This is going to be bad, worse than anything our country has seen in the last 100 years, but would have been catastrophic without the restrictions.
I want to point out some of the individual patients. I had a guy in his mid 60s who I admitted yesterday, super fit, tell me that this is the worst thing he's ever been through. He's a retired Army infantry general with multiple combat deployments and a purple heart. He said the worst things he has been through in his life paled compared to how he felt now.
I intubated three patients yesterday (all inpatients, on the medical floor but decompensating and needing moved to the ICU). All three were similar...increasing oxygen requirements, they were getting tired from working to breathe, worsening chest xrays. While all three were with it enough to consent to intubation, all three were, simply put, tired. You could see it in their eyes. There was no argument, no discussion, no push back. Just a tear in their eye and saying "Yes, do it". Right now we haven't had a person go on the vent yet and come off. All have died or are still on vents.
Two of the three that I intubated are sisters in their late 50s. Their xrays look horrible. Their mom is also admitted and is on comfort care (she is in her low 80s...relatively healthy for an 80 year old) but she was adamant that she did not want to go on a vent that someone else might need. She will likely die in the next day or two. Two husbands and a dozen kids and grandkids are going to lose their wives, mothers, and grandmother all within 2 weeks of each other."
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Post by swurveman on Mar 30, 2020 10:25:29 GMT -6
Just read this article about a choir practice and subsequent Covid-19 outbreak in Washington: "Experts said the choir outbreak is consistent with a growing body of evidence that the virus can be transmitted through aerosols — particles smaller than 5 micrometers that can float in the air for minutes or longer. The World Health Organization has downplayed the possibility of transmission in aerosols, stressing that the virus is spread through much larger “respiratory droplets,” which are emitted when an infected person coughs or sneezes and quickly fall to a surface." And just so nobody thinks I give a shit about politicizing this, here's an opinion piece about the potential consequences of a Great Depression, with far worse long term health risks internationally, if we shut down the country too long.
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