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Post by formatcyes on Feb 28, 2019 21:55:39 GMT -6
I think we have a new winner. Imagine being the engineer the hardest thing would getting your name spelt wrong on the credits.
On the plus side this is the only song I can dance in time to.
But wasn't this at least a little bit on purpose? The same as is intended from a general punk perspective? It's a distinction. I am not sure it was there other stuff is not much better. Unless their whole identity was this awful guitar center on Saturday morning sound they where going for.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 28, 2019 21:29:07 GMT -6
Submitted for your pleasure Is it just me being crazy but I got this song in my head and re-listened.
I think I like it in a weird kind of 60's throw back way.
The recording is rubbish and raw but the dude can sing.
I think I need counseling.
The Video and power stance however LOL. 2 million views and counting.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 27, 2019 23:09:36 GMT -6
This one is like that car accident that you just can't not stop and stare at. I think we have a new winner. Imagine being the engineer the hardest thing would getting your name spelt wrong on the credits.
On the plus side this is the only song I can dance in time to.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 26, 2019 19:22:16 GMT -6
This is the best thread ever. I cannot believe how many views some of the songs get 3 second rule over 100K But the comments are funny shit. example
"I like this song. But I also like setting my hair on fire and putting it out with a brick"
Thanks for the laughs.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 26, 2019 19:09:17 GMT -6
Can anyone top this streaming pile? 115,062,456 views
Shoot me now please. I want to leave this species.
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Post by formatcyes on Dec 26, 2018 23:25:43 GMT -6
I normal hate mashups but this is very cool and country.
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Post by formatcyes on Dec 20, 2018 14:39:36 GMT -6
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Post by formatcyes on Nov 20, 2018 14:31:58 GMT -6
As long as you have enough copper in the conductors and for balanced the pairs are twisted together with some screening the cables wont make any difference. Not at audio frequency's anyways.
Re education: The lack of basic science, math, and the basic understanding how the fundamentals work. You can see it with our computers they don't allow much real interaction with the operating system and the number of people who understand how they really work has fallen (the complexity has also risen). We now have computer programmers who have very limited knowledge of whats going on under the hood. Same with cars less and less people have the skill set/knowledge to fix them. Being able to type at 120wpm has supplant the ability to change the car tyre.
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Post by formatcyes on Nov 3, 2018 14:09:38 GMT -6
drbill I understand your pain but we can take the argument back further and say recorded music is the root of the problem. Before recorded music most houses had instruments and almost everyone was involved. Talented people would make money traveling around doing their shows and leave people more excited about making their own music. The advent of recording only the best on the planet with multiple takes turned participants into passive observers, then music into just back ground noise. When piano was replaced with the record player this is the first sad step IMHO. What happened to all the piano techs? They had to work for UPS. Progress is what it is and things get replaced, people's lively hood gets destroyed and they have to do something else it is what it is. We don't get to choose when to stop the progress train.
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Post by formatcyes on Oct 31, 2018 14:34:32 GMT -6
I would love an AI education plugin where I could select some reference tunes and It tell me whats missing in my mix vs the reference ones and make suggestions. Most likely say " look man your song just sux balls exterminate, exterminate, exterminate...."
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Post by formatcyes on Oct 31, 2018 14:26:45 GMT -6
Their web site is interesting
"$50 for Mixing and Mastering!! Next day delivery When ordering before December 1, 2018 Try the most revolutionary music innovation since the mp3!"
mp3 innovation is your bench mark really.
Next day delivery, not sure how automated it really is if it takes a day. Don't look behind the curtain.
One day maybe (I hope not) but I don't think these clowns are going to pull it off.
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Post by formatcyes on Sept 26, 2018 14:45:15 GMT -6
X32 rack mount along with all your monitor amps all in one box. If you have drums and acoustic instruments its a big ask for monitoring. I gave up on IEM's they just require to much maintenance and have to many issues. When they are all working they are the best but not worth the effort IMHO. Digital mixers are game changers. Have you actually tried to do stage monitors on a digital mixer, especially a rack mount mixer that requires mixing from a pad, moving throuigh multiple screens to get to the channel you need to work on RIGHT NOW? Especially for an act that combines a 4 piece rock band with assorted acoustic instruments?
Such mixers can be OK for FOH, where you rarely have to do immediate emergency changes, but monitors are an entirely different game.
Yes my setup is an 18 channel Xair with separate mixes for the talent. It is fantastic I have a couple of ipads leave one on stage (its set so the artists can only change their monitor mixes) and they do their thing. Stops the more me problem as each one can have as much "me" as they want. Digital mixes have so many pages because of what you can do gates, compresses, eq, multiple effects etc, on every channel just awesome the power. Once they are set levels are all run from the main screen easy as.
Once you go digital you will not go back.
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Post by formatcyes on Sept 25, 2018 15:17:04 GMT -6
X32 rack mount along with all your monitor amps all in one box. If you have drums and acoustic instruments its a big ask for monitoring. I gave up on IEM's they just require to much maintenance and have to many issues. When they are all working they are the best but not worth the effort IMHO. Digital mixers are game changers.
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Post by formatcyes on Jun 17, 2018 15:01:08 GMT -6
I donate my PA and time for a yearly carols in the park local event. In the last 12 years I have noticed a big shift. The music teacher retired about 5years ago and while he was not very good and uninspiring when he was there at least the kids where learning to play an instrument (badly). He was not replaced. Now the kids sing along to canned music with the recorded vocals and clearly very little practice or care from their teachers who have no music affinity anyway. I always had private music lessons growing up but the school programs at least exposed everyone to music and learning to play an instrument, now not so much, very sad. Before the music teacher retired there was always a couple of solo or small group acts from the "talented" kids now none. I do not know any current high school kid who can perform. 5 years ago I would have been able to name at least 5. If my small town is any indication of the state of music its going to get a lot worse.
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Post by formatcyes on May 21, 2018 15:47:23 GMT -6
Digital is a way better reproduction system. There is no if's or but's the science has been done. You could record your records thru a half decent digital convertor and in a blind test not be able to tell the difference. If you can find one watch an old analog TV thru a VHS then switch over to a Blu ray HD tv bet you can see a difference The same is true for audio its just we seem to like the imparted noise in audio. Same was true for film for a while there where some produces that wanted the "film" look thank goodness that trend has ended. I think vinyl gives us a tactile experience we get to hold and see the groves and ridges, a cover to look at, read and watch the needle spin I don't think its about the sound alone its the whole experience. You cannot get that from your iphone. That and the Smashed nature of most digital recordings.
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Post by formatcyes on Apr 27, 2018 0:56:52 GMT -6
I've worked with a lot of guitar players - and I've heard of a lot of guitar players working with big-name guys who also work this way - who prefer to track their guitars standing in the control room playing everything back through the mains. They've DEFINITELY got more than 2 ms of delay between the monitors and their ears. When playing live (and not using in-ear monitors), guitar players are often standing more than 2 feet from their amps and more than 2 feet from their monitors. Way more than 2 ms of delay no matter where they are on stage. Some of what people refer to as the best sounding stuff in recording history was made with people in a room and no headphones. I'd be curious if the engineers at that time moved players closer to and further from sound sources in order to get them to groove. I wonder if Bob Olhsson , johneppstein , or any of the other folks who worked in larger rooms a while back (I don't ever remember who around here did what when and where) have any insight into this? I agree with what you have posted, Re sound and 2ms but I cannot get into a grove with the amp sims in the box I love their sound but cannot make it work for me. Interested in what other peoples experience is.
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Post by formatcyes on Apr 25, 2018 15:55:16 GMT -6
One of the things I'm going to experiment with is to use an amp simulator plugin on the monitoring for the artist, so that they hear something similar to what the finished product would be, but while only tracking clean DI and effected DI for reamping later. I have tried plugin sims they have to much latency. Unless you can get the latency under 2ms you will effect the performance to much. The artist may not notice a first but will struggle with the feel.
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Post by formatcyes on Apr 18, 2018 15:21:22 GMT -6
Freedom? No. What you're talking about is a world where slavery is endemic. Or, if you prefer, "techno-serfdom". Because staples will always have value. And people need them to survive and will have to pay for them. Somehow. I read more and better SF than you do, and understand the implications a HELL of a lot better. Emphasis on the word "Hell". And I understand the difference between fiction and prognostication. Off topic: This is why I bought a farming property 15 years ago, I could see the writing on the wall. My farming income is climbing however if I do a gig I get payed the same as I did in 1992 WTF. Music deserves so much better it's the sound track to our lives and at the moment it's sounding like a horror movie. On topic: I cannot listen to brick walled music it hurts my ears after a few minutes. Remastered = do not play.
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Post by formatcyes on Dec 24, 2017 14:12:57 GMT -6
Flipping the breakers will reduce your risk but it depends how close the strike is. The lightning has just traveled up to a mile thru the air the last inch thru a breaker is not going to make much difference. I have replaced toasted switch boards it just depends how close the lightening strike was. The breakers only switch the active in a close strike the earth voltage jumps. This is why you can get zapped using a landline phone, cabled internet etc.
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Post by formatcyes on Dec 23, 2017 15:18:20 GMT -6
surge protection just shows you where it went. I have worked with super expensive surge protection and nothing really works I have picked up camera control modules from across a room after it blew of the wall behind surge protection. The only way to really protect is to unplug from the power point when not using and don't use your gear during thunder storms.
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Post by formatcyes on Nov 25, 2017 16:36:40 GMT -6
What I miss and what made me come to rgo was the days when an inexperienced up-and-coming engineer could ask some technical questions about a piece of gear and get a response from you some pretty respected and very knowledgeable folks. Every once and awhile some drama would flare up regarding someones knowledge, experience, and opinion of a product or a place or fellow engineer and it was funny. But it seems nowadays that's all it is with various weekend warrior home studio owners asking the obligatory: 'which should I get xxx or xxx for my untreated room in my basement?' So what should I buy for my untreated basement so i can have a professional sound. I am realy good I have practiced like 10 minutes last thursday and my mum says I am a rock star. The sound I am looking for is like guitar hero's track 2044 which i got a high score on. I would like to use the guitar hero guitar as my other guitar has only 3 strings left and it hurts my fingers. I don't need mixing advice as I am sure I will be the worlds best mixer. I once mixed 3 songs on my iphone I just need a better free app. My budget is $3.95 as I have to buy a new shirt and hat so I can look the part.
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Post by formatcyes on Nov 25, 2017 16:21:58 GMT -6
The trouble with mixing is you never finish at some point you just give up. Even worse when you have to please multiple people bring back money to music so we can have real producers again.
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Post by formatcyes on Oct 31, 2017 3:38:13 GMT -6
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Post by formatcyes on Apr 15, 2017 15:19:55 GMT -6
What do you think of the Rode NTR? I have been eyeing this mic off for a while but havent pulled the trigger. I really like the NTR. I used it today on a CFX Grand Piano about 4 feet off of the piano along with a pair of Avenson STO-2 omni mics up close. It was magical combined. https%3A//soundcloud.com/forgotteng/pianorode-ntr%3Fin%3Dforgotteng/sets/piano-exerpthttps%3A//soundcloud.com/forgotteng/pianoall%3Fin%3Dforgotteng/sets/piano-exerpt Thank you for this will have a listen when I get back to my studio.
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Post by formatcyes on Apr 13, 2017 16:43:13 GMT -6
What do you think of the Rode NTR? I have been eyeing this mic off for a while but havent pulled the trigger.
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