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Post by jayson on Aug 13, 2015 15:04:09 GMT -6
If it could only stay the price it is now...I wonder how high the price will jump in the last 60 seconds. Auction sniper battle time!
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Post by jayson on Aug 13, 2015 9:34:56 GMT -6
That seems a bit simplistic. I don't think using the social hangups of one sub-group of the music consuming public as a yardstick for evaluating the musical preferences of another does much, if anything, in terms of effectively evaluating the significance of the art. Even if what you say is the case, the same could have been said of jazz or blues as well, to say nothing of bands like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, The Allman Bros. etc.
Granted, there's a lot of it I don't like, (Dave Matthews has a voice that make me cringe) that doesn't necessarily make it "bad"(His rhythm section does pretty much kick ass).
If you're saying that somehow stuff like Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber or Kid Rock...or pretty much anything you're unfortunate enough to hear on the radio these days is somehow superior because it doesn't utilize any gimmicks to make up for it's shortcomings - well...you certainly have a right to your opinion. Personally, I'd rather spend 8 hours listening to any of the more prominent jam bands, than one hour of Katy Perry or Lady Gaga; at least the jam band guys have a musical DNA that I can relate to.
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Post by jayson on Aug 13, 2015 5:41:21 GMT -6
Gotta confess I've never been much of a Phish fan; I wouldn't say that's a slam on them, just lack of in depth exposure on my part. But then again with Phish - and pretty much all jam bands - I think there's kind of a Les McCann and Eddie Harris "Compared to What?" postulate that you have to include in considering what they do: It might not speak specifically to me, but compared to most of the other talentless, superficial crap floating in the pop-music toilet these days it's brilliant.
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Post by jayson on Aug 3, 2015 6:11:18 GMT -6
You're going to want one of those really long drill bits with the fiberglass shanks that they sell in the electrical aisle at the Lowes/Home Depot of your choice. Like this. It makes it fairly easy to get an effective drill bit behind the drywall that can get through sub-floors & around joists, etc. Running conduit can certainly make things a lot easier over the long haul if you're going to want the flexibility of rewiring more frequently over time, but I wouldn't advise anybody to retrofit just to install it. It's one thing to take that on if you're opening up the walls anyway to work on other plumbing or wiring - but it might be a bit much as it's own project.
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Post by jayson on Jul 30, 2015 6:58:02 GMT -6
he filleted it up yesterday and estimates 100lbs clean meat haha, going over tomorrow probably for the cue 8) One other thing i should mention.. when he catches these fish, he carves them up, eats or gives to family and friends every last piece of meat. He puts the carcasses in his giant cooler and pulls them about a 1/2 block down to the beach in Encinitas, and (what he calls) gives the remains back to the sea. Dude is a trip, and a very cool guy! Oh, and he can hold his breath for about 5 minutes! that's 4:30 longer than i can haha A fish like that is worth a crazy amount of money to Japanese fish buyers. I was just in coastal Maine for a couple of weeks and I heard of a 16 year old kid who got $70k for a fish just like that. He might want to rethink what he does with the fish he catches. Personally, tuna is one of those fish I just won't eat anymore - they're a magnet for toxins like mercury and PCBs and whatever the stuff still leaking out of the Fukashima Daiichi reactor might be. They range for thousands of miles so there just no telling what they might pick up. Pretty much anything out of the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific northwest is off my plate for good.
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Post by jayson on Jun 29, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -6
To be fair though, his stock in trade isn't singing. Wonder how good of a rapper Freddie Mercury would be. Edit: Nah. Mercury would be better at anything remotely musical than that tool. No doubt he wipes the floor with Kanye
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Post by jayson on Jun 28, 2015 8:27:27 GMT -6
Yes your gear is stunning good. That 2 stage thing was for me a game changing moment. Same here. The very first test of the VP28 after I finished putting it together was a very memorable moment. It seems like sometimes it really only takes about 1 second of signal going through something and you know right away that it's a really special piece of equipment; the VP28 is one that really sticks out in my mind. The whole is way beyond the sum of the parts.
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Post by jayson on Jun 28, 2015 7:51:54 GMT -6
A rose by any name. Personally I'd buy Jeff's gear if he called the company "Dumpster Squeezin's Audio". Given the abundance of legendary captains in popular culture I think CAPN opens the door for a lot of great puns for equipment names - but who really cares? What really matters is the gear itself. Although I should add that I would really think twice about using a "T" for Tennessee - CAPT might be a little too close to kaput for some!
The kits he's producing makes API's gear seem a pretty quaint by comparison. I definitely agree with the sentiment that, if anything, API should step up their design\manufacture game rather than get mired down in litigious nonsense about minutia. It goes without saying that there's going to be a lot of grey area when you open something like the 500 series format up for open source development - If you ask me API should be a little more prepared to roll with it. At the end of the day when you litigate nobody wins but the lawyers and it's just financial resources that get funneled away from both parties, to say nothing of the bad PR.
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Post by jayson on Jun 27, 2015 16:40:13 GMT -6
it might just be easier to change the name. I really don't think it would hurt him. And if he's moving to Nashville, it could be a fresh start for the company. I had mentioned at one point if he moved to Nashville he should change the name to CAPN - I think it's kind of a cooler acronym anyway. Then he could put out a compressor/color box and call it the "Crunch". I'd have some CAPN Crunch in my rack for sure!
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Post by jayson on Jun 26, 2015 17:13:30 GMT -6
I don't think you'll regret anything on your list - otherwise they wouldn't have made the list in the first place...and I could think of quite a few more if you want suggestions! Who doesn't enjoy hypothetically spending other peoples money? But at the end of the day the important question is what do you think you need most in your situation?
For me gear purchases are pretty much always generated by some kind of need. A noticeable deficiency in my workflow that makes itself obvious. As I work there's always an inevitable itch in the instruments or signal chain somewhere that needs to be scratched and that sets the course for what my next purchase decision turns into and what kind of priority it has. If I can get "need" and "want" to coincide that's a big bonus!
$4K could certainly get you a lot of bang for the buck in 500 series stuff; especially if you do any DIY. If had $4k to toss into my system now I'd be looking at a bunch of AML, CAPI and Analog Allstars kits, along with the less sexy, "gotta do" kind of items like patchbays and furniture. But that's just me; in my situation those are the things that are rising to the top of the priority list.
You know your situation best; I'm betting you already know the answer. Let us know what you decide!
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Post by jayson on Jun 26, 2015 6:17:33 GMT -6
No problem on a mac mini running Safari here.
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Post by jayson on Jun 13, 2015 8:13:41 GMT -6
I just did something very similar about two years ago. I'm really glad I listened to that little voice saying "buy me!"- closed on it May 10, 2013 - the place has a lot of character and I'm REALLY glad I bought it!
Mine was a foreclosure too. A couple words of caution there; first make sure that there are NO delinquent taxes on the property. I was blindsided by that because it didn't come up on the title search. Check with the county and city, NOT the agent or title company. I was pretty lucky that it was only about $1k but I obviously would've liked to have known about it before I closed on the place.
Also make sure that all the customization that may have been done over the years was properly inspected. My place had the entire basement finished into an apartment(making it an excellent studio), but it had been done off the radar, with no building permits or inspections. This actually turned out to be a bit of a blessing because it had been done right, yet I was able to use that fact to knock $15k off the original price and use that savings to get everything properly checked out and inspected. I was even get some tie-lines and additional AC runs installed, all for a fraction of that 15k.
It is now by far the most important piece of gear I've purchased yet! Good luck!
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Post by jayson on Jun 13, 2015 7:33:52 GMT -6
One IEM trick I heard of back in my FOH days was to set up an ambient room mic that could be mixed into the monitor sends. It helped to give the performers back the sense of acoustic context that seems to get lost when you move from wedges to IEMs.
On a related note; has anybody ever tried using IEMs in the studio? Seems like it could be a workable replacement for cans, but I'm a little reluctant to invest the cash to try it.
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Post by jayson on Jun 13, 2015 7:17:40 GMT -6
Ionian and Cowboy, I'm so sorry to hear about such senseless loss. It's never easy to lose people so close, let alone so abruptly. Unfortunately it's a pain that too many of us know all too well. I was just remembering this week that it had been 13 years since my high school roommate, band mate and original partner in recording crime passed away by his own hand after many years of health problems and addiction that was brought on by a motorcycle wreck. There was a lot of trauma and anguish in the years after the wreck leading up to his passing, but I don't find myself remembering that - those memories faded very quickly; now I only recall the great times and laughs we shared over the years.
I know it can take a lot of time to sift through the pain but I sincerely hope there's some solace in the memories of the joy that those lost have brought you.
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Post by jayson on Jun 4, 2015 5:11:24 GMT -6
Kinda hard to believe that it's produced by Peter Griffin - aka Seth MacFarlane. Is there anything that guy doesn't do?
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Post by jayson on Jun 3, 2015 6:28:50 GMT -6
www.thefoamfactory.com/acousticfoam/acousticfoam.htmlThese guys have pretty decent products that are very reasonably priced. It's in the same league as Auralex, but not too gimmickly priced. The corner traps are excellent at reducing flutter. I've combined the 4" wedge foam and corner traps with some 4" 703 panels and converted a closet into a pretty effective iso-booth for guitar cabs.
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Post by jayson on May 27, 2015 8:44:19 GMT -6
The Mackie HDR 24/96 looks to be pretty much a direct knock off of the Alesis. It has a USB interface for editing (I think it does wav files internally) They seem to be about $400-ish on eBay. Disclaimer: I have no idea what it sounds like, and it requires d-subs for the i/o.
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Post by jayson on May 20, 2015 6:03:15 GMT -6
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Post by jayson on May 20, 2015 5:51:42 GMT -6
Well...before this thread degrades into one of those horrible, hysteria based, partisan political internet feces flinging tournaments, let me pose a few questions to the folks on both sides of the argument; (keep in mind I'm kind of an objective third party here - I'm 50 years old with no kids; my DNA dies with me so - not to sound malicious - the trials and tribulations of the human race 50 years down the road aren't too much concern to me either way)
Does your perspective on this issue even allow for the possibility you might be wrong?
What are the consequences to posterity if we proceed using your perspective and it turns out you're dead wrong?
Is there any kind of societal benefit to be realized if you're wrong?
Finally, if you're wrong what's your "plan B"? (note: insisting that you're not wrong is NOT answering the questions)
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Post by jayson on May 19, 2015 6:24:39 GMT -6
I loved the line about cutting SOS so they could fit more songs in per hour, We all know they ment Ads! This Guys is why 99% of my radio listening is the Local AAA public radio station and NPR! The last Comercial station I really listened to Tried AAA but went back to Light rock, I miss WMMN in Madison, that was a great commercial station. Commercial radio has driven many people to Sirius/XM. I don't think terrestrial radio can hold a candle to Sirius/XM. I realistically couldn't see going back to listening to 40 minutes of commercials for every hour of programming. Besides, you're just not going to find anybody offering the depth of the playlists you find there. Programming services haven't ruined it...yet. There's certainly no shortage of guitar solos on Deep Tracks, Classic Vinyl or the Grateful Dead channel. Plus I get to hear a lot of old friends and clients from my live sound days on Jam_On.
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Post by jayson on May 19, 2015 5:22:54 GMT -6
There may be truth in the thought that human activity isn't the sole cause of climate change, but there's no doubt it certainly isn't helping.
From where I sit I'd just as soon not send my federal tax dollars in the form of disaster relief to states that have an official policy of treating climate change as a hoax. Particularly when they get hit with tornado outbreaks, drought and hurricanes that would be typical occurrences every 20 years that now seem to be happening every year. If you're going to make that bed by denying the science, you better be prepared to lie in it... alone.
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Post by jayson on May 18, 2015 5:21:03 GMT -6
That did seem like a little bit of a broad brush statement, but to be fair I think he probably meant the Marshall amps at the price-point he was shopping. Out of personal experience I'd say there can be a bit of a caveat emptor factor with Marshalls. I had purchased a TSL-100 back in 2002 and I definitely wouldn't say it was garbage - it sounded excellent, but it was a bit of a maintenance diva; the thing needed to have the bias tweaked every time I powered it up. It would drift pretty far and if you didn't adjust it there was a noticeable degradation in the tone. I tried a bunch of matched tube sets in it and and it never seemed to help. Plus it ran REALLY hot - after a few hours of use you could roast a turkey inside the damn thing. I'm not sure if it was that specific amp or just a shortcoming of that particular model. Seemed like I do remember hearing of other people having the same issue. I finally wound up selling it after a couple of years at a fairly substantial loss but I wouldn't say that turned me off to Marshalls in general, just made me think that I probably wasn't really a Marshall kind of guy. Tried a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe after that that I still have - although that's doing a lot more bass amp duty these days.
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Post by jayson on May 18, 2015 4:42:11 GMT -6
Thanks! I kind of figured that there wouldn't be any problem with that length since cables that size are pretty easy to find, but since I've never run a FW cable that far I wanted to be sure I wasn't asking for trouble. I've found them running to 10 meters (33 feet), just out curiosity has anybody tried running one that far?
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Post by jayson on May 17, 2015 13:52:48 GMT -6
So I just pulled the trigger on a used Fireface 800 (hey, if I'm gonna keep building DIY gear - of course more i/o is gonna be handy . The rack I'm wanting to put it in is a probably going to need about a fifteen foot run back to the CPU, anybody know what the cutoff is for length on FW800? There doesn't seem to be any problem finding cables that length -and in shopping I've seen a few that are quite a bit longer - but how reliably is it going to work? How long is too long?
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Post by jayson on May 17, 2015 13:26:06 GMT -6
It certainly worked for Stevie Nicks! Daah!!! You beat me to it! I was gonna say I remember reading that Stevie Nicks was reputed to carry a 441 in her purse at all times. Great mic for female voice. If you change your mind abut an LDC, the Lawson L-47 is a great secret weapon as well.
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