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Post by rowmat on Sept 7, 2021 14:00:00 GMT -6
My concern is due to the current vaccination regime are we vaccinating our way toward more vaccine resistant mutations? Or are the unvaccinated providing a large sandbox for the virus to continue to have a place to mutate in? Did you watch the video?
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Post by rowmat on Sept 7, 2021 13:28:26 GMT -6
My concern is due to the current vaccination regime are we vaccinating our way toward more vaccine resistant mutations?
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Post by rowmat on Sept 2, 2021 23:19:19 GMT -6
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Post by rowmat on Sept 2, 2021 23:11:35 GMT -6
Saw her in Melbourne around the time ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ was released in the late 1990’s. Gurf Morlix’ double Twin Reverb setup with what looked like a Silvertone electric sounded great. She also has spina bifida so that along with her stroke last year must be tough.
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Post by rowmat on Sept 2, 2021 19:51:36 GMT -6
I actually spent about two hours on the phone to a Reverb mediator from Australia. About 1.5 hours was on hold. Complete waste of time. I actually began to wonder if I was in the middle of a Monty Python sketch. I wish I could still talk to someone on the phone. That part of the business is done. My issue was not with the seller but with Reverb itself. Within seconds of my purchase I received a message from Reverb telling me that my transaction had been canceled due to ‘Suspicious Activity’. However Reverb canceled the transaction AFTER the $2.5k left my account. So I was out $2.5k, locked out of any further actions and was given no further explanation. The seller was expecting to see the payment come through and now my payment had disappeared into Reverb’s system and then the bullshit to try and find out what had happened and how to get my money back really began.
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Post by rowmat on Sept 2, 2021 18:41:49 GMT -6
The problem is I can’t have a conversation with this mediator guy. There is literally like a 24-36 hour space between responses. It’s awful. Maybe I’ll issue the refund and cancel my card right after. Then play dumb just like the buyer. I actually spent about two hours on the phone to a Reverb mediator from Australia. About 1.5 hours was on hold. Complete waste of time. I actually began to wonder if I was in the middle of a Monty Python sketch.
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Post by rowmat on Sept 2, 2021 0:22:03 GMT -6
Not just vintage audio gear. Here’s a photo of our regular session bass player from an era where a working muso could actually make a decent living. He was a prolific session player throughout the 1970’s, 1980’s and beyond. This is him in front of his Aston Martin DB5 (the James Bond Aston) around 1980. I remember he said it cost him around $30,000 AUD. I’m guessing he wished he kept it and stuck it in a garage as their prices have gone up just a ‘little’ since then. www.carsales.com.au/cars/aston-martin/db5/
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Post by rowmat on Sept 1, 2021 16:54:13 GMT -6
My first experience with Reverb was my last and that was as a buyer. - NEVER AGAIN!!
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Post by rowmat on Aug 29, 2021 16:53:24 GMT -6
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Post by rowmat on Aug 25, 2021 23:28:14 GMT -6
Jeepers! My boxed pair of KM84’s are better than those and had brand new capsules fitted in 2016.
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Post by rowmat on Aug 23, 2021 16:31:01 GMT -6
The ruling class have worked out how to divide the peasants for millenia by using their own idealogy against them via a combination of tribal bias confirmation and cognitive dissonance (fueled by media propaganda irrespective of any facts) in order to keep them trapped within their own opposing tribes and fixated on fighting against each other. For instance throughout 2020 many political pundits staunchly advised against getting vaccinated because they distrusted anything promoted by a certain orange haired individual occupying the White House. Fast forward to a change of government and several of those same pundits now state that anyone who is vaccine hesitant obviously must either be a pro orange man supporter, on the far right or a white supremacist/terrorist. Pundits were not opposed to the orange guy's vaccine. The opposition and skepticism came in the wake of reports that the orange guy was pressuring premature approval so a vaccine would drop before election day. I think you may be a victim of the very situation you are describing above. If we’re talking FDA approval that has only just now been given to Pfizer so many changed their narrative prior to any FDA approval. So unless they knew something that most didn’t it would appear their change of heart was not based on safety considerations but on their political standing. I don’t dispute that ‘orange man’ was pushing to get it passed before the election.
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Post by rowmat on Aug 23, 2021 15:49:40 GMT -6
I run into them and they fall all over the political spectrum. I also recognize that the public figures who are anti vax, anti masks, anti distancing...basically anti every preventative measure, are largely playing to a conservative base. This isn't media spin...they ARE the media figures, community leaders and politicians. ***With some prominent exceptions, like Bret Weinstein, RFK Jr., etc. I guess I don't watch/read whoever they are. I find Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow to be equally unbearable to watch for example. My real life interactions don't reflect what you're saying but I recognize that we don't live in the same town so I'm sorry you're having those interactions. Even still are you finding it to be a vast minority of people or most? The ruling class have worked out how to divide the peasants for millenia by using their own idealogy against them via a combination of tribal bias confirmation and cognitive dissonance (fueled by media propaganda irrespective of any facts) in order to keep them trapped within their own opposing tribes and fixated on fighting against each other. For instance throughout 2020 many political pundits staunchly advised against getting vaccinated because they distrusted anything promoted by a certain orange haired individual occupying the White House. Fast forward to a change of government and several of those same pundits now state that anyone who is vaccine hesitant obviously must either be a pro orange man supporter, on the far right or a white supremacist/terrorist.
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Post by rowmat on Aug 23, 2021 4:36:36 GMT -6
We should expect the 'fake and fraud clones of vintage gear' industry to expand over the next few years. Remember $25 Rolex watches? Yeah but mine only cost $12! 😆
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Post by rowmat on Aug 23, 2021 1:15:41 GMT -6
I bought a pair of 80 Series Heritage Audio 8173 pre’s and a pair of 6673 pre’s new in 2015-2016 and now from the same dealer they are almost double the price!
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Post by rowmat on Aug 21, 2021 18:30:06 GMT -6
Now this is where the stories all start, she took the horse paste and within 24 hours she was better, nothing the Dr did helped her. Your argument is based on coincidence how do you know without a doubt that something the dress did was what actually worked, or like many viruses she just worked her way through it? Not picking on you Bill, but the argument for coincidence is just as valid. Except that she was going downhill, downhill, downhill (just having had cancer a year ago) after multiple Dr visits and hospital visits, then took an ABRUPT and serious downturn for the worse - followed by neighbor with Ivermectin (horse medicine no less) and then a quick turnaround for the better. Her words, and opinions, not mine. Take it or leave it. It's only a story that flies in the face of current narrative and science. My sister in law is a hardcore horse trainer / fanatic. Has/had essentially the same story. Was not a deathly sick though. But yeah, coincidence. I just took her at her word. Her illness, rebound and health - not mine. Joe Rogan podcast with Bret Weinstein and Dr Pierre Kory discussing Ivermectin amongst other things. odysee.com/@bannedyoutubevideos:4/THE-JOE-ROGAN-EXPERIENCE-1671-BRET-WEINSTEIN-AND-DR-PIERRE-KORY:0
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Post by rowmat on Aug 17, 2021 16:36:20 GMT -6
I’ve seen Hardy pres get recommended for and vocals more and more over the last few years, especially over the 1073 unless it’s a production with deliberately “retro/saturated” sound. I’m curious: has the 1073 Fallen out of favor as an all purpose vocal pre simply because it was the best at the time but it’s been eclipsed in the digital era? Or was the 1073 always more about the combination of the EQ and the pre and less it’s strength on vocals specifically? Cross a Neve with a Millenia and that gets you somewhere in the Hardy territory. Not as thick/coloured as the Neve or as clinical as the Millenia.
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Post by rowmat on Aug 17, 2021 15:45:41 GMT -6
Thx, thought you can get 7c with J for extra cost ? Maybe in the early years of SCA but I’ve had mine four J99’s for about five years and there was no Jensen option offered then or since the rebirth of SCA in the last year.
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Post by rowmat on Aug 17, 2021 15:29:28 GMT -6
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Post by rowmat on Aug 3, 2021 19:14:12 GMT -6
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Post by rowmat on Aug 3, 2021 17:31:16 GMT -6
And now all you have to do is take your iPhone with you when Jeff Bezzos offers a trip.
Jeff invited me for a trip on his 174 yard kayak..... just we too... LOL
Does Bezos time each of the crew members when they take a toilet break and then feed them to the sharks if they exceed their allowed time?
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Post by rowmat on Jul 29, 2021 20:23:25 GMT -6
I don't know anything about the AML 1081, but have the impression after reading a number of 1081 threads and engineer comments over time, that there are two common reasons for those who want a 1081, 1. Those who want one for the flexible 4 band EQ, and 2. depending on the source and mic combo , those who prefer the class AB preamp to track vocals etc with over the class A I read this a lot. And yes, the EQ is amazing. Both of those reasons are true. But for some reason, the amplifiers in the 1081, and its counterpart the 31105, have become the victims of internet reductionism. It seems once a few "Reverb guide to Neve modules"-type pieces got out there, and fewer and fewer people have direct experience with those desks, the scope of "useful applications" for the 1081 seemed to become undeservedly diminished. Think about how many hundreds of brilliant-sounding records were tracked on those desks. Some of the received wisdom you read, now that many 8078s, 8048s have been sold and parted out, feels very rationalized by our cork-sniffing current age. But people weren't sniffing corks back then, it was something else entirely! I like a dark, squishy class-A Neve pre as much as the next guy, but 1081s sound incredible on everything. Neve 8078 Class AB
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Post by rowmat on Jul 29, 2021 19:58:05 GMT -6
Edgy vocals!
I had issues with harsh vocals on an album I recorded a few years ago which nearly drove me crazy.
Abrasive upper mids which I initially thought was something in the vocal chain distorting.
After switching out a Flea 47 for a Bock 251 and then a Rode NTR ribbon along with several preamps and completely bypassing the patchbay I finally walked out into the studio and listened to the vocal in the studio. (Yep when in doubt listen to the actual source! - DOH!!)
And there it was. Coming right out of his throat.
Sounded like nodules on his vocal chords.
He acknowledged he had a raspy voice but this was more that I was used to.
What aggrevated it was he never sent the demo tracks to the session players two weeks before the session as we thought he had, so when the players turned up they had never even heard the songs.
He had to run through the each song several times.
So instead of essentially doing two or three takes they did at least three or four run throughs first and then another two or three takes.
By the time we started laying down the tracks proper he had basically blown out his vocal chords.
This remained for the next few days and as he had travelled from interstate to record and, although I hoped he would take a break and come back to retrack his vocals when his voice and recovered, he didn’t have the budget and we had other sessions in the pipeline.
Anyway after much use of the newly acquired Soothe plug-in and an bunch of other tweaking I couldn’t get all the edginess out of his vocal without effectively making it sound obvious.
So in the end it was what it was.
However he did sing the line.... “You set my throat on fire.”
So maybe it was meant to be?
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Post by rowmat on Jul 29, 2021 19:10:57 GMT -6
I have little experience with KM184s but I thought the Josephson c42s were supposed to be close to KM84s and I absolutely love mine for overheads or for acoustic guitars or strings. Not from my experience. The C42’s are brighter. KM84’s are more renown for their midrange which is not dominated by accentuating the high or low end. Oktava MK-012’s are more in the ‘general’ ballpark of KM84’s tonally but don’t have the same off axis response.
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Post by rowmat on Jul 29, 2021 18:57:19 GMT -6
The trick to using 184s is using transformer input stages. Apart from the KM84’s excellent off axis response no doubt the output transformer in the KM84 does subtly soften the transients which makes the transformerless KM184 a tad harder in comparison. So yes including some iron the the front end of the preamp can help. Choosing a preamp to either tame a mic characteristic you don’t like or enhance a characteristic you do is not to be underestimated.
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Post by rowmat on Jul 28, 2021 20:20:49 GMT -6
I don't know anything about the AML 1081, but have the impression after reading a number of 1081 threads and engineer comments over time, that there are two common reasons for those who want a 1081, 1. Those who want one for the flexible 4 band EQ, and 2. depending on the source and mic combo , those who prefer the class AB preamp to track vocals etc with over the class A I have a pair of Neve 33114’s which are similar to the 1081 (same Class AB preamps and similar EQ albeit a three band version with the main difference being smaller output transformers. The Neve Class AB preamps are more present (one could say more ‘HiFi’ sounding) than the darker/thicker Class A Neves.
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