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Post by ngallio on Jun 2, 2015 8:03:46 GMT -6
Hi all,
I found this forum looking for infos/opinions on CAPI's VP26's.
I guess I found what I wanted since I've just ordered 4 from Jeff..
I am still a member of GroupDIY forums under the same name, even though I have been away for some years.
I'm by no means a "pro" in the recording business but enjoy it and it has been a source of money in times when my production manager "day job" was scarce.
I do tend to favor bands/acts/musicians that I like and the fact that I have a day job means I can sometimes afford the luxury to offer my recording services to people whose music I find interesting very good deals, trying to create an environment where the artist doesn't have to run on the clock.
I love DIY and have realized several projects including a full rack of SCA pres, some pedals, two ribbon mics and a couple of Drip Electronics projects: an LA2A and a dual Fairchild 660 that I still can't make sound right, damn me when I undertook that project..
Can't wait to go back home and start soldering Jeff's creations
I love cycling, reading and do a lot of abroad traveling for my job (I have been bringing my bike with me lately..), I am in fact typing this from Shanghai even though I'm based in Florence, Italy.
That's basically it, I guess we'll get to know each other better in the future.
nicco
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Post by swurveman on Jun 2, 2015 8:34:49 GMT -6
Hello nicco. Welcome! It's a small world.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 2, 2015 8:54:36 GMT -6
Welcome, ngallio! Glad you're here... |
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Post by mobeach on Jun 2, 2015 19:27:16 GMT -6
Welcome aboard!
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 2, 2015 19:48:14 GMT -6
Welcome, what do you think of campagnolo's electronic shifting, wild thing, does it make your cycling heart sing:) guess who's a cyclist too ?
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Post by jazznoise on Jun 2, 2015 20:19:30 GMT -6
Nihao!
Welcome to the board. Rainy season just started here in Kyushu, Japan. Hope it's not as muggy in Shanghai as it is here!
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Post by ngallio on Jun 2, 2015 20:53:17 GMT -6
Welcome, what do you think of campagnolo's electronic shifting, wild thing, does it make your cycling heart sing:) guess who's a cyclist too ? Hey there! I've never tried Campagnolo's electronic shifting but they say it's VERY precise and allows to shift even while pushing hard on the pedals. I's really expensive and I don't think it would appeal to me much, if I had the cash to spend. I like bicycles because everything is very clear and easy to maintain and I don;t know how much would I like a system that relies on circuits and batteries to operate, in that situation. That said, I'm more of a fixed gear kind of person, so no gears on my most used bike. Last year I won a custom made steel frame at race and the builder and I decided it would have been a gravel bike. I equipped it with a sram CX1 (1x11, 11-23 cassette). what kind of cycling you prefer? |
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Post by ngallio on Jun 2, 2015 20:57:40 GMT -6
Nihao! Welcome to the board. Rainy season just started here in Kyushu, Japan. Hope it's not as muggy in Shanghai as it is here! Konnichiwa jazznoise san! It's been very rainy yesterday, I was bummed because I had a day off and I planned a big ride around Chongming island.. Apart from that it's VERY polluted 'round here, can't wait to go back to my 13th century house in the florence countryside.. I have been in Japan three times for work and I really love it there! Best place to work if you're a gaijin just passing by, all the theatre staff that I met have been super kind and professional, not to mention the equipment and venues, super well kept! |
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Post by formatcyes on Jun 3, 2015 0:53:35 GMT -6
welcome very friendly place here.
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Post by jazznoise on Jun 3, 2015 6:00:28 GMT -6
Nihao! Welcome to the board. Rainy season just started here in Kyushu, Japan. Hope it's not as muggy in Shanghai as it is here! Konnichiwa jazznoise san! It's been very rainy yesterday, I was bummed because I had a day off and I planned a big ride around Chongming island.. Apart from that it's VERY polluted 'round here, can't wait to go back to my 13th century house in the florence countryside.. I have been in Japan three times for work and I really love it there! Best place to work if you're a gaijin just passing by, all the theatre staff that I met have been super kind and professional, not to mention the equipment and venues, super well kept! Yorushiku ne! I don't really work the biz here as I don't have the Japanese level. The PA systems are always impeccable and the kit is amazing. Asuch the sound tends to be better here - but not by enough considering the margin. Of course intense anti piracy laws and policing means there's a little bit of an "Old Industry" bubble here which makes life easier for techs, but not necessarily for bands. So out of curiosity do you speak Chinese? I've been here long enough (1 year) to get through most simple conversations, but every syllable of Chinese I've ever heard has slipped clean out of my head. The syllables are super strange for me, especially with the tone system coupled to it! |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 3, 2015 6:13:17 GMT -6
Welcome, what do you think of campagnolo's electronic shifting, wild thing, does it make your cycling heart sing:) guess who's a cyclist too ? Hey there! I've never tried Campagnolo's electronic shifting but they say it's VERY precise and allows to shift even while pushing hard on the pedals. I's really expensive and I don't think it would appeal to me much, if I had the cash to spend. I like bicycles because everything is very clear and easy to maintain and I don;t know how much would I like a system that relies on circuits and batteries to operate, in that situation. That said, I'm more of a fixed gear kind of person, so no gears on my most used bike. Last year I won a custom made steel frame at race and the builder and I decided it would have been a gravel bike. I equipped it with a sram CX1 (1x11, 11-23 cassette). what kind of cycling you prefer? I agree. I like the traditional shifting systems too. I was a road racer (amateur) for years and stiill cycle a lot for fitness. I have a decent carbon fibre road bike , 10 speed ultegra; works well. My boys both ride fixies adn i keep meaning to build one up with all the parts in the garage but I keep using my money to buy recording gear; go figure ! A custom steel frame would be sweet ! |
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Post by ngallio on Jun 3, 2015 8:18:50 GMT -6
My luck Italy has a lot of very talented young steel frame builders.. |
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Post by ngallio on Jun 3, 2015 8:21:43 GMT -6
Konnichiwa jazznoise san! It's been very rainy yesterday, I was bummed because I had a day off and I planned a big ride around Chongming island.. Apart from that it's VERY polluted 'round here, can't wait to go back to my 13th century house in the florence countryside.. I have been in Japan three times for work and I really love it there! Best place to work if you're a gaijin just passing by, all the theatre staff that I met have been super kind and professional, not to mention the equipment and venues, super well kept! Yorushiku ne! So out of curiosity do you speak Chinese? I've been here long enough (1 year) to get through most simple conversations, but every syllable of Chinese I've ever heard has slipped clean out of my head. The syllables are super strange for me, especially with the tone system coupled to it! nope, I couldn't speak chinese if my life depended on it.. It's one of those phonetics that I really can't relate to.. |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 3, 2015 8:49:40 GMT -6
My luck Italy has a lot of very talented young steel frame builders.. and my lucky Canada has an excellent Italian frame builder in Quebec, Guiseppe Marinnoni ! |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 3, 2015 17:32:53 GMT -6
Konnichiwa jazznoise san! It's been very rainy yesterday, I was bummed because I had a day off and I planned a big ride around Chongming island.. Apart from that it's VERY polluted 'round here, can't wait to go back to my 13th century house in the florence countryside.. I have been in Japan three times for work and I really love it there! Best place to work if you're a gaijin just passing by, all the theatre staff that I met have been super kind and professional, not to mention the equipment and venues, super well kept! Yorushiku ne! Asuch the sound tends to be better here - but not by enough considering the margin. Of course intense anti piracy laws and policing means there's a little bit of an "Old Industry" bubble here which makes life easier for techs, but not necessarily for bands. That's interesting...I'd like to hear more about that. |
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Post by ngallio on Jun 3, 2015 21:18:06 GMT -6
My luck Italy has a lot of very talented young steel frame builders.. and my lucky Canada has an excellent Italian frame builder in Quebec, Guiseppe Marinnoni ! Interesting! Does he have a website? I'm curious.. EDIT: found.. wow he's a legend! Maybe it's time we open a "cycling" thread? ;-) |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 4, 2015 4:13:01 GMT -6
ha, actually I think this year he had a special 40th anniversary build of custom steel frames !
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Post by jazznoise on Jun 4, 2015 18:53:13 GMT -6
That's interesting...I'd like to hear more about that. Well adults and teenagers still all buy or rent CD's or DVD's and don't tend to be keen on pirating them. Sony and Warner tend to do all the distribution for Japan and they run promotions and pricing to keep it very lucrative. CD's are very expensive here compared to the West! For instance the huge girl group here is AKB48 - literally 48 girls on stage. Thing is they're voted in girls from across the country, and the way you vote is by buying a CD and using the vote code inside the sleeve. But these groups appeal to men and women by making the girls innocent, but sexy and available. One of the girls was found out to have a Boyfriend and she made a video where she cried for forgiveness and shaved her head as self punishment. One of the most popular girls in AKB48 is actually from Oita, my current city, so there's people buying extra copies just to keep it that way. Of course gigging here without a fancy ass management agency sucks absolute donkey balls. It's that pay to play system where you buy tickets from the venue and then sell them to your fans. Even for covers bands! Asuch it's atrociously difficult to be a small time gigging band and they frequently have to pull stupid tricks like having a post gig "jam session attendance fee + snacks" dohickey to try and break even or make some bread from it. Sound engineers are paid by the bar, it would seem, so the rates don't move. However easily the most annoying part is the set banter. For an hours music you can expect 20 minutes of stupid chat about nothing, really. It seems like set filler - but the audience laps it up! Totally bizarre. |
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Post by ngallio on Jun 4, 2015 19:04:44 GMT -6
That's interesting...I'd like to hear more about that. Well adults and teenagers still all buy or rent CD's or DVD's and don't tend to be keen on pirating them. Sony and Warner tend to do all the distribution for Japan and they run promotions and pricing to keep it very lucrative. CD's are very expensive here compared to the West! For instance the huge girl group here is AKB48 - literally 48 girls on stage. Thing is they're voted in girls from across the country, and the way you vote is by buying a CD and using the vote code inside the sleeve. But these groups appeal to men and women by making the girls innocent, but sexy and available. One of the girls was found out to have a Boyfriend and she made a video where she cried for forgiveness and shaved her head as self punishment. One of the most popular girls in AKB48 is actually from Oita, my current city, so there's people buying extra copies just to keep it that way. Of course gigging here without a fancy ass management agency sucks absolute donkey balls. It's that pay to play system where you buy tickets from the venue and then sell them to your fans. Even for covers bands! Asuch it's atrociously difficult to be a small time gigging band and they frequently have to pull stupid tricks like having a post gig "jam session attendance fee + snacks" dohickey to try and break even or make some bread from it. Sound engineers are paid by the bar, it would seem, so the rates don't move. However easily the most annoying part is the set banter. For an hours music you can expect 20 minutes of stupid chat about nothing, really. It seems like set filler - but the audience laps it up! Totally bizarre. that sounds pretty atrocious to me, like the situation we're living (xfactor, eurovision and such) but on steroid. Is this an omen/indication of the direction we're headed to? In italy, and around the world too, there's this "contest" called Emergenza Festival where bands compete to win gigs, promotion and gear. Just the notion of "competition" in music makes my skin crawl, add to that the fact that bands are required to sell tickets to their friends/fans. The voting is done by the audience by raising their hands and the hands are counted by the MC (who works for the "festival") , the MC doesn't declare the vote count right after the voting but only when all the bands have played. The MC knows clearly how many tickets each band has sold (he is the one handling all the money for the night). you add all this together and it makes for a pretty shitty situation, right? |
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Post by jazznoise on Jun 5, 2015 21:31:04 GMT -6
We're not heading that way because it's more a symptom of Japan's economic/cultural situation than of anything else.
I definitely hate the pay2play and pay2play-Battle-Of-The-Bands bullshit the most though. As if it's not an unreliable source of income already!
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jun 6, 2015 4:19:59 GMT -6
Well adults and teenagers still all buy or rent CD's or DVD's and don't tend to be keen on pirating them. Sony and Warner tend to do all the distribution for Japan and they run promotions and pricing to keep it very lucrative. CD's are very expensive here compared to the West! For instance the huge girl group here is AKB48 - literally 48 girls on stage. Thing is they're voted in girls from across the country, and the way you vote is by buying a CD and using the vote code inside the sleeve. But these groups appeal to men and women by making the girls innocent, but sexy and available. One of the girls was found out to have a Boyfriend and she made a video where she cried for forgiveness and shaved her head as self punishment. One of the most popular girls in AKB48 is actually from Oita, my current city, so there's people buying extra copies just to keep it that way. Of course gigging here without a fancy ass management agency sucks absolute donkey balls. It's that pay to play system where you buy tickets from the venue and then sell them to your fans. Even for covers bands! Asuch it's atrociously difficult to be a small time gigging band and they frequently have to pull stupid tricks like having a post gig "jam session attendance fee + snacks" dohickey to try and break even or make some bread from it. Sound engineers are paid by the bar, it would seem, so the rates don't move. However easily the most annoying part is the set banter. For an hours music you can expect 20 minutes of stupid chat about nothing, really. It seems like set filler - but the audience laps it up! Totally bizarre. that sounds pretty atrocious to me, like the situation we're living (xfactor, eurovision and such) but on steroid. Is this an omen/indication of the direction we're headed to? In italy, and around the world too, there's this "contest" called Emergenza Festival where bands compete to win gigs, promotion and gear. Just the notion of "competition" in music makes my skin crawl, add to that the fact that bands are required to sell tickets to their friends/fans. The voting is done by the audience by raising their hands and the hands are counted by the MC (who works for the "festival") , the MC doesn't declare the vote count right after the voting but only when all the bands have played. The MC knows clearly how many tickets each band has sold (he is the one handling all the money for the night). you add all this together and it makes for a pretty shitty situation, right? We have (or at least had) Emergenza here in the US too. My band played in 06 or 07. Fortunately for us, my band had some fans, so we did pretty well. We got to play some nicer stages and added some contacts with other bands. All in all, I'd say it was a positive experience, even if the whole thing is just a popularity contest. |
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Post by ericn on Jun 7, 2015 19:51:07 GMT -6
Welcome, what do you think of campagnolo's electronic shifting, wild thing, does it make your cycling heart sing:) guess who's a cyclist too ? You too ? 2 Rossins , 2 Italian Benotto and a Colango ! All old Campy! |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 8, 2015 3:24:35 GMT -6
Nice ericn: all classics, used have a benotto but it died in the ottawa winter !
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Post by ericn on Jun 8, 2015 11:11:47 GMT -6
Nice ericn: all classics, used have a benotto but it died in the ottawa winter ! Yeah one of them needs the rear derailer hanger replaced tore the crap out of it doing a turn and caught my campy Nuevo Record rear derailer ! I really want a nice carbon ride keep looking at Used Colango C40s ! But $$ |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jun 8, 2015 12:42:51 GMT -6
too bad, I had a ti bike and now am on carbon fibre; they are really nice; I wonder about how they will age with ultra violet light ?
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