Do sharks make a noise?
I was working on some stuff for my upcoming Micronaut album today, and pondering the addition of audio to a song that doesn't really have anything to do with the song, but acts to fill out the audio spectrum. I do this…
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Thank you sir! May I please have another?!?
If you're the crafty sort, you can look at this page on the Apple site, and it might just give you hives. Big fat hives right on your face, with hairs growing out of them. If you're not the crafty sort, you'll wonder…
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Various Chandler Stuff In The Pipes.
Chandler Germ for 500 racks: As you can plainly see from the picture above, there are at least 3 Germanium mic pres now existing in the world. No price yet, but I would imagine they will be about $600. Chandler website…
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Postulatin' on a hypothesis...
Okay, here's an interesting challenge. Say you had US$2000 to spend, and you wanted to make an analog recording studio with at least 8 tracks of recording. What gear would you choose? Mixing isn't necessary; only…
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Xtreme DIY ftw...
Sometimes you see a DIY project and you're just like "are you fucking kidding me? This is one such, for sure. This dude's MIDIbox SID is a DIY synth the way that an Aston Martin Vanquish is a car. I mean, like, fuck…
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Advice? Listen to the Cap'n...
I'd seen this before but somehow forgotten it. I just ran across it again while taking my yearly troll through The Fatman's site. Whether or not Captain Beefheart actually wrote/said this, every word is true. Can also…
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Someone get this kid a Muddy Waters record, please!
Obviously, one could take issue with his lack of dynamics and vibrato, or his questionable tone, but then again, I'm not a half-bad guitar player and \ I\ can't play that song, so I'll shut the fuck up. (Thanks, neB!)
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Ah, the beach in the summer, just me and my keytar...
I've tried to tone down my hating on this site (don't hate the player, hate the game, right?) but sometimes you just can't stop yourself. Or at least I can't. Such is the case when Wade sent me a link to Key Orchestra…
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Unintentional Vintage Humor...
As the local head of the Musical Computing subset of the Society For Creative Anachronism, I'm always on the lookout for something fun to start each meeting with. I came across a NOS unopened copy of MacDrums on eBay…
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Cult Of Gear!!!
Since there seems to be some interest in this topic, and seeing how it is contextual in light of the little dust-up in the previous posting, here's the Gear Cult Thread. Why do certain pieces of gear (e.g. Evolver…
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Evolution Redux...
Okay, it's official. This box isn't doing it for me. I liked it a lot at first, but now that I've had it a couple months, I don't really care for it. I can't really enumerate my reasons for this, except to say that it…
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The Nature Of Things...
I'm sitting here listening to Aleksi Virta's excellent jazzy-house-dub-lounge-you-name-it album "..Meets Torsti At The Space Lounge" and I'm wondering about the nature of things in the music business these days. I mean…
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Chicago Shows...
If you're in Chicago, please make an effort to attend the Bounte show at the Darkroom on Thursday next, June 14th. Cheap beer, loose women, and good music. Can't go wrong, right? The beer at the Double Door is a bit…
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I'm busy, I swear. No, really...
We're finally wrapping up the new Audio Damage store. (You know, the one where I've been answering questions mailed to the info@ad account with "that will be fixed with our new store, which will be up next month" for…
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ZOMG CHORDS!
So I decided to expand my keyboard vocabulary a little bit this week. (To put this in perspective, if it was word vocabulary we would be talking about, I'd be stuck why the fuck there are three different ways to spell…