metropolis ripped photo's on el budgetto amateur masterer site

[IIIrd]

Despite the infraction, this made me laugh. Epic fail. At least there wasn't a zebra crossing.

[Thor]

Love the irony in the FAQ:

"We are not offering a service where your tracks will be fed through 30 years old analog processors. We will use state of the art audio processing software to enhance and maximize your music’s potential. As well as our main workstation software, we use 200+ high end aftermarket plug-ins."

Hmm... I wonder how many of those plug-ins have been paid for...?
Does the "18+ years experience" really mean that the guy is 18 years old?

Funny that they show a nice picture of some 30 year old analogue outboard on their main page too, even though they never use it. How could they - it belongs to another studio! That's pretty awesome, in a loser kind of way.

Cheers,
Thor

[David_Village]

Hi Guys,

So interesting and humourous to see you guys making your troll-like comments, not knowing anything about the work that I do, or the experience that I have. It comes across as real insecurity guys and having looked at your websites, I've found a bundle of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, bullsh... and many other things I could bitch about, if I could be bothered...... (if I were a forum troll). This is why I spend my time earning money in the studio, rather than in the forum-schoolyard with people like yourselves......

Ok, the image :-> The website was built by a 3rd party provider and they have wrongly used a copyrighted image, which (if you look at the site again) has already been removed. It was a genuine error and as soon as I was made aware of the image, I immediately requested my web designer to remove it.

So not much of a drama really guys huh?

Instead of bitching, trolling, and coming across like bitter, jealous school kids, you should maybe get your own houses in order.

I have 6 projects to complete this week, and have working affiliations with the music production faculties of 2 major Universities in the UK. I have worked as a mastering engineer for one of the UK's top 5 mastering houses. I have been mastering as a specific practice for 18 years.

Hope things are good for you guys too.

Oh, and thanks for the 'backlink' to my website. This thread won't do any harm for my SEO!

Originally Posted by Thor

Hmm... I wonder how many of those plug-ins have been paid for...?
Thor

You have no basis for comments like this whatsoever. All of my plug-ins are registered and genuine.

You must be in a really dark place (Norway, in the winter LOL) mentally, to sit there making silly allegations about someone you know nothing about, purely because you perceive some sort of 'superiority', because an image was wrongly used on my site (and removed in less than 10 hours).

hva en taper! <DELETED BY MODERATOR>

[Itchyman]

why does one have to insert images of analogue equalizers that you do not actually own to represent your highly successful company?

dude it's lying and that is not cool neither do you acknowledge it's not on.

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by David_Village

Hi Guys,

So interesting and humourous to see you guys making your troll-like comments, not knowing anything about the work that I do, or the experience that I have.

You (or your web master) mess up in a particularly amusing way, you get made fun of. That's how it works.... seems fair to me! I'd choose that over getting an attorney's letter any day

[Itchyman]

good you removed the images you stole from another well known studio
we will keep an eye on you like all the other stolen image masterizerers, they should be taken down with force any time night or day like the idiots they are

[Itchyman]

yes but thor did not steal a successful masterizerers custom built eq like a nincompoop and put it on his "digital" only studio, it strongly suggest you is dumb even though you digitizerized for a university with your metropolis custom digital equalizerer photo.

did you "digitize" their photo and put it on your web cause you don't like custom analogue equalizerer from metropolis?

[Fabmaster]

Originally Posted by David_Village

Hi Guys,

So interesting and humourous to see you guys making your troll-like comments, not knowing anything about the work that I do, or the experience that I have. It comes across as real insecurity guys and having looked at your websites, I've found a bundle of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, bullsh... and many other things I could bitch about, if I could be bothered...... (if I were a forum troll). This is why I spend my time earning money in the studio, rather than in the forum-schoolyard with people like yourselves......

Ok, the image :-> The website was built by a 3rd party provider and they have wrongly used a copyrighted image, which (if you look at the site again) has already been removed. It was a genuine error and as soon as I was made aware of the image, I immediately requested my web designer to remove it.

So not much of a drama really guys huh?

Instead of bitching, trolling, and coming across like bitter, jealous school kids, you should maybe get your own houses in order.

I have 6 projects to complete this week, and have working affiliations with the music production faculties of 2 major Universities in the UK. I have worked as a mastering engineer for one of the UK's top 5 mastering houses. I have been mastering as a specific practice for 18 years.

Hope things are good for you guys too.

Oh, and thanks for the 'backlink' to my website. This thread won't do any harm for my SEO!



You have no basis for comments like this whatsoever. All of my plug-ins are registered and genuine.

You must be in a really dark place (Norway, in the winter LOL) mentally, to sit there making silly allegations about someone you know nothing about, purely because you perceive some sort of 'superiority', because an image was wrongly used on my site (and removed in less than 10 hours).

hva en taper! <DELETED BY MODERATOR>

That's fantastic! 6 really? Not including painting the porch?
Web page designer : " Hey Dave, I stole some great images from a big mastering house and put them on your home page, should be good for business".




Just kidding. Carry on then.

[roger]

criminal fraud is a little different to ''a bundle of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, bullsh...''

...blaming it on a 3rd party - pretending you were in the dark about what images appeared on YOUR business web-site is also cowardly and dishonest.

it's bottom-feeder stuff.

[Itchyman]

it is very interesting as here you say..

Ok, the image :-> The website was built by a 3rd party provider and they have wrongly used a copyrighted image, which (if you look at the site again) has already been removed. It was a genuine error and as soon as I was made aware of the image, I immediately requested my web designer to remove it.

but your google cache says...

For example, we use this free website provider which saves around £300 per year in web costs.

so you save GBP300.00 a year in hosting (which is incredibly expensive for hosting I may add (normally $80.00) and yet you spend a lot of money for a 3rd party web designer who destroys your studio by using ripped off equalizerers.

i am scratcherizing my head

[Ben F]

nothing about the monitoring and acoustics, usual story...

[t_d]

do you need 200+ plug ins to master?

[Thomas W. Bethe]

I don't know about anyone else but I want to know where my web designer found all of the pictures he or she uses on our website. I had our web designer take down a background picture of a Studer A-80 even though he thought it looked "GREAT" because we do not own one. Websites should be interesting and informative but the use of someone else's pictures, style or text is a big NO NO as far as I am concerned. This topic has been covered before. Seems like people never learn.

[Joe_caithness]

Originally Posted by Itchyman

it is very interesting as here you say..

but your google cache says...



so you save GBP300.00 a year in hosting (which is incredibly expensive for hosting I may add (normally $80.00) and yet you spend a lot of money for a 3rd party web designer who destroys your studio by using ripped off equalizerers.

i am scratcherizing my head

[William Bowden]

Ok chaps everybody calm down.

David Rogers is a talented musician and his work can be found here (not sure why this isn't linked to on his site). I urge you to have a listen to his music (esp Roller Boots) first before you start acting like schoolboys. Enjoy...

David Rogers's Profile

King Willy

[Joe_caithness]

Originally Posted by William Bowden

Ok chaps everybody calm down.

David Rogers is a talented musician and his work can be found here (not sure why this isn't linked to on his site). I urge you to have a listen to his music (esp Roller Boots) first before you start acting like schoolboys. Enjoy...

David Rogers's Profile

King Willy

Nice! she wore those.. ROLLERBOOTS!

[William Bowden]

Originally Posted by Joe_caithness

Nice! she wore those.. ROLLERBOOTS!

Ok that's either one of those typos Joe, or you need to get out of the mastering game, HE wore those Roller Boots!

King Willy

[William Bowden]

Originally Posted by David_Village

I have worked as a mastering engineer for one of the UK's top 5 mastering houses. I have been mastering as a specific practice for 18 years.

Village Mastering
UK's No 2 Online Mastering Suite

Which of the "Top 5" did you work for then?

King Willy

[IIIrd]

Fair play to him though for taking the photo down so quickly. David, you should have words with your web designer. I think you did the right thing by acting so promptly.

[deft_bonz]

At OP

LOL
As long as you show how offended you were by the comments here, it'll just show that they're right.

I just wonder how you can ask for such a low price and still provide high quality. First you need to listen to the whole track (if you did this), in average 5 minutes, then getting the right plugins ready (you have to choose from 200+ you know) another 1 minute, then tweaking them another 3 minutes (that'd be freaking fast, but not if you worked with presets), plus bouncing and saving another 6 minutes. If you worked like this per track it'd you take in average 15 minutes per track at 12£, gives you per hour around 48£. You say "Our mastering engineer", so you have to split these 48 bucks. Not much left at the end for living, rent, taxes, paying off studio bills. Or do you work 14 hours a day, fully booked?

I don't even need 200+ plugins PRODUCING music. Does there even exist 200+ plugins for mastering purposes? Or do you count all Logic plugins too?

It seems to me the tracks are just ran thru Ozone/T-Racks/L3/etc., but then why would you brag with 200+ plugins.

There a lot of more inconsistencies in your word and page. Your business just doesn't seem honest. There is not even a picture of your studio and of yourself. How would you else attract people to give you money? My 2 cents. Or just a nice troll

[IIIrd]

His mastering isn't in question, nor should whatever equipment he may or may not have be of any consequence. His web designer made the mistake, David acted...problem corrected, end of story.

This thread should now be closed I think.

[Thor]

Hi David,

sorry you don't see the same entertainment value that the other people here have.

Dude, if you've found typo's or grammatical errors on my site, by all means let me know. I'm a native English speaker, but am not above making a mistake or two. However all the pics on my site have been taken by me or a professional photographer hired by me.

Just curious, but why go to the trouble of almost dropping names, then not drop any names? Which "major universities in the UK"? Which of the "UK's top 5 mastering houses" were you at? Enquiring minds want to know... You've got us all on the edges of our seats now!

It's good to see that you addressed the problem by removing the offending picture, regardless of who put it there. You did proofread the site with your designer before it went up, right?

But you're right. Norway is a dark place, home to stuff like trolls, Grieg, Munch and black metal. The whole country gets wasted out of their skulls each Friday and Saturday night in a doomed attempt at escape. That should give you an idea as to what I'm up against here. Anything to alleviate the boredom, even poking legitimate fun at what most people consider a pretty uncool offense... (that said, June is summer, and the sun is up from 3am to 12pm, so not much darkness these days, )


Cheers,
Thor

(and yes, things are going good here, thanks!)

Originally Posted by David_Village

Hi Guys,

I've found a bundle of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, bullsh... and many other things I could bitch about, if I could be bothered......

I have working affiliations with the music production faculties of 2 major Universities in the UK. I have worked as a mastering engineer for one of the UK's top 5 mastering houses. I have been mastering as a specific practice for 18 years.

Hope things are good for you guys too.


You have no basis for comments like this whatsoever. All of my plug-ins are registered and genuine.

You must be in a really dark place (Norway, in the winter LOL) mentally, to sit there making silly allegations about someone you know nothing about, purely because you perceive some sort of 'superiority', because an image was wrongly used on my site (and removed in less than 10 hours).

hva en taper! <DELETED BY MODERATOR>

[Itchyman]

maybe I am misunderstanderizing something but what does

David Rogers is a talented musician
David Rogers's Profile

got to do with putting other people bespoke equipment on your site, he can play music, then he can do anything . this is at the highest degree he has left the thread because we can bring out more and more with every additional

[IIIrd]

Originally Posted by Itchyman

maybe I am misunderstanderizing something but what does



got to do with putting other people bespoke equipment on your site, he can play music, then he can do anything . this is at the highest degree he has left the thread because we can bring out more and more with every additional

He's fixed the error, I think you're misunderstanding that bit..

[Masterer]

Originally Posted by Thor

But you're right. Norway is a dark place, home to stuff like trolls, Grieg, Munch and black metal. The whole country gets wasted out of their skulls each Friday and Saturday night in a doomed attempt at escape.

That seals it!

I'm definitely moving to Norway.

[DanDaMan]

Originally Posted by Masterer

That seals it!

I'm definitely moving to Norway.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That made me chuckle.....

On a more serious note, David Village should be having words with his web designer, that's just not on. If I were the owner of Metropolis I would be pretty pissed off!

Just my 2 pence

[IIIrd]

Originally Posted by Masterer

That seals it!

I'm definitely moving to Norway.

LOL,

[Brad Blackwood]

Originally Posted by William Bowden

Which of the "Top 5" did you work for then?

King Willy

Maybe he meant 'one of the UK's top 5 online mastering houses' - that seems to alleviate the need to substantiate one's claim.

[Thor]

Dude,

it's been a blast hanging out together in NY, you know you're welcome over any time.

(just let me know a few days in advance so I can get out of town )

Thor

Originally Posted by Masterer

That seals it!

I'm definitely moving to Norway.