13th April 2004
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#1 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
Thread Starter  | I'd Like to Read More Profiles
I'm having a great time here this month and I'm enjoying reading all your great posts. After I read them I often want to know more about who wrote it. Not what the person's real name is, but more like what type of work they do (post, music, mastering, etc.), where they live, what gear they use, and so on. It helps put what their post in perspective. And when someone is asking me a question it helps me understand more about them so I can answer the question better.
It would be great if those of you who have not filled out your profile would. It just makes the forum a little bit less impersonal.
Thanks.
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13th April 2004
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#2 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 780
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Oops, I'll get right on it. I usually leave all that stuff out. Its like doing your income tax forms 
Shane
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13th April 2004
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#3 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
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Thanks Shane!
To make less work for everybody, the questions I'm most interested in are Occupation + Key gear used.
Thanks Again!
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13th April 2004
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#4 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 780
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I think the 'key gear used' field should alow us to put in more info. After all, this is a Gearslutz forum. 
Shane
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13th April 2004
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#5 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
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I was thinking the same thing the other day as I was updating that field. I had to delete one thing to add another.
Jules, whatta ya say?
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14th April 2004
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#6 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
Thread Starter |
Very cool profile. Big time congrats on the Fear Zero success. I wish you more. What kind of music is it? Where could I hear a sample of it? Website?
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14th April 2004
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#7 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 780
| Quote: Originally posted by Charles Dye
Very cool profile. Big time congrats on the Fear Zero success. I wish you more. What kind of music is it? Where could I hear a sample of it? Website? | Modern Rock I'll have to get back to you re a tune. I'll post some stuff. Very long mixing day today. Running late. later.
Shane
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14th April 2004
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#8 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
Thread Starter | Quote: Originally posted by Shan
Modern Rock I'll have to get back to you re a tune. I'll post some stuff. | Great! I'm looking forward to hearing it.
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14th April 2004
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#9 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: New Milford, CT, USA
Posts: 13,067
|  Re: I'd Like to Read More Profiles
Charles,
> It would be great if those of you who have not filled out your profile would. It just makes the forum a little bit less impersonal. <
I agree completely. I frequent many forums and all the time people ask "Where can I buy [some acoustic material]?" But I have no idea if they're in New York City or Singapore! It's also difficult to take seriously people with login names like "Mongrel Boy" when they don't sign their name. How should you address them - Dear Mongrel? 
--Ethan
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14th April 2004
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#10 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
Thread Starter | Re: Re: I'd Like to Read More Profiles
Quote: Originally posted by Ethan Winer
How should you address them - Dear Mongrel? | They picked it. I just use it:
Dear Pumpkin Puss
Doofus Dork
meetpuppet
If it works for them, it works for me.
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14th April 2004
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#11 | | There is only one
Joined: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC
Posts: 5,259
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you can call me
AJ
alpha
jerk
mr jerk
asshole [no wait, thats what my wife calls me...]
or my given name: barrett
i had my real name on my email BUT after getting far too much spam from crawlers my email isnt even correct on my profile anymore [its NOT nospam@alphajerk.com] but barrett at alphajerk dot com of which barrett is my real name.
__________________
"i must invent my own systems or else be enslaved by other men's'"
william blake
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email: barrett [at] alphajerk [dot] com
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14th April 2004
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#12 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix
Posts: 6,661
 | Quote: Originally posted by alphajerk
you can call me
asshole [no wait, thats what my wife calls me...]
| isn't that sweet.....
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14th April 2004
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#13 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,739
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Heh. Charles asks us to update our profiles and I get to it like a Pavlovian dog. Sure hope he doesn't ask for urine samples.
Jasper
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14th April 2004
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#14 | | FX smörgåsbord user
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 881
Thread Starter |
It wasn't you Mike, my friend, I've read yours--more than once. I was asking people who have no profile to take a minute + just give us a little bit of info. So I'd have a clue, who a I was talking to. (would that be iambic pentameter)
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15th April 2004
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#15 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Control Room
Posts: 1,956
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You all should have websites, and if you don't, you should contact me and I can help you with that.
Alphajerk also designs websites, and I'm sure he could help you too.
One of the major reasons I got my website up, is precisely what Charles was getting at with this thread: It tells people who I am and where I'm coming from.
More importantly, it tells you whether or not to take my posts seriously, or how seriously. You can listen to my music and decide for yourself if I know what the hell I'm talking about, or not.
A web presence will not make your music sound better, but it will communicate your music to a larger audience. And the feedback you get will most definitely improve your perspective on how your music fits into the big scheme of things.
So, yes, fill out those profiles.
But then, make it a point to get a web presence happening. In the "pro" world it is something to be expected of you, if that's what you aspire to.
YMMV.
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15th April 2004
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#16 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,739
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I totally agree with Eric on getting Internet/Web presence.
Further, those of you who balk at posting mp3s because you think it compromises your sound are making a huge mistake. All's vanity on that one.
Unless, of course, your names are Nathan Elrded or Fletcher. You guys are in a whole nother world completely. Keepers of the flame, I guess.
Jasper
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15th April 2004
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#17 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 780
| Quote: Originally posted by Charles Dye
Very cool profile. Big time congrats on the Fear Zero success. I wish you more. What kind of music is it? Where could I hear a sample of it? Website? | It's modern rock like the Crease stuff you did. (Cant wait to get the Crease Album) I attached their next single called Satellite. Right now I am tracking vox for them for a french version of the song.
You wont believe what it was tracked to  You can also check their website for more samples.
Shane
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15th April 2004
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#18 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Control Room
Posts: 1,956
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Sounds GREAT Shan!
I gotta ask...
What WAS it tracked with??
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15th April 2004
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#19 | | There is only one
Joined: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC
Posts: 5,259
| Quote: Originally posted by djui5
isn't that sweet..... | its a sign of affection  [and a joke]
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16th April 2004
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#20 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Meadow Vista, CA
Posts: 688
| Quote: Originally posted by Curve Dominant
You all should have websites, and if you don't, you should contact me and I can help you with that.
| So, what sort of cash outlay would it require to procure myself a bit of web heaven, oh ye gearslut web gurus? As you can see, I have a cool domain name, but am a little lacking in content. www.thestickhouse.com
You know, nothing crazy... some mp3s, some resume, pics of my sweet gear rack... oh, no, that was someone else...
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16th April 2004
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#21 | | There is only one
Joined: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC
Posts: 5,259
| Quote: Originally posted by Mike Jasper
Further, those of you who balk at posting mp3s because you think it compromises your sound are making a huge mistake. All's vanity on that one. | i think mp3's make it sound more analog ill post mp3's until AAC takes over, then ill post those. i even post WMA's.
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16th April 2004
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#22 | | There is only one
Joined: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC
Posts: 5,259
| Quote: Originally posted by Stick
So, what sort of cash outlay would it require to procure myself a bit of web heaven, oh ye gearslut web gurus? As you can see, I have a cool domain name, but am a little lacking in content.
www.thestickhouse.com
You know, nothing crazy... some mp3s, some resume, pics of my sweet gear rack... oh, no, that was someone else... | i like what you got going on so far... just add some pics and text and you are golden.
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16th April 2004
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#23 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Control Room
Posts: 1,956
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Brian, I just emailed you.
BTW everyone, I'm not selling my services here, just offering advice on how to DIY-it.
I'm not a website company, but I got impatient with the one I was dealing with and ended up building it myself.
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16th April 2004
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#24 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,739
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Here's a good Web construction company. He did my Web site and is musician friendly (read: doesn't cost a fortune. Sixty CG
Jasper
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16th April 2004
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#25 | | There is only one
Joined: Jun 2002 Location: asheville NC
Posts: 5,259
| Quote: Originally posted by Mike Jasper
He did my Web site and is musician friendly (read: doesn't cost a fortune. | most web designers are... [hint] because some times its nice to get out of the corporate structure of design that pays [or web people charge full rate to]
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