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14th August 2007, 02:26 AM
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| I Am So Stoked All My High-End Gear Doesn't Work Okay, maybe that's a bit of an over-statement. Not ALL of my high-end gear broke because I'm a snob. I buy, well sell my soul for, really nice stuff. But everything that involves tubes-preamps, EQ, compressor, amplifiers, etc. some way or another this month took a sh|t. So I've been left to play with my last pair of pres-my quad eights, and and my Midas mixer. I am using an e47c and a RCA 74 junior, but that's it, and I'm blown away. I learned a valuable lesson today where I don't feel like I need a specific version of X or Y to get a job done. It's all about experience. Okay, I lied. I just saw I'm actually the drum mic through a Pultec mixer for some tubage. I'm still stoked. i feel like I've reached that epiphany where the ruler and compass aren't necessary in the design. Only useful. I'm going to record some more now. Cheers, -soupking
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14th August 2007, 04:15 AM
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| Chemical abuse is not your friend, Soupking.
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14th August 2007, 04:18 AM
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14th August 2007, 04:45 AM
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| I want to hear some of the stuff you've been recording. If it's like your posts I think it will be very      .
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14th August 2007, 05:12 AM
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I'd like to add that 3rd story windows were made for tape machines. My f#&king input monitor won't give me a signal so I'm screwed once again. I've got to stop doing what I want to do until my "tech" has time to look at it.  I'll have a track done sometime before Christmas. This is one of 4 tape machines in this room that doesn't work.  5 minuntes later, my spring reverb breaks. Awesome. One minute it's glorious, the next it's half recorded over. The love, the hate, I'm so tragically hip I could vomit right about now.
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14th August 2007, 05:21 AM
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| Sorry to hear you're having a rough day mate. This stuff can be like a fine classic motor car. When it's all working correctly it's wonderful, IF... you can keep it all working correctly.
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14th August 2007, 05:26 AM
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14th August 2007, 05:28 AM
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It's like that movie Room 1408 or something.
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14th August 2007, 03:49 PM
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| Well, Mercury just came out of retrograde so you can't blame it on that.... Maybe Venus? You may want to invest in some kind of power conditioner or something if you haven't already. Any big thunderstorms lately? |
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14th August 2007, 07:14 PM
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 No thunderstorms, but my room is hot. I'm thinking my room's too hot and it might be affecting my gear.
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15th August 2007, 12:13 AM
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When I have all my analog gear on my room stays warm in winter. In Summer air con is a must, it's expensive to install but cheap to run these days, I just turn mine on between takes or setups. Man I hate the days where nothing goes right.
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15th August 2007, 01:07 AM
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My God, but that's a brilliant quote. (Why isn't there a 'guffaws 'till he coughs' smilie?) 
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15th August 2007, 01:22 AM
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I keep forgetting how much heat these things put off, especially my mixer and powerbook. Man, I have 2 fans in the control booth. I'm running out of room too while I need more rack space. I'm thinking about chopping out a third of my desk and installing a rack tower....with a fan.
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15th August 2007, 03:36 PM
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| O.K. Soup, ya cursed the freeking place! My Bad Cat needs to go to the shop! Grrrrrrrrr!
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