Recent content by ronhar

Nothing I can add here. If I want to listen to real music I do so in my studio. It's the best I can do with my meager equipment. When doing chores around the house or some garage/woodworking project I'm usually have Pandora playing oldies (at least oldies for me) on my phone. Incidentally when...

Can’t be too careful... I personally would buy used with the mentioned precautions. My son brought the virus from college. His was like a bad flu for a couple of days. The wife ( his main nurse) isolated him but still got a mild case. Another son had mild symptoms. My test was negative and two...

I personally would buy used with the mentioned precautions. My son brought the virus from college. His was like a bad flu for a couple of days. The wife ( his main nurse) isolated him but still got a mild case. Another son had mild symptoms. My test was negative and two other kids had no...

LOL You got me thinking... I started probably 60 yrs ago experimenting with a mono cassette recorder. Traveled through analog tape and mixers till the work to record got in the way of the urge to just play. Sold everything and went simple with a portistudio. Time passed and the recording bug...

Build sounds like it's going great. As to " It's funny...before the drywall, the room sounded real nice with just the insulation..." . Many years ago I met an ancient local guy that had once been the only guy recording anything in our area. He began pre-8track tapes! Lots of great stories from...

I remember making our PA speaker columns for our first band when I was 13 probably around 1970. I salvaged old console TV speakers and some plywood slapped together in my Dad's woodworking shop. Sounded like crap but we looked the part. There were actually 3 or 4 competing R&R cover bands in our...

Looks like your making lots of progress. Still makes me want to build something! I'd love to start a downsized retirement home but the wife says "Never building again" lol. We have some skylights and I love the extra light they let in. I like the rhythm when it rains on them. If its in your...

That concrete makes me wanna build something. Will definitely stay tuned for more progress. I'll look into those codes but forgot to mention the original house was built 40yrs ago and I did check for permits. Did need a septic system inspection. Installed one big enough for future expansion. I...

On permits, here in East Tennessee I'm in the county (but just 1/4 mile from two city limits, best of both worlds!). No building permits, just an electrical permit. One allowed to the owner if your doing your own. I did the grunt work but had my cousin, an electrician finish and make sure we...

Just yesterday I heard that an electronic cymbal can produce like several thousand variations in sounds. Real cymbals can produce hundreds of thousands of variations. I don't know if that's actually true but a good drummer can add more "life" to a session than any machine. Still we do what we...

With just a quick listen on my laptop I agree your mix sounded a little more open. I liked it. The guitar did come on as a little weak. The guitar "softness" could be the player style, strings or even mic technique. Was this a studio session with everything miced or a group playing semi-live...

Not sure what this thread is supposed to be. No question. No answer. Don't matter. I can relate with visual info. I do video and photo work. Try to get colors "best" even if i enhance light and color manually or digitally. My daughter is totally blind. She could care less about how hard i work...

About 5 years ago I used some left over acoustic foam from work. It was used to help with some machine noise and I wasn't involved in the actual use so I can't vouch for any specs. It may just be any brand but was supposed to have some acoustic properties. Any way I just glued on some magnets...

Me Likeee This is a great tune. I only got to listen on my laptop so far but it even sounds good there. Kinda reminds me of Van Stephenson's album "Righteous Anger" and I loved that one. If you're doing a set of tunes I'd like to hear them together. You got some chops man.

I remember when I played in a band in the 70's coming home with a sucking sensation in my head and a dull ringing. We had horns and every opportunity we played bigger venues. We got loud sometime but most jobs were not ear shattering. About 30 years (and hearing protection with regular hearing...