Im bored to death!

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I just feel sorry for the UPS/U.S. POST person that delivers to your house Reel... That stuff is heavy!!!

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No true craftsmam uses MDF for anything. Whatever happened to exotic woods?
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Hello Derek. Your right. I'm not a true craftsman. But I bet you have some digital stuff in your studio too! Use the right tool for the job I always say. Who would use exotic woods for cabinet bases. I use 1 1/4" subfloor ply.

Actually, I deal in very exotic woods. Whats your favorite flavor? The endcaps on my console are made of 10 exotic woods. Bubinga, gabboon, rosewood, birdseye maple, and others you've probably never heard of. I don't mean to come off as a jerk here Derek, and I agree to a certain extent. But when is the last time you actually looked at a highend woodworking book. MDF is all over the place. Because it has it's uses.
I love to use MDF. It is a very stable substrate for veneer work. Machines very nice, and is absolutely the best for painted surfaces. I hold no predjudice against materials just because it is not "exotic". How bout this. 3 years ago, Macys began to use a species called Anigre. Very tight grain, beatiful color, and flitchs that they could slice veneers up to 20' long for column enclosures. In Portugal, anigre is a common wood that is used as fenceposts. MDF is exotic to them. Exotic is in the eye of a beholder. Ever seen Highend MDF finishes. You wouldn't know it was mdf if you saw it.

The term craftsman is a misnomer. It implys a person that is distanced from the real world. I have news for you. The best craftsman I've ever seen worked on the bench next to me for 10 years in an architectural mill. They used MDF daily. They are called millworkers, not craftsman. Yet they are. From all over the world.

OK. Now, want to explain your use digital stuff to the analog audience. No difference.
Need I say more.
fitZ:)
 
I was just pulling your leg, but now that you mention it, I use no digital at all, not even to burn a CD. To me, digital is like MDF, particle board, Formica and all that stuff. Analog is like cherry, rosewood, walnut and oak and even some exotic African woods that are quickly disappearing from the earth.(just like analog equipmemt)
 
Have you ever been watching something all week, then just flaked or blown it at the last minute? HA. That's me, for sure,
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:eek: :eek: :eek: 4 times this week. My wife says I should get a laptop and tether it to my wrist. Ha!
I troll the mixer column every ten minutes waiting for a M3700 to come up. I was up till 2:00 this morning, and I had a job interview today:rolleyes: I got it though. TOO COOL ! Man, I went to meet the GC today. Actually, its kind of like a sub contracting job. I will be doing three things. Helping frame a greenhouse, drafting the cabinetry, and building the cabinetry. But you would have to see this place.:eek: :eek:
I went to the jobsite today. HOLY JUMPIN JAHOSAPHAT! The home was featured 2 yrs ago in Architectural Digest. Were building the greenhouse to match the home. This ain't your run of the mill greenhouse folks. Were talking worldclass Orchids. amongst other things :D
The house is on 5 acres overlooking the most beatiful coastline I've ever seen. It cantilievers 20' out over a cliff. The whole place is made of Port Orphard cedar. If you want to know what that is, read my post this morning in the building forum. It is EXOTIC and beatiful. Expensive too. The construction on the house and greenhouse is natural round post and beams. Some with a 20" diameter. HUGE. The ridge beam was $30k. The main greenhouse room is only 11'x19' and was bid at $42k. Ha! Some people have you know what to burn. And this is only their getaway. They only stay there a couple of times a year for 2 weeks. Hmmmm, I'd like to see their residence. I can only imagine.
Well, I forget this aint the building forum. Sorry guys. Hey, did you see the mixers that just came on ebay. GEEEEEEEEEEEEZUZ! Dream on Rick.
fitZ:)

PS. That tascam parametric is mine I tell you. And I'll rip the face off anyone here that beats me to it:D (just kiddin with ya!)
 
Over at the Tascambbs they tended to deride this site, but I have come to realize there is some interesting stuff here. If, and when, Tascam opens again, please give us a visit.
 
Count your blessings.

...and Fitz. if you had that kind of money you would end up like others who buy all the Tascam gear ever made and sit on it, never offering the rest of us the chance to buy any.
 
[Ahem],... I've seen the wealth, man, opulent wealth, so I absolutely know what umean

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On the other hand. isn't it great that you can come here and actually talk to someone who has the very same arcane equipmemt you do and is is willing to share his expertise?
 
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On the other hand. isn't it great that you can come here and actually talk to someone who has the very same arcane equipmemt you do and is is willing to share his expertise?

Derek

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YES!!

I think Tascam and this site (In conjunction with everyone's patience and knowledge) have been an absolute God send.
I live in a big city and it's even hard here to network and pool info about vintage Tascam gear as well as the recording craft on a whole... I can't even imagine guys out in the country without so much as a GC nearby!!
I also find it pretty damn cool that despite the different mediums everyone is involed in recording to and the various levels of expertise, there remains a common goal which pretty much is to create or capture "The Sound". It's almost unheard of to have the interaction and opinion resources that these sites provide.
You can have first time four trackers with a SM58 talking to guys that own and operate two inch twenty-four track set up's.
It's like Bill Gates hanging out with a guy that owns a hotdog cart... And it's free!!!!

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On the other hand. isn't it great that you can come here and actually talk to someone who has the very same arcane equipmemt you
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Amen. Thanks Derek. I'm one of the ones that REALLY need it too. And from what I've read, you, GFM and Reel amongst others, are the ones who give the info. Much appreciation. I need all the help I can get. I've NEVER been in a real studio. Sad to say, but it's true. So with out guys like you who are so generous with your knowledge, guys like me would be up the proverbial shit creek. So thanks mucho again.

I do have a question though. If a master, be it tape or CD is the media that the mastering engineer ends up with when he is done, what do you call the media that you mix to? I've heard it called the 2trk Master that you give to the ME, but that doesn't make any sense:confused: Unless they are both called Masters.

Or are they?
fitZ
 
I'm not positive and I may be misunderstanding the question, but I think they call it the Pre-Master.

(I'm usually wrong though.)

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I use no digital at all, not even to burn a CD. To me, digital is like MDF,
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Hahahahaha! Thats great. I feel the same way. Which actually brings up a question that I probably should start a new thread with. AND, it's been beat to death here, but I want to bring this up again.

I've read a few websites of Mastering Engineers, who have made some statements that absolutely have garnered my interest, as it has to do with the very statement you made above.

Why in the world, would anybody mix to a CD, only to have the ME shrug and say" hell, I can't do much for it cause it's already been converted once." Everyday I read peoples posts about mixing to CD, for sending to an ME.:confused: Why? It's already been reduced to 16bit and that makes no sense to my way of thinking, expecially when ME's say the same thing. Reel even told me long ago that tape was the media of choice that ME's like. So why do people keep mixing to CD? Seems redundant to me.
And the whole damn world is switching to digital. WHY, if the mixdown media still has to be converted again. Unless I am missing something, and if I am, can someone explain what it is I'm missing.
Any comments gentleman?
fitZ
 
A mastering engineer and/or facility ideally wants either a 1/2 track, stereo master on 1/4" or 1/2" at 15 or 30 ips with no noise reduction, no fade outs on the tracks and no overall compression on the stereo mix.

They need it that way so that they have something to shape and mold into a state that is ready for either vinyl pressing or CD replicating.

If you compress and fade out your tracks, you give them that much less to work with.

The same is true for giving them a stereo master on CD. You are reducing the thickness of information that they can work with and if you do the same faux pas that I mentioned above, you handcuff the quality that can be achieved.The mastering engineer would prefer a 24 bit digital data package, if it must be digital that you hand over to him.

Many people though, like me for example, have no plans to ever hire a mastering facility and so, it is common to try to do their job and compress and fade tracks onto our own CD burners, which I do all the time.
 
Very true Ghost. My final product is not sent to an engineer for final mixdown, so I do it myself. Besides, isn't that where all the fun comes in?
 
Hi guys, thanks for the reply. Well I doubt that I would ever send anything for mastering myself either, although, believe it or not, there is someone right here in Coos Bay that must be doing big time mastering. I saw a webpage just last night for the studio, and he had 5 yrs of client listing. Man, this guy is busy. Whew, AND someone else has a tracking studio here that is also busier than hell. It seems a lot of people come over here to record from the northwest. Must be the ambiance:D cause there isn't much else. Ha!
fitZ
 
BillyFurnett said:
So what is everyone working on??
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I was going to start a re-do today of the track I was talking about a couple of days ago but I wasn't feeling to well this morning and just couldn't get into doing anything in the studio today.

I posted an older tune in the clinic a few minutes ago called, History Repeats. It's my one and only attempt at Reggae but it really doesn't sound like it, to be honest.

Cheers! :)
 
Sounds interesting Ghost.. I'll check it out.

I'm working on a hangover (LOL) and trying to decide if I should walk away from the band I've been in for the last four years.
( I wanted to start a seperate thread/poll to see how people here would deal with this situation, but I don't know... Maybe I'll just put it to you guys and get some feedback.)


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