the way it is

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I seriously think this guy is a joker out for a cheap laugh.
I think they had a similar problem once with a guy in the dragon cave. Thats why when you sign up and agree to the 'rules' or summat, it says your name can't be "(insert the guys name here)".
You'd have to ask a moderator about it though, I only read it in passing.......
 
Mic Fleetwood and Don Henley haven't been by here yet to book studio time, so I think you're safe from my 38-8 analog set-up.

I'm not out to steal anyone's business and when I started recording while your Momma was still wiping your nose with a Kleenex, digital recording was just being introduced to the professional market and computers were just being experimented with for recording.

If you like, you can you pay a visit to my meager self-supported home studio. If you wish, I can provide a phone number and address. You have to supply your own body bag and hearst.
 
sweetnubs said:
i can tell when it is done by feeling the thickest part of the leg, if you get resitance and the leg moves freely it is finished.
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What??! ! Finished??! ! If the leg moves freely and gives you resistance?!

I'd say in that case, it isn't even dead yet! So give it a couple good, solid whacks over the head or shoot it or something . . . but by no means is it "done." :D

Mr. Nubs, as clever as you profess to be in the culinary arts, I think you need to stick to audio.
 
Mr. Nubs, as clever as you profess to be in the culinary arts, I think you need to stick to audio.
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He should really just stick to talking to himself in the bathroom mirror. That's where his best audience is.
 
Re: sweetnubs

Damn! This is a fun thread! One star, my ass! :mad: :D

You're born. You go thru shit. If you pull your head out of your ass in time, you learn from your mistakes. Experience is the only truth. My friend, you sound like you have some experience.

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rode rice krispies
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See, now that is bullshit. How do I know? Experience. Granted, I'm no engineer. I haven't recorded in a studio. I've only ever read one DSP engineering book in my life. But that's bullshit, because my experience with a Rode NTK mic (in particular) has proven different. No rice crispies. Tight, focused sound that was easy to mix.

You're probably right about a lot of stuff. But if experience teaches me DIFFERENTLY in the future, I'll change my mind.



C'mon! Let's bump up the star rating on this! I'm laughin my ass off! :p
 
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My friend, you sound like you have some experience.
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The problem is, the Doctor didn't pull his head out in time. He'll be forever in a World of Shit.
 
chessrock chef sweetnubs would like to invite you to a seat at his table in chez nubs. i guess i didn't quite clearly explain myself. you press the thickest part of the leg, which is on the inside. press down on the meat itself, if it is firm it is done. this is the same procedure used to test steak for rare, medium rare, well, bleu, etc. this is where the resistance i was talking about comes from. when you actually try to move the leg and it feels as if the bone would easily slide out from the meat, this is another clue the turkey is done. that's what i meant by the leg moving freely. make sense? good. bon-apetit.

yes sennheiser, i must make fun of your 38-8. what is that 1/4" or half-inch.? . . . . . doesn't matter. prosumer reel to reels generally suck. and i'm shure you're not calibrating it with at least a 1khz tone, let alone checking the azimuth, tangent, wrap, zenith etc. breaking out the oscilliscope, cleaning the heads with non-alchohol based cleaner every time before use and during a session when you have breaks, calibrating the bias or even using the proper tape forumlation for the bias. quit using those q-tips, jesus some people are about as bright as a bag of hair and sharp as a three-tittied bowling ball. you have to do all of this to even possibly get good sounds. even though nubzilla hates digital you are better off with a decent 24/96 soundcard then a 1/2" eight track. please alsheimer don't tell me you use DBX. 1" eight track is ok. as long as it is maintained daily.

oh by the way sennheiser, lovenubs has fond memories of his atari amiga, programming pascal on his original mcintosh and even programming basic on a trs-80 and commordore 64. sennheiser quick, what is MADI? does DASH mean anything to you?

10 for x=1 to 1000
20 ?"sennheiser doesn't know shit"
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well participant, bittersweetnubs must admit he has never listened to the ntk. i have heard the nt1 and nt2 unfortunately. i am shure the ntk is no u67. why in the hell are we all the sudden supposed to pay attention to mics from australia? australia! when you get more experience under your belt and actually listen to a good u67, a neve module, and a set of meyer labs monitors you will understand my comment about rode rice krispies. your first listen will be an eye opener, unless some dumbass with a lot of money who doesn't know how to use the stuff is the "engineer". sometimes people don't even notice the rice krispies on one track, (i do) but once you stack 24 tracks on top of one another the garbage piles up fast.

i must also state another reason why i hate chinese manufactured mics. folks they are assembled by slave labor. please don't support this with your dollar. beringher does the same thing.
 
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well participant, bittersweetnubs must admit he has never listened to the ntk. i have heard the nt1 and nt2 unfortunately. i am shure the ntk is no u67. why in the hell are we all the sudden supposed to pay attention to mics from australia? australia! when you get more experience under your belt and actually listen to a good u67, a neve module, and a set of meyer labs monitors you will understand my comment about rode rice krispies. your first listen will be an eye opener, unless some dumbass with a lot of money who doesn't know how to use the stuff is the "engineer". sometimes people don't even notice the rice krispies on one track, (i do) but once you stack 24 tracks on top of one another the garbage piles up fast.
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Well, the Bee Gees seem to love the mic (unless they were paid for their opinions :cool: )

And your comments about garbage piling up are well taken, and understood. This is stuff we find out by doing... and I've done some of it. It's why experience means everything, and here-say means nothing.

And I'm mildly surprised you were an ol' Commodore 64 programmer... huh... me three :) 'Cept I went the machine code route... 169,0,240,252 ... etc ;)

Too bad ya came in with guns blazin, man. Pissed off a lot of good folk ;)


Chad
 
Yes I do know what DASH is. And if you don't know the format of the most popular prosumer eight-track deck you've been living in a cave for the last 20 years.

The DBX noise reduction works quite well thank you. Your golden ears have obviously never heard DBX work correctly.

It does get calibrated and aligned by ME on a regular basis. The bias is set-up from the manufacturer for Ampex 456 which is now Quantegy 456. The standard reference is at 1kHz with a flux level of 185 nWb/m for operating level and 250 nWb/m for an elevated level.

Can you tell us when a 320nwb/m-DIN is used???? Huh?

I'm certain that you know what else is on the alignment tape.

Cleaning? No I never do that. I just knock the chucks of oxide off with a hammer when it builds up too high.

You're such a dipshit.
 
Michael, this dweeb doesn't know his ass from elbows. I think the closest he's been to the record industry is the CD section at Best Buy. I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep on anything he could possibly type. Read his posts; he's not spewing specs from memeory, he's puking back verbage from product spec sheets. Just another 15 year old punk with web access.:D
 
Hey nub-nuts.........lets hear something of yours that shows your abilities. Otherwise you're just a big-mouth asshole.
 
Mike (T.R.),

You've gained respect for what you've done, and the advice you've given in the clinic. No disrespect from me :)

IMO the only issue, here, is experience. We can read a lot of info on this board; the only way to know whether it's true or not is actual experience, trying it out. What're we gonna believe... some BS we read on hr.com, or our lying ears? :D
 
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Michael, this dweeb doesn't know his ass from elbows. I think the closest he's been to the record industry is the CD section at Best Buy. I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep on anything he could possibly type. Read his posts; he's not spewing specs from memeory, he's puking back verbage from product spec sheets. Just another 15 year old punk with web access.:D
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I agree. Probably works there too.

Hey Numbnuts, lets hear some of your credits. Where's your music? What albums have you engineered? I want to see labels, names, dates, and studios. I want to hear some of your remarkable recordings.

It's time to put up or shut your fucking cake hole. We're calling your hand.
 
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This reminds me of this "pro guy" that recorded my bands first demo in his big ass studio with an gigantic console and racks upon racks of rackmount gear. I was a poor guy that knew absolutley nothing about recording, and his sample work sounded great. He stopped and lectured us every 5 minutes about anything musical to get more money out of us. He sold us on using his $3,000 Sonor Drumset and $2,000 rackmount guitar preamp (which he ran direct) instead of using our own gear, all the while telling us about how theres so many recording engineers that don't know what they're doing, blah blah, and when all was said and done our demo SUCKED.

That is EXACTLY what made me get into home recording. My band did a demo on a Boss BR-8 and 90% of average listeners liked our home recording over the "pro" recording. And believe me, our home recording sucked.

Two funny things I remember:

This dude said: Oh you won't want to make copies of the master CDR on your computer because the Analog to Digital converters in computer CD burners are cheap, and my converters cost thousands of dollars" The funny part was that he later admitted "I don't know anything about computers" and I didnt know that when duplicating a CD on a computer that the signal ever gets converted from digital in the first place.

It is also funny looking back at how he was telling us how much he spent on studio foam to SOUND PROOF his studio so we wouldnt get any interuption from outside sounds.

This may be the exact kind of guy sweetnubs is complaining about but with tons of money, or it might actually be a real pro that just took advantage of 4 innocent musicians. Either way, I will NEVER spend money in a pro studio for a demo again, unless:

A: A record label is paying for the studio time

B: I'm getting my own project mastered

C: I'm going to release a serious project that I don't feel comfortable handling on my own.
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I remember the only time I ever recording in a pro studio. My bass player had a freind who was an engineer, and he said this guy would record us for free...which turned into no so free and then flat out expensive(I forget how much it was, but it wasnt cheap). After we got the CD from the guy, all I could think of is how I wished I had the individual tracks to work with at home so that I could remix the damn thing. For the money we speant we could have bought everything we needed to record ourselves and done a lot better job.
 
sucks that a few have had poor experiences with pro studios. It would be really really silly to imply that this applies to any more but a SMALL percentage of them
 
It seems that is the reason why alot of us are here, had a bad experience f*ck it I'll learn to do it myself. nubsie should get with the real world, 10 years ago you could make a fortune programming html now any 13 year old can kick all our asses. When you have Soderberg making movies using the same technology that is within all our grasps you have to adapt. Take it as a challenge to your art nubsie, you haveta be that much better than all of us. That includes the creativity of it. If you are going to follow the status quo and do the same as all the others be prepared to be run over. And hell you should be, the music industry right now is abysmal IMO, if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. Hell Lomky is a newbie talking out of Lomky's ass, but Lomky would KILL you if you were working with Lomky (yes WITH Lomky) on my project.
 
A basic FUCK YOU!

Let's hear it Nubs.Put up or shut the fuck up!We would all be thrilled to hear recordings mixed by such a genius as yourself!Or,maybe we could have a mix off where we compare our recordings recorded on "crap gear"to yours recorded on "pro gear"and have a vote.If it was your intention to come on here and stir up shit,well,you have succeded and I hope you get a good laugh and a cheap thrill.Bring the audio clips and prove your excellence you bitter ass insecure bitch!!!
 
I just had some dumbass clients pay me $200 for a few hours work recording their non-talent band in my shitty little home studio (Behringer mixer, Marshall mics, Meek, and other shitty gear). They paid me another $150 to master their shitty little 14 track project with my mac and and some shitware plugins. End result: total sonic crap.

Life is good.:D
 
He doesn't have much of a poker face does he? Raise the bet and he folds.

I guess he's doing some more research so he can post credits we can't verify with phone calls, letters. etc.
 
Discovered this yesterday, sure some fun around while I was away a few weeks!

Agreed: autotune should be banished by law.

All the rest, well....what wonders me is that he is taking it out on stuff that has a price/performance ratio that makes a lot of the what he calls pro gear ridiculous. It is the general reaction of the music industry, just the same as the reaction of the riaa to computers. The world around them has changed and they awake. Their business models shattered and instead of at the lead, they find themselves in pursuit of the rest with a long way to go.

Don't worry, it is just a dinosaur. He lives in the past.

Some thing that stood out was the problem of the middle layer. This is indeed the long haul problem. The big studios will always have customers (bills paid by the labels), and you sure can do a good demo with current home gear. But to get from the latter to the former you need something inbetween. If those guys are pushed out, the big labels have won. That worries me.
 
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