2806. Anonymous (intergate.lodiusd.k12.ca.us) –
19 Aug 2005 18:03:56
[ Killing Robots ]
i think killing robots is bad yo |
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2805. Anonymous (pool-71-110-70-251.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net) –
19 Aug 2005 17:34:28
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
this is so bizarre, we have mushrooms growing in our bathroom. We just moved in 3 months ago and the house was inspected and the property is only a year and a half old. There is no evidence of any leaks, but i have two small children and am concerned not only for possible health hazards, but also the cost of remediation. And who do you call, a plumber or mold remediation company? I was just going to do some bleach action today, but wonder if that is useless? Whats really wierd is that mine appear to "blow up" with black dust showing up on the floor (by the way they grow white colored like any other mushroom and they grow and "die" in a matter of hours).
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Well paint me vanilla and call me scooped! |
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I think that there actually may be some tape overdrive and/or compression type effect plugins out there, though I haven't tried one, but something like that kinda rings a bell in my memory... like maybe something called Magneto? I think it might be some long-abandoned Mac OS 8 software at this point, though. Anyway, maybe I should actually look into that, now that I'm interested. It might be too hi-fi, though (like emulating high-end real-to-real tapes rather than cassettes), I wouldn't be surprised.
And I haven't thought about serializing mic preamps, I've done it! But I never thought of it as that clever, I mean, with some sound sources, they're not high enough to get them to overdrive without running it through another preamp. I've probably done it while you were there, too... |
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I dunno.. my guess is that guitar overdrive would be too extreme, or at least too different. Probably someone could reproduce the "effect" using existing tools, but what I'm really looking for is digital recording equipment that fails gracefully (when used in a sloppy manner, as I often do) like tape does. |
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Can't you get a same kind of effect by singing through a guitar overdrive?
I'll try that one with the Proco Rat I borrowed; to be heard on my next AAD, planned to be recorded soon.
Also, my personal experience is that breakups, how painful they may be, result in great songwriting. |
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Thanks for listening, william!
Yeah, I don't understand why there isn't a good plugin for doing "4track like" compression and overdrive. That'd be high on my list, if I understood DSP.
Were you really thinking about serializing mic preamps? Man, I thought I was pretty clever when I did that. |
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I thought it was just like, more relaxed vocal cords, but yeah, that was probably the first I talked to anyone that day. |
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Funny about the overdrive, cuz for some reason I've just been thinking the past few days how I miss tape overdrive and how putting mic preamps in sequence and overdriving them just doesn't do it nearly as well as recording to tape way past its limits. That and varispeed recording I think are the 2 things that I miss about using a 4-track (but otherwise prefer about 600 other things about recording to computer). Well, and tape's "natural" compression is kinda nice, too, except when it's not, and you have no choice, which in the end isn't good I guess. |
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People's voices tend to be lower for a little while after waking up, do to gunk in our throats not yet jostled out or something like that. |
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I really like the guitar background on "Blue Period", not to mention the bizarro lyrics. And of course, "Fire Tom Murphy" is an instant classic! :) |
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Yeah, I actually used two mic preamps in sequence to get a nice overdrive without digital clipping. I kept the same Cubase session open for the whole weekend, so at least the settings were mostly the same, but I have troubles with levels impatience in general. ;)
I'm glad you think it's listenable. It was pretty painful to make, comparatively speaking, so I was worried, but I think I am coming to the same conclusion too. |
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My guess is that redlines refer to the recording level which sometimes crosses the clipping line.
I think this is one of your more listenable albums to date.
'Fire Tom Murphy' is my favorite, and I like 'Aloof' as well. |
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You mean like, lower in pitch? Depends on the time of day, I think. But yeah, much harder to sing that low. |
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Tom:
What does "redlines" mean in that context?
Also, don't worry about the Geometer build. I got one done. I started thinking that I kinda vaguely remember that I did the last release build, not with your script, but just using the IDE way, and that worked okay, and I tried my old project files and indeed they were updated for the DfxPlugin stuff, so I did that and it worked fine. |
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Funny how your speaking voice is so much lower than your singing voice.
Plus, I liked the analysis of this song, especially the botulism origins... |
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Yes, please do, I'd love to have someone to race!
Thank you for listening. |
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Funny, I was just wondering when the next Tom7 album would be coming out and I was about to crank out a whole bunch of albums to give your "most albums" record a run for its money.
Oh well. I will catch up to you one day. I am thinking of doing an album this weekend as a last huzzah before heading up to school.
I like "Fire Tom Murphy" and "Pull Up if I Pull Up".
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Also, I didn't forget to try that Geometer build.. I just put it off and now I have no time until next week, since I have to prepare for this conference trip and then go on it! |
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You know, I did add track numbers and then somehow they were lost from most of the songs, maybe when I set the album title or something. I noticed the same thing. I guess I should fix the songs that are up there. (done)
Hmm, competing with Mt Eerie will be tough, especially considering my "redlines" recording style on this one.. |
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I've been in Vermont the past few days, so I haven't gotten to really listen to it yet (I did put it on my iPod right before leaving, but my friends who I'm traveling with didn't really want to listen to it in the car), but one thing I did notice is that you forgot to add the track numbers in the ID3 tags! Except for track 10. Somewhat of a nuisance, I added them myself, but anyway, just thought I'd point that out. I will come back with feedback of substance later when I get to listen to it more (though you do have stiff competition for my listening time now, given that I just picked up the new Mount Eerie album here yesterday)... |
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2783. mjn (pool-71-108-166-229.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net) –
17 Aug 2005 02:16:01
[ NEW: Escape Beta 2! ]
Sorry, Anonymous--I wasn't actually being sarcastic, but I guess I could have worded that better. I was just trying to say that it seemed unlikely that writing to the bundle could be the culprit, for the same reasons that Tom said. |
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2782. Tom 7 (h-72-244-68-9.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
17 Aug 2005 00:06:06
[ BORING.COM ]
It is what it is. |
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