Comments on: Friday ‘what’s on your ear-pod?’ thread

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:22:41 +0000

for the record

duh

By: poprenaissance

poprenaissance — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:35:49 +0000

The La’s freakin’ RULE. My band Hope Chest just recorded a version of “Feelin’” for a b-side.

If anyone wants rare La’s tracks, like the session they did with Pete DeFreitas from Echo & the Bunnymen, drop me a line.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:12:56 +0000

Yeah, see, if you want to speed up the snare relative to the rest of the drum tracks, you’d have to do it with a delay unit, slowing everything else down and leaving the snare dry.

It’s a bit of a tradeoff because any bleedthrough on the snare mic will sound terrible — and the easiest way to get rid of it is to put a heavy gate on the snare, which kills a lot of the ‘air’ in the sound.

But it’s done. A lot of Tom Petty songs have the snare pushed ahead. The beauty of the trick is that it’s REALLY hard to tell that what you’re hearing is an early snare. It just sounds like the song is brighter and more propulsive…

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:46:11 +0000

Oh, crap. Now I see your point about the use of delay units. Damn heat.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:44:17 +0000

Sorry this is late and actually related to the topic of Gavin’s original post.It can make a song’s whole tempo sound different than it is, and there are even techniques for getting those effects artificially: You can back a snare off with a delay unit, or speed it up by delaying the rest of the drum kit before tracking the other instruments. With digital recording, there are probably ways to do it with a mouse click.Well, pre-digital, they wouldn’t use a delay unit, they’d have messed with the tape speed. All a delay unit is is a glorified Echoplex. But your last point, about the mouse clickability of it all, is probably one of the reasons that I find so much studio-created rock and pop music so dead and lifeless these days (techno/trance/house and hip-hop? Whole other kettle o’ fish).I read stuff like these all the time on music boards: “On the 3rd verse of Custard Pie, Bonham slows down a little! He can’t keep time! He sux!” That’s what makes those records crackle with energy: it was actually people standing in a room recording together, not stuff recorded months apart on a hard drive. The music *breathes*, it has push and pull. I’m baffled at this “drummers should be human metronomes” idea; it’s the human element that makes those records so great, not something to be corrected with AutoTune and Cubase.

By: Sporkey

Sporkey — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 05:11:56 +0000

Maybe the PP thong has the incredible powers to do this.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:37:07 +0000

I have about had it with Asshat. He is everywhere and nowhere all at once. I think they should just ban him from all threads save one, where his lonely shrieks of protestation can be seen by all.

By: Marq

Marq — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:53:29 +0000

OK, so you’ve done several posts on “conservative humor.”and there basically wasn’t any. Now a couple of posts on “conservative rock,” and once again, it doesn’t seem to exist. So please, please, please do a report on “conservative porn!”

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:05:07 +0000

Needs more cowbell!

By: chimera

chimera — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:36:32 +0000

Topper is Marie Jon’? I didn’t know that weird chick could sing like that! And a troll to boot. Wow. Amazing.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:44:42 +0000

I don’t know; he had a bad heroin problem for years. But he also wrote ‘Rock the Casbah,’ so he should’ve had steady income at least.

By: puginov

puginov — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:37:12 +0000

Is Topper still playing?

By: GregH

GregH — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:02:17 +0000

Is that a Peepo thong on Brian’s head?

By: GregH

GregH — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:51:03 +0000

So if Seb is me and Marie Jon’ is Seb that means that I’m Marie Jon’.

I feel so dirty

By: GregH

GregH — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:32:43 +0000

Dude, you just so blew my mind! Wow…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:32:08 +0000

Just listened to ‘I Love America.’ It sounds like it was recorded in a sewer.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:31:16 +0000

How do you know you’re not Seb?

By: GregH

GregH — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:26:38 +0000

So Gavin, are you hinting that Seb is Marie Jon’?

By: FM Asshat

FM Asshat — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:23:33 +0000

Sorry, won’t happen again. It was just too incredible that such a thing existed.

By: Oh, FTLOG

Oh, FTLOG — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:20:38 +0000

Hey, Asshat…. real troll or not, a warning would be nice when you’re including a link that pops up with a giant picture of a dildo. Believe it or not, some of us “libs” have children around the house, bosses to look out for, etc. Surprises like that can cause problems.

Just askin’ for a little visual respect.

Thx.