Pretty Quiet in Here Today
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February 15th, 2012, 01:38 PM
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Every day is glorious to hump on, I would any day of the week? Snowed down under with staff off with the flu. Because there is a recession on and all I am trying to convince some out of work printers to set-up their own labour business. I have been ringing other shop owners and have an easy dozen on-board who would also pay a premium to get GOOD temps in to cover bubbles in workload or when staff are off sick or holiday leave. I think I got one guy convinced to do this who is technically proficient, so it will be interesting, and helpful in terms of labour management. We are having our wettest, coldest summer ever, so not the best tee shirt year weather wise either. Great for the cows and milk production.
Last edited by Printwizard; February 15th, 2012 at 01:39 PM.
Reason: BTW I know it's Wednesday, but Thursday down here.
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February 15th, 2012, 01:56 PM
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It's so strange to hear you say "wettest, coldest SUMMER ever". We had some snow on Sunday, it didn't stick though. It was the first and probably the only time that I had a golf club in my hands while it was snowing.
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February 15th, 2012, 02:10 PM
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Normal summer maybe lows of 10 degrees Celsius at night and highs of around 38Celsius. And you would expect maybe 7-10 days of sunshine between 2-3 days of showers. I swear it rained every day and most of the big summer events have been drowned, music festivals a foot deep in mud! It makes it muggy, yet cooler in the factory. We are largely an agricultural economy exporting milk, meat, wool, trees, food commodities so to an extent you look at the rain and think "well, it's better than living in Greece"......
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February 15th, 2012, 04:04 PM
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Now we are reduced to discussing the weather
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February 15th, 2012, 04:41 PM
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Finalizing a tour of Europe in May, working on an itinerary/expense sheet for that. Holy hell tour buses are EXPENSIVE. It would be cheaper to do the whole thing on horseback and fly home with the horses.
Also discussing equipment needs for the new studio with various members of my bands. Consensus: we can go broke and stay broke forever just buying microphones.
Also trying to figure out how to squeeze a two-car garage amount of screen printing gear and other junk into a one car garage...
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February 15th, 2012, 07:28 PM
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Evo... what kind of mics are you looking at?
Ever looked at building your own ribbon mics?
I'm a big fan of 414's on guitars (with the obligatory 57 on it as well)... TLM 103's are beautiful as well and you got to have a U87 while you are at it.
But honestly there are a lot of very nice mics out there for pretty cheap... the MXL stuff, Shure has that K series that is pretty sweet. But yes, you can go broke with all those beautiful mics... then you got to get some phat pre-amps for those things.
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February 16th, 2012, 02:37 AM
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Evo... what kind of mics are you looking at?
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I'm leaving it to the band's keyboard player, who is also the resident sound engineer. I have yet to dive into it, I geek out on 1000 other things.
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Ever looked at building your own ribbon mics?
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I got enough to do!
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Originally Posted by Gilligan
I'm a big fan of 414's on guitars (with the obligatory 57 on it as well)... TLM 103's are beautiful as well and you got to have a U87 while you are at it.
But honestly there are a lot of very nice mics out there for pretty cheap... the MXL stuff, Shure has that K series that is pretty sweet. But yes, you can go broke with all those beautiful mics... then you got to get some phat pre-amps for those things.
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The big thing is lining up the pre-amps so we have enough nice inputs to match the setup, then we get gucci on the mics. We have a smallish 32 channel board, an Otari 24 track deck and a Protools setup. It'll be a hybrid thing, tape or digital or both, depending on the session.
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February 16th, 2012, 10:11 AM
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Interesting.
Check out my buddy's band (yeah, it's myspace but it's lightweight)
http://www.myspace.com/thespecklers
They recorded the entire album with 8 track 1/4" reel to reel. It never touched digital until it was "mastered" down to DAT? (I can't remember if it went straight to DAT or if they dumped it into the PC, but I think DAT)... That was the only AD conversion and only because it had to be. LOL If they could have mastered it straight to vinyl they would have! LOL
Sounds pretty amazing considering the limitations.
They are all geeked up because they picked up a 16 track 1/2" machine recently... I guess we will get a new album in a year or so!
These guys are all self taught and recorded it out their bass players' home studio. Well, the drummer went to college for drums... but hey, he's just the drummer right. j/k
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February 16th, 2012, 11:36 AM
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And just like that, poof, he's gone.
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Classic!!
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