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jimmyjazz

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  1. 3 and 9 are the only two that belong in the top 10. What an abomination.
  2. Becht seems like he sucks.
  3. Would you say it's "well-endowed"?
  4. Avery Johnson will be bald within 5 years.
  5. This play-by-play guy really struggles with basic arithmetic and yards to gain.
  6. What did you pay for which new Mazda? Need to buy my kid a car and used prices are dumb Something like $24.6K on a Mazda3 sedan. No complaints at all so far. It's a lot more restrained than most of the cars in that price range (including the Mazda3 hatchback along with the usuals like the Civic, Corolla and Jetta).
  7. I'm with you on that one. It has entered my lexicon. Next, I look forward to understanding what it means, but it sounds good.
  8. Yes, my live room was way smaller, essentially 22 x 24 with a corner carved out for a control room. I'm poor. I did however use that Royer 121 for the fig-8 mic.
  9. If you have a fig-8 mic, try Mid-Side out in front of the kit. It can paint an astonishingly accurate picture of what's going on.
  10. Yeah, good call, I forgot that one. Not exactly UCLA but not horrible.
  11. Well, let's not act as if there aren't an infinite number of ways to mic a kit, none of which don't benefit from a better drummer. His technique does a very good job of balancing room + individual drum sounds w/o chewing up a bunch of tracks or suffering from phase issues.
  12. While the UT system isn't up to UC standards, there are a few options where a good education is possible. UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, and UT-San Antonio all have their good points. Texas State has become much better from an academic standpoint seemingly simultaneous with Texas A&M's intent to shoot its tiny dick off. I'm not all that familiar with Tech, but they do have some decent programs (but Lubbock). Yeah, it's not like having UC-Irvine as your in-state "safety" school, but dropping $250K on a bachelors degree is mostly bad money in my eyes.
  13. OK, that's fascinating. He talks about his 3-mic technique but I always thought it was for stereo. It wasn't. He miced (equidistant) up high over the snare, off to the left looking in over the floor tom at the snare but had both overheads panned CENTER. He also had the 3rd mic (kick drum) panned center. He's recording Led Zeppelin, steals one of the drum overhead mics to record a Jimmy Page acoustic track which he panned off to one side, put the mic BACK on the drums but forgot to pan it back to center. Bonham plays, and Johns likes what he hears. Moment of brilliance: "hey, what if I pan that other 'center' mic to the left?" and voila! the 3-mic STEREO drum technique is born. I love this shit.
  14. Glyn has a famous 3-microphone technique on drum kits attributed to him. I'm gonna carve out some time for that interview. Thanks.
  15. Arch Manning could pay that hotel bill and not even flinch.
  16. jimmyjazz

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    Yeah, EyM is insanely reliable.
  17. I've mentioned it before: I know a kid who was top of his class at an Austin private school, 1580-ish on his SAT, rejected by UT EE but got a full ride to GaTech. Uh, OK. That's probably the better school anyway. Horse race, regardless.
  18. Can't remember which way it goes day/night, it was a pretty boring topic. (Not acoustics, that was my emphasis, but I didn't care about atmospheric shit.)
  19. Fun fact I learned in an acoustics class at UT: temperature inversions are often the reason one can hear much more distant sounds at night. The temperature gradient causes sound waves to bend back towards the earth, as opposed to bending upwards during the day. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
  20. Went to see a friend's band at a small Austin club last night. They were good, not great. Need a better drummer. The opener was the craziest shitshow I've seen in a while. Some old dude on guitar who clearly has played for decades, another old dude on drums who could play OK, and then 4 millenials who I swear must have been recruited from School of Rock. A gal on "piano", a gal on fiddle, a rock-looking dude on a Tele and a bass player who couldn't be bothered to realize his tone was totally distorted. It was the most heinous mess of amateurism I've seen in a long time. They played 5 covers, no originals, and jammed on every song, rotating around so everyone could solo every song. Seriously, it felt like one of those middle school summer band camp kind of bands. "Live Music Capitol of the World" my ass.
  21. If that one doesn't convince everyone that it's AI, I don't know what to say.
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