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jimmyjazz

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Glyn has a famous 3-microphone technique on drum kits attributed to him. I'm gonna carve out some time for that interview. Thanks.
  5. Arch Manning could pay that hotel bill and not even flinch.
  6. jimmyjazz

    Tex Mex

    Yeah, EyM is insanely reliable.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.)
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. If that one doesn't convince everyone that it's AI, I don't know what to say.
  12. Those idiots will find something to be outraged in any situation. They didn't take "Cracker" out of the name, it's just a cleaner logo. (It's still ugly, but that's another thing entirely.)
  13. I like Sagarin towards the end of the season, but at this point it's just a crap shoot.
  14. I just wish Ron White hadn't become richer than God. So does his liver.
  15. Jennings: "Why would they say that?" Well Scott, maybe it's because they know they're next on the arrest roundup?
  16. Our office is less than 8 miles from campus, and most of our staff attended UT. I think it's a really odd question. (She's also a Texan, although a UNT grad.)
  17. I was wearing my ratty old school Texas cap at the office the other day, and one of our marketing gals asked "are you a Tennessee fan"? The actual hat, wtf?:
  18. Nice. (Well, except for the circumstances.)
  19. I don't know if the mandated curriculum has changed, but here is a hint as to any kind of federal requirement (from historians.org):
  20. Not taught in Missouri, at least when I was K-12.
  21. 7:15 AM for regular classes or is that a zero hour kind of thing? Where is this?
  22. Yeah, I have a soft spot for Guero's. I lived within short walking distance when they moved to that spot, and we had been going to the Oltorf location for years before that. I suppose it's gone downhill, I haven't eaten there much in years, but it's still a cool location and building with a lot of history for me. Tell me their margs are still good?
  23. Holy shit, we did a family birthday dinner last week, and the kid wanted to go to JoAnn's. Fortunately they were booked, because those prices are nutso. We ended up at El Meson, which was fine.
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