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Paul Wesley

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  1. My day-after conclusion? Propaganda works. Like, really really works. “Hunter Biden’s laptop” may have gotten more people to the polls than any other issues. e g Do I want healthcare for my family? Should we listen to experts? Should we rebuild our traditional overseas alliances?
  2. Why is Trump convinced there will be ballot fraud in THE EXACT SAME STATES that gave him the presidency in a razor-thin race in 2016? I mean, if they were in the tank for the Dems, wouldn’t we have President Clinton right now?
  3. I keep an a.m. radio on in my laundry room, just because I sort of want to hear what kind of messaging the olds are hearing. And I got to tell you, even though I already know I'm stepping into a firehose of bullshit, I am still frequently floored at how profoundly poisonous his message is to this country.
  4. Trump getting interviewed in Virginia. Press asking questions that effectively equal “Will there be a peaceful transition?” He starts out with surprisingly normal answer. Ten seconds later he singles out Philadelphia as a place that cheats in elections. “The history of Philadelphia politics... No, I don’t put people on their honor code.”
  5. i e you can infer negligence by the very nature of the accident (am I getting this right, lawyers?).
  6. I agree with all of this, except I think the most explosive outcome is one where Republican governors or legislatures declare a state for Trump, with Trump clinging to a razor-thin margin, and hundreds of thousands of legally-cast ballots waiting to be counted. There are four or five states - Texas among them - where this is a completely plausible outcome.
  7. I'm assuming your first sentence was supposed to say "where." And you're right that there aren't a lot of examples, primarily because civilized democracies A) are committed to peaceful transfers of power, and B) historically, citizens of a country may hold different opinions from one another, they generally agree on reality and facts. And I feel like I woke up in an America where neither A nor B are true. Also, Ireland's "troubles" occurred in a well-funded, well-trained 1st-world country. Again, I said I hoped you were correct. I just think the notion that events like governor kidnappings or bands of Al Queda-looking pickup trucks intercepting a bus full of politicians -- the idea that's just going to suddenly stop happening after a passionately contested election... it's wishful thinking. Peace.
  8. I really wish this were correct. But that's not how modern conflict zones work.
  9. There's no fucking way he has that secured
  10. 100% If it were OSU on offense on the same play, we'd get endless "concern trolling" from Huard Just asking questions, you know
  11. Players have been doing that for 20 years I have never, ever seen it flagged
  12. Once again, Ossai getting tackled while making a tackle.
  13. Our league is a carnival of trash.
  14. It would be like if Jefferson Airplane **non-ironically** released a lecturing song called “Just Say No” during the Reagan era.
  15. So, assuming you've got those dynamics plus the Shure drum mics, here are my two budget-conscious recommendations: 1) You're gonna want something for vocals. Like I said on the other thread, I'd get an RE20. It's just not even fair that they only cost $350 or so. You could put it in front of the kick drum on an aggressive rock song, and then pick it up and put it on a stand and sing a whispered, intimate, soulful lead vocal into it, and it can sound GREAT on both. 2) At some point, it would be nice to have a ribbon in your locker. I mean, if you're sending aggressive rock guitars to digital converters, ribbons do something to that signal that you want... sort of rounds it off in a way that keeps the aggression but loses the unpleasant harshness. Ribbon mics were mostly a historic footnote until recording mediums went from tape to digital, and shortly after that, the Royer 121 ribbon mic became a worldwide studio standard for electric guitars. Royer now makes a model called R-10 for $500 that to my ears sounds identical to the more-expensive 121. There are ribbon mics now for every budget. Cascade Fatheads are pretty cheap and have become popular (I've never used them). There's a Nashville-based mic maker called Stager who is still kind of a new company, but I've heard rave reviews about Stager mics from engineers who know their shit. They also make a model for around $500. Just to back up a bit and explain those two choices, here's why: You can use your home rig to record your demos, work out parts, play around with instrumentation and arrangements, etc. When you're ready, book a studio, hire a great engineer, and cut your tracks. You can rent as big a room as you need... one with a grand piano, a B3... whatever backline you specifically need. Then take those tracks home again (this is where the RE20 and the ribbon come in) and do your guitar solos, overdubs, harmony vocals, etc. Maybe hire that same engineer to come to your house for half a day and give you advice on guitars and vocals. Then you're off the clock. If you're doing a lot of acoustic instruments, I agree with jj that a small diaphragm condenser like Josephson would be great.
  16. Agree with all of jj's thoughts on this post, but I'm quoting this because I did EXACTLY the same thing. I got the Neumann home and felt like I had joined the big-boy recording club, and was pretty disappointed by the mic in all kinds of applications (vocals, acoustic guitars, piano), and finally sold the fucking thing years later.
  17. AUTF, I didn't know such a mic kit existed, but I like this decision.
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