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Paul Wesley

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  1. jimmyjazz is giving me too much credit. That session was engineered by my frequent partner ( www.charliekramsky.com ) and not by me. FWIW, the mics on that session were likely: Beta52 and fet47 on kick, 57's on snare, 421 on each tom, probably a miktek C5 on hat, Coles 4038 on overheads, Dragonfly deluxe stereo pair on rooms. AUTF, the advice from the other guys above is as good as anything I could offer. It's good to hear that you have reasonable expectations ("demo worthy"), because I've also tried to record drums at my house, and the results were pretty meh, even with what I thought at the time was a decent-sized living area. There are just way too many things to overcome -- no proper listening environment, no isolation from control to live room, inexperienced engineers (me), and a boxy-sounding live rooms with poor acoustic properties. So my microphone advice in general: - Don't spend too much on mics, especially right out of the gate. Something on the kick, a stereo pair of overheads, maybe a top snare. 20 hours of experimentation moving the mics and kit around will take you a lot further down the sonic road than will writing a giant check to Sweetwater. - In general, everyone who starts recording at home runs out and buys a mid-level large diaphragm condenser. Most of those sound awful. It *seems* like you're using what the pros use, but in reality they're a very poor value for the money, and they're really good at getting more of your bad-sounding rooms to tape ("tape" includes whatever software you've chosen). I was guilty of this as well. I bought and sold a LOT of large diaphragm condenser mics in the $500-$1500 range.... AKG, Neumann, etc. A lot of bad decisions. I should have listened to the engineers who were giving me the exact advice that I'm giving now. - High quality dynamics are a much better value ESPECIALLY if your room doesn't sound very good. There's no shame in a Shure 57 (buy only from reputable dealer... fakes are everywhere). An RE20 will serve you well for the next 30 years, and they're fucking fantastic vocal mics. There's a reason you see them all the time in front of radio DJ's and podcasters who have any reasonably-sized budget. There are a lot of other dynamics that you could deploy both on drums and in front of your guitar cabinets. - Along those same lines, a pair of ribbons could serve you both as overheads and on guitars. - Very rarely is a specific microphone the secret sauce in a signal path. There are few exceptions to that statement, IMO. - Have fun. Try not to let the technical bullshit distract you too much.
  2. Yeah, it shouldn't be hard to make Cornyn look like the empty-suit take-away-your-healthcare bootlicker that he is.
  3. Sure. I mean, I've never heard that argument. But sure. Yeah. Also, don't drain that long 3 because then the other team gets to take the ball out of the net and *whammy* you're back on defense. The horror.
  4. Yeah, you know what else ices the game there? A touchdown
  5. Unreal. Dude should never see the field again
  6. In my country there is problem
  7. By itself, diabetes wouldn't do that. Maybe he fell and broke his right wrist a week or two ago, and the hematoma is just tracking down into his hand(?) That wouldn't explain the (less pronounced) discoloration on the other side.
  8. If there really is a third of a billion that's unaccounted for in his re-election campaign, it would just serve as a bookend to his inauguration committee, which, as I recall, raised 40 or 50 million more than previous presidents, and those extra tens of millions just sort of disappeared into the Trump pockets, to their wives, their supporters, their hotels (who hosted self-dealing events where the hotel charged the campaign exorbitant prices), etc. I see a lot of stories about how much the Trump properties profit by Trump bringing his security details there -- which is definitely unprecedented, and definitely corrupt -- but it's peanuts compared to these fundraising shenanigans (which Trump has decades of experience in how to pocket).
  9. Bush league psych out stuff. Ha!
  10. I don’t know. I think it’s much worse than “nothing.” He’s actively sabotaging and destroying institutions that are needed to effectively govern. Like departments of education, energy, and housing. He’s trying to rip healthcare from 20 million people who get it from the ACA, without any plan whatsoever to put a new system in place.
  11. I just listened to his interview. My favorite part was where the FBI had to call him and ask him which cord they should buy in order to access the laptop hard drive.
  12. Hey, Mr BothSides- Fuck the frat boys, and fuck all the golf-playing, back-slapping, overly-entitled and overly-advantaged country club kids. That includes Hunter. If you show me credible evidence of a crime, I’ll be the jury foreman in his conviction. But as much as I’m predisposed to dislike Hunter, these nonsensical and wildly absurd claims from a lawless and senile Giuliani ain’t gonna do much for me. I mean, I was way more pissed when the Country Club Child in Chief was protected from justice by partisans after there was substantial evidence from his own insiders that he (once again) sought to clown an American election.
  13. FYI, donating to Lindsey Graham's opponent felt even better than I had imagined.
  14. Lately I’ve thought about the “great recruiter but he can’t coach” label that Mack had to endure from ‘98-2005. But it was bullshit. Mack almost never lost to the TCU, Kansas, and Baylors of the world. Those were all an automatic “W.” Mack’s big flaw - pre-Vince - was predictable offense and ultra conservative play calling, especially in big games. Hell, in Mack’s last 5 years, coming off a title game in ‘09, he gets an F for identifying and signing offensive talent. I mean, sleepy Mike Sherman loaded up on NFL linemen and skill players while Mack was bringing in QBs and O linemen who couldn’t start at any school in the Big 12. Herman, on the other hand... that guy is a great recruiter and a terrible coach.
  15. Somewhere in heaven, John Blake is looking down and saying, "This Texas team is wasting a lot of NFL-caliber talent."
  16. Like Tina Turner in the honeymoon phase, it takes only the smallest act of kindness to draw me in again. You won't hit me again, right, Ike?
  17. Welcome back to the program, Mr Black
  18. Dumbest team I have ever seen
  19. We're saving the keeper for Kansas, apparently
  20. Our coaches are just as stupid as the players
  21. What happened to T Black?
  22. I'm late to the headphone discussion, but still gonna throw out a cheaper option. The Beyerdynamic DT 990 comes in several versions with different impedances. So can get a pair that's designed to listen with laptops or cell phones. They're cheap, comfortable, and they sound amazing for the price. They're around $175. My only complaint with mine is that the cord is a bit too long. If you want grown-man headphones, I agree with jimmyjazz that the Sennheisers are pretty hard to beat.
  23. I 100% expect some final-week tomfuckery. In 2016 we got it from Comey. This year there’s going to be pre-election stunts (in addition to the Russian interference already underway)... maybe even from our now-weaponized DOJ. Political arrests. Fake investigations. There’s going to be election-day chaos (right wing violence, maybe a false flag we-caught-the-dems-cheating). And there’s going to be post election stop-counting-while-we’re-still-ahead shenanigans. Which is to say- I’m not putting much faith in polls that think a fair fight is a given.
  24. I remember Nate Silver, a day or two before the 2016 election, correcting someone on the 538 podcast who spoke like the election was in the bag for Hillary. “It’s closer to a coin toss than it is to being in the bag.” Since then, I bristle a bit when I hear people say, “Well, all the polls were wrong last time.” It seems that the polls were much, much closer to predicting the 2016 result than was the average layperson opinion... especially the opinion of Democrats.
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