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  1. If you want to work on your own mix/mastering skills, then sure, buy all the software and put in your hours.

    If you want your stuff to sound its very best, then hire a pro.  

    Mastering engineers have gotten absurdly inexpensive compared to 10 years ago.

    Ozone 11 "advanced" is $299.

    For less than that, you can get a true pro like Ryan Smith (Adele, Coldplay, ACDC, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, etc) to master your single, and he'll do it in a couple business days.  That's who I hired for "Boomtown."

    There's also an argument to spend more on a mix engineer, and (arguably) then the mastering gets less and less crucial because there's less for them to "fix."

    Just putting that out there for perspective.  

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  2. 12 minutes ago, NoName said:

    the gap between the two just isn't that big. here is some more recent stuff i happened to see on X

    so if there is a small gap where Gabriel > Ewers, but Texas has the better coach doesn't that at the absolute worst even out? it's wild.

    Yeah, obviously Gabriel is really good.  
     

    I’m fine with anyone thinking he’s better than Quinn. 
     

    But “if you knock the shit out of him on every play, he’s less effective” is a “no shit” statement you could say about anyone in any sport.  
     

    It’s the “Quinn panics” stuff that seems detached from the facts.   Also, he’s just a system guy with an average arm.  

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  3. I've watched about half of the Ikard/Lehman videos this year, and they're generally really complimentary of this Texas team.  

    They had a few critiques of Texas that are already widely acknowledged on this board:  our safeties don't have great foot speed, neither does Watts.  Also, the Texas ends are not elite pass rushers.

    But they had some extended commentary on Quinn that seemed pretty homerish and absurd:  Gabriel is the better QB.  Quinn is the product of a system where Sark is the one getting guys open.  Quinn panics under pressure.  Quinn has average arm talent.  If they blitz Quinn early, he will come unglued.  The red-zone struggles at QB show how Quinn is limited.  

    Sometimes what your critics say about you is true (slow safeties, average edge rushers), but they seemed like they went way over the top there.  I think the advanced metrics rate Quinn as elite on plays where he gets blitzed.  

    I guess we'll see on Saturday.  

    They also had some extended criticism of Kelvin Banks.  "Kansas really got after him."  You think we had a 200-yard rusher and 660 yards of offense (despite playing without our 2nd best offensive player) while our left tackle was getting dominated?  Hmmmm.  They also claim the OU LT is better than Banks.  Can't comment on that, because I haven't watched their guy, but I know Banks is pretty good, and that seems like nonsense.  Again, we'll see.  

    I hope somebody shows it to Banks though.  

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  4. I watched CNN for an hour or so before I went to bed last night, and they interviewed numerous Republican congressmen during that hour, and every one of them had their prescribed talking point about making the McCarthy ouster a "both sides did this" issue, and then blathering for another full minute or so about "both sides" dysfunction, blah blah blah.  "A few people from my party plus all the Democrats did this disgraceful thing."

    And I was kind of shocked at the number of times the host let their bullshit go uninterrupted and unchallenged, and let them go with a cordial "Thanks for being here!" 

    Maybe that's the informal agreement for getting interviews?  "If you ever interrupt our intellectually dishonest diatribes, we won't go on your network anymore." 

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  5. Thanks, guys.  I am a huge Baerwald fan as well.  

    That song started out as acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet.  But it wasn't sounding as cool as I had hoped, so we ended up bringing the strings back to add a bunch more layers mic'ed at a distance (sound of an intimate string quartet becomes sound of a huge orchestra), and instead of rock drum kit we used all orchestral percussion, including a massive bass drum and hand-held cymbals.  Also tracked some flutes and oboes.  

    The string score (which I didn't write) is still doing 99% of the heavy lifting in the arrangement.

    It was fun to work on.  I have always loved the song.  

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  6. Check out what the rest of the league looks like when the two revenue-generators play against one another...

    And keep in mind that last week, the Tech vs UH game drew 3% of the audience that the Texas game did.

     

     

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  7. 50 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Boy, that's a lot of FS1 when Texas and OU have the weekend off.

     

    I hope Yormark gets a good, long gander at that.  Next year will feature 13 weeks of those ho-hum matchups with regional (at best) interest.  That's your future, asshole.

    Imagine generating half the fucking revenue for a league where the rest of the schools don't merit a worthwhile TV slot on their own, and then having that league's commissioner openly mock and root against you year after year... 

    Someone should start a thread and call it "The Big 12 is fucking awful."

     

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  8. 9 hours ago, FartingDreamer said:

    I'm pretty sure y'all say the same thing each time facing Kansas State.

    That would have been a great retort 7 years ago (the last time Kansas State beat Texas).

    edit:  I see a lot of others have pointed out the same thing.

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  9. So my old phaser was the Empress one.   As phaser pedals go, it's extremely complex, with several modes, numerous switches and knobs.  I bought it because I was writing a funk/disco record, and the Empress has some modes where it's more of an envelope filter than a phaser, so you can get some pretty cool quacking things from it.  

    But I almost never used all that functionality because it was way too hard to see what you're doing when it's on the back row of a board.  

    The Waylon phaser has some versatility, but it doesn't try to do all of those sweeping, quacking things.  It lets you dial back the depth, so the phasing can be more subtle (which, for me = more useful).  

    I shot it out against the Mobius.  The Mobius sounds thicker but also seems to lose some of the dry signal's high-end sparkle.  

    I don't own an MXR phaser anymore.  In the past, I've had a couple different versions of the Phase90, and I'm pretty sure I'd pick the Waylon phaser over any of those (more versatile for sure).  

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  10. Just now, Deej said:

    Never have that issue. It's easy to weed those people out. I also don't price my stiff like it's new. I always have an asking price that's fair for both parties and I ignore the people who can't see that.

    Trust me, it’s not that I’m overpricing anything.   I’m invariably below the “going” rate - sometimes way below - and I get that anyway.  

  11. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    It's rare I don't get sell what I post on Craigslist within a week for what I ask for it. Never had a bad transaction here in Austin. 

    Really?

    People don’t offer 30% of your asking price… you know, for their “praise band?”

  12. 9 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:

    ... it will be 8-4 with a win against a weak opponent in the Liberty bowl... 

    Honestly, 7 or 8 wins every year, an excuse (youth, difficult schedule, QB injury), and some small reason(s) for optimism is probably ideal.  

    I hope they get every last minute of the Jimbo that they're paying for.  

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