General Ermintrude

Birds of Fire

bin it. what you are experiencing is just the tip of the iceberg.

Oh yeah, and you've got to finish every sentence with "dy'a want fries wi that, ya fucking cunt? Well FUCK OFF!!!".

You are Lumpo-Tempo, as opposed to my brother, Lumpo-Basso. Your job description will be outlined in your SIDCA corporate induction pack, which will be forthcoming (you think I'm joking......). Main duties anticipated to include hitting things with sticks, hard as you like. Membership of Team-Sidca entitles you to rant in a tangential, steam-of-consciousness fashion on any matter that tickles yer whatnot, on public forums, bathroom walls or peoples foreheads. You may also dance in a vulgar fashion when people least expect it. After your 4 week induction training programme is complete, you will be allowed to experiment with fire.

How dare you come on this board and disrupt such a beautiful display of parochial Aberdonian paranoia with such words. We are a simple people and resent being harassed by outsiders, especially when they speak the truth. Venue owners in Glasgow carry guns and sticks, and do unspeakable things to badgers by gaslight. There's nae folk sae fine as them that bide by the Don and Dee. Burn in hell, warlock!

Pictures of an all-in drunken brawl would be better. Broken glass looks so arty!

POT KETTLE BLACK

Howz that, min?

Aye with a whole TWO xlr inputs!!!!!!! Let's mike up a whole fucking orchestra!!! Bits mean fuck-all. A unit's only as good as the quality of its A/D converters. Cheap TASCAM ones will be shitty. Oh yeah, and the desk's analogue. It'll do any amount of bits, depending on what recorder you wire it up to.

Shucks! Get a real desk and a standalone recorder. You'll never top it for quality and flexibilty. And they're so damned cheap on ebay! Those intergrated units are a con, they're designed so you outgrow them and buy more tascam( or fostex or whatever) stuff. And as for installing ASIO drivers......

Get this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15199&item=3778706866&rd=1 and this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=23785&item=3779496688&rd=1 instead. That thing's just a toy.

The technical term is 'a new set of strings'. He's saving up.

I have heard mr onz talent?

shitstream

It's better than his front

if you've got broadband, and an hour or two to spare http://www.mtsu.edu/~nadam/downloads/SteveAlbiniweb.mov

No, true. That is where term comes from. The person responsible for producing (ie making) the record. The usage of the term has shifted a bit, but that is where it comes from. He was the middle-man between the band in the studio and the company paying for it.

christ.....

Oh, just the usual - he put too much explosives inside his bass drum whilst driving his rolls into the swimming pool and choked on his own vomit PMs received and will be responded too as soon as the little men with hammers stop doing things inside my head

Top local boy-band seeks drummer. Must hit the fucking things hard. Keeping some sort of time also an advantage. Influences to include black coffee and lager. PM to arrange informal interview.

Recording involves making a series of choices .In this case, making them sooner will increase the overall quality of the end item. The chances of making a major fuck-up are slim, unless you're doing stupid things with your compressor ('crazy' or 'weird' sounds, ie fucking about without a clue what you're actually doing to the sound). A good compressor should be able to shape the dynamic of the sound whilst remaining essentially transparent. Drums sound 'fuller' because you're not wasting the majority of the dynamic range of your recording medium with the initial impact, you get more of the resonance coming through. The human voice has a massive dynamic range which benifits from a tad of compression, just to fit it to the medium. Another benefit of compressing whilst recording is that you effectively double the amount of compressors available to you, which is great if you're poor. And if you do fuck it up, chances are you'll learn from it next time. Go on, be a man, take some decisions now and save endless hours of jerking off at mixdown.

If you're recording to tape and intend using compression on either drums or vocals, do it when recording, rather than when mixing. Compression will raise the noise-floor of the tape if used during mixing. That's hiss by the way, you fucking plebs!

I may have been pished, but you were waiting for a fucking bus I clearly have the moral high-ground here, ladyboy