those're gorgeous pics... but there's no soundpost! i wonder if they're real or compu-generated... super smart either way.

They do have a certain CGI-like unreality to them, but from what i remember they are real cameras. Real, tiny cameras.

NAMM oddities 2012:

http://www.otheroom.com/namm/index.html

Totally want these:

Those are badass. I'm not sure I'd really care how they sounded. (Probably pretty interesting.)

Seriously old-school:

Totally would.

It was good enough for this guy:


These sort of hats and vests should be required studio-wear.

We can put that in the constitution, in my opinion. And i would need to acquire both bits in order to stay legal, but i am willing to do that for the good of the state.

Whose studio is that, anyhoo?

Gotta say, I am hatless. A decent fedora shouldn't be hard to track down though. As far as vests are concerned, checkered isn't among the available choices I have kicking around either- pinstripes are more my thing. But, what must be done must be done. Really, I'd think any suitably loud vest would do.

As for the studio, Bill Putnam. (Thus Mr. Sinatra.)

Courtesy of a friend of mine. The stuff she sends me is the sort to keep your nerd strapped on for a good long while. I'm okay with that.

I must admit i have some concerns about whether or not i am fedora-shaped, but again, i am willing to take one for the team.

Besides, i like the idea that the constitution of our nation might have a bit in it regarding recording studios. You know, just sort of offhand, in between the treasury guidelines and human rights sorts of biz. One nation under BELT, and don't forget your fedora in the studio. Please be seated. Etc.

Fedoras seem to work pretty well across the board. There's probably some sort of test to prove it, too. It's come up in conversation in the past, and it's generally agreed upon as a broadly acceptable hat. Something like a sombrero, garrison cap, pith helmet, tricorn or the like is a bit more difficult to pull off.

I could rock any one of those others you mention(actually i have never tried a pith helmet, but i suspect it would go), honestly, but i feel like everyone *thinks* they look like Bogart/Sinatra/Grant in a fedora, but some people's faces/heads are really just the wrong shape for it.

Now, this very different Grant had an alright hat, and he knew how to party:


The pith helmet is highly underrated. (Yes, Beavis, we know it sounds like "piss helmet" but with a lisp. )

I hate quite the array of hats myself. I don't wear them often enough, but will occasionally. Of course whenst in character of a certain member of GnR I must. I also have been known to wear vests as well. I would agree Fedoras and vest should be required studio attire. I will second the motion.

There is something about how the light coming through the f-holes is striking the aerosol/dust in the cavity that I don't like. I appreciate that its going to be a real long exposure shot but something about the scattering profile doesn't add up. You need the particle to be of the order of the wavelength of light to begin to get weak scatter so you're talking about 0.5 µm at the smallest and for the sort of stuff that would catch the light and be visible to the naked eye is going to be well over 1 µm in diameter if you think about the Mie scattering cross section. The thing is there really shouldn't be a lot of stuff that big inside a violin. Hell there isn't much stuff that big in the air anyway in terms of number space. Something somewhere is really fucking with the minds interpretation of scale with those beams of scatter. They've either pumped the thing full of dust or they've photoshopped the tits off it in which case they might as well have CGI'd the whole thing.

I was actually thinking: Smoke machine. Plays like dust with light, but much tinier particles.

But also, i suspect that there is also a bit of photoschnappsing going down. For instance, perhaps the combination of a smokey image for the light shafts, with a non-smoke image for the rest of the interior.