It appears the power supply in my Hackmount Rackintosh has given up the ghost, presumably due to excessive consumption of dust and cat hair. Buggre alle this for a lark, he is no gentleman.
'Puter repairs, fun wow!
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| Author: | torgeot [ Fri Jul 21, 2017 2:51 pm ] |
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shit.. getting slow in here bitches... Dev, I am at Arlenes 8/28 a monday and 10/7 a Saturday coming up. Hope to see you there if you are free. I'll have the Mrs with me. |
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| Author: | Devtron [ Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:18 pm ] |
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Might try to make the 8/28 show. We fly out to LA on 8/31 so that should line up quite nicely. |
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| Author: | Snaxocaster [ Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:34 pm ] |
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It appears the power supply in my Hackmount Rackintosh has given up the ghost, presumably due to excessive consumption of dust and cat hair. Buggre alle this for a lark, he is no gentleman. 'Puter repairs, fun wow!
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| Author: | chris_d [ Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:18 pm ] | |||||||||
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Aye, i just finished up my own extended version of this, though my main fuss wound up being me motherboard.  Like a jackass i couldn't resist upgrading while in there for repairs, so then i got to spend the last three weeks tracing a complete nonsense intermittent fault that actually, in the end, wound up being my hott shitt brand new and improved modular power supply, which appears to have some out of spec connectors that randomly decide not to. Shit is running awesome back on my old power supply though now. Nice clean OS install too, due to the specific manner in which the old system fucked itself.  What type of PSU does the hackintosh run on? Did you have a nice one in there? |
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| Author: | Snaxocaster [ Wed Aug 16, 2017 3:46 pm ] |
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600w something-or-other; I gather it was pretty decent as I spec'd it from the Hackintosh build guide. It is currently sitting on the floor under my desk; I am running an antiquated Dell Windows 7 laptop approximately the size of a hippopotamus with a very annoying touchpad at the moment. (More hippopotami need touchpads. )The new PSU is a Thermaltake Smart 650w, sitting on top of the desk, as I am too tired/lazy to install it at the moment. I have to pull a lot of cabling, and I'm not up for that right now. Maybe later. I hope it's not my main board that's buggered. The thing simply turned off when we were at the store last week and didn't turn back on, no signs of life, so I'm assuming PSU. We'll see.In unrelated news, I may be metallibassing again soon; it'll be time to put Geoff's Fisticuffs pedal to the test, alongside the Big Muff and HM-2. Current bass of choice is still a 5-string Warwick Corvette with J-bass pickups, violin brown flametop. Maplification likely to be an SWR head- an older Bass 350, pre-Fender, tube preamp, SS power- into a Peavey 4x10 as that's what I can borrow at the moment. It's been some years since I owned a proper bass rig, my usual setup being Sansamp VT Bass --> Warm TB12 --> Warm 1176 straight into the line ins on my recording apparatus. I expect both pieces to be serviceable; Peavey bass gear is generally solid and an older SWR should at least be fun to play around with. As usual, I will add chorus and delay to my board, probably the BBE Mind Bender and Seymour Duncan Deja Vu, for when I feel like channeling Tool, The Cure, Isis (the band), etc. Might rack up the 1176 just to be an asshole about things, even if the rest of the rig isn't particularly snooty.  Symetrix 501 would be a good option here as well, but the '76 has a grit to it I like.
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| Author: | chris_d [ Sat Aug 19, 2017 1:25 pm ] |
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Trying to keep myself out of trouble by avoiding going into the city today, i decided instead to wander out to the local music-go-round. Was looking for something in a usb-based midi controller type thingamabob, but didn't like what they had when i saw it in person. They had some other shit though. Just a different kind of trouble i guess. Got this brand new like Acrolite:  This weird beard 70s zildjian 18" flat ride:  And this utterly beat-to-fuck-and-back i5:  Wanted to check out an i5 and it wasn't too expensive. The flatride thing is just something i like the idea of for a quiet type of drumkit. And i have been wanting to get my hands on an acrolite for a while. Still trolling for a 6.5" one, but was always going to aim to acquire both. This one was a solid price especially considering that it looks basically like its previous owner took lessons on it for about two weeks and then never touched it again. |
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| Author: | Snaxocaster [ Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:05 pm ] |
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The i5 is... Different. I've honestly never been quite satisfied with one myself, though we have one kicking around and it does occasionally get used. Might just be me, though; I discovered I like 57s more than the "better 57" options. Curious to hear your thoughts on it. I will say this for the Audix stuff: it's very solidly built, so that thing should work just fine unless someone really buggered it up. The blue and olive badge Acrolite is in nice shape! I forget the depth of the one my friend/session drummer has, but his was beat to all fuck when he acquired it. Luckily, he's quite handy and refinished/restored the thing. Probably the value-for-money option in the snare drum world.  The flat ride has me curious; don't know that I've ever heard one in person, but I've long been curious about quieter-type cymbals in a rock context. I know I like Zildjian Ks, for one.On my end, I've been informed that my friend I metallibass for was damn near gifted an Ampeg SVT 3 Pro today, more or less by accident, in a gear horsetrading situation, and I can just use that.   I am not going to complain about the situation. "So someone damn near gave you the amp I'd seek out for myself anyway, and I don't have to lug the thing to rehearsal; all I have to bring is my bass and pedalboard? Nah, no thanks." On 'puter-related news, I replaced the PSU. The beastbox is back to functional. Seems to have taken some of my RAM with it though.  Could always be worse; at least it wasn't the CPU or main board.
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| Author: | Unstrung [ Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:43 pm ] |
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I use the i5 on snare. I prefer the sound of a 57 for that, it has a warm and familiar midrange. But it also gets plenty of hi hat bleed, despite what they say. And I don't need any more hat, so i5 it is. It rejects real well. To me it sounds like the 57 after someone EQ'd it. And you may or may not like how they did so. That one is beat to fuck though. Just how? In Unstrung life news... I've been a little checked out lately, just hella busy. I'm married now and the wife and I are renting a townhouse downtown. Well it's not downtown but it is to me because I'm from the suburbs. I hate my job and want to play music. |
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| Author: | chris_d [ Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:57 am ] |
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I would guess that this one saw a whole pile of use as a snare mic. It is banged up enough that i would kind of assume it was in a club or something. One day i may get a new windscreen for it, but it definitely works. Screen is mangled but no contact with the capsule, kind of amazingly. I am definitely curious to have the time to sit down, strap it to my SM57, and put them on a bunch of shit to compare. |
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| Author: | Snaxocaster [ Wed Aug 23, 2017 3:34 am ] |
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As many times as I've tried the things- my bass player in Garda owns one, too, so it winds up on things- I never seem to wind up preferring them to just a plain old 57 in the mix even though my ears tell me solo'd, they should be better; an EQed 57, as you say.  SM7B or my old chrome-bodied Unidyne III, those, yeah. I'll take those over a normal 57 any day and twice on Sunday. Could be personal preference. I'm sure I could find a place for the thing somewhere around a drum kit, and it's not a bad mic by any stretch. I actually feel somewhat guilty for not getting on with the thing as it's so well-liked. I've always liked the Audix vocal mics for their top end and feedback rejection.Re: 57s and hat bleed, whomever is saying it doesn't get significant hat bleed is a godsdamned liar. That thing bleeds like a sonofoabitch, and that's the whole point of using basically anything else save for an LDC (which gets all the bleed, but it sounds better) on the snare. That's why you put an i5, SM7, whatever rejects hats on the snare. Ditto the bottom mic. On the subject of hats and 57s, I actually really like the thing as a hat mic- and I know hat mics are not currently in fashion. But: the hat mic allows me to control both the tone of the hats and where they sit in relation to the rest of the kit. Sometimes I want 'em centered. Sometimes off just a bit. Sometimes to the left. And never audience perspective, because that's blasphemy, and Poseidon would strike me down with his trident. The 57 sounds smooth and without harshness as a hat mic; it does well there, and accentuates the midrange chunk hats actually have in the room which traditional overhead setups do not pick up in any meaningful way. |
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| Author: | Snaxocaster [ Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:01 am ] | |||||||||
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I hear you, good sir. My goals in life consist primarily of reading books, playing music, and traveling to places that aren't the Greater Western New York Area. Bugger all the rest of things people do. 
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| Author: | chris_d [ Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:04 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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AYE. Achieving some level of financial stability at some point would be nice though too. I am finding it to basically be an even trade right now. Either i spend enough time at work to have money, or i don't and therefore have enough time to play music/do all of the other things that i want to. So i have just been alternating them every couplefew weeks for a couplefew years now. But the end result is basically that there is no stability to speak of. And that i may, at just about any point, be forced to abandon the cave and all of its contents, and go live under a bridge somewhere instead.
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| Author: | chris_d [ Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:12 am ] |
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Regarding the SM57 vs i5 thing, my theory going in is that i will most likely prefer the 57. I am perhaps pretty much the least picky dude around about this sort of stuff, and have no problem whatsoever just using what works/has worked for-fucking-ever. I do retain a certain bit of curiosity though, and the shitbeat i5 was cheapish, and i expect it to be at least as serviceable as a 57 for my general needs, and i already have one 57, so why not. My solution to hi-hat bleed anyhow, isn't mic-based. I think smaller thinner hihats will be the answer. Alternately, i would go bigger thinner ones too(like 16"+), to move the frequency they inhabit to some elsewhere place. If bigger, i will replace some/all of the kit's crashes. Just some massive hats and a crashride sounds like a fun/interesting experiment to me. Mix up the mechanics, and shake up the thinking/playing hopefully. Need to get a remote hi-hat though. Fucking things are alarmingly pricey, which has been the main reason that i am still just talking about it and haven't just done it up yet.
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| Author: | Unstrung [ Sat Aug 26, 2017 3:24 pm ] |
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Yeah I agree with the 57 on hats being nice. Some people want a hi fi sound with ample representation in the 5 digit frequencies but naw dawg. Warmth. The hats can be warm. With that said I've never had a need for hat mic. All I record is metal, so... Actually I did record a hard rock band this past weekend and we were doing a big kit, we were going to use a pair of Presonuses for a thirteen mic setup featuring hat and ride mics. Alas one of them forgot some XLR cables he said he'd bring so there were no cymbal spots and no under-snare. But the i5 on its own got us a huge snare... it is a great drum sound they got. And we used the Sylvia Massy hose mic trick. It's a good trick. |
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| Author: | Devtron [ Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:05 am ] |
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My company currently has more billable hours than developers (it's just me and my partner), so the last month has just been non-stop for me. Nothing worth complaining about though, except I basically never play guitar anymore, but that is mostly due to my synth being so accessible at my desk. I think my bands gears have slowly started turning again, pretty excited to go back down south for a song-writing marathon later this year. |
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| Author: | torgeot [ Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:58 am ] |
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Hey gents, Back in 3 bands again. Still doing to Guns N Roses thing, I can't believe its been 6 or 7 years in this. This past weekend we had a mini 2 day tour of Pittsburgh and then Kentucky... a lot of driving and then back to work Monday. Pittburgh is 8 hours away from us and Kentucky 14 and there is about 6 or 7 between the two. Both were good gigs though, response was great at both. The original band has a Battle of the Bands on Saturday (which I could not attend, so they used the guy I replaced) They were going for an opening slot for Blue Oyster Cult and Jefferson Starship. not that either band is particularly a good band for us to open for but, still would have been a decent crowd I guess. I have been drafted into a 90's and newer cover band, at least the music is not terrible. |
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| Author: | Broseidon [ Wed Sep 27, 2017 2:14 am ] |
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Just changed my damn life by trying Recorderman style OHs in my basement. Can't believe how much better it sounds than more room oriented OHs in what is not the most ideal room. Shells also sound punchy and fat in OHs alone. Doesn't sound washy and roomy like I tend to go for but it really, really works and will suit me well in the future for sure. I also just impulse bought a DBX 160x..
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| Author: | chris_d [ Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:02 am ] |
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What is recorderman style again? Is that the one that is like a slight variation on glyn johns? |
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| Author: | chris_d [ Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:07 am ] |
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For me, the last pile of weeks has been different flavors of chaos. Very crazy worktimes for about four weeks straight. Now, one of my sisters(the local one) had a baby. Had a rough go of it, now i have a pile of family members filing in to lend assistance, and am also myself now on sister/baby maintenance duty. No one sleeps once they find themselves in the orbit of a newborn. Definitely not just a parent thing. Just had to return an impulse purchase Epiphone Dot.  Luckily for me it had a semi-broken headstock/neck so i could hit the undo button on the purchase. Probably just going to buy another one later though. Maybe a Casino instead actually. Going to take more time choosing the next one though. I have to stop impulse buying guitars. Really though.
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| Author: | Broseidon [ Wed Sep 27, 2017 2:41 pm ] |
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Recorderman is definitely like GJ but a little more direct in on the kit and apparently has a more coherent phase relationship between the two mics. The floor tom side mic in GJ usually sounds more unfocused on the snare but has more lows from the floor tom, but I'm using close mics anyway so that don't bother me. The stereo field ain't wide but it sounds focused and cuts down on the redundant reflections in this small-ish room. I've also thrown up a ghetto bass trap in the corner behind the drums that might be doing a good bit to help as well. I'm definitely managing a surprisingly nice albeit quite dry picture of the kit that work well with the close mics. Babies scare me.
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