Just got another pair of the Senn HD201s. Man, it is weird how much more i like these things than the HD280s. Fucking $20 headphones. They are lighter in weight, way more detailed on the top end, and actually, not as bass-light as they seem at first.

Mainly i got the 2nd pair though, as my first pair is tied up, strapped to my TrackIR clone thing(which makes the use of them for anything but motion capture, kind of obnoxious) with like a dozen cable ties that i don't want to continually be cutting and replacing.

The end result of which has been that i have been using the HD280s for recording, and i kind of hate them for it. For one they are weirdly heavier and prone to sliding off via their own weight/momentum, especially for drumstuff. It has also been impossible for me to get the one ear off in that *just* correct manner, to be able to hear the backing and my own painful yodeling at the same time and in the correct ratios. This and i was surprised to find that their having the cord come off of just one side of the phones(versus the 201s coming off each side and meeting in a standard oldschool "V" in the middle) to be super uncomfortable to work with when drums or a guitar need to be routed around with said cord.

All in all, HD280s, nice, but weirdly, the cheapo HD201s kick the shit out of them in every way other than low end reproduction.

I remember dan saying i might very well find it so, and well, the man was correct.

$24 shipped, everyone should have them.

Boy, it's been a hell of a weekend...

Booked off Friday and today so me and some friends could see New York Death Fest 2.

So we drove to Brooklyn and back. And I was wasted pretty much the entire time we were in Brooklyn, in our fucking horrible hotel room.

The bands that I'd never heard of were for the most part really fucking good. And it was awesome getting to see the new-old lineup of Devourment, Internal Bleeding, Mortician...

I met the singer of Ben's band since she was doing vocals with Parasitic Extirpation, only briefly though because she was on her way into the ladies room. Nice girl... awesome vocalist.

In a strange and pleasant turn of events, Alex is going to come live with the Matlock boys and I in Seattle next month. We took this picture to weird you guys out:

Nice! Was my evil twin* playing my guitar? Or did he have his funky Blakhart Les Paul?

I ... I kinda want a 7-string.

Drop A? This has me curious- what sort of stuff are you using drop A tuning for?

The LTD Tele does have that going for it in the aesthetics department- it's just a plain finish Tele, which doesn't look out of place anywhere. I'd try and play one first just to make sure, especially if you're going so far as to have pickups custom-wound for you. (How'd you pull that off, by the by?)

That being said, I don't know if this holds true for the 400-series Eclipses, but the 1000 series had an extra-snazzy bridge, nut, and locking tuners. And the 400s are a bit less ostentatious visually, without all the abalone (to say nothing of the quilt finishes on most of the 1000s).

The Petrucci sig models are nice guitars, but leave them to the DT fanbois. I'm indifferent to Petrucci, and I'd feel weird playing one- it's too obviously someone else's guitar. Were I to have a signature model, I wouldn't have an ostentatious graphic or inlay plastered on the thing- it seems to be a turnoff to a lot of people.