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Paul Wesley

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  1. Players have been doing that for 20 years I have never, ever seen it flagged
  2. Once again, Ossai getting tackled while making a tackle.
  3. Our league is a carnival of trash.
  4. It would be like if Jefferson Airplane **non-ironically** released a lecturing song called “Just Say No” during the Reagan era.
  5. So, assuming you've got those dynamics plus the Shure drum mics, here are my two budget-conscious recommendations: 1) You're gonna want something for vocals. Like I said on the other thread, I'd get an RE20. It's just not even fair that they only cost $350 or so. You could put it in front of the kick drum on an aggressive rock song, and then pick it up and put it on a stand and sing a whispered, intimate, soulful lead vocal into it, and it can sound GREAT on both. 2) At some point, it would be nice to have a ribbon in your locker. I mean, if you're sending aggressive rock guitars to digital converters, ribbons do something to that signal that you want... sort of rounds it off in a way that keeps the aggression but loses the unpleasant harshness. Ribbon mics were mostly a historic footnote until recording mediums went from tape to digital, and shortly after that, the Royer 121 ribbon mic became a worldwide studio standard for electric guitars. Royer now makes a model called R-10 for $500 that to my ears sounds identical to the more-expensive 121. There are ribbon mics now for every budget. Cascade Fatheads are pretty cheap and have become popular (I've never used them). There's a Nashville-based mic maker called Stager who is still kind of a new company, but I've heard rave reviews about Stager mics from engineers who know their shit. They also make a model for around $500. Just to back up a bit and explain those two choices, here's why: You can use your home rig to record your demos, work out parts, play around with instrumentation and arrangements, etc. When you're ready, book a studio, hire a great engineer, and cut your tracks. You can rent as big a room as you need... one with a grand piano, a B3... whatever backline you specifically need. Then take those tracks home again (this is where the RE20 and the ribbon come in) and do your guitar solos, overdubs, harmony vocals, etc. Maybe hire that same engineer to come to your house for half a day and give you advice on guitars and vocals. Then you're off the clock. If you're doing a lot of acoustic instruments, I agree with jj that a small diaphragm condenser like Josephson would be great.
  6. Agree with all of jj's thoughts on this post, but I'm quoting this because I did EXACTLY the same thing. I got the Neumann home and felt like I had joined the big-boy recording club, and was pretty disappointed by the mic in all kinds of applications (vocals, acoustic guitars, piano), and finally sold the fucking thing years later.
  7. AUTF, I didn't know such a mic kit existed, but I like this decision.
  8. jimmyjazz is giving me too much credit. That session was engineered by my frequent partner ( www.charliekramsky.com ) and not by me. FWIW, the mics on that session were likely: Beta52 and fet47 on kick, 57's on snare, 421 on each tom, probably a miktek C5 on hat, Coles 4038 on overheads, Dragonfly deluxe stereo pair on rooms. AUTF, the advice from the other guys above is as good as anything I could offer. It's good to hear that you have reasonable expectations ("demo worthy"), because I've also tried to record drums at my house, and the results were pretty meh, even with what I thought at the time was a decent-sized living area. There are just way too many things to overcome -- no proper listening environment, no isolation from control to live room, inexperienced engineers (me), and a boxy-sounding live rooms with poor acoustic properties. So my microphone advice in general: - Don't spend too much on mics, especially right out of the gate. Something on the kick, a stereo pair of overheads, maybe a top snare. 20 hours of experimentation moving the mics and kit around will take you a lot further down the sonic road than will writing a giant check to Sweetwater. - In general, everyone who starts recording at home runs out and buys a mid-level large diaphragm condenser. Most of those sound awful. It *seems* like you're using what the pros use, but in reality they're a very poor value for the money, and they're really good at getting more of your bad-sounding rooms to tape ("tape" includes whatever software you've chosen). I was guilty of this as well. I bought and sold a LOT of large diaphragm condenser mics in the $500-$1500 range.... AKG, Neumann, etc. A lot of bad decisions. I should have listened to the engineers who were giving me the exact advice that I'm giving now. - High quality dynamics are a much better value ESPECIALLY if your room doesn't sound very good. There's no shame in a Shure 57 (buy only from reputable dealer... fakes are everywhere). An RE20 will serve you well for the next 30 years, and they're fucking fantastic vocal mics. There's a reason you see them all the time in front of radio DJ's and podcasters who have any reasonably-sized budget. There are a lot of other dynamics that you could deploy both on drums and in front of your guitar cabinets. - Along those same lines, a pair of ribbons could serve you both as overheads and on guitars. - Very rarely is a specific microphone the secret sauce in a signal path. There are few exceptions to that statement, IMO. - Have fun. Try not to let the technical bullshit distract you too much.
  9. Yeah, it shouldn't be hard to make Cornyn look like the empty-suit take-away-your-healthcare bootlicker that he is.
  10. Sure. I mean, I've never heard that argument. But sure. Yeah. Also, don't drain that long 3 because then the other team gets to take the ball out of the net and *whammy* you're back on defense. The horror.
  11. Yeah, you know what else ices the game there? A touchdown
  12. Unreal. Dude should never see the field again
  13. In my country there is problem
  14. By itself, diabetes wouldn't do that. Maybe he fell and broke his right wrist a week or two ago, and the hematoma is just tracking down into his hand(?) That wouldn't explain the (less pronounced) discoloration on the other side.
  15. If there really is a third of a billion that's unaccounted for in his re-election campaign, it would just serve as a bookend to his inauguration committee, which, as I recall, raised 40 or 50 million more than previous presidents, and those extra tens of millions just sort of disappeared into the Trump pockets, to their wives, their supporters, their hotels (who hosted self-dealing events where the hotel charged the campaign exorbitant prices), etc. I see a lot of stories about how much the Trump properties profit by Trump bringing his security details there -- which is definitely unprecedented, and definitely corrupt -- but it's peanuts compared to these fundraising shenanigans (which Trump has decades of experience in how to pocket).
  16. Bush league psych out stuff. Ha!
  17. I don’t know. I think it’s much worse than “nothing.” He’s actively sabotaging and destroying institutions that are needed to effectively govern. Like departments of education, energy, and housing. He’s trying to rip healthcare from 20 million people who get it from the ACA, without any plan whatsoever to put a new system in place.
  18. I just listened to his interview. My favorite part was where the FBI had to call him and ask him which cord they should buy in order to access the laptop hard drive.
  19. Hey, Mr BothSides- Fuck the frat boys, and fuck all the golf-playing, back-slapping, overly-entitled and overly-advantaged country club kids. That includes Hunter. If you show me credible evidence of a crime, I’ll be the jury foreman in his conviction. But as much as I’m predisposed to dislike Hunter, these nonsensical and wildly absurd claims from a lawless and senile Giuliani ain’t gonna do much for me. I mean, I was way more pissed when the Country Club Child in Chief was protected from justice by partisans after there was substantial evidence from his own insiders that he (once again) sought to clown an American election.
  20. FYI, donating to Lindsey Graham's opponent felt even better than I had imagined.
  21. Lately I’ve thought about the “great recruiter but he can’t coach” label that Mack had to endure from ‘98-2005. But it was bullshit. Mack almost never lost to the TCU, Kansas, and Baylors of the world. Those were all an automatic “W.” Mack’s big flaw - pre-Vince - was predictable offense and ultra conservative play calling, especially in big games. Hell, in Mack’s last 5 years, coming off a title game in ‘09, he gets an F for identifying and signing offensive talent. I mean, sleepy Mike Sherman loaded up on NFL linemen and skill players while Mack was bringing in QBs and O linemen who couldn’t start at any school in the Big 12. Herman, on the other hand... that guy is a great recruiter and a terrible coach.
  22. Somewhere in heaven, John Blake is looking down and saying, "This Texas team is wasting a lot of NFL-caliber talent."
  23. Like Tina Turner in the honeymoon phase, it takes only the smallest act of kindness to draw me in again. You won't hit me again, right, Ike?
  24. Welcome back to the program, Mr Black
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