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| Tune of the Day OMG slaw, how I love that song! I saw him live with the lineup on that album, and though they were not as much to my taste as were the bands on Bring The Family and Slow Turning, they were great on their own terms. John Hiatt, one of our national ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Aw boxer12, I was just kiddin'. I actually DO like The Dead, at least when they do what they're good at, which isn't singing. It just so happens I love, love, love harmony singing, and superior chord progressions, melodies, arrangements, etc. In o... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard Let me go back to the beginning. The world of music recording is comprised of two, completely separate entities: the audiophile, and the mass market. Audiophile recording engineers evaluate microphones in purist terms---accuracy, etc. Inna, your q... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard By the way, the Shure SM57 is also commonly used to mic snare drums on stage, so ironically any given player's snare drum often sounds very much the same on a recording as it does live. | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard inna, the Pink Floyd recordings you cite were made long before their London studio was built, and were recorded in other studios.Where did you get the idea that microphones are the bottleneck in the recording process? Most commercial studios have ... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard There have been great microphones for many, many years. The Telefunken U-47 from the 1950’s ( a large diaphragm condenser tube mic) commands massive amounts of money on the used market (it is still considered the best mic of all time for vocals), ... | |
| What Characteristic Strikes You First About Un-amplified Music? Yes, imo many speakers create a miniaturized, doll house-sized version of instruments, especially big ones---grand pianos in particular. And many also make the music sound as if it is being squeezed through the speaker enclosure, the analogy being... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard Unless you know a way, then, of using a pair of "golden ears" in place of microphones, all the sound in any given recording is that captured by the mics, at least that of acoustic, non-purely electronic sources (keyboards primarily, though some gu... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? ghosthouse, I’ve long been intrigued by the subject of the genesis of songs, not possessing that gift and talent myself. I’m sure Iris has heard "Black Diamond Bay", but she didn’t write "No Time To Cry" until almost twenty years after that song c... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ghosthouse, one of my most fun gigs was backing Don (Sugarcane Harris) & Dewey on a set at The Foothill Club in L.A. (a place that booked pure American Rock ’n’ Roll and Rockabilly artists) in the late-90’s. Don & Dewey had been on Special... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? The third verse of Iris Dement’s "No Time To Cry", one of my absolute favorite songs:"I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening newsThere’s a half a dozen tragedies from which to pick and chooseThe baby that was missing was found in a ditch t... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Booker T & The MG's, the only band to work with both Otis Redding and Bob Dylan. | |
| Many seem to be talking about their last system . Both! Time to focus on the music more than the sound. The limiting factor is the source material, and it is what it is. There comes a point where good enough is good enough. | |
| For those of us over 60.. Miles vs. Mitchell is like Frazier vs. Ali, or a machete vs. a scalpel. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? wolf, I saw Dewey and three other guys playing billed as The New Buffalo in the middle of '69, my teen combo opening for them at a local San Jose High School. Randy Fuller, Bobby's brother, was playing bass and singing harmony. The stipulation was... |