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Paul Wesley

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  1. I'm pretending to be tbone's avatar, but in reality I look like jimmyjazz's.
  2. My band is a tribute to all those cryptoscammers whose grandchildren will never work a day in their life thanks to Trump administrations corruption. We're called "Geeks bearing Grifts."
  3. Give me a heads-up when you list anything, so I can offer you 20% of its fair-market value. You know... for my praise band.
  4. I'm not sure which TV Jones model. The first owner seemingly modded everything on the guitar and then spent 0 minutes playing it. It still had the hang tags on the headstock even though the guitar had obviously been sent for a paint job (had the painter's business card in the case) and then to whoever mounted the Bigsby. i.e. a lot of work for a guitar that you don't even touch.
  5. I wonder what Michael Jackson could have created if he hadn't lost his mind (theme parks, monkeys, endless plastic surgery, substance abuse, deviant and predatory behavior, etc., etc., etc.). He had an impeccable sense of rhythm and groove. On top of that, he had brilliant timing, phrasing, and vocal melodies. But after the three-record run of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad - his music went miles away from R and B. Songs were synthesizer-dominated and grid perfect - and I think there are artists who do "synthesizer-dominated and grid perfect" really well, but he wasn't one of them. His last 15 years of music were pedestrian and forgettable. You have to wonder what he could have done late in his career if the tools he used to make music were intentionally constrained all the way back to 1970's-era techniques (i.e. real musicians for a rhythm section, string arrangements, horn sections). I'll bet it would have been cool.
  6. I bought this guitar used a few years ago. It's a Malcolm Young Gretsch - the previous owner swapped out the pickups for TV Jones filtertrons, painted it metallic tangerine, and put on a Bigsby (which I took off immediately). I love the look, and I like how it plays. But it never wins any guitar shootouts in the studio. It sounds biting and harsh. Maybe these pickups were purposefully overwound (?). Anyway, it's about to become a P90 guitar. We'll see if that saves it from going back on Reverb.
  7. Here we go...
  8. Paul Wesley replied to Gil Bang's topic in Music
    She sounds great.
  9. Paul Wesley replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    I'd only get one pair of headphones. There are a whole bunch of things that will be a lot more useful to you than a second or third pair of headphones. If you're tracking a real drum kit in a studio, you need high-isolation headphones so that the click doesn't bleed into the mics. A good studio will have a pair for you, so you really never need to buy your own. For tracking V drums at home, whatever you decide on as a go-to pair of headphones for mixing/monitoring will serve you just fine for tracking. Click bleed is much less of a problem for tracking acoustic guitar. Any closed headphone should give you enough isolation. Mics: What all are you planning to record? Guitars are electric or acoustic? Other instruments? Hand percussion? I assume these vocals are intended to be final tracks and not just placeholders until you get into a commercial studio? My recommendations might vary a bit depending on your answers. Everyone who's starting this journey (bedroom studio) will hear the advice of getting a good dynamic mic instead of a condenser. No one listens to that advice (I didn't), because condensers just seem waaaaay sexier. But the overwhelming majority of cheap condensers sound awful. I wish I had all the money back that I spent on cheap condensers. That includes the transformerless Neumanns, which sound God-awful, their badge not withstanding. Oh, and be careful about buying used Shure mics. There are an enormous number of counterfeits out there. I would only buy one from a high-volume retailer, like Sweetwater or Vintage King. Saving 20 bucks on a used one isn't worth the risk, IMO. Outside of that caveat, I'd definitely think about buying used for many of those things on your list.
  10. The Nebraska offense had 106 total yards in that game. And zero touchdowns. If Watson was shit-talking after that game, he deserves the Johnny Jolly "Know When To Celebrate" award.
  11. Paul Wesley replied to Lurch's topic in Music
    You are getting rock solid advice here. This. Tuning a room with absorption and diffusion will make it so that what you're hearing at your mixing position is accurate, and it will "translate" to other environments. It's pretty much impossible to make a small bedroom super accurate, but a few thoughtful purchases and DIY projects can go a long way. Soundproofing is a completely different thing, and it's actually at odds with tuning the room. And this. I really wouldn't spend too much $$$ trying to sound proof a spare bedroom. Unless you're gonna take some drastic and expensive actions (replacing regular windows with multi-plane fixed glass, etc), you're not going to get great results, because every dollar you spend on something that's NOT the weak spot is a mostly-wasted dollar. Yeah, do NOT spend hundreds of dollars getting thin foam (like egg cartons) that you put all over the walls. It's gonna soak up all the high frequencies and do nothing for the bass (which is where all the problems live).
  12. First off, I never said "no blowouts in basketball" or "no good G5 teams in football," so you're arguing against your own strawman Basketball and football are different sports. In basketball, an Appalachian State (or equivalent) beats an ACC or Big 10 team EVERY single week of every season (until conference games start, obviously). Why? Because in basketball, you can play eight guys and be very competitive. And the structure of the playoff is completely different In basketball, fans can fill up half a 16,000-seat arena and watch their underdog team play two games in a weekend (if they're lucky). Travel for football playoffs is way harder, even for fans of blue blood programs (I've been lucky enough to go to all our playoff games, but it wasn't easy). So it's a totally different sport to attend in-person, and it's totally different for TV viewers as well. The blowouts in the first round of March madness are highly mitigated by the fact that there are 15(!!!!) other games on that day. Football doesn't work like that Advocating for Cinderellas in post-season football just gives the fans lame, wasted afternoons where the camera crews strategically avoid showing mostly empty stadiums. And I'm not even advocating for a bigger or smaller playoff field. That's a separate argument. I just want a product worth watching. These are facts, and they're not a "reaction" to anything.
  13. Yeah, they were trying to emulate March madness, with some Cinderalla stories. Except that in basketball, you can have one superstar and three or four solid role players, and beat anybody in the league. Football isn't like that. Those games are completely pointless, snoozefest ratings killers.
  14. Thanks for the info. That's a pretty obscure reference... I looked up the video and the joke doesn't seem to land even when Rock tells it.
  15. I had to go back and listen to the broadcast, because in real time, I thought, "There's no way he said what I think he just said." With 6:15 to go in 4th quarter, they show the turf rash on Arch's hip, and one of those bozos remarked that it was going to hurt to take a shower, and the other one says, "You can't just rub some Robitussin on it?"
  16. Watching flagrant PI against Michigan in the end zone: "Boy, I don't know about that." Watching a nice football hit by Texas: "I think they should stop the game and call targeting."
  17. I miss old school football where that receiver would have gotten slobberknockered... just because.
  18. They look like they need coolin'
  19. Paul Wesley replied to ztejas's topic in Music
    There is nothing more depressing than classic rock radio. I would feel way more alive getting drunk at Hospice Austin and listening to Sara McLachlan.
  20. Paul Wesley replied to ztejas's topic in Music
    I like the idea, z Every year I feel like it's harder to find a good filter. Terrestrial radio is long dead (and the limiters...ugh. It sounds AWFUL). For a decade I used to listen to all the "best of the year" programs and reviewer lists, and I'd make notes and go down to Waterloo and buy four or five records. I discovered a few gems that way. Lately I find those shows less and less compelling... seems like the hosts either pick Chappell Roan (meh) or some wildly obscure nonsense (each pick is carefully chosen for the singular purpose of showing how COOL the picker is). Occasionally I get lucky letting Apple Music (my streamer of choice) recommend songs. So AI... sure. Why not? Good thread topic.
  21. I remember a game in Waco, maybe 86 or 87, and the wind was just whipping. Baylor kicked off into the wind, and just hit a high blooper, and by the time it came down around midfield, it was moving at a pretty fair velocity back toward the kicking team, and they recovered it.
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