Leonardo

W H A T .... is your name?

S T O P ! ! ! !

Who approacheth the bridge of death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

Right, off you go.

(I shall need some spanish lessons soon)

darth_ender said:

A buscar el oro de Cortez.

 WHAT... is so special about Special K?

Post Praetorian said:

For what alternate purpose might their god serve? Is it a creative being?

 Maccaroni pictures! :)

The irc you mean? Or was it something else entirely?

TV's Frink said:

It says it right next to his avatar.

TV's Frink said:

Lair.

darth_ender said:

Juan Carlos de la Cruz, el capitan del barco El Pollito.

 WHAT... is your quest?

WHAT... is your name?

BUMP!.... and...

...

S T O P !!

Who would cross the bridge of death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see...

DuracellEnergizer said:

Is thejediknighthusezni's internalized homophobia caused by his batshit craziness, or is his batshit craziness caused by his internalized homophobia?

 imho both are caused by his repressed love for cock.

TV's Frink said:

darth_ender said:

City until proven innocent, eh?

 You of all people should know when a man is city.

Sounds like one of the Mad Hatter's riddles.

"When is a man a city?"

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

- a Protestant, Presbyterian Christian

- a high school computer science teacher who used to be a professional software engineer

- an umarried, American 27 year old man

- an owner of a 99 Honda Civic

- a pretty awful guitar player

- Some kind of political conservative, probably. I'm more just interested in local control of power

This totally needs to be recited by a beatnik to a nice, slow jazz beat. 

timdiggerm said:

Things which this forum member is which may be relevant to questions:

- a high school computer science teacher who used to be a professional software engineer

I have a busted Amiga500 bought at a flea market. When you turn it on, it just shows a white screen. I can do a little soldering and I know a little about electronic components. What are the chances I could get it to work?

- a pretty awful guitar player

 why do you consider yourself awful?

TV's Frink said:

@Leonardo welcome back and don't mind if i do

 @Frink thank you for noticing I've been away #computerproblems #generalapathy

TV's Frink said:

All I need is a title #somethingsomething

 #gocrazy ?

dclarkg said:

Leonardo said:

thumbs up for anyone who appreciates Louis CK and Patrice O'Neal ! :)
*sigh* Why did Patrice have to go, and not *insert hacky comedian here*?

 Yeah it was a real loss, he last set was on the Charlie Sheen roast  :(

Here it is, a true gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrUHxeVdbqI

although I did know about his appearance at the Sheen roast, I still had not seen it till now. And man did he kill! What fucking confidence! Even though IMHO he went too soft on stupid Seth McDoucheland.

timdiggerm said:

Bill Cosby - Himself

 I watched like 5 minutes and laugh my ass off, I never saw this one before :)

 Some time ago I used to watch it regularly and listen to it on my ipod, and after a while I could recite the whole damn show by heart.

these are cute though.

thumbs up for anyone who appreciates Louis CK and Patrice O'Neal ! :)
*sigh* Why did Patrice have to go, and not *insert hacky comedian here*?

:(

Possessed said:

It's actually more raw than it sounds.

I record the guitars and bass with audacity, connecting the "line out" cable on the back of my amplifier to the input on my computer and recording directly.  Most people say mic'ing it is better, but honestly I don't see how.  Seems like it would sound fuzzy and unclear that way.

I process all the recorded tracks with audacity as well.  High pass filters, low pass filters, eq, dynamic range compression, levelling, noise removal, all that in audacity.

I make the backing tracks in midi form with Anvil Studio.  Just a free midi authoring studio I found some years ago.

I use synthfont to render the midi's into .wav forms with soundfonts I found on the web to make them sound like real instruments.

Then I mix it all together with Krystal Audio Engine.

All of this software is freeware.

 Oh I guess most of the sound is in the actual hardware, then.

What guitar(s), bass, amp(s) do you have?

I use Audacity regularly but I had never heard of K A E before. Looks like I found myself a new toy! :)

Wow. What software do you use to produce these?

and for the record, I'm not building a Vox or anything from scratch. This afternoon I assembled this little beauty

http://hackaweek.com/hacks/?p=327

it's a small 1 transistor preamp. I scavenged all the pieces from old computer mice and a broken cd player. It's a decent boost for 3-9 volts!  I plan to hook it up to a pair of crappy old computer speakers, and put the whole thing in a small plywood box. My first amp :)

Did we have a music/musicians thread? I don't remember.

Those instrumentals sound really cool, even though I'm not a fan of metal in general, I can definitely picture myself speeding with those tracks coming from my stereo.

Great production, you can hear every note loud and clear, but most importantly loud! :)

Some related but random thoughts, I recently brought my guitar to the shop to put new pegs in and fix the neck. Still need new pots though.

I'm making my own picks and will be trying to build a small amplifier soon. Bought my first multimeter today, I'm very excited.

Meanwhile, I'm making covers of 80's songs on Famitracker. I'm more than halfway through a couple of them, I find making music on Famitracker very fun and addictive.

Yes. Behind all the madness and funny bits, those reviews are brilliant analysisisis (what's the plural for analysis for the love of pete!?!).