FBDstuff

[FBD]

I figured I might as well make a thread to put my random crap in. :wave:

I popped my phone up into the rafters in the studio to see how it'd capture drums. Better than I expected, I thought I was going to have to bring it into Premier and edit the audio. Pardon my warmup :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXPXrjfoK4U

[Hal-9000]

this video is private





:(

[FBD]

wth? I only selected dont make it searchable, if you have da link, should be good... :headscratcher:


ok try again. I went in and changed the settings.


...cant wait until Idiot Excuse and Payback are recorded so I can set these fuggers up how I want them, and not how my drummer plays on 'em...i told him just set 'em up however you want. I want moar toms!

[Hal-9000]

(high pitched falsetto voice)

John Bonham!...John Henry Bonham!! :dance:

[FBD]

:lol: not quite, but thanks bro :D

[KevinD]

Cool beans FBD. Makes me wish I had never stopped playing trap. Who knows, after 30 years I might have been decent. :lol:

[Muddy]

Hell,yes, man! That was good.. I listened to it with some headphones on and the audio is really good..

[Jezter]

Good stuff, man! Watched it and liked it. :)

[redred]

I figured I might as well make a thread to put my random crap in. :wave:


didn't we make this whole area for you http://www.tehfalloutshelter.com/forumdisplay.php?75-The-Conspiracy-Corner :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Are you double bassing?

[FBD]

Hell,yes, man! That was good.. I listened to it with some headphones on and the audio is really good..thx man...at first I was listening to the audio through the phone and was like ugh, this sounds like shit, I am going to have to edit it to hear stuff...but then I plug it into some speakers and it sounds just fine.

I'll do it again once I have all the drum mics set up again and give yall a comparison :D


didn't we make this whole are for you http://www.tehfalloutshelter.com/forumdisplay.php?75-The-Conspiracy-Corner :lol:
:lol: haha nice...that's where I'll put my lawn sign of "Federal Reserve - Celebrating 100 years of ROBBERY" picture.


Are you double bassing?
hell yeah, you can see both beaters goin there. 2 bass drums sounds better, plays better....but sure dont haul better :lol: those double pedals are awesome, I love DW stuff. 25th anniversary titanium.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:tup:

[FBD]

Here's a radio show with one of my ol teachers participating. Its a little long (84 min) but if you're up for interesting and whacked out stories...I've just been listening while I work. This guy is one of the few people I've met with demonstrable power-achievement. 3, maybe 4 people I have met with enough juice for me to feel energy fields (for lack of a better description) from.

http://www.bbsradio.com/content/talk-show-episode-new-realities-april-8-2014

(yes, this is full strength 'fbd-out-there' quality stuff :dance: bit of max's personal story, like getting whacked by lightning when he was 6...stuff on practices from a lot of different traditions like tibetan, chinese, amer indian, hawaiian, egyptian...what's the point of it all...etc..I know most of you wont have any interest, but lost probably will...and maybe hal will listen to some of it :lol:)

[Hal-9000]

maybe hal :lol:


piss off...(if I'm not high) I'll make through at least 4 of the 84 minutes :dance:

[FBD]

:lol: I know most people have zero interest in cultivating spiritual power....but some are curious enough that they just might make an effort next lifetime :lol: light up a big fatty, turn down the lights, relax and have a listen. if you have any interest in the subject at all, its an interesting story & collections of data from around the world's spiritual traditions, from someone who was very skeptical about it until having seen and experienced otherwise unexplainable shit.

which by the way is the only way I came to accept that a lot of this shit is possible, by having experienced it. you guys know how skeptical I am about shit. but sometimes you experience something that breaks the mold in your head and you realize you have to step beyond what you thought was within the realm of possibility.

[Hal-9000]

my head is a square box


and I've thought outside the box pretty much my whole life :lol:

[FBD]

:lol:

[FBD]

fkn love the go pro cameras. this shot's clamped to the head of my bass.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/6jam_zps3692e6d6.gif

[FBD]

closer to done
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/Studio/IMAG1199_zpsdb264b50.jpg

speaking of cinder block forearms...very weird...havent seen a praying mantis in forever....saw two this past week

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1192_zpsa5084356.jpg

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1198_zps86a96daf.jpg

[FBD]

and since I always like twisting your minds,

this is a friend of mine who has some serious potential cultivated. well beyond anything I have done. dude can actually bulge or depress the energy center at the middle dantien...of course, another buddy of mine saw master wang bulge his liver out 4 inches from his body :lol:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH4K5Kqg3Ck

http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/18/85/78/91/sotgsm15.gif

:lol:

[Hugh_Janus]

I've got something that bulges way further than four inches from my body :hand:

[DemonGeminiX]

I've got something that bulges way further than four inches from my body :hand:

:-k

Your imagination?

[FBD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7edeOEuXdMU

buncha scratchy bitch pots in this thing......but....

was able to take signal and go out from the computer, into 23/24 and hit the compressor, out aux1/2 over to channels 2 & 4 (lots of scratchy bitches, 2 & 4 were good and clean) for some EQ and then out aux3/4 back into the computer....

better than anything we've ever mixed, automatically. :lol: the 33314 compressors are absolutely amazing...light 2:1 ratio and then jack the gain up to 20....FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that's just taking what we've done in the box and just doing a quick 2 ch stereo master with it. fuckin a once we're tracking and bussin' signal groups around with it.


I am fucking STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FBD]

about as stoked as dave grohl

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682339/dave-grohl-explains-how-a-70s-era-recording-console-rocks-his-world-in-sound-city


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoOfiLz1G4

although the 8000s are extremely rare, so are the 5300 series broadcast boards...but the funny thing is the broadcast boards are actually tighter quality control and specs. big difference is grohl's 8000 has a million fuggin aux busses, mine only has 4.

plenty enough for our stuff... its the sound that's key. if any of yas are interested in the difference I'll pop up a couple samples.

[FBD]

already replaced a few bad wires in the snakes going to the patch panels

took the opportunity to play some old mixes after working at this for 4, 5 hours last night. we fuggin laughed at them, just like I said we would. old mixes sound very thing and harsh and you can hear the peaks in 'em. hahaha was it really that bad?

the only thing I am a bit perturbed about is that the pinout on the #1 connector doesnt seem to really match what the schematic says. but maybe it was the beer & weed. like fuggin group 1/2 appears to be master 1/2, master 1/2 appears to be aux 1/2, cant really find group1-2-3-4 then if that's the case...

these extra routing shits are what's fkn me over right now. and I have to DeOxit the flying shit out of the rest of everything esp the aux channels, they are noisy. Got a good 8 channel stem into the board and summed it there but since the auxes were in need of maint, couldnt get a proper signal on through to the compressor channels.

where's the damn XLR patch bay, hoss....we aint tracking through this until we get those!

[FBD]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1284_zps87012e37.jpg

one of the patch bays
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1341_zpsba565e76.jpg



and well next up,
I decided that since we basically only have 6 simultaneously recordable outputs out of this board, I'm going to recreate a bunch of these

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/Neve/IMAG0862_zpsef187882.jpg

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/Neve/IMAG0865_zps70f4caf2.jpg

these line amps are the final touch of gold onto the signal, but since the signals all aggregate, there's no presently available way to have more outputs.

so since we dont use the solo function on this board at all, all the soloing of signals we do is done from the PC, I am going to steal the lead from the solo bus, run it up to...either a DB25 or a 35 pin Pantion depending on how many I do (I will do a stereo pair first as a test) and then into a chassis that contains a bunch of these that I am going to build.

schematics rule...
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1297_zps7ab4689b.jpg

so I found a couple good little extras in the schematic on library of congress, that had the schematics for the 33415, and discovered why one of our line amps is hotter than the other: there's a resistor value wired into certain leads on both the input and output transformers that is a gain boost anywhere from 3-18db. ohhhh huhhhhhhhhhhhhreeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaally :lol: I got excited, because that means 1- no line amp problem, the other half of the pair is probably in something we dont use, like...the solo or talkback amp, neither of which are used and 2- that means when I design this, it wont just have a volume fader on it, I'm also going to include 2 6 way switchable pots for each, each one wired with corresponding values on the schematic. And I also found where to wire a meter into it, too. the ones in the board route to meters if you switch it right, but their gain boost values are fixed, so I'm psyched to flex those muscles there :dance:


my only issue is finding the printed circuit boards - old ones are prohibitively expensive - I have a couple leads on who might reproduce them, I fkn hope they pan out, because I really dont want to have to get generic PCBs and frankenstein it :lol:




but FUCKIN A I AM STOKED. fugger will be worth sumbichin hunded if I do all 24 channels...not that I care about the value, its the sound....holy sweet bejeebus, the sound...ir re fucking placeable. you all joke about me moving to a cave, but if this thing ever blows up, I simply will not ever press a record button again :lol: not after having my hands all up in the guts of the pinnacle of human achievement in audio reproduction....you just dont go back from that :lol:

[FBD]

dont recall if I pasted this shot from a show a month or two ago

http://i.imgur.com/K2AXUPL.jpg

[Hal-9000]

Are you in the middle doing a power stance? :-s








*throws panties*

[Hal-9000]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1284_zps87012e37.jpg

one of the patch bays
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1341_zpsba565e76.jpg



and well next up,
I decided that since we basically only have 6 simultaneously recordable outputs out of this board, I'm going to recreate a bunch of these

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/Neve/IMAG0862_zpsef187882.jpg

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/Neve/IMAG0865_zps70f4caf2.jpg

these line amps are the final touch of gold onto the signal, but since the signals all aggregate, there's no presently available way to have more outputs.

so since we dont use the solo function on this board at all, all the soloing of signals we do is done from the PC, I am going to steal the lead from the solo bus, run it up to...either a DB25 or a 35 pin Pantion depending on how many I do (I will do a stereo pair first as a test) and then into a chassis that contains a bunch of these that I am going to build.

schematics rule...
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg114/joeblast/IMAG1297_zps7ab4689b.jpg

so I found a couple good little extras in the schematic on library of congress, that had the schematics for the 33415, and discovered why one of our line amps is hotter than the other: there's a resistor value wired into certain leads on both the input and output transformers that is a gain boost anywhere from 3-18db. ohhhh huhhhhhhhhhhhhreeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaally :lol: I got excited, because that means 1- no line amp problem, the other half of the pair is probably in something we dont use, like...the solo or talkback amp, neither of which are used and 2- that means when I design this, it wont just have a volume fader on it, I'm also going to include 2 6 way switchable pots for each, each one wired with corresponding values on the schematic. And I also found where to wire a meter into it, too. the ones in the board route to meters if you switch it right, but their gain boost values are fixed, so I'm psyched to flex those muscles there :dance:


my only issue is finding the printed circuit boards - old ones are prohibitively expensive - I have a couple leads on who might reproduce them, I fkn hope they pan out, because I really dont want to have to get generic PCBs and frankenstein it :lol:




but FUCKIN A I AM STOKED. fugger will be worth sumbichin hunded if I do all 24 channels...not that I care about the value, its the sound....holy sweet bejeebus, the sound...ir re fucking placeable. you all joke about me moving to a cave, but if this thing ever blows up, I simply will not ever press a record button again :lol: not after having my hands all up in the guts of the pinnacle of human achievement in audio reproduction....you just dont go back from that :lol:





http://i.imgur.com/LlZMbTm.jpg

[FBD]

Are you in the middle doing a power stance? :-s

:twisted: performances are often a 20-30 minute dynamic power stance :lol:

sway was bustin on me the other day when I was practicing, said why do you need to practice I thought you were a natural :lol: I said I may still be able to play a song but if I dont practice, no fuckin way I'm making it through a set without my hands turning into clubs :lol:

[FBD]

http://i.imgur.com/LlZMbTm.jpg

:lol: yeah, it takes a special type of savant to get excited about a 16 page schematic (that one I included above is a rather rare one, I'm in the middle of scanning each page and there's a few Neve owners out there that will be happy to have this...this one big one is the main meat of the entire board..)

[Hal-9000]

it's a ......rebel bass



:dance:





http://i.imgur.com/nCxWfnR.jpg

[FBD]

with the fuggin chewbacca strap :headbang:

I dont know why I was thinking its too bad binding is such a bitch to do and it makes instruments so expensive :lol:

[FBD]

oh damn! randy, you bastad!

my drummer fuggin calls me telling me he was hanging out with dave lombardo last night. I guess a friend of his is in a band with him, they went to see 'em play in providence ri last night. got to sit and eat chinese food with him, help him set up and break down and shit. said he is the coolest motherfucker ever. randy was funny, he's like dude last night was right up there with the birth of my fuggin son :lol:

(analogously to spock, dave doesnt want to be only known as slayer's drummer...)

I still wanted to bitch slap 'im because there was a chance a while back At Wits End could have gotten on that bill, but randy declined and said he'd be puking if he had to open up for dave lombardo :beatdown:

not that I'd have missed driving home from providence at 1:30 ,,,but cmon dude....you do not turn down opportunities like that... :facepalm:

oh well. randall, that means you have to get his band to our studio to record :lol:

[Hal-9000]

http://i.imgur.com/yeRw0pw.gif

[FBD]

Dave and I decided that if Randy EVER does that again, he's getting a ride in the buick.

A ride in the buick dates back from the ol days when we were snot nosed little kids and swayback didnt take no shit from us, and if we pissed them off that bad, him and his buddy knocked you over, grabbed you by the ankles, and ran with you up the gravel driveway :lol:

Pic of randy was fuggin hilarious, his face looked like that of a 15 year old who just got laid for the first time :lol: but then again, lombardo has been his idol since 12 years old. So it was friend of a friend who is friends with the bass player, which was why we got the invite in the first place. he was joking saying and I dont even smoke pot, but I was damn tempted to do it with those guys just so I could say I did :lol: nothin but nice things to say about lombardo, very humble down to earth real nice guy. and when randy told him after the show that he fuckin killed it , dude goes you really mean that? hell fuckin yes! thanks man, I really, really appreciate that.

very cool to meet an idol of yours and they are a nice person, kinda kills it if....Yngwie was your idol or something :lol: fuck, my idol's an asshole! :rofl:

So I sent him a message last night and told him next task is to somehow get those fuckers in our studio, and he said he mentioned it to those guys and told them what we have in there ;) and he said their ears perked right up, that they are looking for that old school analog sound....and they will be back by this way in...May....

:shock:

:-k

:shock:

:-k :-k :-k :-k

:shock: :shock: :shock:

I must have spent a half hour doing dr evil belly laughs last night :lol: that like blew all of our minds, that its even a possibility. we're sitting here worried about getting some good but small bands from around here recorded, then fuggin that drops in our laps?

:freakout:
:beavis:
/0


no more words of it, cant jinx that :lol: fuuuuuuuuuck!

[FBD]

new spot at work which might turn into a new position, and I'll get my tier level back and solid yearly guaranteed bonuses back if that happens...
march is booked fuggin solid at the studio, busy every single weekend
2-3 shows in march (but no idiot excuse, drummer unavailable...so its all at wits end....)
and I got a couple women eyeing me on top of it :lol:

whadda fuckin year already :lol:

[Hal-9000]

Dave and I decided that if Randy EVER does that again, he's getting a ride in the buick.

A ride in the buick dates back from the ol days when we were snot nosed little kids and swayback didnt take no shit from us, and if we pissed them off that bad, him and his buddy knocked you over, grabbed you by the ankles, and ran with you up the gravel driveway :lol:

Pic of randy was fuggin hilarious, his face looked like that of a 15 year old who just got laid for the first time :lol: but then again, lombardo has been his idol since 12 years old. So it was friend of a friend who is friends with the bass player, which was why we got the invite in the first place. he was joking saying and I dont even smoke pot, but I was damn tempted to do it with those guys just so I could say I did :lol: nothin but nice things to say about lombardo, very humble down to earth real nice guy. and when randy told him after the show that he fuckin killed it , dude goes you really mean that? hell fuckin yes! thanks man, I really, really appreciate that.

very cool to meet an idol of yours and they are a nice person, kinda kills it if....Yngwie was your idol or something :lol: fuck, my idol's an asshole! :rofl:

So I sent him a message last night and told him next task is to somehow get those fuckers in our studio, and he said he mentioned it to those guys and told them what we have in there ;) and he said their ears perked right up, that they are looking for that old school analog sound....and they will be back by this way in...May....

:shock:

:-k

:shock:

:-k :-k :-k :-k

:shock: :shock: :shock:

I must have spent a half hour doing dr evil belly laughs last night :lol: that like blew all of our minds, that its even a possibility. we're sitting here worried about getting some good but small bands from around here recorded, then fuggin that drops in our laps?

:freakout:
:beavis:
/0


no more words of it, cant jinx that :lol: fuuuuuuuuuck!



:lol:

[FBD]

:lol: I got the actual story on how it came up, he didnt come out and mention it - they happened to mention next they record they were looking for the old school organic sound, at which time randall said hey, my bass player and guitarist have a studio, and they've got a neve board....bing! perkiness. never board, really, how many channels etc and then the questions started :lol:

that's just crazy.

fuggin ice dam....I smashed my hand with a hammer a few times yesterday :dance:

[Hal-9000]

Going back reading some older posts...I need to put my thinking cap on



http://i.imgur.com/mzgBW3Y.gif

[RBP]

You asked for my MRI results out of curiosity...

C5-C6: Posterior disc osteophyte complex, contacts the cord but causes no cord deformity. There is mild bilateral foraminal narrowing.

C6-C7: Posterior disc osteophyte complex without cord deformity and with mild bilateral foraminal compromise.

C7-T1: Posterior disc osteophyte complex with no deformity of the cord and with bilateral, right side greater than left, foraminal narrowing.

IMPRESSION: Degenerative changes with foraminal narrowing at C5-6 through C7-T1. There is no cord deformity or signal abnormality within the cord at any of the visualized levels.

=================================

In terms of progression from 10 years ago, I think the bone spurs are new. It reads to me that the disc that was herniated is now dried up and I have developed bone spurs as my spine tried to compensate.

Hopefully someone has the original report, because I retained nothing, literally nothing, from my days in hell. :lol:

Tangent as an example. I made good money back then and we had a decent sized collection of nice crystal. There was a property agreement that specified who got what. One day the entire cabinet was cleared out (along with a large portion of the house), and there was a locked storage trailer in my driveway. Upon inquiry, I was told my crystal was packed and labeled and she pointed at the boxes. I didn't open them for about 2-3 years. When I did, they were full of the cheap target glasses we used for parties and coffee mugs. You get the picture.

[deebakes]

fucking obama :x

[Griffin]

http://i.imgur.com/yeRw0pw.gif

HEY! That's me! :shock:

[FBD]

You asked for my MRI results out of curiosity...

C5-C6: Posterior disc osteophyte complex, contacts the cord but causes no cord deformity. There is mild bilateral foraminal narrowing.

C6-C7: Posterior disc osteophyte complex without cord deformity and with mild bilateral foraminal compromise.

C7-T1: Posterior disc osteophyte complex with no deformity of the cord and with bilateral, right side greater than left, foraminal narrowing.

IMPRESSION: Degenerative changes with foraminal narrowing at C5-6 through C7-T1. There is no cord deformity or signal abnormality within the cord at any of the visualized levels.

=================================

In terms of progression from 10 years ago, I think the bone spurs are new. It reads to me that the disc that was herniated is now dried up and I have developed bone spurs as my spine tried to compensate.

Hopefully someone has the original report, because I retained nothing, literally nothing, from my days in hell. :lol:

Tangent as an example. I made good money back then and we had a decent sized collection of nice crystal. There was a property agreement that specified who got what. One day the entire cabinet was cleared out (along with a large portion of the house), and there was a locked storage trailer in my driveway. Upon inquiry, I was told my crystal was packed and labeled and she pointed at the boxes. I didn't open them for about 2-3 years. When I did, they were full of the cheap target glasses we used for parties and coffee mugs. You get the picture.
ow, again, you poor bastad!
I hear they have laser surgery they can do for bone spurs these days. sure beats cutting you the fug open! It seems like if you can get those taken care of it'd help immensely with the acuteness - but the thing is, it doesnt really give too much detail on the bone spurs, that's disc info. I dont know if you've tried taking glucosamine or anything, but things that nourish the joints will help with this condition.

you are going to need to perform exercises to combat this for the rest of your life, bro. I'm sure you already know that...but dont sell yourself short on how much diligent and proper exercise will do for things like this.

it is literally the difference between superman and cripple, for me :lol: :dance:

the foramina is the cord-space...that should open back up a bit by way of the antiinflammatories but things like that dont want to get better if there's something sitting there pissing them off, like a bone spur. I hope they can laser them shits off for you, dude.


fucking obama :x
:lol:
http://i.imgur.com/oj5W9E4.jpg

[FBD]

I was hoping to share some music sometime soon...I was going to share that last song this guy did (one song? lol. ok, greens is greens) but then the kid doing vocals came in, and...oh good lord. no I dont ever express these things to clients, but I was sitting there going oh man johnny...its like someone sticking keys in your side when I know I could walk in and outperform, when I'm not really a force to be reckoned with in the area to begin with.

feed the pigs, some of you guys will like, I'm sure. its getting mixing done now, and the singer has to come back and redo his vocals proper, but it should be really good when its done. I have other stuff from before this, but honestly, anything pre-neve I consider to be an audio turd and I dont really share them with people. my buddy will hand some certain things out like that Payback track, but...its still lacking that thickness, imho.

looks like idiot excuse's drummer is gone...? too many trips down south, perhaps, and maybe his wife's been equating band activities with reasons to have to go south , who knows. but knowing certain info, it makes sense why he was too slow too often. unfortunately it got to the point where even I wanted him out of the band too. I love the dude, but being in a band with someone is....you've got to be able to get along on a level past normal friends, there needs to be professional working relationship...that's why so many bands break up, because the people get to know each other and their work ethics and habits, and invariably it almost always happens that some people dont want to work with others. we already have a replacement in mind...but...I dont think that's going to make my vocalist for the band all of a sudden get any better. that's another one of those...here dude, see if you can play my bass lines and I'll destroy your vocal performance :slap:

at wits end, trackin some drums tonight... I still have a couple more drums to tune. (because apparently noone on earth besides me knows how to tune a drum? I swear its that bad.)

diggin on that Snark tuner, I just gave my boy one for his birthday (sure it was in feb, but he's been at college) and I restrung a guitar in record time last night. couldnt really say how long since it included a fretboard polish job and oil quench , but once I got to putting strings back on, it was done in like 5 minutes. thumbs up on that lil clip on tuner.

right, happy easter? its kinda funny how the vast majority of people around here dont give two shits about (strictly) christian holidays any longer.