jontutcher

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   by jontutcher 2y ago

   One of Dave Rat’s old Red Hot Chili Peppers tour videos/blogs has him putting the channel cards from a very expensive analogue Midas sound desk in a dishwasher to fix them after somebody spilt beer over the desk during a gig. Worked gr
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   by jontutcher 2y ago

   A similar fun trick was used by Aphex Twin (and others) to make a weird face appear in the audio spectrogram of one of his tracks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509105
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   by jontutcher 5y ago

   For reference, most/all BBC radio stations use AKG C414s ( https://www.akg.com/Microphones/Condenser%20Microphones/C414... ) of various vintages. They sound fantastic and cost ~$700, rather than $3.5k. BBC Radi
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   by jontutcher 5y ago

   Not what you asked, but a digital version of the current Real Book does exist and makes common appearances on band stands! https://www.irealpro.com/
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   by jontutcher 6y ago

   > I live in Europe now, and I'm fine with high taxation. But for heaven's sake, call a tax a tax. The BBC is license-fee funded rather than tax funded so that (in theory at least) they don't have to rely directly on the go