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Happy birthday Peter!

Happy birthday Carl!

It's on my list, for sure. If the train is on time, it's possible on this trip, but the train is rarely on time 🙂

We drove 8h to Thompson and took the overnight train to Churchill. Goddamn, I love taking Via Rail.

Visiting Eleanor in Churchill (it's very north). Seeing some stuff. Not many other tourists during a pandemic.

For 2-channel stereo. I have studio monitors that I'm happy enough with, but I've never had a good stereo setup. We keep spending all our money on live music events, so now that that's dead I might as well get something good for recordings.

Yeah, but the Mono Station sounds way better for what it does. Plus, more knobs is more better. But that said, I play more on the couch with just the Deluge than I do with it plugged into the big setup. I don't know what to get when I sell the Digitone. Thinking about a Roland Handsonic. Or maybe a proper set of hi-fi speakers for once in my life. I'll see how many pesos I can accumulate by Black Friday.

Deluge is master clock, sending MIDI out to the Digitone, which passes it through to the Circuit Mono Station. Each of them is using its own sequencer. Deluge is handling drums and the banjo-sounding fiddle tune. Mono Station is doing the distorted bassline/rhythm melody, and has reverb added by the Zoom MS70-CDR pedal. Digitone is playing a few plucked notes here and there but not doing much - I want to sell it because I'll never figure out how to use the things that make it a world-class instrument. The Keystep is just acting as a MIDI controller for the Alesis QSR racksynth, which is kind of a crappy old rompler that has a few good sounds. I'll probably sell it too.

Jammin' on hardware before bed. I need to do this more. Snapchat-503885024.mp4

I hope your birthdays were metal as fuck.

This guy is incredible. Let's all be like him.

It's an excuse to buy microphones, duh.

People use sm57 for drums, too. Most frequently on snare drums, but the batter head of a kick drum is common as well. Sennheiser MD 421 are commonly used on drums as well but I can't remember in what way. Edit: this book has a lot of info on mics and placement. Anyone wants me to look stuff up or scan some pages, let me know.

Thanks. I'm hoping I can get Reaper working in Linux. It's considered experimental at this point.

I got a used PC and installed Ubuntu Studio on it. Has anyone used a Linux DAW before? I think I'll probably start with LMMS for composition, and kick it over to Ardour or something for processing.

I've never heard the originals in a proper environment. The KEF dealer in Winnipeg is mostly a mass-market place, selling lots of Polk speakers, and TVs and car stereos etc. I asked to hear the LS50s and the sales guy turned them up as loud as the amp would go, because volume is the most important thing. The entire store was too loud for a proper audition anyway. They're on sale for $900 Cdn right now, which is the cheapest I've seen them.

The Arturia Polybrute looks and sounds pretty amazing. I want to get good enough at keyboards to feel justified lusting after it.

I'm really sorry to hear that, Jeff. Condolences to you and your family, and fuck Covid.

I should really start moonlighting as a barista

There's a guy in one of my Facebook groups selling a Deluge for $875, including shipping to the US. It's a pretty good deal if any of you want to join the cult.

Also, I really like the Bad Gear youtube channel, if anyone here doesn't know it.

This guy's use of the Deluge is at least demigod level - he did all audio for this in the Deluge, including mixing/mastering. And I want to know more about his video sampling technique.

I've been trying to up my barista art game. I can do ribs semi-reliably. I should probably use fattier milk for better results.

Don't mean to change the topic but I have moved my setup to the living room for the next three months and I'm excited. As you were. Better photo.

I need to play that at 1/10 speed.