Dusty Chalk

Aw yeah.

Finished Hit & Miss (finally). I liked it, but of course the wrap-up left me wanting. Also, really want to know what that song is at 10:10 of the last episode. It's got a rockin' grooviness that I usually don't hear together. The soundtrack is nicely all over the place, from Slipknot to Joy Division to Morrisey/Smiths with lots of very organic and old school stuff like Patsy Cline, Son of Dave with Martina Topley Bird, PJ Harvey, Fink, Gram Rabbit ("Dirty Horse" is the unofficial theme, I think) and Micah P. Hinson. Lots of morose-ness, medigs.

@,,@ Also, lollers @ "Like all terrible things, that whole first episode is available on YouTube..."

I think that's just icing, Brent. (badum-chik)

Looks like you got someone's fingers in there.

Can't you just soften them up, mafia style? With a bat?

...and plankton.

I kept reading that as "Hero's Ascent".

Just my theory. He got one of those portable vocal booths (and no, it was not bigger on the inside), made a couple posts after that that he was doing all his listening in the booth, and then promptly stopped. Almost like he had bought JH Audio something or others. And no, you don't need to seal everything, that was my point about attenuation. Find out what the walls already attenuate, find out how loudly you play, decide how quietly you want to be heard, what remains is what you need to attenuate by. No seal == still attenuate a lot, as long as you do things smartly like block the ductwork. In other words, concentrate on the problem areas. And you don't need to hang the lead sheets from the walls, as long as you place them between the sound source and the largest conduits.

The year was 2013...wait, what? Even the video was made to look like it was 20 years ago.

Agreed, but those are real musicians and music producers (amongst a bunch of amateurs like me), so you're going to get real world advice. I was looking into soundproofing for a while (when I was going to set up the studio at Linda's) -- the one piece of advice I remember is, if you need full-on soundproofing, you need a seal. So just panels won't cut it, you need to cover the entire wall/floor/ceiling. For example, I live on a top floor apartment, but there are rooms between me and the neighbors, so I only need to do the floor...but I would need to do the whole floor. Probably especially worthwhile would be to create a removable cover for the ductwork, since it acts like a VPN through a firewall. The other piece of advice is weight -- sand, kitty litter, lead, concrete, that kind of thing. The more molecules you have densely packed together, the more they'll absorb the energy rather than transmit it. Lead sheets. Lastly -- cater to your needs. You only need to attenuate a certain frequency range by a certain amount, so I would find out exactly what that is, and shoot for exactly that. A lot of room treatments are for low frequencies, but like I mentioned with the vocal mic -- you don't need to worry about that. For example, I wouldn't be able to cover my entire floor in the open area with lead sheeting, but if I knew I was always going to make most of the noise by the monitors/guitar cab/etc., I'd make sure that area attenuated the most, and that it was centered. Another suggestion if you have the budget is to get a large vocal booth, like that guy who used to hang out on headcase and I think he suffocated.

Oh, hey, that's George Takei!

Yeah, room treatments aren't exactly the same thing as soundproofing. I'd help, but I don't know hardly nuthin'. Check out gearslutz.

I thought those were the tablets. @ self

Wacom Intuos5 Is this something you'd be interested in, Shelly?

Anna Kendrick reacting to her song being in the Billboard top 10

Well that's disappointing.

Those shorpy pics are not visible to me for some reason. More random ballet dancers here. IP carriers via Avian carriers RFC

The firmware change itself is $1 -- the other $49 is for knowing what to change.

(shudders)

Uh...what? No! Need to talk to you all about Lasik, too. She seemed to say some outdated things in that area, too.