Dusty Chalk

In a word, once. Carl, thanks for the heads-up -- listening now on Spotify as well.

Yes, this video is exactly what the preview image promises it is -- a percussionist playing ladies' bottoms. He's actually very good, try to get a high frame rate.

WAG: Font problems...?

I was wondering why you went the separate amp route, I had forgotten about the Selahs. Glad it's a nice match, that's always a concern with higher end speakers like that.

Happy birthday to your mum! Very posh.

Wait, what? Why, what happened? 'Currency fluctuations'...so the Yen dropped, and your competitors will be able to buy more cheaply than you did, is that what happened? Isn't there usually a time-lag on that stuff? I.E. won't at least some of your competitors also have stock to sell first?

Bananas are yummy Marc, I'm swamped during the week, how long are you here? If you're still in town, do you want to do something on Saturday? Colin? Jeff?

Happy Birthday! (party favour noise)

So the only points I was going to add or reinforce to what has already been said: With basements, you have to be careful that you don't block air flow, because humidity tends to accumulate in the basement, and you don't want to set up a mildewy environment. Which is actually contradictory to everything else you want to do, which is make as complete a sound seal between the two floors as possible. Doors are a big deal in studios, but pretty much every hole is going to be a source of sound leakage. So you kind of have to mitigate one against the other. When I was planning on building a small home studio in the basement of my former landlord's house, I was thinking of devising a system of letting the room breathe when I wasn't using it, and sealing it up when I was. The duct work is a good point -- it's just like a car, you have to cancel both sources of noise and rattle, but it's also a conduit for sound leakage.

On an unrelated note, I got a spam from a fake FBI agent -- don't they realize that impersonating an FBI agent is crossing a line?

Quoted for truth, from "Kim" of the Scantasy and Fience Fiction book club on GoodReads.

Kauan, Kuu... Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

I can't completely agree with Nate, as I've indirectly had some bad experiences with contractors, but if your friend finds a good one -- and there are good ones, look at studios -- you can still learn as much as you can and monitor what sort of job they're doing. That said, that's still what I'd do -- go with a contractor. I'd just probably micro-manage them to death...or at least to the point of hating me. I'll post some tidbits later. Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

Doesn't it already have a queen or two?

Yeah, they were tonight, I don't know how long Colin's going to be here for, but Jeff lives here now, as do I, and Justin hasn't moved away yet...

'Millwad' would make a great porn name.

OMG, I'm a muppet. Woka-woka! Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

Colin's birthday cake Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

What's left of Jeff's meal (...and no I'm not eating it) Sent frum mah phone-blet using Tapatalk.

Seriously. I've said it before and I'll say it again, geezin' sucks.

There's a story that I don't know. Happy Birthday, Colin! (party favour noise)

A Place to Bury Strangers, Worship and Exploding Head -- binging, basically. The reverb is so wet they sound like they recorded in Luray Caverns, but other than that, I dig.

Yeah, but how many sound designers besides him would know what to do with it? That said, I haven't read the article yet, so...(wanders off to read article)

I might have to, otherwise I might be zombie bait!