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Not sure I want to wipe my bottom with a beagle or a labrador.

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it  

That would be Cornel - our illustrious (and lustrous) bass player. Curtis already took the plunge a few years ago, so that's a clear majority of the band married off now.

And then there was one....

At last! A sensible answer!

Uh oh... what have I done?

I guess what I'm really trying to angle at is a way to record more than 2 channels simultaneously (multiple bootlaces?), but I suspect the only way to do that would involve spending more money than I have available, either on a HDD recorder of some form or multi-channel input for the PC (I presume these things exist?).

They do indeed exist, and that's generally the better way to do it. Saves much of the trial and error and lets you sort out the balance between mics afterwards. of course there's a lot more to it than simply balancing the mic levels - you have to put them in the right place for a start, get the drums sounding good in the room before that... and it goes on and on.

I'm more worried about Dec 04, as we're all currently writing on him according to the forum's date stamp.

We had something similar, only we called them "splades" - although I've since found out they are different again (with a blade on the side in order that the discerning multi-functional diner can simultaneously eat and cut their face and tongue).

My new in-laws call them "food eaters" which I just find to be completely daft, yet also quite brilliant.

"I've got some food here that needs some eating - hand me my food eaters".

Excellent

Seriously though, as far as micing is concerned, I'd say kick, snare, and stereo overheads is a good basic starting point. Don't mic up toms individually at the expense of the OH mics.

Pan Kick and Snare down the centre, your overheads to the sides, and then if you have the mics and the inputs you might like to close-mic the toms and pan them out to correspond to their positions on the kit. That's a basic bog-standard setup. Then it's just a matter of setting mixer levels, recording a few bars, listening back, adjusting mixer levels again, recording a few more bars, and repeat until it sounds good.

There is so much more that could be said about pulling drum sounds (and I'm no expert) but as a basic (sort of) answer to the question, that would be where I'd go.

That's if the wire recorder doesn't work out  :mrgreen:

Oh, and have a gander at this:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/a ... miking.asp

If you can get your hands on a Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone, you may be able to coat the shoestring in some sort of magnetic substance and yield a recording in that fashion.

I believe the high-speed at which the medium passees through the machine (about 37 metres per minute) would allow for less than a second of recording. You may be able to find higher-capacity media, perhaps up to two seconds or even longer, but I think technically that would be a bootstring, and may not be appropriate for your needs.

On a second glance what I'm really impressed with is the accuracy of that skywriter.

I was just thinking about the etymology of the word "Beagle". I recall reading in a book a few years ago that it was based on the Gaelic "beag" (meaning "small") but on some further research I've found a few other possible explanations. Perhaps from the French begueule ("open throat") or beugler (meaning "to bellow") and the German begele (meaning "to scold").

I'm confident that I speak for all of us when I say that it's a conundrum worthy of our attention. But perhaps even more important (if you can imagine) is that it is currently 2:25pm in Hobart, Tasmania, and I haven't had a lunch break yet because I'm exporting a rough mix of episode 15B so that I can FTP it to the composer.

So, in conclusion:



I hope that clears everything up.

Are you 100% sure?

Because I met that guy once, and he is pretty tall.

Welcome back!
I trust only one of the maariages was yours! Congratulations.  

Well... it is Tasmania you know..........   :mrgreen:

Ahh, comedy gold  

Yes, one was mine, and thank you

Cool TV set btw.  

I know - he just got it, and I'm very jealous.

Oh and your steer in on the wrong side of the car dude.  :?

It keeps things interesting

I've been wanting to comment on this for a while now, but only got activated for the forum today.

I can completely empathise with the cover scenario - both the desire to do something different, and having to bear the consequences of having people who don't buy in to your vision.

Anyone who grabbed one of the first run of T3E CDs will be aware that we tried something out of the ordinary on the booklet. It's translucent plastic, with the lyrics printed on it in little near-illegible strips of dark ink which combine to create the big letters "T3E" on the front. It was dreamed up by our drummer (who is an art director by day). The general idea was that it was a metaphor for the way we wrote the songs and put the album together. It has this overall form to it on first glance, but if you look closer you can discern details and things that weren't immediately obvious. The cover art, like the music (we hope!) rewards closer scrutiny.

We had one particular guy (on the internet, naturally) who loved the music, even applauded the notion of "something different" for the artwork, but his overall stance was "I'm a graphic designer by trade, and I'm telling you as fact that it was a failed experiment. The idea of graphic design is to please the eye and convey information clearly, and this doesn't do that".

He was sort of right... Knotty (the aforementioned drummer/art director) knows that as well, as evidenced by his quite successful daytime career producing advertisements, annual reports and all manner of other mundane yet eye-pleasing documents. The thing is, this wasn't his day job, he didn't have a corporate client to please with a non-controversial, middle of the road result, and none of us really gave a toss about "effectively conveying information". It wasn't graphic design so much as it was art. And yes that a bit highfalutin and pretentious perhaps... but I'm cool with that

Ahh, see now I've got to the end and realised I had no point...

What's a palce?

If I may suggest an alternate course of action - consider keeping your membership and downloading some music with it. There's some very cool material out there, and I think US$11.95 (I think) for 30 tracks a month is pretty reasonable.

Worth considering?

Not convinced I want to see PG as Rael with his top off these days though...