It's fairly common practice (in Aus, at least) for the support bands to get 1/3 of the desk/inputs and 1/3 of the stage. This generally means repatching a lot of compressors/gates, so if time is scarce the house PA operator will generally tell you to "deal without them." Being employed by bands (not...

Fookin' brilliant programme and as close as I will ever come to understanding addiction to soap opera. Second series starts halfway through the year for us skips.

Not Crap. No waffle.

Shoegazer rock is a pretty nebulous and ill-defined term (much like the guitar sounds.) I like that....

The Lomo capsule is not really comparable to the MC012 capsules - they are completely different apart from being condensers. You can buy the Oktava version of the Lomo head with the MC012 preamp for ~ £120 directly from Oktava on Ebay. The seller is based in Germany, but I can't remember their user...

Belatedly wishing all on ea forums Happy Holidays, from the inebriated colony of antipodean crooks. My happiness has been punctured by the third attempted break and enter in 18 months into the studio/house here (though this was the first time my relentlessly diabolical and paranoiac security system ...

Salut, Antero e galanter. (e Buon Natale.) Well put. The only thing I'd like to add is that my objection to death as a REAL solution for anything is also practical - once someone is dead, they're no threat, but they're of no use either. As far as I can see, no person and no thing can be totally usel...

I don't see how one can talk about the justice system without invoking the notion of justice. It's quite easy. A judicial system is that which has its own basis in a ratified proscription of justice - the law. Judicial systems can, therefore, be unjust. The reason I mentioned looking at the death p...

First, someone wondered how I could call Saddam's executions wrong, but then want to, in turn, execute him for them. I pointed out that the former was a dictator, and the forces that are likely to execute him are democratic, and there is something significant in that difference. i.e. the latter is ...

Hi Saturday, I've been using a Bassman 50 for both bass and guitar for a while now. The guitar tone does start to break up fairly early. I don't mind it so much (my band has a mbv-ish sound to it as well), but I've modded mine to put a mid-range eq pot on the guitar side to really get the sound I wa...

It's so very unusual when I feel compelled to post on a thread where the funniest post was Marsupialized's. Salut, you horrible monotreme! The 'State' should have the right to kill its citizens as long as it is the will of the people. The 'democratic State', yes, galanter? Let's look at the notion o...