Graham Hick wrote:

givemenoughrope wrote:

fedaykin13 wrote:I cannot resist.

Is there anyway to approach a girl you've never met before
completely cold
and NOT come off as a creep?

Take a spill and ask her to help you back into the chair.

That's actually pretty good. Kind of John Hughes-ish, but it could work.

Try to fall in such a way that it's clear that you've smacked your balls on something and you're in pain. She'll think that even though your legs are useless what's between them isn't.

Fuck, this is a great idea. Maybe be walking a puppy while doing this just to seal the deal. It's just crazy enough to work.

Marsupialized wrote:

Mark Hansen wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Mandrexel, what should I do with the massive number of venison steaks that are now chilling in my freezer?

Host an EA barbecue and cook them for everyone, of course.

Winner!

What day is good for everyone?


Wait a second, is there any way we can get a few on the grill at the pig roast maybe?
The pig roast is pretty much the yearly EA BBQ bash anyway, right?

Colonel Panic wrote:I'd take a few off your hands.,..

I'll drop them of next time I swing by, I gotta pick up my bass anyway.
You gonna do anything with the white bass I gave you?

When is this yearly EA BBQ bash?

Anytime over the Labor Day weekend is good for me.

givemenoughrope wrote:All-knowing Mandroid,

I'm on Logic 8. I want to create a template that allows me to record/sequence "live" all 5 string sections (1st and 2nd Vlns, Vla, Cel, Bs) simultaneously but only allows certain ranges to be captured into the midi track for each. It should also allow me to play back notes outside of those ranges, you know, in case of some high Cello or Vla passages after the fact. Do I use 5 separate midi tracks or load one multi-timbral on my sampler (Kontakt2)? Where do I insert the transformers that define each range for each of the sections? I can get this to work in Cubase 4 pretty easily using the Input Transformer but I'm on one machine (Mac Pro quad 5gb Ram) and doing the necessary bouncing, freezing and loading of predefined instrument tracks is not only way faster/easier in Logic 8 but they allow for instrument tracks multi outs (Cubase only does by using the VST rack). Maybe in addition to an explanation, you could post pics of the Environment window. Also, I'd really prefer to keep all of these tracks on Midi channel 1 since I'm using a lot of DXF crossfade patches and editing channels for the Mod Wheel information is often a forgotten step and kind of a pain.

Thanks in advance

me/I

http://www.pdfpad.com/staffpaper/

Print out staff paper, get a mechanical pencil, do it by hand. That's how I had to do all my notation when I was in composition class.

Don't be a wuss.

I also use Logic 8, but only for recording/mastering.

Ben

benadrian wrote:
http://www.pdfpad.com/staffpaper/

Print out staff paper, get a mechanical pencil, do it by hand. That's how I had to do all my notation when I was in composition class.

Don't be a wuss.

I also use Logic 8, but only for recording/mastering.

Ben

Believe me when I say that I long for pencil and paper again, but for a different purpose. Pencil and paper doesn't actually make any sound though, not the sound that I'd need to hear anyway. Bass notes in the Violin tracks are about the most annoying thing of all time. I don't have time for p&p for the commercial stuff, nor the time to sequence one section at a time.

I'm getting close though:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5303/picture1ub7.png
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7813/picture2to5.png

How terrible is comping in Logic? You can't actually move any of the comped tracks, nudge them back or forth, without first unpacking them...right?

And WTF...if I lower a fader to -15dB, why the fuck does it say -14.9?

Pen and Paper, tape, real players and four kids to be the rhythm section and engineer. Mission on.

SecondEdition wrote:Mandroid,

Is there any advice about how to improve guitar skills that you could give?

I haven't played guitar in nearly 9 years because...well, long story. However, I did play piano for about 10 years when I was younger among *ahem* certain woodwind instruments I would rather have not played.

Practicing is key, but identify which departments you are lacking in and work on those in particular. Do not work exclusively on those because you will soon get frustrated and bored, but pay special heed to your weakness(es).

In my mind, there is no difference between training for an athletic competition and becoming more proficient at your musical instrument. You assess what you aren't so great at, you formulate a plan to train and improve, you concentrate and work hard and do research if necessary to improve your skill level, and you achieve progress through the hard work and dedication.

Don't develop an eating disorder, though.

fedaykin13 wrote:Is there anyway to approach a girl you've never met before
completely cold
and NOT come off as a creep?

Don't be a creep.

You have to understand that a reasonably attractive lady has probably had 20 creeps approach her (that's a modest estimate) in the course of a single day out while walking amongst other living breathing humans. Females tend to be defensive for good reason. It's because we board the train peacefully and nonchalantly and leave with some insane person trying to convince us that he'll "set us up real nice in a mansion with diamond ceilings" and feed us grapes allllllll night.

There will also be corn served.

Talk to women like you would want some stranger to approach you. If something absurdly funny happens as you are waiting at the bus stop next to each other, make some witty comment about it to her and see if you make her laugh. I fell in love with Ben back in 2002 because we were sitting next to one another at a show and both started spontaneously giggling over yaledelay's guitar tuning.

Then I got married two days later.

Be yourself. When it's right and it's meant to work out with the appropriate female, it will. It took Ben and I 2 divorces and roughly 5 years before we officially dated, even though we liked one another long before that. Romance doesn't always happen as quickly or as conveniently as one would like it to.

(*btw, yaledelay's guitar tuning technique used to be hilarious.)

Mandroid2.0 wrote:(*btw, yaledelay's guitar tuning technique used to be hilarious.)

Yale Delay agrees, it was not funny to me at the time though, and keep in mind most of my guitars are/were under $150.00

yaledelay wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:(*btw, yaledelay's guitar tuning technique used to be hilarious.)

Yale Delay agrees, it was not funny to me at the time though, and keep in mind most of my guitars are/were under $150.00

Aw, you know I love you, dude.

*hugs*

yaledelay wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:(*btw, yaledelay's guitar tuning technique used to be hilarious.)

Yale Delay agrees, it was not funny to me at the time though, and keep in mind most of my guitars are/were under $150.00

You came out, first song, hit all the strings totally open, and then started scraping the guitar on the ceiling of the club. The strings were dragging on all the shitty ceiling truss of the Stork Club. You had two distortion pedals, I think a Grunge and a DS-1? One was set for woofly low feedback, and one was set for high pitched noise. They were both on.

By the time you actually put fingers to string to play a chord, the antics and zaniness made it sound like electric moose rape. It was hilarious and awesome and bizzarre and over the top. I loved it. But there's also that moment where you expect to hear a regular chord, you see a regular chord being fretted, and "blawgrannggggng" comes out.

Honestly I thought it was all part of the plan... meaning the plan was chaos, and chaos would fuck shit up, so no order or accuracy could ever be expected or demanded by anyone.

Good times!

Ben

benadrian wrote:

yaledelay wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:(*btw, yaledelay's guitar tuning technique used to be hilarious.)

Yale Delay agrees, it was not funny to me at the time though, and keep in mind most of my guitars are/were under $150.00

You came out, first song, hit all the strings totally open, and then started scraping the guitar on the ceiling of the club. The strings were dragging on all the shitty ceiling truss of the Stork Club. You had two distortion pedals, I think a Grunge and a DS-1? One was set for woofly low feedback, and one was set for high pitched noise. They were both on.

By the time you actually put fingers to string to play a chord, the antics and zaniness made it sound like electric moose rape. It was hilarious and awesome and bizzarre and over the top. I loved it. But there's also that moment where you expect to hear a regular chord, you see a regular chord being fretted, and "blawgrannggggng" comes out.

Honestly I thought it was all part of the plan... meaning the plan was chaos, and chaos would fuck shit up, so no order or accuracy could ever be expected or demanded by anyone.

Good times!

Ben

you forgot to mention that at this show, Dr Akaward SET HIMSELF ON FIRE, within 3 seconds of the opening note... And yes at that point in time early in the hi-fi it was all part of my pland and, plan was chaos, and chaos would fuck shit up and basically I was a monkey with a 5 stringed baseball bat that just got into everyones shit. we have moved on to "music" now, but I must say I still miss those old days when I just messed with everyone around me...

yaledelay wrote:you forgot to mention that at this show, Dr Akaward SET HIMSELF ON FIRE, within 3 seconds of the opening note...

I figured it'd been mentioned so many other times that I could let it slide in this story. I just remember him flapping his hands around. I didn't know 'til later that he toased himself. Remember 50/50 mix of water and alcohol, shaken.... burns and cools (relatively) at the same time.

Ben