johnqpublic

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Dont think the Chinese engagement farms care about watermarking

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This.


There will always be countries that don't give a *&$# about watermarks or legislation from the US/Europe, etc.

In fact, there will always be countries that will do everything they can to circumvent ANY and ALL legislation from said countries. Not only has the horse left the barn, but it has already been turned into glue and dog food.

It ain't coming back.

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Weird.. I just finished Ted Templeman's autobiography last week and I'm pretty sure he mentioned Alex used a lot of electronic drums on that record due to 5150 being small and not all the way finished.

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There are without doubt electronic drums on 1984. According to this, it is most likely an electronic kick on most (all?) of the record. it would explain the dead thump on DDL.

1984 Drums

But it only mentions using the Simmons for the Kick and in addition to the acoustic toms on a few tracks like Hot For Teacher.

Interesting you post a video with the track in mono, yet showing UGa's promo video... Hmm. :lol:

Here's the drum track (mostly) isolated. There are a few artifacts from the isolation but it's pretty accurate.

Drop Dead Legs Iso Drums

As mentioned in the comments on this video, the cymbals were likely overdubbed as 5150 was being built and didn't have a ton of room. And all the cymbals but the hats are panned quite wide. What AL seems to have played in the master take (kick, snare, hats, toms) is all in the center. Listening from 0:58 (when the ride comes in), you can hear two sets of cymbals. One panned quite left and and the master track near the center.

I don't find the drum sound to be particularly unique in this. The snare and toms are fairly standard, maybe tuned down a little. The kick is mostly "thump", not a lot of highs, perhaps eq'ed when mixed down to get it out of the way of the snare. It also isn't busy. The kick, snare and hats are straight ahead. Ed said this song was inspired by AC/DC's Back In Black. He said he was jamming along to that groove. So simplicity for most of the groove is important.

What I do find interesting is how dry they are. I wouldn't be surprised if there is little to know reverb added and all we are hearing is the room. I don't even hear much in the way of room mics.

So to get this sound, make the drums dry, record and or submix them to mono, EQ the kick to be a lot of heavy thump, overdub crashes and rides...

oh and Get Al Van Halen circa 1983 to play it with 4 arms. :cheers:

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On the other hand, this woman will likely face little or no criminal charges and most likely won't face any real civil penalties either which will only further emboldened vindictive feminists to weaponize this kind of crap on other men

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She.."now faces two felony charges — one count of unlawful surveillance in the second degree, and one count of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the first degree... If found guilty, she faces up to eight years in prison."

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6. chiuahahs

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WTF?!?

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A friend of mine got a tenure-track professorship offer at a University there but he might have to turn it down because he says the prices to buy or rent are completely crazy.

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So the salary for a tenure-track position doesn't take into account the current real estate prices of the area? They may have some issue finding experienced people.

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I agree but you know what’s coming

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Let Jerry have it. I mean there are no World Championship rings to speak of...

This is a true ballad in the traditional sense written by a true balladeer. What Lightfoot did with some simple chords and haunting melody is, IMO, profoundly moving. He tells such a story about the loss of life and those left behind.

I'm a sucker for a story song, and this is one of my favorites.

May they all. mariners and balladeer, rest in peace.

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Neil may not know digital audio(although I suspect he does), but his songwriting demonstrates intelligence…

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That's what you'd think. Songwriting prowess doesn't necessarily equate to intelligence. This is the fallacy the general public falls into. "Oh they are good at this thing, therefore they MUST be smart".

As someone who has worked with some very talented musicians, this is patently not true.

And Neil doesn't know crap about digital audio. "When they made the algorithm for digital audio there was a mistake... and they never fixed it" (paraphrase)

Abject moron when talking about digital audio.

Neil Young is demonstrably an idiot. People may like his music, but as a person he is not a bright man.

Just watch the Sound City doc and listen to him talk about digital audio. This is from a man who was pawning his own digital music player and he had little idea what he was talking about.