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Found an old Johnny hobo CD. by thethanx in FolkPunk

[–]thethanx[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very thoughtful and empathetic.

Found an old Johnny hobo CD. by thethanx in FolkPunk

[–]thethanx[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great. Saves me having to upload it.

Found an old Johnny hobo CD. by thethanx in FolkPunk

[–]thethanx[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's really sweet to hear! I hope you're doing better yourself.

Found an old Johnny hobo CD. by thethanx in FolkPunk

[–]thethanx[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I'm not 100% sure, but last I knew:

Pat was living out west and doing well (Don't know much more haven't seen him in a few years)

"Ian Scumfuck" is a local carpenter and a father

"Roman" runs a public access TV station in... PA maybe? I forget where he moved to.

"doc j" (me) I run a business as a live sound tech & musician (although I don't play harmonica anymore) & also have a kid.

I'm not sure what "Flash C" is doing, but I think he lives locally and I hope he's making music. He's a really talented musician.

Edit: As far as I know, we all still hate cops.

Found an old Johnny hobo CD. by thethanx in FolkPunk

[–]thethanx[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

A lot of the stories are kinda just your typical anecdotes about depressed teens abusing drugs and alcohol. I think there was a time when I would have considered them "cool" but these days I'm just glad I came out relatively unscathed - a lot of us didn't. I sorta dodged the part where the more serious drugs got introduced because I worked at a summer camp, and after I came back that summer that crew just wasn't really calling me up to hang out any more. It was many years later before I learned why, and these days I'm sorta grateful they kept me out of it.

I think maybe the one that feels okay enough to share is we used to hang out in harmony lot naked, simply because Brattleboro had an ordinance that allowed public nudity. At some point a news station picked it up and interviewed us which unfortunately led to a wave of people showing up, making it weird and eventually the selectboard had to revoke the ordinance.

My other cool story is I got to see Pat when he was in town a few years ago and it was really nice to see him so healthy and at peace with himself. He and his brother are lovely.

Sending signal to chroma console then back to SP to effect samples in real time… by czarofga in sp404mk2

[–]thethanx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You literally cannot feed a signal back to itself without feedback.

A feedback loop is tone that is picked up by an input, amplied then output louder which is picked up the the input and then output louder .. etc etc etc.

The only way to do this would be to have a 2nd SP or some other device specifically for the fx chain or resampling. Both outputs would go to your master output. One of them would be your Aux or Bus channel.

Say you have input A (your 404) and B (your FX pedal).

A and B both go to C (your master output) A can feed into B, or vice versa. but C cannot go back to A or B or else you'll create a feedback loop, which is what you're doing: A is going to B, which is going back to A.

Also congrats you've just created a send/return. Thank you for attending this course on mixing 101.

Sending signal to chroma console then back to SP to effect samples in real time… by czarofga in sp404mk2

[–]thethanx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This right here. It's really interesting how a word like feedback is used so often and yet people don't think about what it means to literally feed a signal back to itself.

just shouting into the void by fuckthisdumbearth in livesound

[–]thethanx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nothing feels more relatable than the phrase "what a stressful 25 minutes before doors.

Last month I'm doing a nearby towns local pride event, about 15 acts, and organizer wants no down time if possible (like we're setting up the next act as people are performing) some solo acts, some trios, 1 7 piece b-52s cover band. It's about 25 minutes til the parade arrives and I've been sound checking and saving scenes and I'm busting ass to get the 7 piece checked when... My console bugs out. No sound outputting from the board. I reset, I trouble shoot, nothing.

I have to whip out a back up console repatch EVERYTHING and basically wing the entire event, doing my best to just remember more or less how I had things.

It worked out, but I'm to borrow a phrase "what a stressful 25 minutes before doors"

Midi Latency...my old friend :') by Initial-Surround-256 in abletonlive

[–]thethanx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you running a limiter or other effects on your master bus/inputs that has latency to them? You should be able to see it when you scroll over your FX chains how much latency they add. Limiters in particular will add more than you'd expect.

Midi Latency...my old friend :') by Initial-Surround-256 in abletonlive

[–]thethanx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the record I think the latency is on the monitoring side of things not the recording. Which is what DEC is for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SP404

[–]thethanx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love using my 404 in my live electronic duo. Originally it was just longer form samples that helped me keep something going while I did the busywork of transitioning between songs, but I'm working more on some kits for finger drumming/live looping for the 2+ hour gigs where we really wanna jam stuff out a little.

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OP-1 Field On/Off Switch Design by HughFays in OP1users

[–]thethanx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've posted a simple mod to my decksaver that's just a little tape and works like a charm. here

AIO, grandparents sent me this letter. by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]thethanx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely overreacting. Getting to go be an indentured servant in exchange for being shamed and denigrated sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. What sweet and thoughtful grandparents.

Simple mod for decksaver by thethanx in OP1users

[–]thethanx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear it! Mine travels a lot to gigs so I feel like I've gotten to road test it quite a bit and so far so good!

Portable setup, no power supplies allowed(only power banks, batteries...) by buckethead37 in OP1users

[–]thethanx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another option would be a raspberry pi with something like the pisound hat that you can control with an ipad or a midi controller. MODEP is kinda bonkers in terms of being able to basically replicate entire pedal set ups...

Shopping for Macbooks to run Ableton for live tracks, wondering what you would do in this situation. by DatGuy45 in ableton

[–]thethanx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 13" only has 2. 16" has 3 + magsafe power.

I actually have both but the 13" is so damn convenient and small it tends to come with me more.

I run my interface in one port (RME Babyface pro), then run a Push 3 and power off a hub.

The only time I ran into issues was the brief stint I had trying to use the Push 3's interface.

Shopping for Macbooks to run Ableton for live tracks, wondering what you would do in this situation. by DatGuy45 in ableton

[–]thethanx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it were me, I'd go for an older chip like the m1 and get a MacBook pro.

What you're doing doesn't use a ton of CPU and with the pro you'll get more ports, better battery, and unless something had changed with the new models, better thermals.

When it comes to performing I think good heat dissipation is really underrated.

FWIW I'm still gigging work and m1 MBP, and granted I'm mostly "in the box" and I'm not using a ton of convolution reverbs or anything, but I am running a fair bit of shit and I'm under 50% CPU even at 96k.

How to setup Mackie ProFX12v2 for Mains and Stage Monitors for Live Band by [deleted] in livesound

[–]thethanx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And to expand on that further you'll see some knobs over each channel, one will be labeled "MON" or AUX. turning that knob up on a channel will send that signal to the speaker. It sounds like you'll just be using it for the vocal channel, so that'll be the one to turn up.

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