From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #76 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, April 21 2002 Volume 07 : Number 076 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: AAMB? No Doubt! ["Ehrcraft" ] Alloy: New Toy for Crackers ["Crackers" ] Alloy: Dolby Music to Pray By? [Merujo ] Alloy: Hey, I got good news. ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: Hey, I got good news. [Merujo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 02:57:18 -0700 From: "Ehrcraft" Subject: Alloy: AAMB? No Doubt! AAMB? No Doubt! Check out this mix, You up? 7 Go to... http://www.nodoubt.com/BehindtheScenes/scenesmisc.html Click on... 7 'Listen to Hey Baby "Stank Remix"' Realplayer needed....or not. Don't be locked in the ''80's". Must I x-plane? See (hear) the Aliens eating Buick at you in 2002. - -Doug-say. ears. You have 15 mins. to kiss somebody. ...pass it on...now! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:13:21 -0700 From: "Crackers" Subject: Alloy: New Toy for Crackers Well, time to kiss my beloved Tascam PortaStudio goodbye. That sweet little 4-track cassette recorder and I sure have had some good times but lately it's really only been functioning as a submixer most of the time as I had switched over to doing all my audio recording in the digital realm on the computer. But the truth is I hate recording on the computer. Call me a crotchety old fart but I like real knobs and dials and sliders and virtual ones on a monitor just don't cut it for me. Plus operating systems have become so bloated and computers so generalized that they just are too unreliable. My good old Atari ST never crashes because it's a single tasking operating system that's on ROM, very simple unlike Windows which is a pain in the ass to figure out what exactly is causing what problem when things go nuts. So I've been squirreling away a little bit from all my recent shows and jobs and today went and bought myself a Tascam 788 digital multitrack recorder. Now I've got real tactile controls, digital multi-track recording to hard disk and all in a relatively small package which makes it portable enough for taking to record live shows. I'll still keep the ol' Tascam. It still makes a very nice little analogue mixer and I might use it now and then for recording rehearsals or as a scratchpad. I had to go all the way to Toronto to get the 788 so I took along a tape of Dolby rarities to listen to along the way. It made the bus trip go by much faster. Crackers (Can't wait to start playing with my new toy from hell!!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:57:42 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Alloy: Dolby Music to Pray By? I was up in Baltimore today, shopping for cheap kitchen junk at IKEA. As I sat in the parking lot this evening, a hellacious thunderstorm started to slam down in heavy sheets. I decided to wait out the storm and turned on the car radio, flipping around the AM stations, all a mix of Rush Limbaugh re-runs, weather-and-traffic-together, and "churched up" Christian power hours. On one news station, I stopped because I heard music that was so utterly familiar - I realized it was one of the tracks that Thomas wrote that's sometimes the "Tune of the Day" over on thomasdolby.com. It was being used as the background music for an ad for "The Concert for Prayer" on the U.S. National Day of Prayer (which is, apparently, May 2nd.) I'm not sure why, but it was really weird. But it was nice to hear the tuneage. I was trying to remember the title, but I couldn't. I just went to thomasdolby.com to see if, by chance, it was the Tune of the Day. It wasn't. Instead, something called "Bleached Whale" was playing. (Personally, I'd like to add, I didn't find the note attached to the music to be very nice. I'm sure some people will laugh at it. I didn't.) - - Melissa J. - -- Melissa R. Jordan Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.  The Shawshank Redemption ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:52:54 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: Hey, I got good news. As some of you may remember, back in October I announced that I got laid (not the good kind) and lost my job. Well, the long wait is over. After being patient for 6 months, I finally got a job, and it is one I will enjoy. Three former co-workers who worked under contract with my former employer put in very good references for me and helped me get a position with their company when one became available. So, on Monday, I start out my new job. Yipee! Just thougt I'd let everyone know. Thanks for the support and advice I got off-list. The past 6 months weren't so bad and financially I got by ok. Now I have one day left to get my sleeping paterns back in line! Now that I have an income again, I will have to buy a copy of Fourty. - -Keith (no longer the unemployed inhabitant) Stansell http://www.keithstansell.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:15:15 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: Hey, I got good news. Congratulations, Keith! That is fantastic news!!! Good luck on Monday! Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.  The Shawshank Redemption ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #76 **************************