From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V8 #10 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 Thursday, January 16 2003 Volume 08 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED ["Crackers" ] Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED ["Crackers" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:56:43 -0800 From: "Crackers" Subject: Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED - ----- Original Message ----- From: > Hello Alloys, > I also have to compose a musical tableau for > each of the 13 sessions. Hopefully this will become an annual gig, though it > only takes up a month or so of my time. Cool! Very cool. > While TED is of limited interest to Alloyites (unless you have $4,000 to > drop on a conference registration!) the good news is, this has forced me to > get my equipment and studio back in order, get into > composing/playing/performing mode, and to back off from the tech/mobile > phone industries a bit! In 2003 I plan to spend a LOT more time making > "real" music. I'd be foolish to predict when this will result in anything > resembling an Tour or and Album (what a quaint term!) but if all goes well, > you should see some new Dolby "product" before the year is out. Thanks as > ever to all of you for waiting so patiently! Now this is the best news ever! > PS Oh and check out a recent hobby of mine: > http://www.retroringtones.co.uk You know, you never did answer my question as to wether or not it was you issuing forth the "bodily fuction" noises. Hey, you know what? Maybe you could get one of the female Alloy members to volunteer that "female orgasm" sample we talked about. Oh Robin! Would you be willing to offer Thomas a "female orgasm"? Hmmm... maybe we should be a bit more fair about this and offer all the female Alloyites an opportunity to surrender an orgasm to Thomas. I envision some form of contest involving tight body harnesses and thrall collars to determine the winner. I wager 500 Quatloos on the newcomer. Crackers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:03:39 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED I was about to write a post asking about amplification for the little electric guitar I just bought (what exactly is the purpose of the preamp, and do I need one in order to use an amp? this sort of newbie question) But crackers' letter is far more interesting. So how often do you and Thomas sit around discussing female orgasm sounds? I am a firm believe in the notion that loud = fun. All I need is the right inspiration, and bring on the recording equipment. As they say, it's the quite ones you have to watch out for. ~robin Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:50:16 -0800 From: "Crackers" Subject: Re: Alloy: Happy New Year/TED - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Thurlow" > I was about to write a post asking about amplification for the little electric guitar I just bought (what exactly is the purpose of the preamp, and do I need one in order to use an amp? this sort of newbie question) A pre-amp is just a device to boost the level of an audio signal to make it more compatable with other audio gear. It's easiest to explain if you think of audio signals as being two types, mic level and line level (there are actually more than two types but we'll just say there's two). Some devices are built to work with audio signals at the mic (weaker) level. Other audio devices are built to work with audio signals at the line (stronger) level and others still are designed to work with either. The pre-amp will boost a mic level signal and make it a line level signal. Depending on the gear this is either a good thing or a bad thing. Something designed to only work with mic level inputs can be damaged by a line level signal. Something designed to work with line level inputs will sound quiet and noisey if given a mic level signal. To plug an electric guitar into a guitar amp you shouldn't need a pre-amp as guitar amps are designed to work with the audio signals generated with a guitar. To plug an electric guitar into a studio effects processor or a mixing board or a recorder you might need a pre-amp, it all depends on the equipment. You can also buy out-board pre-amps to replace the pre-amps on other studio gear if the built in pre-amps are not of good quality. It is very common for engineers to use tube pre-amps instead of the pre-amps built into studio mixers depending on the microphones and the recording situation being employed. > But crackers' letter is far more interesting. > So how often do you and Thomas sit around discussing female orgasm sounds? Oh no no, it's not like that at all I assure you. Thomas pointed me towards the RetroTones site and asked me what I thought about it and I commented that in the "Human Debris" section the sound of a female orgasm was absent and I felt this oversight should be rectified as soon as possible as I am quite certain that a robust female orgasm ringtone would indeed be a big seller. After all, how many of us men would not heartily enjoy the passionate song of the female orgasm being issued forth from the pockets of our trousers. I can assure you that on the subject of female orgasms and the vocalizations which accompany them Thomas and I rarely correspond on such matters more than four to six times a week. It's certainly nothing out of the norm. I had, however, queried Thomas as to wether or not the sounds of the "passing of bodily gasses" in the Human Debris section were performed entierly by the man himself. This is never mentioned anywhere on the webpage and I feel again that if Thomas is indeed the flatulence artist (or "fartsy artsy" as they are more commonly known) the company is missing a valuable marketing opportunity by not fully exploiting this fact. "Have Thomas Dolby flatulate in your trousers whenever someone calls you on the telephone." Actually, now that I think about it, they could launch a whole line of "celebrity bodily functions ringtones". Perhaps there is a market for people who would like to hear the groans and moans of Madonna suffering menstral cramps. Be the first on your block to own the entire Baldwin brothers suffering the pains of having drank Mexican tap water. Enjoy the sounds of Halle Berry digesting a particularily spicey chicken vindalu. > I am a firm believe in the notion that loud = fun. All I need is the right inspiration, and bring on the recording equipment. As they say, it's the quite ones you have to watch out for. You know.... I do have a recording studio in my basement geekroom. Yes, loud orgasms are indeed fun. One of the sacrifices of parenthood unfortunately unless you really like explaining to the wee ones, "Don't worry, Daddy really wasn't hurting Mommy.... and we're really Zipper Ninjas." (Well how else would you explain the leather gimp masks?) But oh, when the kids are away. Crackers Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V8 #10 **************************