VIEW GALLERYAs I mentioned earlier, here are some pictures of my recent travels around southern Yunnan. It features Kunming, the Chu Xiong development, Da Zhuan (da jwan), and our trip to Jing Hong (close to Vietman, Burma, and Thailand.)
Enjoy! -BOB-
Archive for May, 2006
I don’t know why, but Safari has been less than desirable lately. Pages just don’t load. BOFA, Berklee.edu, etc. Firefox does. That lead me to this entry. I never used Firefox because I didn’t have my bookmarks in there. Problem solved:
Export your bookmarks to Firefox and make the switch.
New additions to the media room (with your help):
Genelec 8020a’s are the smallest (and newest) Genelec monitors you can get. Yes, they look like dinky computer speakers, but they’re award-winning, top-of-the-line near-field monitors. They deliver incredible sound with solid bass and balanced mids and highs. In general, monitors are used for mixing and mastering and are not meant to be ghetto-blasters. They’re meant to be honest devices, fine-tuned to properly mix for a range of speakers. Because of their size and weight, I had to get them and leave those Event 20/20s at home to be sold on eBay.
Sennheiser HD650 Reference Class open back, circumaural (around the ear) headphones are lightweight, do not cause ear fatigue, and are extremely high quality. Open back means that the speaker is not closed, as you can see in the picture. Closed back is good for recordings when you want to cancel out all other sound (the drums), but those tend to cause ear fatigue. I can’t wait to record with these. If I need to cancel out sound I’ll use my trusty Sony’s, which are cheap, but hey, they used them on all the musicians at Cirque who didn’t use inner ear monitors.
Digi 002 Rack is the master of disaster. The ultimate upgrade from the Digi 001, Digi 002 Rack is the latest FireWire-based Pro Tools system from Digidesign. 32-tracks simultaneous recording, up to 256 Midi tracks, up to 96 kHz sample rate, 4 Mic Ins with very good pre-amps, 8 Inputs, 8 Outputs, and two words — FIRE, WIRE.
Regarding my near completion of this final project and graduation from Berklee…
So I thought I saved the easy solos for last. The last two solos are Evan Price and Stuff Smith. Was I wrong. Evan Price (violinist you all know from the Turtle Island String Quartet and the Hot Club) has this thing about playing real smooth, easy, laid back ideas, but it’s the most difficult shit to transcribe. I don’t have words to describe it, other than the fact that both of my hands are sore from trying to play his imaginative ideas.