The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I thought I'd throw this out here and see if anyone knows anything about it: Recently, on the message board for Guided By Voices, someone pointed out a picture disc of dubious origin - several people on that board are pretty close to the band, and the general feeling is that the record in question i...

The Trimicron CD reminded me of some of the experiments conducted by Emory Cook (an engineer and inventor who passed away in 2002) in the 1950s. I’ve got several Cook-engineered records, but one of my favorites is called, “Marimba Band (Otherwise Known As To Hell With High-Fidelity)”. There was a mo...

Bless you, Mike. Sorry if I stirred the pot again, I seem to have a special knack for doing that. I’m still running some other tests with the EQs, etc, so I haven’t had a chance to compare the Cuttertone app to my regular way of doing things, but I’ll post the results here when I do. Meanwhile, I fe...

Jeez, as a retired so-called “professional” writer, it’s a tad embarrassing that I can’t seem to get the creative juices flowing on this one. But mostly, that’s just because I’m enticed by the offer of a free egg cream in NYC - I haven’t had a decent egg cream since I left the Village in the mid-‘80...

Ideology? I'd reckon that everyone needs some form of it or another, except maybe sociopaths. But hey, I'm not a preacher, just some guy who is trying to learn how to make records; and - like everyone - has a few opinions about some things. My apologies if I hurt anyone's feelings by suggesting that...

Hola! I was still looking around for something like the Spencer microscope, and now you put this in front of me... :idea: How did I not stumble across something like this in my own research, I wonder? Always impressed by the overall scope of your projects, even though admittedly, much of the math an...

I'm not usually big on plug-ins, being an analog hardware guy, but this one sounds like it specifically targets some of the functions that could be of some use to folks who hang around places like this. At $20, it's certainly worth a test drive, at the very least. Most likely, I'd want to see what i...

Hey Barry - Just wanted to say hello; we used to live in Brooklyn, right around the block from The Aladdin, and I wish I had met some local lathe trolls before we moved way the heck out to Hillsboro! Your unit and my K-8 are like apples and oranges, but it might still be productive to hang out somet...

Are there rules in this game? Darn, I must have missed that memo. I've been listening to whole mono vs. stereo debate for years, as though there can't simply be both. If I've learned *anything* in all my years working with sound, it's that *everyone* is an expert, when it comes to mattes of personal...

^^^^ Yeah, but you for got to mention God's bar, The Meet Rack...!

Shoot, If I knew Gridlock was gonna be in Tucson, I might've made another trip down there.... been meaning to connect with him, but things keep getting in the way. Guess I'll just have to drop down to Eugene sometime.

I have to agree with these comments. I got into this because I wanted to put out my own music, and eventually release some others' music as well, and it seems to be impossible to actually get pressed vinyl if you only want a small run. That was the case when I was in my 20s, and it doesn't seem to h...

I like it! I think I'll steal that name for one of my little vanity audio projects!! Audiofool in the house!!

opcode66 wrote:

mossboss wrote:Audiofools!! Thats a new one on me
Does this statement forms part of the English language?
Cheers

I think he meant like Audiophiles. A minor play on words.

Hi folks, my name is J. Free, and I’m a hermit / lurker / music nerd, posting here for the first time (and yes, my name really is an alphanumeric character and a punctuation mark). Sometimes, I can be a bit of a slowpoke, and really meant to post something here much earlier, but every time I visit t...