anchorhead is so awesome

squirrel, you mad?

This is what she's gonna look like in 6 months.

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Also thinking about painting the concrete floor, what colour though? Terracotta? White? Blue?

the proportions look a bit off, is that back bit big enough for a bbq pit and table+ chairs?

AG: there's not enough room in that back corner. Better to put a long, thin high table along the back with some high bar chairs if you can find some aluminium ones; it'll look ****ing awesome and be a more effective use of the space. Even that would cost you the bit of 'path' at the back of the grass.

that or use the chairs on the lawny bit and just store them at the back.

I edited the original photo to be how I want it.


I dry-built the bbq to show size, it's at the back...


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i think it might work better if you cut the top 1/3rd off the dirt spot in the middle, and pave it like the rest, that way you have more open space for the bbq and the table.

actually, if you have the spare time + money, i think it would look really good if you pulled up that cement path, reshaped the grass bit in the middle to accommodate a bigger open spot in the back and perhaps wider paths up the side, and then laid down pavers.

[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;18006758]AG: there's not enough room in that back corner. Better to put a long, thin high table along the back with some high bar chairs if you can find some aluminium ones; it'll look ****ing awesome and be a more effective use of the space. Even that would cost you the bit of 'path' at the back of the grass.
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then wouldn't you just be staring at a wooden fence if you sat there?

[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;18006758]
that or use the chairs on the lawny bit and just store them at the back.[/QUOTE]

this, if you dont want to hack up the ground

It's just a rental, if it were my property I'd deck the whole back 1/3rd.

I'm working on keeping it super cheap.

[QUOTE=mnemonic;18006762]

then wouldn't you just be staring at a wooden fence if you sat there?
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you'd sit sideways so you'd have somewhere for your plate but could still face the garden?

TBH if you want to be entertaining dudes AG you're gonna have to sacrifice some of your dirt patch. Either by eating on it, or by paving over it.

The dirt patch is gonna be lawn anyways, so if it's ever more than the family we can move onto the grass.

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I can see you're incorporating my advice into your backyard design.

FLOWERS (FOR THE WIFE)

this is 100% more awesome thanks to capital letters

for the anti gay points lol

flowers (I'M NOT GAY, I DON'T LIKE GAY STUFF LIKE FLOWERS, I'M EVEN MARRIED)

I'm seriously lolling at these pictures of your plan[t]s.

Nice one killing the lod squiggs.

Sup lod, haven't posted in here for a minute.

Since I'm in the Guitar Center mailing system I got a Memorial Day gift thing for $35 so I went ahead and picked one of these up today:

[url]http://www.amazon.com/Intellitouch-PT30-Classic-Clip-Tuner/dp/B0035XX9KM[/url]

Works so, so much better than my crappy little Korg. My guitar has never been so close to being perfectly in tune.

Having never used one, I've always assumed that clip-on tuners would be a bit crap. I use a crappy little Korg tuner as well, sounds like I should try one of those clip-on ones. Y'reckon?

I would recommend it. Since they detect the vibration of the string instead of receiving sound through a microphone, there's no way outside noise can interfere with your tuning. The arrows on the display make it incredibly easy to lock in the tuning you want, and it's got a lifetime warranty.

Best $40 I've spent lately.

Keep in mind though I play purely acoustic. I have a 12-string and haven't touched an electric in a few years so I don't know how well clip-on tuners work with them. It's the perfect acoustic tuner, though.

Cool man, I'll check one out.

Also,

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lmao, that's ace.


I'm watching the fifth element, while cooking dinner.

[QUOTE=AG;18008871]lmao, that's ace.


I'm watching the fifth element, while cooking dinner.[/QUOTE]

what are you making, a roast? bolognese? it's quarter to two!

Chilli.

It's gonna be delicious. Cannot stand mince that hasn't been cooked for 4+ hours.

you just get weirder and weirder

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haha

go to sleep josh, its 2:38am

[QUOTE=Squirrel;18008995]you just get weirder and weirder[/QUOTE]

It's weird to cook good food?

mmk

What are the black specs floating will the roll? Is this crucial?

I'ma do this

[QUOTE=AG;18009260]It's weird to cook good food?

mmk[/QUOTE]

i read this as "its weird to cook gook food?"

well that was weird, why did i sign on to my alternate account rather than my main

[QUOTE=Joelbassman;18004902]The best way to deal with highhat bleed is to sample replace the snare with a sample you took from the kit or from a decent sample library.[/QUOTE]

This is good, and so is sending the drummer a mix with the hats really hot during tracking, although it's a bit late for that. I spend a lot of time on the snare mic'ing so that I get as much hat rejection as possible too.

I only listened to Kinder Man since I'm on a laptop, but my first impressions are pretty similar to Joels'. Some automated verb would really put a gloss on the vocal. As far as the comparison to 3stm, I think your recording came out more "timeless" than theirs even tho they might have a more "modern" or processed sound. Probably because they've compressed the bejeezus out of it so it's louder than the last song on the radio, but that's a rant for another time...

It's organic and earthy sounding (on these awful speakers) and I think you should run with what you've got if you don't mind it. The snare feels like it could use more body, and the bass might be a bit thin, but I'll wait till I can hear it on full size speakers before I recommend anything. These speakers are smaller than my thumb print :lol: Guitars are perfect, don't touch em! Good job!

[QUOTE=AG;18009260]It's weird to cook good food?

mmk[/QUOTE]

Not what I meant.

Wow thanks dude, Kinder Man definitely came out the best, but I spent the most time on it. Also I didn't want to compress the song while "mastering", but I should of limited it a bit because the peaks aren't even at 0

I cut a lot of the lows on the snare just because the way I mic'd the top, it's not the best sounding snare either and the resonance was pretty ugly

We're not the loudest in this competition but our home recordings sound better than most on there

-1 for cheap studios

[QUOTE=viciouscycle;18009676]Also I didn't want to compress the song while "mastering", but I should of limited it a bit because the peaks aren't even at 0[/QUOTE]

Pull up your mix and play with it. I really like the sound of a mellow compressor on the stereo buss... It glues everything together in a way I can't live without anymore. It's hard to put your finger on what it's doing, but as soon as you take it off you sure miss it. Limiting is where you can really fudge up a mix, but since you're approaching it with caution, I bet you'll get something good. Since you've already got mixes you plan on using, it's a great time to play around and see what you can get. No pressure, and no reason to stick with what you've found. :lol:

[QUOTE=viciouscycle;18009676]
I cut a lot of the lows on the snare just because the way I mic'd the top, it's not the best sounding snare either and the resonance was pretty ugly[/QUOTE]

Yuck... I feel your pain. So the lows just weren't usable, or you were trying to get more cut out of it? I've had a lot of luck running a guitar processor on the snare (on a separate track) with a touch of gain, and some boosted lows. Sounds like **** on it's own, but in the mix it's a beautiful thing. Saved my *** on a ringy piccolo snare I just recorded... You "hear" the more natural snare track, but the other track adds a bit of steroids.

[QUOTE=viciouscycle;18009676]
We're not the loudest in this competition but our home recordings sound better than most on there[/QUOTE]

One of the funniest things to me is how people use these multi million dollar studios, and take ages to make records just so some kids can listen to it on (and decide to buy it based on) a smashed mp3, myspace, or worst of all the radio. If you write great music and play it passionately, not even an mbox can stand in your way. It's not like the other goodies can't help, but it accounts for maybe 10% of the "awesome" :p

Totally. 90% of a good record is the songwriter/band/players 5% is the instruments they play on 2.5% is the recording gear and 2.5% is the mixing/tracking/mastering engineer.

It's a farce that good engineers make good music. Good musicians make good music, they just usually (usually) don't know how to craft it in the mix stage, which is where audio engineers come in....hopefully.

That's quite true, there's alot of older records that don't sounds like diamonds but the playing and attitude on these cds are enough to enjoy them alot more than some modern polished turd

You guys wanna explain automated reverb? I'll look it up too

JC: Yea I've realized that some tracks sound like *** on their own, but certain things in a mix play their parts. My other guitarist was playing through one of my amp vst's and he asked for bass and gain and what not, I'm like no.

By stereo bus you mean the master?

By stereo bus yes he means master.

It's just like if you set up your reverb on auxillary returns like you're supposed to, you can send for example of a vocal and mute it for the whole track and automate it to unmute in certain parts.

Without knowing your DAW I couldn't tell you exactly how to do it.

Reaper

[QUOTE=Joelbassman;18009798]Totally. 90% of a good record is the songwriter/band/players 5% is the instruments they play on 2.5% is the recording gear and 2.5% is the mixing/tracking/mastering engineer.

It's a farce that good engineers make good music. Good musicians make good music, they just usually (usually) don't know how to craft it in the mix stage, which is where audio engineers come in....hopefully.[/QUOTE]

I'd say it's 80% band, 15% engineer and 5% gear

a bad sound engineer can make anything sound awful

a good one canmake anything sound good