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I don't really like headphones. You have to spend more to get decent ones in my experience, and they have way more spill, which isn't good when you're on a bus or something. They can be a bit intrusive sometimes, and it's all but impossible to listen to only use one headphone at a time - I quite frequently have only one earphone in so I can hear what's going on around me, or when I'm at work. It's probably an endless debate though :p

Christ, lost my net connection for a while, got busy and totally forgot about this place.

Hey people, I have returned from the grave of real life.

Hey Chris, long time no see. Heard some of the recent Mae's Lost Empire stuff, you guys are getting incredible these days man. I may be at Sheffield Uni next year too so I'll probably catch you live someday.

steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve

come hang in sheffield. jamie's here too now! hardly seen him though :(

Sheff will be at the top of the list for my UCAS choices. I hear they have a beast of a Japanese degree. Just hope I get accepted, back at college doing some more Highers (roughly equivalent to AS Levels). Hopefully I will get 3 As then they will take the A from my Music Higher into account... Sheff seems like a cool place man.

We should definitely meet up if I end up down there. What you up to these days?

I heard that Sheffield uni had a good Japanese department a while ago, but I'm not sure who from and and I'm not sure how reliable that is. However, our combined information seems to show positive correlation. That's probably a good sign.

I think the entry requirements are a bit more relaxed for mature students anyway, so you might not need to go too overboard on the other qualifications. Wouldn't take my word for it though D:

Not doing too much at the moment bro. Just working 5 day weeks and doing music in the spare time. We're training a new drummer up at the moment, so we can't even tour or anything even though our album's just come out :/

I hear the drop-out rate is two thirds for the Japanese degree though, it is apparently pretty hardcore intensive! This info was from a guy on the course. But, it is meant to be a damn good department with good connections.

I should hopefully be okay, the lovely lady at admissions seemed to think I'd be fine. I need at least 3 As and a B for Highers to get in. Already have ABBBC, so getting 3 As this year should sort it.

Ooft, sounds like it will take a bit training up a drummer with the kind of stuff your band does! I bet you're itching to tour, any chance of a Scottish tour in the nearish future?

It's looking unlikely we'll be out playing shows until the new year I think. We could play before then, but it would still be rough round the edges, and we want to get back out there just as good as (if not better than) before, so it's worth taking the time over it. We do want to get more widespread gigs going on though, and I'd love to do Scotland. Our friends in Flatlands have been up there a couple of times and they love it there. We've got vague plans for a 10 day stint in Europe around March or something too, but we'll have to see about that one. The world is our oyster :)

You've been into Japanese for a little while though now, right? I imagine you'll have a headstart over some of the people starting it from scratch - I suppose it's probably those people who end up dropping out?

[QUOTE=fatbandit;18212095]It's looking unlikely we'll be out playing shows until the new year I think. We could play before then, but it would still be rough round the edges, and we want to get back out there just as good as (if not better than) before, so it's worth taking the time over it. We do want to get more widespread gigs going on though, and I'd love to do Scotland. Our friends in Flatlands have been up there a couple of times and they love it there. We've got vague plans for a 10 day stint in Europe around March or something too, but we'll have to see about that one. The world is our oyster :)

You've been into Japanese for a little while though now, right? I imagine you'll have a headstart over some of the people starting it from scratch - I suppose it's probably those people who end up dropping out?[/QUOTE]

Ah I see, fair enough, doing a stint in Europe would be awesome I imagine! Scotland is supposedly a good place to play gigs in, haven't been to many gigs outside of Scotland so I couldn't really say of any differences on average crowd temperament, though we are quite open to good music up here and usually very friendly.

I got sidetracked from learning Japanese for quite a while though, thought I was gonna do Norwegian instead but realised there is more money in Japanese and I can learn Norwegian in my spare time with help from my mum.

I am working towards the lowest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in December, hopefully I can manage to pass it and it will give me a heads up over most but that said, it gets pretty mental on the degree apparently. It has some of the highest workloads for degrees out there, almost same league of work involved as for doing a Law degree from a good uni. Couple that with the fact you need to actively communicate with what you learn, a lot of people's heads just explode. I only hope mine won't.

Well you're obviously genuinely interested in doing it, and you've got at least a bit of proficiency in it, so you're setting yourself up right I reckons :) Do you do facebook? I tried looking for you a minute ago, but there are too many people with your name :(

no, wait, totally found you.

[quote=katana_manatee;18212037]Christ, lost my net connection for a while, got busy and totally forgot about this place.

Hey people, I have returned from the grave of real life.

Hey Chris, long time no see. Heard some of the recent Mae's Lost Empire stuff, you guys are getting incredible these days man. I may be at Sheffield Uni next year too so I'll probably catch you live someday.[/quote]


WTF, Steve? You're alive?

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18212778]WTF, Steve? You're alive?[/QUOTE]

Joe! Hey man, good to see you are still on here. Totally forgot about this place for so long, I just remembered about this place yesterday and I was like holy shit!

How you doing man? What you up to these days?

[quote=katana_manatee;18212857]Joe! Hey man, good to see you are still on here. Totally forgot about this place for so long, I just remembered about this place yesterday and I was like holy shit!

How you doing man? What you up to these days?[/quote]

Doing pretty well. Just finishing up the last month of my current lease and prepping to move into the parents' rental house. Doing the full-time work/part-time school thing, right now, but I've been approved for some student loans, so it's back to school full-time in the Spring.

How could you forget about us, ass-wipe?

Hey Joe do you know anything about axial, tangential and/or oblique modes?

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I need to make a tally of all the modes below a certain frequency. And I figured that you know if an axial is just between to parallel surfaces, it just needs 1 figure in one of those boxes. Then Tangential is 4 surfaces, so like two figures would mean tangential and three figures would be oblique (which is six surfaces). But like, that same logic doesn't apply once you get to like 121.4Hz where there are four figures.


Gah acoustics is balls.

[quote=Convectuoso;18214047]Hey Joe do you know anything about axial, tangential and/or oblique modes?

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I need to make a tally of all the modes below a certain frequency. And I figured that you know if an axial is just between to parallel surfaces, it just needs 1 figure in one of those boxes. Then Tangential is 4 surfaces, so like two figures would mean tangential and three figures would be oblique (which is six surfaces). But like, that same logic doesn't apply once you get to like 121.4Hz where there are four figures.


Gah acoustics is balls.[/quote]

I've never taken an acoustics course, so I just read some of this:
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I don't know what the 3 left columns mean at all, but I suspect you are encountering a situation involving a combination of oblique/tangential modes.

Yeah I figured as much but it was worth a shot :p

Ah sorry the columns were length width and height.

Yes I think it's a combination, I'll figure it out though.

[quote=Convectuoso;18214243]Yeah I figured as much but it was worth a shot :p

Ah sorry the columns were length width and height.

Yes I think it's a combination, I'll figure it out though.[/quote]

Length, width, and height of what? The room?

so it turns out that guy from youtube was actually legit

he mods the game jedi knight academy (into a standalone) and offered payment based on song, or to recommend me to other paying jobs for game sound

we're talking more via email

pretty cool

That's sick. Hope it works out for you, holmes.

Sick man.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18212989]Doing pretty well. Just finishing up the last month of my current lease and prepping to move into the parents' rental house. Doing the full-time work/part-time school thing, right now, but I've been approved for some student loans, so it's back to school full-time in the Spring.

How could you forget about us, ass-wipe?[/QUOTE]

Nice one man, how long you got left of your degree now?

Basically, because I'm an ass-wipe. :p

I'm at college just now, though it is a little different from what you guys in the States term a college. In the US, university and college are terms which are more or less interchangeable, while in Britain a college is usually an educational institution which is somewhere between school and university degree level, or is a constituent part of a university.

I'm studying Highers (type of Scottish qualification equivalent to final year of high school level subjects in the US) in Biology, Psychology and Modern Studies (basically politics) and am hoping to go to Sheffield University in England to do Japanese. I need three As and hopefully I'll be able to get in.

[quote=katana_manatee;18214497]Nice one man, how long you got left of your degree now?

Basically, because I'm an ass-wipe. :p

I'm at college just now, though it is a little different from what you guys in the States term a college. In the US, university and college are terms which are more or less interchangeable, while in Britain a college is usually an educational institution which is somewhere between school and university degree level, or is a constituent part of a university.

I'm studying Highers (type of Scottish qualification equivalent to final year of high school level subjects in the US) in Biology, Psychology and Modern Studies (basically politics) and am hoping to go to Sheffield University in England to do Japanese. I need three As and hopefully I'll be able to get in.[/quote]

About 2 years left if I spend all my time on the math degree, but I can likely get both the math and physics degrees done in 3 years. Not terrible.

College here in America has a few meanings. Generally, a college is considered to be the first two years (aka lower division) of a university. But then, universities do this thing where they have different "colleges" within the university (John S Grant College of Medicine, WP Carey College of Business, etc) and it's basically a fancy, useless term that defines your degree requirements.

Best of luck to you, good sir. I think you have the right mindset for collegiate life and will truly appreciate and benefit from it.

Aside from the scholastic life, what else has been up? Anything in the musical forefront?

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18214527]About 2 years left if I spend all my time on the math degree, but I can likely get both the math and physics degrees done in 3 years. Not terrible.

College here in America has a few meanings. Generally, a college is considered to be the first two years (aka lower division) of a university. But then, universities do this thing where they have different "colleges" within the university (John S Grant College of Medicine, WP Carey College of Business, etc) and it's basically a fancy, useless term that defines your degree requirements.

Best of luck to you, good sir. I think you have the right mindset for collegiate life and will truly appreciate and benefit from it.

Aside from the scholastic life, what else has been up? Anything in the musical forefront?[/QUOTE]

Ah, so that is how the word college is used in the US. In the UK we don't tend to think of having say a lower division at a university, it is simply thought of as 1st year, 2nd year etc. Like in the States though we do have different "colleges" within universities, like King's College which is a part of the University of Cambridge if I remember rightly, but students would always describe themselves as university students.

Thanks a lot man, I really look forward to proper university life, I have matured greatly since my days at the Bass Institute, I think I have a much better mindset for it now rather than being Mr. Party-Time as I was before...

Musically I have become somewhat stagnant unfortunately. I've still been jamming on and off with people but I've not tried to get into any bands or anything like that and stopped playing much for quite a while. I've now got a little regime going of bass playing and acoustic playing though, so I am getting back into it. Learning some Preston Reed stuff just now, just about finished learning Tractor Pull, just need to polish it up a bit. The main thing I suppose is to always be learning something.

What about yourself, you in any bands just now?

Funniest thing I've noticed after going to uni is that after you've tried to teach, you gain a much better appreciation of how you could have been a much better student yourself.

So, I thought I could get my brother a birthday present at JB after work. Evidently it closes the same time my work does. That sucks.

[quote=katana_manatee;18214585]Ah, so that is how the word college is used in the US. In the UK we don't tend to think of having say a lower division at a university, it is simply thought of as 1st year, 2nd year etc. Like in the States though we do have different "colleges" within universities, like King's College which is a part of the University of Cambridge if I remember rightly, but students would always describe themselves as university students.

Thanks a lot man, I really look forward to proper university life, I have matured greatly since my days at the Bass Institute, I think I have a much better mindset for it now rather than being Mr. Party-Time as I was before...

Musically I have become somewhat stagnant unfortunately. I've still been jamming on and off with people but I've not tried to get into any bands or anything like that and stopped playing much for quite a while. I've now got a little regime going of bass playing and acoustic playing though, so I am getting back into it. Learning some Preston Reed stuff just now, just about finished learning Tractor Pull, just need to polish it up a bit. The main thing I suppose is to always be learning something.

What about yourself, you in any bands just now?[/quote]

About the same here. I've played a few benefit shows this year with various local groups (tax write-off AND it looks like badass volunteer service for scholarship applications). Other than that, after my 1-2 year stint with Cycles of Surrealism ended, the music scene just kind of stopped for me. It's given me a chance to focus on school and work, though, so there is an upside to things. I still play my basses on occasion, try to help out on the forums (both here and TB), and do some electronics/refinishing work in my spare time (which is increasingly lacking lately).

At the very least, working on craigslist guitars and basses will always be a hobby of mine. Every one presents a unique challenge and I can usually flip them for some sort of profit.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18215866]About the same here. I've played a few benefit shows this year with various local groups (tax write-off AND it looks like badass volunteer service for scholarship applications). Other than that, after my 1-2 year stint with Cycles of Surrealism ended, the music scene just kind of stopped for me. It's given me a chance to focus on school and work, though, so there is an upside to things. I still play my basses on occasion, try to help out on the forums (both here and TB), and do some electronics/refinishing work in my spare time (which is increasingly lacking lately).

At the very least, working on craigslist guitars and basses will always be a hobby of mine. Every one presents a unique challenge and I can usually flip them for some sort of profit.[/QUOTE]

Aww man, that's the coolest way to ramp up volunteer hours I've ever heard!

So my band got a dance remix done by some cat out of LA. It's pretty cool.

Haha.

Let's hear it?

[QUOTE=gaslight;18219570]Haha.

Let's hear it?[/QUOTE]

I can give you a link to a YSI file but it's not going on myspace of FB for a while I think. We got a sweet royalty deal though.

PS what's your email? So I can t3h send it.

http://www.myspace.com/riverstonehaze

Familiarise yourself with 'drive on' first.

What kind of royalty deal?

70/30 split our way.

Pretty sweet if he ends up selling it at all.

Apparently he played it at some show 'last night' and it got a good reaction. We got an SMS telling us as much anyway. So we shall see. I could use some free money.

Make sure he sets you up with the links for people to buy the download of it, then all you have to do is whore the link as much as possible.

Is it pathetic that I want these?
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I'm not ready to gauge my ears yet, but it'd be cool to have them for on-stage and just to see, in general, if I wanted gauges.

Yeah save your money they're gay.

Logo of the site should be a warning :p.

[quote=gaslight;18220603]Yeah save your money they're gay.

[B]Logo of the site should be a warning[/B] :p.[/quote]
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