[quote=FlamingCouch;18721806]omg joe did u liek goin good charlotte or what lolz?[/quote]

Dude, Good Charlotte went ME.

Anywayz, sup?

[quote=BenJammin;18721846]what a crazy night[/quote]

I wiped my Zune and I'm completely reloading it with music. I lost all of my Primus, Gogol Bordello, and a good portion of my Tech N9ne, so I guess I'll have to go back through and obtain all of them again. Also, I had a beer and listened to dubstep while doing it. Crazy night for me, man.

What's going on in your night?

Tonight, I'm not doing much but drinking some.

Last night, we threw a huge party for my roommate's graduation from her MA programme. So in typical fashion, we got really drunk on cheap malt liquor, smoked a lot of weed, and ended up doing opium.

Never done any opiates before. How was it?

I'm not entirely sure I could pull that specific feeling out from everything else that was in my body. :lol: I do know that I ended the night by walking a girl home, and then I got lost trying to get back to my place, so I wandered around the streets at 3am yelling at one recurring street (I was walking in circles) and having loud conversations with myself.

I reckon that was mostly the booze.

How can one street intersect with itself, I must be at the nexus of the universe

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;18719056]What the eff? Where have YOU been hiding?[/QUOTE]

Around I suppose. Just no one ever responds to my posts anymore so I might post 3-4 times a month, and that's only if I find something real fun. I mostly just read during downtime.

[QUOTE=gaslight;18721969]How can one street intersect with itself, I must be at the nexus of the universe[/QUOTE]

you have clearly never been to Vancouver

[QUOTE=BenJammin;18722006]you have clearly never been to Vancouver[/QUOTE]

Guilty as charged :(.

[quote=FlamingCouch;18721802][SIZE=5][/SIZE]as long as you keep Ramona Flowers as your avatar, all will be well. Everytime I see that avatar I smile upstairs and downstairs, if you know what I mean.[/quote]
No promises. No telling when I'll get bored ;p Do have to agree with you though.

[quote=SablateMcNuff]For some reason, I have the overwhelming urge to hate you.[/quote]
I can make it worse for you - it's a white one too :/ Did you ever get roudn to listening to POS btw?

[quote=gaslight;18721969]How can one street intersect with itself, I must be at the nexus of the universe[/quote]

We have an intersection of Lake Pleasant Rd and Lake Pleasant Pkwy, but other than that, Phoenix tends to be lain out very well

[quote=Jody LeCompte;18722000]Around I suppose. Just no one ever responds to my posts anymore so I might post 3-4 times a month, and that's only if I find something real fun. I mostly just read during downtime.[/quote]

I can't even remember the last time you posted.

Still making music?

[quote=fatbandit;18722168]No promises. No telling when I'll get bored ;p Do have to agree with you though.


I can make it worse for you - it's a white one too :/ Did you ever get roudn to listening to POS btw?[/quote]

I have not. I'm very particular about my mp3's being in 320kbps format, and since I didn't come across an online source with them, I'm actually going to go to the music store and pick up an album or two. Any suggestions on which ones?

In the bass forum? Probably only in the threads where other old lurkers pop up.

Not as much as I would be liking at the moment with several broken bones in my right hand and a few more months to go. But once everything heals up all nice and I kick the rust off, I've got a little metalcore outfit I play bass for.

[QUOTE=BenJammin;18721903]I'm not entirely sure I could pull that specific feeling out from everything else that was in my body. :lol: I do know that I ended the night by walking a girl home, and then I got lost trying to get back to my place, so I wandered around the streets at 3am yelling at one recurring street (I was walking in circles) and having loud conversations with myself.

I reckon that was mostly the booze.[/QUOTE]

very, very nice.

my company phone came in today and I now realize that having a smartphone actually makes me hate smartphones all the more. stupid fucking blackberry.

yeah, there's nothing wrong with 192kbps mp3s for me tbh. they all sound fine on my earphones, which is 90% of my music listening probably. some music just sounds shit quality regardless of the bitrate.

if they carry POS stuff in stores, I can only recommend Never Better, because it's the only album of his I have ;) but it's good!

With 192kbps, you can only really hear the difference on good speakers. What 192kbps does to the audio is only really heard in the extremities of the highs and low, without a full bandwidth playback system you aren't likely to hear the difference in ear buds :)

And without context, it makes even less of a difference. Even with a fantastic system, if all you have is 192, you wouldn't even be missing the difference 320 would make ;p

[quote=Convectuoso;18723381]With 192kbps, you can only really hear the difference on good speakers. What 192kbps does to the audio is only really heard in the extremities of the highs and low, without a full bandwidth playback system you aren't likely to hear the difference in ear buds :)[/quote]

There is a lot of lying about true bitrate amongst pirated music. Typically, things are encoded at higher bitrates, which is a conversion that can't really happen (you can't just convert to create what isn't there). What I've noticed is that tracks can have original bitrates of half of what they've been reencoded to show. With 320, I'm basically assuring myself that I get decent quality audio. It'll come in handy when I buy that Pivetta Opera amp and Swan 2.3 BHT speaker package for my home theater setup. :thumb:

Then again, poorly mixed music just has no hope. I had originally downloaded Coheed's "No World For Tomorrow" album, and thought that specific track was just of terrible sub-100kbps quality. Then I bought the album and realized that it wasn't the case. :(

[quote=fatbandit;18723399]And without context, it makes even less of a difference. Even with a fantastic system, if all you have is 192, you wouldn't even be missing the difference 320 would make ;p[/quote]

If you have a fantastic system, I'd hope FLAC would be your standard.

[quote=fatbandit;18723399]And without context, it makes even less of a difference. Even with a fantastic system, if all you have is 192, you wouldn't even be missing the difference 320 would make ;p[/quote]
Well, not really...

Because most people have an internal reference to what sounds good and what doesn't. It's hard to forget the first time you listened to a full bandwidth uncompressed file on a really great system. You should always be able to identify a compromised audio track without reference. If something makes it to CD, unless it's a hoirrrrrrible mix, the effects of MP3 compression sound almost nothing like a bad mix/song.

And you can hear the warbling on cymbals and the low end kind get a bit mushy and not as defined. All these artifacts become apparent on a greater listening system.


FMB: I had the same thing with the latest Dance Gavin Dance album. Unless the "preview" that I did was corrupted, there is some wack shit going on. Which is highly unlikely considering I know the reputation of the producer.

[quote=FunkMetalBass;18723405]If you have a fantastic system, I'd hope FLAC would be your standard.[/quote]
Well, if you have an iPod, it needs to be ALAC. And second of all, it's very hard to "get" ALAC files. Thirdly drive space becomes the next problem. But I have my own counter argument that I have too much useless, unlistened to music that I should just cull and try and get as higher quality as possible.

But again, with your iPod, you usually aren't listened to the output of the iPod with a very high end system. Further, even with my Sennheiser HD650's the iPod's headphone preamp isn't capable of driving it very well (I turn it all the way up and it's not even too loud yet) and the low end is nowhere near as tight as on my Apogee Ensemble's headphone preamp.

[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18722446]very, very nice.

my company phone came in today and I now realize that having a smartphone actually makes me hate smartphones all the more. stupid fucking blackberry.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, was a good time overall.

I also hate my blackberry. Mostly because I just feel like it's a crappy phone.

[quote=Jody LeCompte;18722438]In the bass forum? Probably only in the threads where other old lurkers pop up.

Not as much as I would be liking at the moment with several broken bones in my right hand and a few more months to go. But once everything heals up all nice and I kick the rust off, I've got a little metalcore outfit I play bass for.[/quote]

So what'd you do to your hand?

Also, does your band have a webpage at all? I'd like to check it out.

C'mon Joe, he obviously cut across the wrist while trying to make a bong out of a plastic bottle!

:thumb:
-Gav

[QUOTE=BenJammin;18723573]Yeah, was a good time overall.

I also hate my blackberry. Mostly because I just feel like it's a crappy phone.[/QUOTE]

I just want something simple, not something that does everything but cook its own pizza. which I hear they're coming out with in the revised version.

But really, I remember way back when (like in the late nineties) when my Dad had a Motorola StarTac and it was analog. That shit was dreamland for a dude who aspires to be as low-tech as possible. (ie me)

Truth ^ Then I ended up on suicide watch and never did even get to smoke the bowl. Tragedy.

As for a website, it's not anywhere close to being done yet, but there are a few jams from our '09 demo on there still.
http://faithinflames.com

[quote=FlamingCouch;18724149]C'mon Joe, he obviously cut across the wrist while trying to make a bong out of a plastic bottle!

:thumb:[/quote]

[quote=Jody LeCompte;18724837]Truth ^ Then I ended up on suicide watch and never did even get to smoke the bowl. Tragedy.[/quote]

:lol:


[quote=Jody LeCompte;18724837]
As for a website, it's not anywhere close to being done yet, but there are a few jams from our '09 demo on there still.
http://faithinflames.com[/quote]

Cool, thanks. I'll check it out later.

[QUOTE=Convectuoso;18715866]I feel that way about my Les Paul, even if you hate them (btw, why?), I take back my post about my Tele sounding better on clean tones. After some tweaking and using the neck pickup only, along with the built in analog delay (emulation) on my Bogner I got that classic clean bar chord strumming. The analog delay when set right does that chorusy thing too which is cool, if not a little cliche.

And getting chunky, overdriven rhythm parts is simple as fuck.[/QUOTE]

I had a gibson lp standard for a few years. Got rid of it because the headstock spontaneously split from the neck (seriously), the binding around neck and body wasn't remotely flush with the wood, and it was incredibly uncomfortable to play sitting down. That being said, it was the best playing and sounding guitar I've had. I might buy another one after I get my strat, tho.

[list][*]8-12 page research project on Emmy Noether, including her biography, proofs of her major theorems, and applications to our Introductory Abstract Algebra course - due December 6.[*]5-10 page research project on the Duffing Equation and its applications, as well as applying various methods of solution analysis as learned in our Ordinary Differential Equations class - Due December 6.[*]8 modern physics problems (est. 25-30 hours) utilizing all techniques learned in our Math Methods for Physicists class - Due December 6.[*]Ordinary Differential Equations, and Communications final exams (back-to-back) - December 8[*]Applied Complex Analysis final exam - December 13[/list]

If I ever take a course load this intense and with so many projects (outside of grad school), somebody here needs to use my credit card to purchase airfare to fly to Phoenix and come shoot me. Seriously.

This is going to be a weekend from Hell.

Sounds shet ez bru.

I just finished a 6pm to 4am shift. Fun day, I had no proper meals. Next shift at 1pm. Getting myself a giant breakfast and pancakes and stuff before it.

Holla. Haven't logged on in forever.

[quote=Spaceman Spiff;18729473]Holla. Haven't logged on in forever.[/quote]
It's not like you've needed to :(