I am very displeased with my speakers

the single to noise ratio is very annoying. if i dont play it loud enough, i hear this irritating frequency of noise. lo-fi aint cutting it anymore...i need 3000 dollars for a new pair of speakers.

if you would like to donate money to "get paul some badass speakers fund", please pm me and i will give you a mailing address.



the buzzing is causing stress in my brain, and the stress is killing me...you wouldnt want me dead would you? :uhoh2:



donate over 1000 dollars, and you will get your choice of a free t-shirt or free water bottle!

 

i use the speakers apple makes for its iPod for everything. they are badass and cheap.


$3000 () you crazy boy

 

Everything in the world that you could ever want is 3000 dollars. thats at least what i learned in school

although last i heard it was 4000

 

what kind of crazy bastards ran that school?

though i guess it could be very true

 

Yeah, I know what ya mean... My speakers are cheap "look good" speakers... you know, sub and 4 speakers around the room... but I should have known that 30$ was a fishy price. It is still good enough for movies and music...

But I recorded some Velvet Underground covers today (Lou Reed would butcher me on the spot if he was to hear them ) and since the recording quality ain't superb, the damn speakers started making odd noises. Fuckers.

 

I would have a problem with my speakers as well with lower quality music. i was listening to this one song, and my speakers kept making a very ugly buzz sound every time the bass got to low. when i listen to better quality music it doesnt sound quite as bad, but they could be better.

you should put your velvet underground covers on your myspace. i'd like to hear em

 

Haha, I might as well make another myspace for my one man Velvet Underground cover band

Lots of "wooooahs" in it.

I think I've made "Candy Says" into a semi-happy song.

Shoot me now.

 

I can have some fun with wal-mart speakers, a $7 mic, a good soundcard... if you toss in all the little features when I run my stereo system and amplifier together.

It's even more fun than playing with broken stompboxes and out-of-phase humbuckers.

But nothing tops Bear Owsley's wall of sound.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound

The Wall of Sound fulfilled the band's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring system. After Stanley got out of prison in late 1972, he, Dan Healy and Mark Raizene of the Grateful Dead's sound crew, in collaboration with Ron Wickersham, Rick Turner, and John Curl of Alembic combined eleven separate sound systems in an effort to deliver high-quality sound to audiences. Vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and piano each had their own channel and set of speakers. Phil Lesh's bass was piped through a quadraphonic encoder that sent signals from each of the four strings to its own channel and set of speakers. Another channel amplified the bass drum, and two more channels carried the snares, tom-toms, and cymbals. Because each speaker carried just one instrument or vocalist, the sound was exceptionally clear and free of intramodular distortion.

The Wall of Sound consisted of 89 300-watt solid-state and three 350-watt vacuum-tube amplifiers generating a total of 26,400 watts RMS of audio power. This systems projected high quality playback at six hundred feet with an acceptable sound projected for a quarter mile. at which point wind interference degraded it. The Wall of Sound was the largest portable sound system ever built (although "portable" is a relative term). The Grateful Dead had two stages for the Wall of Sound. One would go ahead to the next city and begin being set up as soon as possible while the other was being used; the other would then "leapfrog" to the next show. Four semi-trailers and 21 crew members were required to haul and set up the 75-ton Wall.

 

Haha... I thought this said "I am very displeased with my sneakers". And then when the little preview thing started with "the single to noise ratio..." I was like, wait...Do they make inappropriate noises? 'Cause mine do sometimes.

 

Paul... are you talking about speakers for a sound system or monitors for mixing? Either way, you should take the $3,000, get NS-10's, and spend the extra $2,000 on a Neumann.

They actually teach about the Wall of Sound at CRAS...

 

Hoho... I'd rightly pop a cap into their, hypothetically, busted ass curriculum if they didn't.

Puntos madre....

 

ns-10s sound horrible compared to other speakers. so much mid range i would much prefer them over these speakers, but i would like to get something better. i wish i could of gotten the chance to build the JT1s. Those were great speakers

as for the neumann..i would actually probably do that instead. get myself a TLM 127, or a few 103's. GAWD i love neumann mics

 

NS-10's sound really good on certain things. Toward the end of my time at CRAS, I started to like them a lot. Plus, they're pretty honest.

Fuck that. TLM 127? Dude... U87.

 

Haha... why don't you just invent a decophonic dyno condensor with an afterburner that ran on bio-Jet A1 or something... Of course that would probably burn down/destroy something before you ever got the chance to plug it in.

But for some reason, call me an idiot/homeaudionaut or not, I still have never found any better bang for the buck than your SM 57/58 and yes, I can be quite elitist about it, even though I've never taken any classes in it. But that's my story and I'm stickin to it.



tsk tsk

 

i dont know if i tried the U87 or not. may of tried the U89...man i wish i made copies of my tracksheets so i know what i used or not. if i did use either one of them, it would of only been once or twice in 10th cycle.

another mic i would really like is the NTK. i really ended up liking that mic for acoustic guitar.

 

naw, that sounds about right. you could fart into an sm57 and it would sound dandy.

a bag of 57s goes a long way. i never did my all 57 session that i planned to do...now i wish i did. it rolls off the tongue pretty well. " the all 57 session" :tongue:

 

Sadly, my best (only) 57 was atop my car in the next county over, after doing a show at ths cafe, a couple months ago... (I didn't put it there, some other people were carrying gear out for me)

I drove 30 minutes back to get it and it was gone... so.


If I don't invest in a good set of Shures soon... hell, computer mics work fine for me, until I do.

Because borrowing peoples' Audio-Technica, Micro Innovations, etc. and bumming studio time do not cut it.

Fuck, I want to record something.

 

haha, aww. stupid people. im sure if did find it out and about it would still work. those 57s can take a beating

 

Whaaaaa...?!? You didn't use the 87? Not even during in-class sessions? Well... I see the 87 as the condenser (and very expensive) form of the 57. It sounds good on fucking everything... totally amazing on acoustic guitar, great on vocals, bass, guitar cabs.... it's great.

And I would agree that the 57 is the best bang for your buck. And it's pretty much the standard for electric guitar cabs.

 

im pretty certain that the U87 was a gilbert only mic.

apparently if you stick a 57 inside a tuba it sounds terrific