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J.L.
Never gonna give you up.

Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Mar-20-2004 07:03
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Tranc3
tranceaddict in training

Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
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Re: You know you're addicted to synths when...................
Here's what applies to me, more or less:
| quote: | Originally posted by Matt Jay
1. You not only tap in time to the indicators on your car, but know how many BPM they flash at.
2. You go to hear an orchestra with your girlfriend, and while she
listens to the beautiful music, you calculate the polyphony required to reproduce it.
3. You are sure you can hear the loop points at a choir recital.
14. You step out of your studio and realize that your family moved and
you don't have a clue when it happened.
16. You don't worry about temperature instabilities in your older gear: you never turn it off.
18. You hear thunder and sit there marveling at how clean the low pass
is.
23. Your telephone answering machine message took 2 days to write and
produce.
24. There is no couch, coffee table, dinner table or chairs in your
apartment; only racks, mixers, keyboards, cables and power cords.
25. You have bass bins for end tables.
26. It is dangerous to walk around in your own living room at night.
(See 24)
29. You can effectively scan classifieds/musical instruments in under a minute.
32. When turning the hot / cold knobs on your sink gets exciting.
Looking for that "perfect" mix...
33. You never answer the phone. (Hmm...I wonder if it's to get people to listen to the answering message you spent so much time on in 23? -R)
36. If you just like to sit in the dark and watch all the pretty lights blink and glow.
37. If you perk-up on Sundays when you hear the word "Prophet".
41. Your friends say "Why would you pay $XXX for that piece of crap?"
and you glare back and actually get offended...
42. You can tell the difference between 12dB/24dB filters by ear...
43. You prefer "analog" instead of "digital" home appliances because
'they just work better '
45. Working feverishly late in your studio, you convince yourself you
can stay awake longer, and maybe get an early night later on. This
falls apart around 4PM, and you wake up around 7PM bleary eyed, and
realize there's a new cigarette burn on your mixer, the computer crashed 2 hours ago, and you have "GOOMYROMEM" tattooed on your forehead
54. First thing you think of after sex is turning on your synths.
55. You're dancing at a party, and all of a sudden you want to go home
and try to recreate the 303 line you just heard on a record... on your
modular synth.
56. You get excited about talking electronic toys and try to subvert
them into saying bad words or doing weird stuff so you can sample them.
57. You dream of finding a $50.00 Moog 55 at a garage sale, and after
you've thought of it, you stop at every one you see! |
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Mar-20-2004 08:44
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cyrus2k2
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Ruhrpott
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| quote: | | 45. Working feverishly late in your studio, you convince yourself you can stay awake longer, and maybe get an early night later on. This falls apart around 4PM, and you wake up around 7PM bleary eyed, and realize there's a new cigarette burn on your mixer, the computer crashed 2 hours ago, and you have "GOOMYROMEM" tattooed on your forehead |
hehe, this could be me. but damn, i can't find that tattoo 
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Mar-20-2004 12:11
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Sloouh
tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: South-West, England
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| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
I'm not sure about the modular synth part, but this one drives me nuts. I always seem to be inspired by going out, and I have the urge to rush home and try something that I've either heard or thought of while at the disco. I know it drives my girlfriend crazy that I'm constantly scribbling ideas on napkins while we're out at clubs. |
Stick a notepad in your pocket when going, I know someone who writes (Words not music) quite a lot, they always carry around a notepad and pen.
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Mar-20-2004 19:29
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SgtFoo
Ableton & ProTools addict

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vaughan, Canada
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wikid thread......i tried to think up a few:
64. Whenever some1 mentions the word 'SEX', you're thinking 'mmm Cubase's better looking version'
65. You wonder why the nintendo developers had to use only sine wave modulations and not some simple fancy sawtooths with filters.
66. When DJs talk about phase mixing techniques, you're wondering why they haven't discussed degrees and waveforms yet.
67. you hate the soundcard you have on your "non-production" PC and already installed a 3rd party ASIO sound dedicated driver for it.
68. You can't stand when people call reverbs and delays "echoes" when you know that it's a combination of reverb and delay
69. DDL doesn't mean Direct DownLoad
70. saying "you have a nice rack" is not meant as a pickup line
71. you get angry when you hear tracks on the radio with huge quantization errors
72. you order drinks at starbucks/second cup/timothy's/tim horton's that come out to $3.03, $9.09, $4.04, etc.
73. you buy your car with only the instrument panels knobs and sliders in mind... who cares about 200 hp when you can get a 20-20K bp filter sweep!
74. your friends don't understand why you call hp 'high pass' when they call it horsepower (see 73)
75. when you have sex or make out with your significant other, she/he can specify attack, decay, sustain and release times for you to abide by.
76. when you ride the subway around those sharp turns that make lots of screechy sounds, you
.a. try to figure out what synth could match such incredible high frequencies
.b. wish you had a low pass filter for your hearing at the time
77. While every1's panicking about getting their computers infected by one, you're wondering why Access has not given a press release about their newest virus synth!
78. When people casually say "there's a virus going around" you wonder "how much polyphony has it got?" "is it a rack or keyboard?"
(see 77)
79. You noticed first of all that the flyer for Ronald Van Gelderen was mis-spelled as ROLAND Van Gelderen for his show at the guvernment in toronto, on march 13th.
80. a "pink noise" fashion line excited you even though it's targetted for women.
81. you've completely replicated the white noise that the tv makes on dead channels
that's all for now...i want to add when i think of more.
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'-.SgtFoo.-'
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Mar-20-2004 19:42
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DJ Bladerunner
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Netherlands
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Mar-20-2004 23:49
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