The First Rule of Rock and Roll
Ugh. Can’t we please change that m201 for a 57. Hurrah! It’s THE FIRST RULE OF ROCK AND ROLL. If a snare sounds bad on an SM57, change the snare.
Pearl of wisdom from The Mixmaster General
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Jerry The Pacemaker
The most important thing in your life is your family. The rest is all peripheral.
Sir Jerry Wobegon #RIP
Quote | April 20, 2016
Jazz Timing
Ok so we’ll just play around with the energy and things will concave out by themselves.
Definitely recording jazz today
Quote | February 7, 2016
Fowl Play
That strutting cock of incompetence!
Says a colleague, of another.
Quote | April 10, 2014
The Shape Of Things To Come
Our departing leader has proposed some models for our future. One option is The Udder. Another of his suggestions is The Concentric Circle. My own idea was Two Overlapping Circles. The Udder was called The Rubber Glove until I pointed out that there were only four receptacles….
Baffling shape speak at today’s team meeting.
Quote | April 7, 2014
Another Take
All this stuff about how everyone was ‘at it’ in the 70s is rubbish. I mean it’s simply not true… It was just BLT and me!
Pop Pickering gives his tongue-in-cheek take on Operation Oaktree.
Quote | October 18, 2013
Horse Play
Are you feeling a little hoarse?
Paul to the sore-throated unamused lead singer of The Ponies
Quote | September 19, 2013
Wrong Again
1. “I’m guessing it’s some kind of elf?” (of heartfelt, high-pitched singer-songwriter Pedestrian).
2. “Sounds like she’s high on helium” (with reference to the newsreader during the news bulletin).
3. “I don’t like him. I want to puncture his boils. I just want him to stop.” (about the singer John Ponsonby-Smythe).
Tokens of wisdom over the talkback from Dave Wrong during records.
Quote | July 22, 2013
Simple Things
But how do you turn it on? It’s all these funny knob things!
Mate displays his 24 years of engineering experience.
Quote | June 17, 2013
HELP!
You want to borrow a WHAT!?!? Well, when do you want it? NOW?!?! *tuts* You should have come earlier. Yes, come back in twenty minutes that’s a better idea. Actually, never mind I’ll do it now. *Takes lengthy phone call, eventually puts phone down, sighs* Oh, it is hard being nice to people. Charge code? Authoriser? And do you know who is going to be using the microphone? Oh, well what’s your name then. WHAT? That’s a weird name. These are expensive microphones you know *taps into computer* Oh this is taking AGES. *Drops microphone* Sign this form please. Thank you, bye.
The joys of booking a Henderson Classic out of the Patronising Equipment Centre on a Monday morning.
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