Toilet Paper in the Studio: was New Moog Lap Steel

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, andy butler wrote:
> William Walker wrote:
>
> > The mics on the Q3,  seem to be hyper sensitive in the high 
> > frequencies,  a bit sizzly sounding. 
>
> Try putting some tissue paper in front of the mics as an acoustic filter.
> It's a technique often used for harsh monitor speakers,
> so the physics of it should work for mics too.
>
> andy
Wow, this takes me back to the days of hanging toilet paper over the 
tweeters of the
Yamaha NS-10Ms to prevent listener fatigue in long sessions.  Thanks for 
the memory, Andy!

The Yamahas were used to simulate what a crappy car speaker would sound 
like.   We'd take our mixes,
run 'em in mono and then dupe to cassette and play them through the 
NS-10Ms to make sure
our shit was radio friendly.   In those days it was huge JBL systems and 
the 10Ms.

I was so fanatical in those days.   I'd run mixes through a good car 
stereo, a crap car stereo, an expensive boom box,  a crap boombox,
a hi fi stereo system and a crap stereo system to make sure that the 
mixes sounded as best as they could for everyone.

I used that technique so many times that I could hear any studio 
monitoring system in town and be able to tell what a mix would sound like
on all of those systems.

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Sorry you got me reminiscing but speaking of using toilet paper in studios:

We'd take four layers of toilet paper
and drape them over a couple of inches of the edge of the snare drum 
batter head, too, to reduce the ring of the drum without affecting
it's liveliness.    The attack would throw the toilet paper up and then 
it would fall immediately to
gently gate the high ring of the drum.     ............good old toilet 
paper!