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Re: Toilet Paper in the Studio: was New Moog Lap Steel



>    In those days it was huge JBL systems and the 10Ms

I never could stand those huge booming JBLs-- the rooms they were built 
into quite frequently were made to look like God's studio rather than 
sound like it.  

In fact, to this day, I still go back to the NS10ms to get the bass 
balance just right if I am having troubling translating in the car or 
elsewhere.  
Its not that Ns10ms sound good--quite the contrary... its just that if you 
can make it sound balanced on a pair of NS10ms without your ears bleeding 
from the harshness, then it will pretty much fit into any consumer audio 
system with reasonable accuracy.  

As for toilet paper techniques, I have always been a fan of it for ass, 
nose, and other wipe requirements. And, I was frequently the guy taping 
the four sheets to the rim of the snare that Rick mentioned.  

But, since traveling in Japan several times now, I am have become a 
convert to the Spray your Butt toilet system that is common there.  So, 
its good to know that Toilet Paper still has some kind of application in 
modern life.    

:)
Daniel 

> 
> 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.
> 
> ******
> 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!
>