[eclein]

I'm pretty sure you guys have noticed that this circle is comatose, asleep, past dead, out to pasture, not present in anyones head and its probably my fault so help me out here.....what can we do to bring some life back to this circle?? All suggestions will be considered and most likely acted upon so have at it!!!
                                                               

[bacobits1]

Naked women? 



Sorry couldn't help myself.


Den

[HAL]

The best way to demo an audio system is with music you are very familiar with.  Problem is most music is recorded in a studio with the only person knowing the final sound is the mix engineer or mastering person. 

Have done home recordings in the past of acoustic events where I recorded and listened to the music at the same location.  Gave me more insight to what I should hear on playback.   Problem is a lot of folks would not have the equipment to do this.

Maybe if there are local musicians that get together for playing, a simultaneous recording and listening session would help produce music that is very good for demo purposes.   Having a reference level (a Rosetta Stone for level setting) to start the disc to set the playback level correctly with a RadioShack SPL meter would be great for best playback.

Just a thought.

[eclein]

Great idea Hal, but the naked ladies win!!!!

I'm thinking how do we get musician folk to talk about equipment and why they got this or that, or "the sound I heard from the piano through that amp was so real it was like I was sitting there playing the piece myself".

Like when I audition equipment the first thing I listen to is how the drums sound, if its a recording I'm familiar with all the better. I have a Lee Ritenour CD "Smoke N' Mirrors" (great album by the way)and the opening tune has this drum tid bit that swiftly gets the rack toms and then down to the floor tom and its the firt thing I listen to because I played that same fill many times in my life and a couple times when I played it the sound was scary real like I was sitting there and a drum set popped up in my room I played the fill and the kit went away that fast--first time was with Virtue TWO.2, Piano CD player and my JBL 4312A's, Second time was with the first MP301 amp I had and a pair of big old JBL-N310ii towers with dual 8" woofers and both setups were my permanent setup for at least 6  months.....when I get the sound I used to hear when I played I do everything I can to get the equipment and make note of the other components so I can reproduce the synergy if the Moon is in alignment or not. Its fun, there are probably better ways to evaluate gear but that is mine.

[HAL]

I am not diagreeing about the naked women. 

[eclein]

Hal you wanna start tryin to get your idea going I'll do whatever I can from here. You can post on a thread we'll make dedicated to getting it together, a place for folks to come and look at a schedule you make up- get your local musician friends to join AC and then they get an even better idea of what you trying to set up.....if you want to Go for it!!!!!

[pjchappy]

I don't think it's comatose!  Well. . .at least I check it fairly often.

I'm sure there are plenty of lurkers. . .

Oh, speaking of comatose, have you check out the IT Circle?

Enough smileys for one night.


Paul

[eclein]

OK....if you put it like that we're good!!!!  TY pjchappy!!