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hmmn, if the schedule stays that way it would be either hasselt or karlsruhe for me, but both between 4-6 hours away, not so sure if that's worth it, expensive trainride and all... (at least the concert itself is cheap) seeing that all the gigs are on directly following dates i guess it's not very realistic that other german gigs get announced, dang

hi, took a while for me to notice these are some pretty nice tracks you got out there, especially the more experimental ones from the first soundcloud-set it's nice to see that your band has a unique flavor to it, that's rare these days. also nice to see that see band survived the brutal recording-process without falling apart^^ that beeing said i'm not so sure about the choice of the producer/studio. it might just be a matter of personal taste, but i'm fairly certain a lot of "laptop"-producers might have pulled out better results, especially in the drums and vocals, but maybe that's just me beeing a production-nerd again... anyways keep up the good work, love to see more in the future

yeah, it still has it's flaws and some people still are incredibly stupid, but i found that now the "nothing happens" and "why do i watch" parts now have shrunk to a bearble level and so far even lori has yet not managed to annoy me as much as before also you might want to put that post into spoiler-tags? ^^

any of you watched the first two episodes of season three yet? i just watched them and find it to be insanely good, this is what the series should have been from the beginning! man what a badass rick now is

whoa that sounds nice! really interesting songs and sounds, one can tell that a lot of effort went into those. for the future just try to improve the drumprogramming, that kind of shouts "midi" all over the track (different velocities and/or "playing" with a keyboard works wonders..)

Periphery and Between the buried and me in Cologne! pretty awesome actually, i'd have preferred a periphery headlining since i went there for them, but not knowing BTBAM and expecting the usual crappy emo-metal-/deathcore i was pleasantly surprised that they're quite versatile. periphery expectedly kicked major ass aswell, i like the (clean) vocals live a whole lot better than on the albums, stronger and less processed make them fit better into the whole setting...

today a song from an anime opening, horray i actually prefer this short version of it to the actual songlength one so i'll just link the anime-opening itself

judging from the amon symph version they are sloppy half-assed and crappy aranged midi-orchestras slanted on top of an unalterated metal-track. for a band that otherwise puts that much effort into arranging their songs and sounds i find it frustrating that they let their songs butcher by some random studio-intern who just got his first VSL-Orchestra-Library Demo-Version. i'm not generally opposed to symphonic versions (they can be really great at times), but if one does this i prefer them done properly and not just throwing in some random violins+outofplace intro. well maybe the other ones are better than amon, i doubt it though...

nice, looking at those setlists it seems they finally stopped clinging onto uroboros that much and got to terms with MOO . i mean i like uroboros and all, but since moo-release up until now pretty much every concert was still just uroboros+tiny bits of other albums. now it is much more traditional with mainly the most recent stuff with a nice mixture of old and semi-old stuff added inbetween. thumbs up for that. only those (Symphonic Ver.)'s quite bother me...

ERMAGERHD, jup that is substantially cool!

new info from boris-facebook (click) also new tour -Boris UK + Euro Tour 2012- 2012.12.04(TUE) Coalition (Brighton, UK) http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BORIS/Coalition/669726 2012.12.05(WED) Islington Mill (Manchester, UK) http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BORIS/I ... ill/669727 2012.12.06(THU) The Scala (London, UK) http://www.atpfestival.com/events/boris ... ickets.php 2012.12.07(FRI) ATP (Camber Sands, UK) 2012.12.08(SAT) Brudenell Social (Leeds, UK) • WEGOTTICKETS: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/188243 • SEETICKETS: http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BORIS/B ... lub/668663 • TICKETWEB: https://www.ticketweb.co.uk/promo/brude ... /id=533640 • JUMBO RECORDS: http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.a ... t_id=14448 / 0113 2455570 • CRASH RECORDS: http://crashrecords.co.uk/online/produc ... 1&xSec=209 / 0113 2436743 2012.12.11(TUE) Cyprus Avenue (Cork, UK) http://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/sh ... 558/events 2012.12.12(WED) The Fleece (Bristol, UK) http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BORIS/The-Fleece/669728 2012.12.13(THU) Rainbow Warehouse (Birmingham, UK) http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_t ... &wlid=1241 2012.12.14(FRI) Kunstencentrum Belgie (Hasselt, BEL) 2012.12.15(SAT) State-X New Forms Festival (Den Haag, HOL) 2012.12.16(SUN) Jubez (Karlsruhe, GER) 2012.12.17(MON) Le Romandie (Lausanne, CH) 2012.12.18(TUE) Feierwerk (Munich, GER) 2012.12.19(WED) Beatpol (Dresden, GER) more soon! -------------------- oh how i hope for more german dates.... november/december is gonna be great

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thumbs up for those, DumSpiroSpero is one of my most listened albums of the recent past aswell and i use those heads. sounds great. the headphones-guide of zess seems like a good source afaik and as for selecting in general i would refer to an earlier post in this thread and/or the music-player-thread by myself as how to find heads that suit you & your tastes best.

i don't know the tannoy+fostex monitors, and unfortunately only heard the JBL's in a really shitty room (think: bathroom type) but i know a bit about the yamahas since my former flatmate used/uses these and i've seen/heard them in various other locations aswell. they are sort of THE most chosen and widespread entry level studio-monitors i know. almost everybody has still a pair of those (or it's predecessors NS10) perhaps as Alt-Monitors. so they have earned their rightful place and they represent all the sounds really direct and clear to you. so they are pretty good for what they're supposed to do showing every detail of the mix. that said they have a little disadvantage. that is they sound like crap well not like crap, but they have incredibly harsh highs, which is good for mixing but a little hurtfull to the ears, so it's not exactly a joy to listen to music on those (especially bad mixes). But if one manages to make a mix that sound ok on those, it will most likely sound great on any other stereo aswell, since most of the time and in the process it won't be that much earcandy it can get a little frustrating though. if it's strictly for mixing purposes these very "honest" speakers are pretty good, and probably the best value for the bucks... EDIT: oh, and thanks a lot for the praise good to know that all that text didn't just go down into the nirvana

GuildWars2 still occasionally, although i guess i'll drop out pretty soon. but it's a cool game ith quite a few intelligent new ideas (levelscaling, groupevents etc...) and the scenery, cities etc. all just look riddiculously cool.

Ace Attorney by Takashi Miike was pretty cool, beeing in a movie theater at a FantasyFilmFestival might have helped asell

chill yourselves awway into the multiverse... ldsil7KfaLE

so, for the last part of my "completely missing the point" contributions to the thread : my stereo sorry for crappy mobile-pic the speakers are nubert nuBox380's two-way passive loudspeakers. http://www.nubert.de/index.php?action=p ... category=1 nubert is a really small hifi-company in southern germany and these speakers in particular have won numerous awards for affordable compact-loudspeaker comparisons. they are relatively cheap, because nubert doesn't use any distributors and marketing, but ship directly from the factory and publicity only comes from tests and mouth-to-mouth recommendation. new those ones are 190€ each or 380 the pair (hence the name? no idea) wich is pretty much without competition. i shot them for 100 each online so i got an amazing pair of speakers for 200 bucks. i also got a pair of it's smaller brothers (nuBox311, 140€ new, i payed 150€ for the pair used) which now are placed in the kitchen but i used them for a long time as studio-monitors aswell, and the difference in sound is really small i have to admit. the main advantage about those speakers is the nubert philosophy of having pretty neutral speakers even if they are labeled as hifi-speakers so they serve also well as studio-monitors whilst still sounding great. i have done all my mixes with them and had the possibility to compare the mixes also on studio-monitors like [*:3h5vzolp]PMC IB2i (about 10.000 each) [*:3h5vzolp]geithain rl 906 (about 1300€ each) [*:3h5vzolp]myro whiskey (8000€ each) and while those obviously sounded better and clearer there was never a point where i had to say "wow, i haven't heard this aspect on my own speakers, dang..." so my little nuberts do a pretty darn good job for me. i want to add, that in entry level quality hifi-speakers like those try to go for only two-way compactboxes, because naturally with the more speakers you add you increase problems with the border-frequencys, distance and whatnot, and unless the whole thing is really checked out enormously good like in several €-classes above multiple-speaker setups tend to be crappy. 2way-speakers are just fine (and don't think about getting a suboofer, that is only good for movie watching or impressing your douchebag-friends but it sucks at producing quality music. worst thing are those 2.1-systems for 100bucks. stabbing knifes in your ears will sound more pleasant than that) ----------- as for the amplifier the one i got is a SONY TA FE 330 R can't really say much about it, it is from the early 2k's (2001 i think) and i bought it new then for what is now around 150€. never had any problems with it, it does just what it should. if you go for an amp just look for something really simple, avoid buttons like "loudness","fat","deep","3D" and the likes. just let the signal be amplified unchanged and let the speakers and room do their earcandy thing. looking into amps get only interesting when you start to go really anal with the audiophile thing and by then one should start ith the speakers anyways additionaly for my system i have a nubert speciality which is called the ATM-381 what that is is a kind of pre-amp specifically for my speakers and what that does is adding a whole octave on the low end of the speakers. i'm not talking about boosting something, but whilst at first it just isn't physically possible to produce 20Hz on those speakers, with the module it is, so it changes the low-end from 40Hz to 20Hz. that might not sound like much keep in mind that frequencies progress exponentially, so those 20Hz difference are the same as the 10.000Hz difference between 10kHz and 20kHz. i have no idea what kind of physical voodoo is going on there to trick the speakers to doing that kind of thing, but it is just great and really natural. like i said it's no boost but only helps to clear things up in the low end and to actually produce these really gutty booms. at a price of about 210€ i'm not that sure if i would buy it again, since it cost me more than the speakers themselves, but it's a great thing to have anyways i should write a book i guess... EDIT: just to do a little summing up on the pricerange, if looking around a bit you can get a decent stereo-setup + heads like the described new for: Grado sr80i: 90€ 2x nubox 311: 280€ random amplifier: ~120€ ------------ total: 490€, and that's all new if you look around a little on ebay or in some hifi-forums i'd say you could get all that or even better stuff (bigger speakers) for ~250€ (for the amp look in your dads garage, everybody has an old amp lying around somewhere ) that is probably cheaper than most of the complete systems by philipps/sony/panasonic etc. and infinite times better than those. simple setup, two speakers and a simple amp, nobody listens to radio and CD's anymore anyways

LSD is a hell of a drug! WBWxX3713gc sesame street! wat r u doing? SESAME STREET STAHP!!!

welcome back for STEREOS actually the placement of the speakers and the setup of the room are very much more important than the system itself, so i attempt to make a description and setup guide here that is usable for pretty much everybody even with extremly limited budget and sorta crappy soundsystems. let's begin with the reasons why listening to a well set up stereo is better than listening to music on heads (and in advance i apologize for maybe using some of those disgusting sound-description-terms, try to understand them in their most rational way instead of the seemingly esotheric one...) [*:1zf6i98o]1. having room around. now this actually is the main disadvantage aswell, but hang in with me, a well set up room helps you literally get a little distance to some really direct mixes, and lets face it, a lot of mixes these days are really pushy. no idea what i'm talking about? no problem, let me give an example: think about someone whispering directly in your ear, this is a very unnerving and potentially dangerous situation (all that has to do with evolution and stuff...) someone whispering about 2 meters away? not so much i guess (and i don't mean that in terms of loudness, but distance) you get sort of the same effect with a drumkit set up on you earbuds (again, i don't mean loudness) additionally that room helps the mixes to be sort of glued together into one setting, which evens out a lot. so actually after all room around is especially a help for not perfect or quite harsh mixes, but trust me it also helps even with the great ones. [*:1zf6i98o]2. freedom! yup, exactly that. the brain is a delicate thing, and it doesn't like unnatural things. moving your head and still hearing the exact same sound is a thing your brain doesn't like (and doesn't understand). this is something that again goes into the tiring-aspect of listening to music (just like the "close-mix" one before.) having sound "glued" to your head has a negative effect, think of it as motion-sickness-light [*:1zf6i98o]3. physicality that point is actually A LOT more important than one might first think. and i'm not talking about earthshattering volumes, but about your average listening volume. with speakers you feel (in the literal way, no hippie "feel the music, dude"-way) the sound even if it's just a little. everything around you vibrates, resonates, reacts, even you yourself, your shoulders reflect the sound once again into your ears etc. although in terms of sound itself and perfect performace of the files every headphone will most likely be a bazillion times better than a lot of all the crappy placed stereos obviously, but a 30hz boom in a bassdrum will NEVER come anywhere near a moderately decent stereo in terms of impact even on the best heads ever. never! but... that is obviously speaking for devices that are at least sort of up to par. . . laptop-speakers, handy-speakers, beats-headphones and the likes are not considered music-devices at all, they are disturbances to everything that is good and beautiful and should be eradicated from the surface of planet earth alongst with their users. so starting with the setup for music-enthusiast glory. budget = 0 i guess most people know this or maybe figured it out anyways but it's no shame not to know it, but the ideal placement for your speakers is as follws, so as you can see the distance between the speakers, and from each speaker to your head are all the same. actually the distance from the speaker-pair to your head can be varied quite a bit, but it is mandatory that the speakers both are almost the same distance from your head. i'll explain just a few sentences later. also imperative is, that both speakers are placed at the same height and facing towards your listening spot, ideally with the high-frequency speaker at the height around where your head/ears will be (because the higher the frequency, the more directional it is projected, meaning going out of the line-of-fire of a high-speaker equal you don't hear a thing of it, whilst subwoofers can be placed almost wherever...). having one speaker on the floor and another on the table or something like that is a nogo and should qualify for torture by stepping on lego so why is that so important? think about this, what are the most important elements of every song, electric, rock or acoustic? it's the bassdrum, the snare, the vocals and maybe the bass. all of those elements are usually placed in the middle of a mix! but it looks like exactly in that middle we don't have a speaker, which is why it is called the phantom middle when something is played equally played through both speakers and appears to be in that middle. so when you screw the placement of the speakers too much you screw up your stereo-panorama and therefore kill the most important pats of the music that grant the songs stability and power, ending up in only having a bunch of noise somewhat wandering around the space. of course everyone has to make some compromises with ones rooms and tables and whatnot so an ideal placement is pretty much always out of the question, but as long as one tries to be as close as possible it'll work out. so for the room itself, this'll be hopefully a lot shorter because it is actually quite simple. first of all, despite all the booya about stereo's above i have to say, if your room is a really tiny cube (let's say 3m x 3m) it is almost impossible with no matter what kind of system to make it sound even bearable in there, so back to the headphones it is if your room is ok in terms of size (i can not tell numbers here since i have no idea here the border is, but it really doesn't have to be huge...) there are just two very simple rules to follow: [*:1zf6i98o] put stuff in it and lots of. seriously if you're room looks like a futuristic 2045 design by apple it's gonna sound like shit, if it a wasted mess with tons of crap it's gonna be great. well yeah, it doesn't have to be messy, but the more chairs, curtains, carpets, cupbords, teddybears, tables and anything else there are the better. remember what i said about reflecting sound earlier and how it's good? yes it is, but if you have geometrical structures (let's say: parallel walls. woohooo, those are rare...) those reflections are going to repeat over and over (like echoing) which is something that you need to avoid at all cost. try to interrupt these repeating reflections with stuff weapons of coice: curtains, carpets, teddybears (fluffy stuff in general) [*:1zf6i98o]fiddle with the positions to avoid frequency bumps i know this is the most not realistic point, but in some cases it helps to gt id of sometimes extremely annoying room-habits. thing is: each room has it's own personal frequency-bumps, which are determined by its volume and the distance between the walls. for example my room (3,5m x 5m -ish) has an annoying over-representation of 60hz and 120hz (yup exactly double, which is the usual. 240hz is also prominent but it gets better the higher it is...). actually a few more, but those are the most recognizable ones. as a matter of fact this is the note B, so everytime i have a song in the key B or if my guitar is tuned in drop B it's going to have really annoying droning, humming and whatnot. now this can be significantly eased out by maybe just moving the speakers (or the table with them on?) by perhaps even just 50cm, or by turning the table by 90°. if droning/humming is a real problem try that out first, if it still keeps annoying you try googeling for "basstrap" but i won't explain that here, that'll go to far. i for myself can live with that frequency bump since it's still bearable, the point is: there is just shit happening in the room, that no speaker in the world can avoid, so before getting pricy speakers in the fist place, try to sort that shit out so, maybe i'll add a little bit about my stereo aswell a little later, but it'll be (hopefully) a short one, since i haven't that much to say about it anyway ^^

ok, this is going to take a while... ----------------------------------------- headphones: as for how to look for good headphones for reasonable prices i already rote quite a bit in the headphone-thread so imma just quote that here in the twilight of recent personal events i want to add a little to that now. backstory: this leads me to said addition: if you got those two points covered pretty good you should've found yourself some pretty nice heads also one of the main points to figure out for yourself is if you want open or closed heads (or anything inbetween). generally speaking and maybe therefore being terribly off in some rare cases, open heads will always sound better than closed ones, period. exclamation mark! that is because with open heads your ears stay in a pretty normal state just like naturally listen to sounds. that way listening is much less tiring than on closed ones. closed ones always have that "head under water" effect since they, well, are closed. so instead of listening to sound it feels more like sound being forced into your ears ith the closed ones. that being said there still are some pretty kick-ass closed heads around and the pro's of the closed design are obvious: [*:2psbgym3] you don't have to worry about other people around being annoyed by you heads-sound (only if you turn them up ridicculously loud, but then people around are the least of your worries, you could be happy to actually be able to hear even a fraction of the frequence-scale in that case) [*:2psbgym3] you don't have to turn them up that loud when it's loud around, because that noise obviously gets blocked out. so if those two are of concern (like using heads on your workplace etc.) look for closed ones, otherwise, don't. Ito might have something to say about closed heads, since he recently just got a pair if i remember correctly. ----------------- also, this headphones list+review was posted by zess in the heads-thread, i don't know all the heads there, but the ones i do are described pretty spot on so i think it is pretty reliable, BUT STILL: C O M P A R E ! ! ! link: here ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- so for my heads then: i own a pair of grado sr80 prestige -------- -------- going by that description pdf posted above they are in the kind of entry-level audiophile-heads and that might be true or even a little understated. since i study at an audio-engineering high-school i had the chance to compare them to tons of different heads (mainly sennheisers but still) and i have to say, they piss in the face of everything in their pricerange by how good they sound, and they even keep up to almost everything up to the 300€-level. i really can not stress enough how good they sound so always keep that in mind. since i already stated how stupid describing sounds is (think about nonsensical adjectives like "rich","full","warm","heartwarming","sparkling","blowjobesque" and the likes...) i won't try to describe how they sound, they are just good in every aspect, there isn't a thing not to like about it. there are exactly two problems that you buy that magnificence with, which are: [*:2psbgym3] they're open design, so even if you listen to music at moderate levels everybody around you will hear it, if you're an asshole like me you won't care a bit [*:2psbgym3] the cups are not completely surrounding the ears, but instead place upod the ears, that means that after about 3 hours of heaving them on you ears are starting to hurt and you'll have to make a ~20min pause before the next 3 hours besides the already mentioned great sound there are two pretty important down-to-earth advantages to these heads aswell: [*:2psbgym3] you can get them for "only" 80 bucks, and even treated roughly those are tanks. they may not seem like it and maybe at some point you need to fix the connection between the cup and the bow with some glue, but they are extremely simple-design bricks. mine are at least 5 years old and i got them second hand so they may be a lot older and still good as new. and even if you manage to kill them it's still "only" 80 bucks so the world won't end like it would if you'd crash your 400+ audiophile headorgasm-cups of glory. that means you can take them anywhere on runs on trains in the rain and whatnot without worrying to much, because honestly, if you listen to good heads at some point, you won't want to go around listening to crappy ones anymore. [*:2psbgym3] goes into the same direction, but they are low-impedance unlike lots of other high-end heads, that means you can power them simply at the plug of you ipod ithout the need of an additional headphone-amplifier, which makes said "transportability" of the heads possible in the first place. additionaly i really dig that 80's like design of the heads so yeah, i guess one could call me biased perhaps, but hell, i know the reason why also i might add, whilst i haven't listened to the heads that sai proposed, i have heard only good things ABOUT them by people hom i trust pretty much in the judgment of sound, so seconding her recommendation. soooooooooooo, that was long for the heads, i guess i wrap up this post here before i go on with the sound-systems, speaker- and room-setups etc. don't want a forum-/computer-/internet crash eating up all that text. see you in a minute for part 2..................

looking forward to that album think it's going to be an interesting one... also lol at limited-cover instant initial thought NSFW!

no more info on it so far whatsoever, but hey BORIS+ASOBI SEKSU *GASP!!!! > fangasm https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

at Fantasy FilmFest Cockneys vs. Zombies eH3p-giK1MU i know the zombie-genre has been milked to death recently (HAH!) but this movie just was beyond cool, if you have a chance to watch it do so...