I second on "Flexibility". One huge problem with the current environment is that a lot of professionals and not willing to take a job that isn't exactly the same both technically AND financially as their last one. I'm not saying everyone is like that, but there's a substantial percentage. There's also the issue of the large number of people who came into the industry during the Bubble/Boom of the 90's but honestly had no business there. They now consider themselves software professionals but would really have been better off somewhere else. That group is also greatly skewing the numbers
Just some ramdom thoughts...
Wow, I remember those. Teacher in our talent development classes ( ie get the smart kids away from the dumb kids an hour a week ) used to hand those out to use to encourage us to play with the trash-80s she had in the classroom.
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
Been there, done that
If you're going to be maintaining windows boxes go to www.sysinternals.com and download EVERY single tool they have. Their stuff is awesome and extremely helpful when dealing with windows boxes. Heck, the even have an NTFS file system driver you can use to get read access to an NTFS drive from a 9x/dos boot disk.
This is total flamebait, and I'm sure the guy is enjoying it. For instance, how does he says "*nix guys want to be as close to the metal as possible" but if that were true then how does he explain the success of perl, python, etc?
Those statements are obviously total bunk considering we currently can see Peter Arnette, feeds from MSNBC cams, and other such things on TV right now.
I don't carry one because I want to have time to myself. I don't always want to be found in an instant. I want time to get away. It's nice to know that when I'm in my truck traveling down the highway that no one can interrupt my thoughts or my trip.
There's also the issue of keeping your cell number private. Most employers (PHBs) tend to consider your cell number a part of public record just like your home number and demand to have it available.
Hey! I don't want work calling while I'm supposed to be off or worse, when I'm sitting on the can.
I remember reading old articles that predicted automation would mean a shorter workweek for the american worker. We'd be able to work three days and have a 4 day weekend. Wonder what ever happened to that? Oh yea, maximum profit -- that's what.
If you honestly cannot tell the difference between the best digital modeler and the real deal, you do not have a ear for the guitar.
I don't think that's a fair statment without qualification. Are you talking about standing in front of a curtain with a guitar in your hand and two amps ( one digital, one tube ) behind a curtain in front of you? Or are you talking about a recorded sound. I think even the best guys can be fooled by a recording. When you record an amp you're not just getting the sound of the amp. You're getting the sound of the mike, eq from the pre's in the board, possible tape saturation, or all kinds of other stuff picked up along the way.
I've seen a lot of guys get really perplexed when they finally got to play through amp X that their hero uses. "But, it doesn't sound like it does on the record". You never know what's going on. With tube amps you get everything from guys using a variac to artificially brown out the power to reduce headroom and force the rectifier to sag to running something as simple as a distortion pedal in front of the amp to push it.
BTW - I believe that having someone crank the amps up and trying to feel/listen for the rectifier sag is a dead giveaway in a live test no matter how good the modeler. However, VOX has a one up on that. They use a tube against a load in the output section.
>>Yes I could. If you were to put up a website with.wavs of a Line6 and a Marshall or Fender, I would be more than happy to take the test.
Dang, not that I reread my message it sounds kinda rough.
Sigh...unfortunatly I don't have the gear to do that these days. Only amp I have left is the Champ and not real isolation environment to record it. Maybe later ( yea I know, sounds like a total cop-out on my part ).
The Rockman stuff is pretty cool. Way before this modeling stuff Tom was getting the sound out of a peanut butter sandwich sized box using LEDs to clip the signal.
Sorry dude, but I seriously doubt you could pass a recording challenge. If I were to do into a studio and record both a real amp and then a line6 or behringer ( see www.behringer.com for a modeler for those of us on a low budget ) I seriously doubt you could tell the difference in a statistically significant fashion. Can you listen to the Boston albums and tell me which tracks use real tube amps and which one's use a Rockman?
On a side note there are several major label bands that are touring using modeling technology. When Weezer went on a tour about a year ago touring really small places like bowling alleys the used rack mounted line 6 boxes for their sound. Makes it easier to get a good sound from the PA in a small place without having to fight with the stage amps. On the latest Rush tour Alex used Zenterra modeling amps from Hughes & Kettner. In fact, Geddy's monitor feed was Al's guitar signal through a Behringer V-Amp modeler.
Tubes are cool ( or should that be hot? ). I love my Fender Champ but I can't play it with my wife and kids in bed. The modeler let's me wail without pissing anyone off.
To make any real money, you gotta tour. That's where the actual money gets made for an average band. I remember reading an interview with CC Deville of Poison where he says he only got 20K out of their first major album.
The 6 way split could be cool, assuming you have enough gear. Let's face it, when you're playing through a massively cranked Marshall, there are note/chord combinations that just don't work with all the overtones that are already present. By having each string distored by it's own amp or fx unit, you can play some pretty complex stuff without having to worry about really nasty beating or overtones. There have been hex pickups in the past, and the midi ones wer particularly useful. It's fun to do things like put an octave divide on the low A and E strings. Makes it sound like your playing along with a bass player when doing Chet/Merle style stuff.
This is very cool stuff, but I can't help wonder about the wireless issue for live performance. As much as possible these days everyone uses wireless connections to their amps/fx/etc during live performances for two reasons: 1- Freedom of movement and 2- avoiding a rat's nest of cable. I wonder what type of mobile wireless solutions we'll see for these?
For me it's Merle Travis' Walkin the Strings. Long since out of print and going for 65 bucks a copy. Nashville is as bad as the rest of the music industry. Breaking even isn't even good enough; steady sales aren't enough either. It's gotta be a mega-hit or they won't even deal with it.
Thankfully there are a lot of smaller labels starting to license the old records. One-Way has picked up the old Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed records and is putting them out 2 to a CD. Very cool.
It's these small labels with the mission of getting the great music out to the small but core crowd that loves it that will be the saviours of the music industry.
I used to have friends who'd buy avgas from the local airport for their cars. Before they discovered nitrous ( and melted pistons ) they were all into domes pistons and shaved heads for high compression. You needed some seriously high octane gas to avoid engine knock and back then avgas was cheaper than buying additives ( and safer than using mothballs ) and this was also before the local gulf stations started selling racing gas.
This is only one option if you have physical access to the machine. Check out some of the tools on http://www.sysinternals.com; especially the NTFS DOS file system driver. If you have access to the machine you can boot off a floppy and use the driver manipulate the file system. They also make some really cool recovery tools you can use to get to systems via a serial connection and recover them.
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>>Under dotNET there are no second class languages (well apart from C++), they all can access the same runtime= /library/en-us/vcmex/html/vcconMCOverview.asp
Not true. You can use the Managed C++ extensions to access everything in the runtime. Heck, you can even host the runtime yourself if you wish.
Check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
Excellent advice. 5 years ago I was drawn by the lure of stock options, now I've definitely come to realize there's more to the equation than that.
I second on "Flexibility". One huge problem with the current environment is that a lot of professionals and not willing to take a job that isn't exactly the same both technically AND financially as their last one. I'm not saying everyone is like that, but there's a substantial percentage. There's also the issue of the large number of people who came into the industry during the Bubble/Boom of the 90's but honestly had no business there. They now consider themselves software professionals but would really have been better off somewhere else. That group is also greatly skewing the numbers ...
Just some ramdom thoughts
Hot chicks in tight leather == geek movie hit. I can dig it.
Wow, I remember those. Teacher in our talent development classes ( ie get the smart kids away from the dumb kids an hour a week ) used to hand those out to use to encourage us to play with the trash-80s she had in the classroom.
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
Been there, done that
If you're going to be maintaining windows boxes go to www.sysinternals.com and download EVERY single tool they have. Their stuff is awesome and extremely helpful when dealing with windows boxes. Heck, the even have an NTFS file system driver you can use to get read access to an NTFS drive from a 9x/dos boot disk.
Cause I just noticed that local used office equiment store is running low on inventory.
Wired Magazine had an interesting article on one such "contractor" that the CIA uses recently:h tml
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.
This is another good reason to listen to old country music. Nobody worries about DRM on Jerry Reed records.
This is total flamebait, and I'm sure the guy is enjoying it. For instance, how does he says "*nix guys want to be as close to the metal as possible" but if that were true then how does he explain the success of perl, python, etc?
I gotta ask, who's the "we" you're referring to in the post? Are you talking about the mono project?
Thx.
Those statements are obviously total bunk considering we currently can see Peter Arnette, feeds from MSNBC cams, and other such things on TV right now.
:-) Hmmm... Makes me wonder if some of the stuff management proposes is what they pull out of the throne before flushing.
I don't carry one because I want to have time to myself. I don't always want to be found in an instant. I want time to get away. It's nice to know that when I'm in my truck traveling down the highway that no one can interrupt my thoughts or my trip. There's also the issue of keeping your cell number private. Most employers (PHBs) tend to consider your cell number a part of public record just like your home number and demand to have it available. Hey! I don't want work calling while I'm supposed to be off or worse, when I'm sitting on the can.
I remember reading old articles that predicted automation would mean a shorter workweek for the american worker. We'd be able to work three days and have a 4 day weekend. Wonder what ever happened to that? Oh yea, maximum profit -- that's what.
- Marshall vs Fender
- Les Paul vs Strat
- Solid state vs tube
Think of them as Linux vs Windows for the guitar crowd.If you honestly cannot tell the difference between the best digital modeler and the real deal, you do not have a ear for the guitar.
I don't think that's a fair statment without qualification. Are you talking about standing in front of a curtain with a guitar in your hand and two amps ( one digital, one tube ) behind a curtain in front of you? Or are you talking about a recorded sound. I think even the best guys can be fooled by a recording. When you record an amp you're not just getting the sound of the amp. You're getting the sound of the mike, eq from the pre's in the board, possible tape saturation, or all kinds of other stuff picked up along the way.
I've seen a lot of guys get really perplexed when they finally got to play through amp X that their hero uses. "But, it doesn't sound like it does on the record". You never know what's going on. With tube amps you get everything from guys using a variac to artificially brown out the power to reduce headroom and force the rectifier to sag to running something as simple as a distortion pedal in front of the amp to push it.
BTW - I believe that having someone crank the amps up and trying to feel/listen for the rectifier sag is a dead giveaway in a live test no matter how good the modeler. However, VOX has a one up on that. They use a tube against a load in the output section.
>>Yes I could. If you were to put up a website with .wavs of a Line6 and a Marshall or Fender, I would be more than happy to take the test.
Dang, not that I reread my message it sounds kinda rough.
Sigh ...unfortunatly I don't have the gear to do that these days. Only amp I have left is the Champ and not real isolation environment to record it. Maybe later ( yea I know, sounds like a total cop-out on my part ).
The Rockman stuff is pretty cool. Way before this modeling stuff Tom was getting the sound out of a peanut butter sandwich sized box using LEDs to clip the signal.
Sorry dude, but I seriously doubt you could pass a recording challenge. If I were to do into a studio and record both a real amp and then a line6 or behringer ( see www.behringer.com for a modeler for those of us on a low budget ) I seriously doubt you could tell the difference in a statistically significant fashion. Can you listen to the Boston albums and tell me which tracks use real tube amps and which one's use a Rockman? On a side note there are several major label bands that are touring using modeling technology. When Weezer went on a tour about a year ago touring really small places like bowling alleys the used rack mounted line 6 boxes for their sound. Makes it easier to get a good sound from the PA in a small place without having to fight with the stage amps. On the latest Rush tour Alex used Zenterra modeling amps from Hughes & Kettner. In fact, Geddy's monitor feed was Al's guitar signal through a Behringer V-Amp modeler. Tubes are cool ( or should that be hot? ). I love my Fender Champ but I can't play it with my wife and kids in bed. The modeler let's me wail without pissing anyone off.
To make any real money, you gotta tour. That's where the actual money gets made for an average band. I remember reading an interview with CC Deville of Poison where he says he only got 20K out of their first major album.
The 6 way split could be cool, assuming you have enough gear. Let's face it, when you're playing through a massively cranked Marshall, there are note/chord combinations that just don't work with all the overtones that are already present. By having each string distored by it's own amp or fx unit, you can play some pretty complex stuff without having to worry about really nasty beating or overtones. There have been hex pickups in the past, and the midi ones wer particularly useful. It's fun to do things like put an octave divide on the low A and E strings. Makes it sound like your playing along with a bass player when doing Chet/Merle style stuff.
This is very cool stuff, but I can't help wonder about the wireless issue for live performance. As much as possible these days everyone uses wireless connections to their amps/fx/etc during live performances for two reasons: 1- Freedom of movement and 2- avoiding a rat's nest of cable. I wonder what type of mobile wireless solutions we'll see for these?
For me it's Merle Travis' Walkin the Strings. Long since out of print and going for 65 bucks a copy. Nashville is as bad as the rest of the music industry. Breaking even isn't even good enough; steady sales aren't enough either. It's gotta be a mega-hit or they won't even deal with it. Thankfully there are a lot of smaller labels starting to license the old records. One-Way has picked up the old Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed records and is putting them out 2 to a CD. Very cool. It's these small labels with the mission of getting the great music out to the small but core crowd that loves it that will be the saviours of the music industry.
I used to have friends who'd buy avgas from the local airport for their cars. Before they discovered nitrous ( and melted pistons ) they were all into domes pistons and shaved heads for high compression. You needed some seriously high octane gas to avoid engine knock and back then avgas was cheaper than buying additives ( and safer than using mothballs ) and this was also before the local gulf stations started selling racing gas.
This is only one option if you have physical access to the machine. Check out some of the tools on http://www.sysinternals.com; especially the NTFS DOS file system driver. If you have access to the machine you can boot off a floppy and use the driver manipulate the file system. They also make some really cool recovery tools you can use to get to systems via a serial connection and recover them.