Ruphus -> RE: A friendly place to live (Mar. 5 2011 11:38:55)
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Hi Kate, I´m sorry to hear that story. With a quick glance on the gear list on their site, with the Neumann mics, protools stuff, whilst Presonus etc. for the frontline; it looks a bit amateurish. ( Just as you´d promptly hear "Ferrari", if asking average enthusiast for best car brand.) Then again, "Neumann" and "Protools" is what musicians, who usually have no clue of recording matters, love to hear while selecting studios. So, chances are that this recording facility might not yield the most pristine mixes / that they hopefully go bankrupt. But then again, from exchange of experience engineers´ community concluded that clients are vastly attracted by # working mood at the facility # ambience ( airy and sunny rooms, comfortable lounch, panorama windows, good catering etc.), which contribute to the first mentioned criteria. Because of that you see studios that release muffled mixes, yet remain frequented by clients. Distracted by unrelated criteria, despite lackings of the actual object, as we human beings so often are. Fact is that real recording cracks manage to deliver spatial mixes yet in terrible rooms and with entry level gear, if must be. ( Really amazing what they can do, yet under humble conditions!) Whereas on the other hand, not so skilled people behind the mics and knobs for most keep producing muddy tracks no matter the recording gear and rooms. Tracking after all, is a really demanding subject. Which makes me hope that the shabby guys who cheated on your husband shall run aground, and at best return, begging your husband to help them out. - What rooms is concerned: If the proportions are ideal, no angled surfaces should be needed. Among the best sounding halls in the wolrd are famous antique buildings, which are just square, albeit of certain proportions. It is a miracle how historical acoustic engineering still could not be reached / surpassed by todays specialisation. Obvious by the fact that yet many of contemporary, internationally reputated, and extraordinarily paid acousticians failed with the acoustics of countless public auditory halls and vast of major recording studios live- and mixing rooms. - Econimical crisis ought to be flying dorado for the rich, while damning for pedestrians. - The option of milking off agriculture subsidies is one of the reasons why the EU exists. The only true task in Brussels is slicing cakes and transforming tax money into private property. People who believed in the fable that the EU was needed to prevent wars among European countries and that the term "mafia" was reserved for old-fashioned gangs in Sicily, might think again. quote:
One of my best friends in Madrid--probably the most honest and decent person I've ever met--offered to sell me a used car. He's a mechanic and just happened to have a car for sale at a time when I was about to get rid of mine. He offered a very generous sale price but I insisted that I pay market price and that we consider it to be a sale between two strangers. Afterward, I had to take the car to a mechanic for a few minor repairs but I never thought of taking it to my friend's shop because I didn't want our friendship to be involved in any way at all. Conversely, when work associates try to involve friendship--and most importantly, a sense of guilt--in business, I usually respond with something like, "I must be misunderstanding you because I know that someone as professional as you would never try to make this look like some kind of favor that I owe you." I see the practical idea behind it, and such might had helped me preventing loss of altogether 1,7 mio € ( or more as of late; shall be finding out soon), but ...: Isn´t it a perverted state of social life when friendships can´t bear material load anymore / with the obligating of keeping private relationships pecuniary sterile? And aren´t business ethics way below dignity, considering times when reliable individuals would be sealing deals with a handshake? I wished instead of prophylactical skills serious pondering on cultures at stake would be emerging. - Instead of the societal discount that is happening ( with the escalation of the internet scamming, German lawmakers e.g. decided to remission offense below 3000 € ). And many youngsters today havn´t seen surrounding of decency anymore; deeming indifferent / non-committal status quo as normal social condition. ( - A pondering which in fact seems to have started in a timid way, already. Some related books have been released lately on the German market, - and yours truely already typed the vast of one named "The criminal spirit" [ a synopsis on socio-economical and psychological background of the cruel phenomenon ], just that currently I can´t get myself to sitting down and finishing. Back to here and now; what I had to learn over here is, that when people start flattering me I get suspicious. No that I really trusted the "we are family-thing" that Kate described above ( though at times believing sympathetic approach ), but it always accompanied the scams. - Nice to hear that strangers are welcomned in Mid-France. In the past the French were notorious for being chauvinistic, and at least in Paris prices used to change the minute you showed the slightest foreign accent with your French speaking. Just as ripping off Central / North Europeans in the South appeared to be common. ( Which was why I once quashed my plans of going to Italy and open a WT-school. After thinking it through, I envisioned that as a "tedesco" I could be broke before the school was opened.) What an irony to have been wary back then, only to go to out of all where I´m now years later. - I can´t stand Muezzin cacophonies. They present too much of the doctrins obtrusiveness. And what musicality is concerned, any child that you give a microphone with a PA drowned in reverb will be doing better while experimenting with its voice; more complex, more versatile, more melodical. - I noted down your details on Malaysia, thank you guys! - Absolutely, Canada ought to be one of the places, yet with critical remarks that I have heard from Canadians about their homeland. Still, a great place in so many aspects. Also Canada will be the economical emirats of the future, not only with exports of mineral oil, but before all coming exports of fresh water. Also I suppose that Canada together with Central America could be one of the last worth-living refugess when the global countdown of perish has started. What holds me back personally is for one the climate ( don´t like long winters / cold weather ) and the geopgraphical distance to Europe. - Further, Canadian immigration office might neglect me and the humble funds I could show, anyway. Around five years ago in Germany, while there was furor about certain locks that could be opened within seconds by burglars, German TV-reporters asked around among passengers in Canadian cities, whether they would be locking their apartment doors when leaving home. Most answered with "no". - Whereas where I am now, many apartment buildings in the capital have their windows grilled up to the third floor. Comes to show you: the higher moralism / hypocricy and detouchment, the higher bars before windows. Ruphus
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