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oh this is high calibre, lads!
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VlFGGba.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
The first one I tried was STUMM433 (the Mute box set of various artists doing Cage's 4'33") but it had too many tracks and was rejected.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
Haha I was about to say Feldman would be a good one
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
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jfc. i have to admit, these fucken guys are good at what they do.
this is kind of nightmarish in a way. still hilarious.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
like the more i read the website, the more convinced i am that they can't be serious . . . right?
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
this isn't even The Original Waveform Poster Art!https://www.instagram.com/waveform_posters/?hl=en
there's people at it on Etsy too. I've seen these on Reddit. If they weren't all from shills... well they seemed to get genuine interest. Blech...
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.etsy.com/listing/754530982/collateral-2004-movies-as-color-art
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Same vein, possibly uglier.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
i mean, i can almost embrace the bullshit. doctors have pictures of skeletons and shit on the walls in their offices. c'mon, put that shit on your wall in the background of your youtube videos and people will know you mean business.
i am quite enamoured. this is either the best or the worst thing i've ever seen and i'm still trying to sort that.
this entire idea needs more exposure. truly stupid. "why are we even alive"-level stupidity.
great find, ty.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
🖼
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
The Whitey Album has a silent track and actually has pretty interesting waveforms overall.
― the plant based god (bendy), Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
that morton feldman one actually looks cool, i think having just one waveform makes the design work much better
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
It would be better without any of the text, just a single waveform on a plain field.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
and that waveform is a visual representation of a recording of me farting.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
effect looks a bit better if you do something with it and don’t just glop it on to a generic sans serif fetishist solid background, but still: lolhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CWLxxriIZuz/?utm_medium=copy_link
― mh, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
100 prints and 4 originals..... I'm assuming the music was actually played into the general direction of the originals?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
did Aphex Twin do a scary looking waveform somehow or only that stereograph? Where do i order up an artisinal stereograph?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Howard Dumble has passed away.
https://www.instagram.com/ross_hogarthmix/p/CY2NMTuPYiq/?utm_medium=copy_link
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
rip. gonna play my wampler euphoria pedal in remembrance today.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
honestly wrong thread for this. HAD was a weird genius but definitely not a snake oil salesman. If anything kind of the opposite - he’d barely sell to anyone lol.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 21 January 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
I only posted it in this thread because this was one of the only threads where Dumble has been mentioned on ILX.
― peace, man, Friday, 21 January 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
no disrespect on my end either. dumble "amp in a box" pedals are rad and probably my favorite drive circuits. wish i could say i've played a real dumble. i think remembering him on this thread is appropriate, as sometimes the hype is merited.\m/
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
peace, man <3
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 22 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
think I’m just triggered by a rash of threads in other places full of idiots on one side who think an eccentric recluse working out of his garage in an unfashionable part of LA was somehow ripping off today’s bar band guitar players and idiots on the other side insisting that amp they played for five minutes was full of magic angels and nothing else on earth comes close.he had some really good ideas about modding fenders at a time where very few were doing anything similar. he could have been Randall Smith except he had zero head for or interest in business or, like, being responsible for employing people… all he knew how to do was build amps!and anyone in the boutique amp biz today can tell you, it is a hard and shitty business. which is why so many boutique guys have a day in the sun and then disappear or move on to gainful employment designing circuits elsewhere. god bless the guy for finding a way to build in very low volume at his own pace and make it work.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 22 January 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
exactly. not his fault people turned into weird fanatics over his work. i'm all about appreciating the eccentrics who are really damn good at what they do. and, by all accounts, he was one of the better ones in both respects.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 22 January 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
Dumble was absolutely a snake oil salesman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVTj08qTwGw
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 22 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
That video is chefs kiss, lol. That’s Henry Kaiser, yeah?
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, 22 January 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
I don’t even have to watch the video to know it’s the crystal lattice. laughed over it plenty back in the day and honestly dgaf now. back then information was rare and precious, bro science was everywhere, superstition passed from local hot players to cool older brothers by word of mouth…but one thing was certain: tube amps sounded better than solid state when they broke up. if that’s how HAD wanted to explain the why of it, it really doesn’t bother me now.most snake oil salesmen are, y’know, trying to sell you something. HAD reads as a weirdo, not a pitchman and certainly not a closer.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 22 January 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
He was trying to sell his amps and he was very successful, though? He poured epoxy over everything so you couldn't see his magical tweaks.
Exclusivity is just another kind of marketing and that's very much in keeping with audiophile snake oildom - hunting for that one whale who'll pay $25k for diamond-encrusted RCA cables.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
did he epoxy his joints? thought that was just little billy finnegan?
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
That video is chefs kiss, lol. That’s Henry Kaiser, yeah?― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, January 22, 2022 1:30 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, January 22, 2022 1:30 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I had always wondered how Henry Kaiser - eccentric guitarist on SST, Shanachie, Tzadik, etc - had the money for a Dumble. Then I put it together that he was this Henry Kaiser's grandson.
― peace, man, Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
Another grandson, Henry, is an Antarctic diver and experimental guitarist.
waht
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/ixp5zv_UITyZO95sSOuEeMBvLfKSe70s1oJ2AG5tYEo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9BLTE4/MDI3NS0xNDIxMzQz/NDU3LTMxMzguanBl/Zw.jpeghttps://img.discogs.com/rPo9Um1cSAnfd26zc9-Lk3_U1mQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-453860-1328890006.jpeg.jpg
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
Henry Kaiser is big part of Herzog's Antarctica movie - Encounters At The End Of The World
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 January 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, January 22, 2022
"very successful" is relative. basically the audio engineering equivalent of a working musician is how I break it down to an extent.
he got by in LA building amps, and got to hang out with some great musicians. that's a win in itself, but it doesn't seem that lived especially high on the hog and I don't expect his estate's worth much. there are dopes with lawn care business a lot more successful than HAD.
yes of course he worked to build a mystique that let him get by building a small number of amps at his own pace. I don't see the crime there. at worst he's the Bill Finnegan of amps. a weird craftsman who most comfortable woking with customers and building with his own hands and was ultimately eclipsed by imitators who were better at business than he was (hi dere Two Rock)
shrug
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Sunday, 23 January 2022 05:22 (two years ago) link
someone on twitter shared this classical review and it probably belongs here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKAFOQuXsAIhJEd?format=jpg&name=medium
― andrew m., Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
sometimes time is the best snake oil
that last sentence is so beautiful
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
"the download has settled into my wifi"
yeah man, gotta break that shit in!
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
beautiful
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
it's like those dudes who sincerely put in a white noise CD and run their stereo for 24 hours to "break in" speakers
Let it marinate overnight
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
totally
it's like a lot of these audiophile things where there's a tiny shred of truth (that new speakers may be a little "tight" and loosen up after a bit) taken to to pathological extremes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
Oh shit I just thought of my own audio snakeoil product to sell: “Speaker Wash” a CD of sine tones you play to ”unclog” the sound coming out of the speakers or to “cleanse” the speakers when you switch from one (gold MFSL of course) CD to another.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
i would invest.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
It should be a gadget, though, for maximum snake-oil upcharge potential. I want to see a blog post where someone cracks open the bespoke Speaker Wash unit to reveal a discman with the sine-tone CD permanently sealed inside. Not sure if it should be a wood-grained module resembling a high-end turntable, or have more of an amateur-radio look.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
Not sure if it should be a wood-grained module resembling a high-end turntable, or have more of an amateur-radio look.
The woodgrain version is the one you sell on your website; the one that looks like you built it in your basement is the "prototype" model which you sell for 50% more, exclusively to members of your email list.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
This business is going places.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link