preview track: run like hell
- August 5th, 2014
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It won’t have this name on the final album, but listening to it tonight, Run Like Hell seems to me to be a pretty good title for this preview.
Lots of guests on this one now. We welcome Alexander James Adams on percussion, Ellen Eades on hammer dulcimer, and Sunnie Larsen on fiddle. The faux-cello and faux-double-bass are, of course, faux, made by me out of an extra mic on and blasphemy done to Ellen’s dulcimer.
This track – in its entirety, anyway – is a release candidate. While it still sounds pretty good on my laptop speakers in testing, if you have a headset or a subwoofer, use it.
Oh, and me, I’m on irish bouzouki, mandolin, tubular bells, faux bass, and faux cello, the latter two with Ellen Eades.
Alexander James Adams appears courtesy Sea Fire Productions. Production at Supervillain Studios, Kenmore, Washington except for Alexander James Adams recording at PhantaSea Studios, Wisconsin.
Ellen: looool XD
Hey! Sounds good, even through the tinny little phone speaker. I need to buy or build myself some new audio toys. All of my stuff is low-grade crap from the 1990s. I’d like to build a vacuum tube amplifier from the ground up….future project.
Scott: I would recommend that, of course. Or at least a decent set of headphones, by which I do _not_ mean Beats by Dre. (Just saying.)
Do you recommend any particular brand and model of headphones? I can’t stand earbuds, by the way. I prefer comfortable headphones.
Koss, historically, has been very good. Beyerdynamic and Sennheiser have good reps; I listened to a surprisingly-good-for-the-price cheap Sennheisers a few months ago.
The Koss Porta Pro is better than you should get for $49; it’s a 30-year-old design but it’s stuck around because it’s a good 30-year-old design, particularly at the price. And they are – reportedly, I’ve never tried them – very comfortable. They’re certainly quite light. See also: Sennheiser PX100-series.
Rod pointed me at a couple of consumer-headset review sites which you may find useful:
http://www.ecoustics.com/editorial/reviews/koss-headphone
http://headwize.com/