On Wednesday 02 October 2013 20:23:34 Rob Kudla did opine: > On 2013-10-02 19:47, Pete Wright wrote: > > So now (according to Steve Guttenberg) we are back to stomped and > > pre-chewed, except around LAU where we all still roll our own one way > > or another. > > It's funny: not that I've ever really done music professionally (gigs > for beer doesn't rise to that level in my opinion), but I actually > ruined my last original project by mixing it through earbuds. I was > just really used to the way they sounded and thought they were fine. > Played back the mix on a real stereo and almost blew out the subwoofer. > (Maybe the dubsteppers would have appreciated it if it were in the key > of wom.) But on the earbuds it sounded awesome... > > I'm not sure if that means I agree with him or if I just think those > gall-darn kids need to get off my lawn, dagnabit. > The latter Rob. ;-) But all that mention does bring fond memories of some of the gear I threw together in the late 50's to listen to music. Home made Dynaco amplfiers, honking big Karlson speaker cabinets, Fairchild Battleship turntables, Weathers capacitative cartridges, all of the above, I was there too. > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A man's house is his hassle. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user