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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Ironiception
James Ferraro. Let's talk about it.
I could go on and on about the post title meaning that I can't tell where the irony stops and starts with this thing, or how that linked article intimates that there shouldn't be any irony in it at all (which I have a hard time believing). I've had a hard time getting into the Rustie record for the same reason. With both of those artists, I have moments in the record where I'm like, "this is good... I'm liking it". Then some fucking Yamaha keyboard horn preset or some other such thing that sounds like a scratch track from a Huey Lewis record happens and I'm like, "nope. still annoying."
Maybe this means I just can't look past timbre and appreciate things that sound like fucking garbage but are compositionally inventive. Or I'm just old, and get off my lawn.
The whole reason I even listened past the first track of that Ferraro record is Mike P put it on his year-end list.
I could go on and on about the post title meaning that I can't tell where the irony stops and starts with this thing, or how that linked article intimates that there shouldn't be any irony in it at all (which I have a hard time believing). I've had a hard time getting into the Rustie record for the same reason. With both of those artists, I have moments in the record where I'm like, "this is good... I'm liking it". Then some fucking Yamaha keyboard horn preset or some other such thing that sounds like a scratch track from a Huey Lewis record happens and I'm like, "nope. still annoying."
Maybe this means I just can't look past timbre and appreciate things that sound like fucking garbage but are compositionally inventive. Or I'm just old, and get off my lawn.
The whole reason I even listened past the first track of that Ferraro record is Mike P put it on his year-end list.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
firewire audio interfaces
i've been thinking about trying to find a decent, portable firewire audio interface for when i (eventually) start playing shows again. i have my 828mkii, which is great, but it's racked in my desk right now and i just want to have a super-small, lightweight setup. ideally i'm thinking my setup would be something like: laptop, launchpad, nanokontrol, audio interface, period. so the motu kind of doesn't really work for portability, and is overkill anyway. the cheapest small motu's are in the $500-$600 range, which is more than i want to spend. m-audio has some ~$200 joints, but i won't buy anything from m-audio that's mission-critical. i saw that the presonus firebox is pretty cheap now, and i seem to remember hearing good things about it when it came out. all i really care about is that it's small, low-latency, durable, has 2-4 outs, and can have a separate main and headphone mix. it seems like the firebox has all of that covered. anybody know anything about this unit, or have any other suggestions?
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