One of Dave Rat’s old Red Hot Chili Peppers tour videos/blogs has him putting the channel cards from a very expensive analogue Midas sound desk in a dishwasher to fix them after somebody spilt beer over the desk during…
A similar fun trick was used by Aphex Twin (and others) to make a weird face appear in the audio spectrogram of one of his tracks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509105
For reference, most/all BBC radio stations use AKG C414s (https://www.akg.com/Microphones/Condenser%20Microphones/C414...) of various vintages. They sound fantastic and cost ~$700, rather than $3.5k. BBC Radio 3 uses no…
Not what you asked, but a digital version of the current Real Book does exist and makes common appearances on band stands! https://www.irealpro.com/
> I live in Europe now, and I'm fine with high taxation. But for heaven's sake, call a tax a tax. The BBC is license-fee funded rather than tax funded so that (in theory at least) they don't have to rely directly on the…
One of Dave Rat’s old Red Hot Chili Peppers tour videos/blogs has him putting the channel cards from a very expensive analogue Midas sound desk in a dishwasher to fix them after somebody spilt beer over the desk during…
A similar fun trick was used by Aphex Twin (and others) to make a weird face appear in the audio spectrogram of one of his tracks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509105
For reference, most/all BBC radio stations use AKG C414s (https://www.akg.com/Microphones/Condenser%20Microphones/C414...) of various vintages. They sound fantastic and cost ~$700, rather than $3.5k. BBC Radio 3 uses no…
Not what you asked, but a digital version of the current Real Book does exist and makes common appearances on band stands! https://www.irealpro.com/
> I live in Europe now, and I'm fine with high taxation. But for heaven's sake, call a tax a tax. The BBC is license-fee funded rather than tax funded so that (in theory at least) they don't have to rely directly on the…