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Top 10 Boring Things That Are Really Important In The Studio, presented by my recording parter in crime.
I have a big bag of short microphone stands and at least a dozen D.I. boxes, so I must be especially dull. But you knew that already.
I bought a short mic stand after watching it a week or so ago. Very cute.
Some of the viewers’ comments are great. “Delivered in a dreary monotone” – that’s what Sam sounds (we both sound!) like.
Here’s an example where a short mic stand was handy.
I’m a big fan of the short mic stand, take a dozen to every gig, and use them in preference to full-size ones.
If you use more than two or three boom stands on a small stage, it looks like everyone is performing in a cage.
I worry about things like that. I am very dull.
PS the above clip is great.
But where do you attach your drink-holder to a short mic stand?
Pop shields!
Our sessions tend to be during the daytime, and if he’d asked me I would have added: teabags, coffee, fresh milk and biscuits.
Also, as DaveBP regularly mentions: gaffa tape. Not the cheap stuff, though.
And PVC tape too.
That powered monitor is similar to my Fostex 6301b, beloved of Autocue girls (because they’re nearly all female) working backstage.
I’d like to list some more general “Boring things that are really important”:
1. putting on clothes – for everyone’s sake, I approve of clothing but honestly I’d just wear a smock if I could.
2. going to the toilet – awful business that has to be done, bit of a chore with all the unravelling and sometimes very unpleasant “back there”.
3. preparing food – cooking is OK, but peeling/chopping/grating is dull dull dull. And “marinading” sounds like Peter Powell saying “marinating”.
4. going to bed – such a palaver. If you weren’t tired already, the process itself would send you to sleep (because it’s really boring).
5. working for a living – FFS, do I have to? (yes)
6. maintenance – why can’t things just work, eh? Tired of alpha male mechanics, gripping their imaginary handbags saying “ewww! …you didn’t oil the camshaft valve every month like it says in the manual!” Or “oooh! You didn’t desalinate the proxy cylinder every six weeks…”.
7. remaining healthy – we can send people to the moon, but apparently there is no detox process and/or exercise regime that can happen when I am asleep!? Give me a break.
8. gardening – mowing a lawn, weeding and all other gardening chores are tedious. Along the same lines as no 2 above, it has to be done but I really wish it wasn’t necessary.
9. any collective effort – no honestly, you can do it. I’m fine.
10 reading books – such a pain to have to persevere from the beginning all the way to the end. The fleeting satisfaction of ending a book is scant compensation for the preceding drudgery of ploughing through page after page after page of relentless text. Yawn!
Brilliant list. I couldn’t improve upon that – except I might find space somewhere for “human interaction”. I think I’d trade that for your number 10. Having to talk to people, or listen to them talking, is something I almost invariably find extremely dull.
Now I’m all right with that. I’m not a great small-talk networker but I like conversations.
Reading books and talking to people are boring? Find other books or other people!
With all due respect I put it to you that you sound like a stark raving bonkers lunatic.
Misanthropes unite and take over!
@Black Celebration
I couldn’t stop laughing at that list. Priceless. 💥
Thanks!
You want boring? Try http://astronaut.io/#
A non-stop parade of boring stuff on YouTube that nobody has watched. Mesmerising.
😂
If this all too thrilling, you can have a go at “Desert Bus”, Penn & Teller’s video game designed to be the worst video game of all time. You need to complete a 8 hour drive through unchanging scenery in real time. You can’t leave it as the bus constantly leans to the right, and if the engine stalls you need to go back the beginning. The reward if you’re successful? One point.
https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/10/4510388/why-teller-created-desert-bus-the-worst-video-game-in-history
I played Battleships ‘online’ with my lad, but the old fashioned way. I had a board in the study, he had his in his bedroom.
I emailed him: “A3”
He emailed back: “miss”
… and so on.
When I lived in Spain in the late 90s the local radio station used to play Battleships with listeners. The listener would phone in and go “A3” and then you’d hear this sound effect of a splash and “AGUA!”.
Wasn’t there a weekend Radio 1 show that did he same thing around that time?
You might be thinking of Danny Baker who tried to replace his sausage sandwich game with “chattelships” which was a half baked idea where personal possessions were blown up instead of ships. It limped along for a while before the sausages returned.
Never let it be said that you are, in any way, dull.
This is wandering off topic, but I wanted to ask a question and wasn’t sure it warranted a whole topic of its own:
Does anyone know of any decent, mature (oo-er) strategy games you can play with your friends online? I mean games that can run a long time and don’t require speed and don’t require you all to be online at the same time. Plus you can log in with different devices and not just a PC.
What I’m specifically thinking of is Risk. A group of us used to play quite regularly, but we hardly ever meet now because of, well, life you know (and Covid, these days). I had a look for an online version of Risk but there seem to be a load of unofficial knock-offs that are not quite the same. So it’s hard to know what is what.
Is there a good online addictive strategy game like Risk, that would appeal to people who wouldn’t normally play video games?
Chess?
I’d be interested to hear of any also. I tried to find a version of Scrabble but Hasbro have hobbled the iPad version I enjoyed (and paid for….) and replaced it with “Scrabble Go”, a glitzy “social” version which I found utterly unplayable.
You can still play the old version of Scrabble though.
Not any more @mikethep. Unless you have found it sonewhere?
While Cummingsgate was raging, the scrabble-playing world was piling into the people who retired the old, classic scrabble with the awful new version @fortuneight describes.
It’s still on my phone. Presumably it won’t be updated so will stop working in due course. The server isn’t working at the moment, so no getting hammered by random strangers, but that’s happened before.
My wife’s one conked out last week.
There definitely is online Risk. I’ve heard people talking about it. *googles* Yep, it’s called RISK: Global Domination and can be played on Steam (PC platform), iOS and Android.
This thread just keeps getting better the more I explore it.😂😂😂
We should be so lucky…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opmkFdMyiTc
Francis Rossi apparently “loved it”
Talking of whom…
Surely there’s only one