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In Reply to: How old are you? posted by Ozzie on April 15, 2024 at 08:24:22:
I'm pushing 60. 60's pushing back. This fall.I grew up in this environment. As a kid I used to wonder why none of my friends' parents' hi-fis didn't have their names on 'em. Some of the first music I remember listening to was classical. My first records included a box set of Beethoven Symphonies by the Berlin Phil conducted by Von Karajan in the years before he became the soulless automaton we all knew and hated.
Tho I never acquired his taste for opera, I learned to love classical music from my granddad. Dad lured me into jazz and playing guitar, courtesy a cheap classical he'd picked up on an Italian street corner for $10 in the 1950s.
Fun anecdote: when I graduated high school my granddad (purveyor, for those who don't know me, of various flavors of equipment distinguished by stainless, black glass, and big blue wattmeters) took me out shopping for a graduation gift at a local music establishment. I asked for, and duly received, a Boss OD-1 (the start of my GAS, to be sure). On our way out he asked me what it did. I told him it simulated the sound of an overdriven tube amp. He lit into me: "I spent my entire career designing distortion OUT of amplifiers and now you buy a little yellow box to put it back IN?!?!?!"
The Old Man(tm) cordially disliked rock music, tho he never got tired of telling the story of how the Dead's sound engineers showed up on his doorstep one Saturday morning desperate to buy a half dozen MC-2300s right off the factory floor for the Watkins Glen show after 5x more people showed up than they were expecting!
I'm amazed at how far the technology of music production and reproduction has come, tho I think I'm relieved granddad didn't live long enough to see how subjective and over-the-top the industry he helped birth has become. $5,000/meter for speaker cables? Snake oil, he'd mutter, before referencing the math-laden talks Gordon Gow would give about what goes on in audio cables. (I attended one such Gow lecture where he conceded *some* value to Monster Cable - he was a short fellow, so he gave the talk whilst standing on a spool of the stuff!)
Seriously though, I think it's great how much capability for how little money I can cram into a 12U rack and a computer in my home studio. I'm having a ball learning the ins and outs of digital synthesis and audio recording. I also love the fact that I can keep my entire music collection at my fingertips, ready to play on the stereo in the family room, the car, the laptop, the office, wherever, without having to muck about with physical media.
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Network geek with a strong affinity for Telecasters and Les Pauls
Edits: 04/25/24
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- RE: How old are you? - mrz80 12:46:54 04/25/24 (1)
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