Dec 06, 2006 05:35 pm i thought the same thing about the egg cartons when i watched that movie...
you know you're a gear head when..
Posted on Dec 06, 2006 05:28 pm
Geoff
SM7b the Chuck Noris of Mic's
Contributor Since: Jun 20, 2002
wehn you watch a movie and it has anything to do about music and recording and you start picking it appart. You see the wrong choice of mic's or something like that. It sucks, becuase you forget about the movie and pay more attention to a comment or a misconseption. This happend while watching Hustle and flow, good movie by the way but putting up old egg cartons and drink holders doesn't do much but make your room look like crap,it's not sound proofing. Also there was a lage scene about a dynamic mic clipping becasue of high SPLs , and it was recomended that ol boy get a LDC mic because he could yell into it. I thought that was odd , and i ended up think more about the Tech than the story .
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Dec 06, 2006 05:35 pm i thought the same thing about the egg cartons when i watched that movie...
Dec 06, 2006 06:58 pm Doh, too bad Geoff. I go through that with songs. I hear a song I like, and the next time I listen to it I miss actually hearing the song because I'm examining the levels on the guitars, or the drum part, or the harmony...
Then there's the movies with bands and you just know they're (a) not really musicians ['cos you don't play a bass like that...], [b] not playing the song you're hearing, or (c) filming the bass player during the guitar solo....
Everyone's a critic.
Sucks being a pedant.
Dec 06, 2006 08:52 pm My freshman year in Highschool I played a show on PBS in the local youth orchestra and watched the directer operate the video mixer... it was so bad... he knew he was screwing it up too... one of his comments was "How the hell does the audience know when to clap?!"
I'm the same way with military stuff too... I've had all of 4 days of urban combat and forced entrey training but it really irks me to watch police movies... Also I was in JAG... we constantly made fun of the TV show... when do _we_ get airplanes? we polled the unit too out of about 60 of us (some with careers dating back to vietnam)... two of us were ever shot at and only one was in combat (mine was while hunting)
If they were to do JAG right it would be a comedy along the line of The Office... honestly...
1. one unit had a soldier who was in the realworld a stripper... the division headquarters freaked out and wanted to seperate her... the owner of the club she worked at was a JAG...
2. While arriveing to a training school I wrecked all of my units rental cars within 5 minutes...
3... this is an MP one... for AT the unit had 4 of the five-gallon gas jugs...no water jugs... so the CO say clean two out and use two as water jugs...nobody gets sick... last day comes and we need fuel for the hummers... all of the jugs are still marked as gas so thats what a private thinks they are...result... no working humvees and a pissed off CO who wanted to Article 15 the private for putting water in the tanks of about 10 hummers... I had to carefully explain (being the Legal NCO) to the CO that he had 130 soldiers drinking out of gas cans for two weeks and that would probably not fly with the Division Commander...
4. I was spending some time at HQ, 18th Airborne corps Fedederal Litigation Division... we also handeled all the speeding tickets on base and could adjudicate them on the spot... old lady walks in closely followed by her (old skool army) husband with a heafty ticket... she _read_ off of a _scrap_of_paper_ an apology "I'm sorry I didn't notice that I was going 55 in a 25, the wrong way down a one way street... when I pulled over I felt that the MP was abusive..."
5. Same day as also had a CID agent pull a gun on a middleschooler who was threatening him with a "sharpened pencil" at school...
6. and overseas JAG... soldier and family live off base in belgium... kid gets off school bus... kid gets hit by car... parents get sued by car owners for damage to his car caused by kid... SOFA (status of forces agreement) office says oh crap and knows that in belgium the kid was at fault... so they pull the family and fly them out of the country the next day.
7. invasion JAG... Claims office gets to write the checks for civilian damages... they accept either evidence or really good stories... office policy will be "deny all claims" or "accept all claims"... no inbetween...
- odd unrelated military story - my mom had a friend who lived in panama... one day the US invaded... the marines happened to come ashore at her beach front property... while her kids were outside... the kids came in with lots of glowsticks...
Dec 06, 2006 09:33 pm nice zek . I'm the same way when i watch movies about any of the branches, i have family in almost every one.
Dec 07, 2006 09:53 pm I do have to admit thought that the egg carton thing, or I should say the egg tray thing works better then bare concrete wall's though. But as stated they don't really offer much other then a little material to redirect the waves around a bit.
But ya, that is why I hate watching TV and such because I am such a critic when it comes to that stuff.
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