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Earlier I dropped off a couple of pals and they showed me their new recording studio. Conservatively I reckon £30,000 has been spent. These guys are average musicians who don't write material.
There is a surplus of recording studios here, so this is totally a vanity project.
This does remind me of a lot of mountain bikers I meet on the trails though, riding 2k+ Carbon full sussers with all the doodahs that they really just don't need for the riding they are doing.
You know the type, you find them in all manner of pastimes, fishing, music, motors, bikes and all that.
One of my pals once spent about a thousand totally 'silencing' a pc. I introduced him to the simple idea we used in a recording setup, isolating the pc in a booth. He has a cupboard next to his recording area, and could merely have moved the pc through there and reduced the sound below what he has achieved.
One of my favourite things to do when someone is showing off all their gear is to ask what it does. Invariably they have little idea.
Next to my workshop there is a chap who has every tool known to man, I reckon he has spent many thousands.
He asked me for a hand fixing the brakes on a Corsa the other day, he was literally clueless as a mechanic, but reckoned it was all on the internet now so he could learn.
Mountain biking is a pastime particularly rife with G.A.S. and all the gear no idea.
People are riding round on downhill rigs in the flattest of lands, others are building weight weenie machines coming in under 20lbs when they themselves are eating all the pies.
I know one guy commuting on a knobbly tired Kona every day.
I mention every time, why not get a second wheel set with slicks for the summer?
He won't, and his reasoning, "It's a mountain bike, it would look stupid with slicks."
Well, each to their own, but he looks silly to me plodding along when he could be flying.
I have to say, the worst of it are people whose kids don't have decent clothes and whose wives are having to make do with Iceland shopping while they brag about their 5k home cinema set ups.
Idiots!
There is a surplus of recording studios here, so this is totally a vanity project.
This does remind me of a lot of mountain bikers I meet on the trails though, riding 2k+ Carbon full sussers with all the doodahs that they really just don't need for the riding they are doing.
You know the type, you find them in all manner of pastimes, fishing, music, motors, bikes and all that.
One of my pals once spent about a thousand totally 'silencing' a pc. I introduced him to the simple idea we used in a recording setup, isolating the pc in a booth. He has a cupboard next to his recording area, and could merely have moved the pc through there and reduced the sound below what he has achieved.
One of my favourite things to do when someone is showing off all their gear is to ask what it does. Invariably they have little idea.
Next to my workshop there is a chap who has every tool known to man, I reckon he has spent many thousands.
He asked me for a hand fixing the brakes on a Corsa the other day, he was literally clueless as a mechanic, but reckoned it was all on the internet now so he could learn.
Mountain biking is a pastime particularly rife with G.A.S. and all the gear no idea.
People are riding round on downhill rigs in the flattest of lands, others are building weight weenie machines coming in under 20lbs when they themselves are eating all the pies.
I know one guy commuting on a knobbly tired Kona every day.
I mention every time, why not get a second wheel set with slicks for the summer?
He won't, and his reasoning, "It's a mountain bike, it would look stupid with slicks."
Well, each to their own, but he looks silly to me plodding along when he could be flying.
I have to say, the worst of it are people whose kids don't have decent clothes and whose wives are having to make do with Iceland shopping while they brag about their 5k home cinema set ups.
Idiots!
