 |
Songs for Testing
There is so much hating going on nowadays! Not just in the
rap community, but even among over-the-hill yuppie sound guys who have heard
songs by a certain band played too many times to check sound
systems nationwide. But I am not going to pile on the crowd
of haters! No! The OSM is on the love tip!
Dear OSM:
When you're preparing for a rock gig at your club, what tunes do you like to listen to when tweaking your system? That's after all's said and done with the ol' FFT rig, of course {grin}.
TELL ME WHEN YOUR NEXT HEADLINING GIG IS, AT A MAJOR COMEDY CLUB, AND I WILL MAKE IT A POINT TO BE THERE! BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE QUITE HUMOROUS!
YOU GOTTA HAVE RAMMSTEIN!
YOU DON’T HAVE RAMMSTEIN? FIGURES. YOU ARE STILL INTO TOTO AND STUFF LIKE THAT, RIGHT? OH, AREN’T WE WEALTHY AND WELL-DRESSED, AND AREN’T OUR MUSICAL STRUCTURES SO COMPLEX, AND RECORDED SO VELVETY-LIKE.
THAT DOESN’T TEST A SYSTEM! TOTO’S MUSIC IS FOR YOU TO PLAY IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, WHEN YOU ARE GULPING DOWN THAT VIAGRA, AND WAITING FOR IT TO KICK IN, WHILE YOUR OLD LADY SITS THERE ROLLING HER EYES AND WATCHING THE CLOCK.
SEE, I KNOW YOU, TIM! EVEN THOUGH I DON’T KNOW YOU!
ANYTHING BY DR. DRE IS GOOD. THAT WILL GIVE YOUR RIG A HARDCORE WORKOUT. YOU DON’T LIKE THAT BLUNT SNARE WITH NO REVERB? OF COURSE YOU DON’T! BUT IT’LL TELL YOU HOW HEALTHY YOUR SPEAKERS ARE!
OH, YOU SAY YOU FORGOT ABOUT DRE! WELL, HE’S STILL DRE!
YOU WANT TEXTURES? PROBABLY ERIC JOHNSON IS YOUR MAN. I WOULD NOT PERSONALLY OWN ONE OF HIS RECORDS, BUT AT LEAST IT IS BETTER THAN FREAKIN’ TOTO! ERIC’S BUDDY JOE SATRIANI HAS MADE SOME EXCELLENT DISCS, AS WELL.
“DARK SIDE OF THE MOON” WILL NEVER DIE!
THE TRACKS FROM THE LAST NO DOUBT ALBUM THAT WERE RELEASED AS SINGLES ARE ENGINEERED QUITE IMPRESSIVELY. THE KEYBOARD BASS WILL DEFINITELY SHOW YOU WHAT’S GOING ON WITH YOUR LOW END.
And how 'bout this: what tunes are you loath to hear when a BE takes the wheel? I'd love to hear you get all +15dB @ 2.5kHz on that topic.
I FORGOT THAT I EXIST TO SUIT YOUR IDEAS OF HOW I SHOULD BE, PAL! IF I GIVE YOU 9 DB AT 1.6K, YOU WILL BE DOWN FOR THE COUNT! I FLOAT LIKE A WATER BUFFALO, AND STING LIKE A SECRET AGENT’S KNIFE MADE OF ICE! YEAH!
EVERY MORNING WHEN I WAKE UP, I ASK MYSELF, HOW CAN I BEST ENTERTAIN MY MAIN MAN TIM? NOT, WHAT IS THE RIGHT THING FOR ME TO DO TODAY, FOR THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, OR MY CLUB, OR MY FAMILY OR ANYTHING, NOPE, IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU, TIM! YOU WANT TO SEE A GROWN MAN TURN A CARTWHEEL?
STAND BACK!
Best regards,
Tim
SAME TO YOU! YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO GET ME TO CAP ON STEELY DAN, RIGHT? FORGET IT! THAT’S TOO EASY!
YOU ALWAYS WANT TO DIVIDE THE WORLD INTO “US” AND “THEM” - DON’T YOU, TIM? I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, MAYBE I CAN PARTIALLY SATIATE YOUR FIENDISH BLOODLUST.
THE NEXT D.J. WHO THINKS HE IS BEING SOOOO PROGRESSIVE TO SNEAK AN AC/DC TUNE INTO THE MIDDLE OF A SET FULL OF MADONNA AND THE OTHER USUAL SUSPECTS, I AM GONNA TURN A CARTWHEEL RIGHT INTO HIS “COFFIN” FULL OF HIS STINKING “SKRATCHABLE” CD TURNTABLES!
LUV
- THE OLD SOUNDMAN
