Top 40 signs you've been in the studio too long...

[Honeey]

40. You not only tap in time to the indicators on your car, but you know
what BPM they flash at.

39. You go to hear an orchestra with your girlfriend, and while she
listens to the beautiful music, you calculate the polyphony required
to reproduce it.

38. In addition to your in and out trays at work, you also have one marked
'thru'.

37. Last Christmas you synced your Christmas tree lights to your TB-303.

36. The accelerator on your car has aftertouch.

35. Your cat's name is Octave.

34. You expect the cutoff frequency of your door to change when you turn
the knob...

33. Your girlfriend/wife drapes a wig over your favorite synth to remind
you what she looks like.

32. You step out of your studio and realize that your family moved and
you don't have a clue when it happened.

31. You have "Frequency" and "Resonance" tattooed above your nipples.
(Don't ask where the pitchbend is...)

30. Your daughter's new boyfriend has tattoos, rides a Harley, and
doesn't have a job. But you don't mind because his name is Roland.

29. Your telephone answering machine message took 2 days to write and
produce.

28. There is no couch, coffee table, dinner table or chairs in your
apartment; only racks, mixers, keyboards, cables and power cords.

27. You have bass bins for end tables.

26. It is dangerous to walk around in your own living room at night.
(See 2)

25. There's a giant yellow ball in the sky, and your not quite sure
what it is, but when you go outside it burns out your retinas and
makes your skin glow.

24. You wait until 12:01 A.M. to read the on-line music classified
ads and can effectively scan them in under a minute.

23. You never answer the phone. (Hmm...I wonder if it's to get
people to listen to the answering message you spent so much time on
in 29?)

22. When all your significant other has to say, "Oh no, not another
one" and you know what they're talking about.

21. If you just like to sit in the dark and watch all the pretty
lights blink and glow.

20. If you perk-up on Sundays when you hear the word "Prophet".

19. You would rather fiddle with your synthesizer's knobs than
fiddle with your girlfriend's/wife's knobs.

18. Somehow, you haven't been able to budget for clothes for 2+
years, but you have found thousands of dollars to buy gear.

17. Your girlfriend/wife goes to bed, You go to your STUDIO.

16. Your friends say "Why would you pay $XXX for that piece of
crap?" and you glare back and actually get offended...

15. You can tell the difference between 12dB/24dB filters by ear...

14. You prefer "analog" instead of "digital" home appliances
because 'they just work better '

13. You start wondering if you can obtain a 24 db neural implant to
filter your ever-increasing tinnitus problem.

12. You devise a method of connecting your CV sequencer to a mains
relay to trigger the coffee machine every 1,024 gate pulses

11. Every piece of clothing you own has a synth manufacturers logo
on it. You scam them for free every trade show you attend. This
allows more money for the important things in life.

10. Your wife/girlfriend leaves you. You go into a depression for a
while, then decide you can win her back with a simple, touching and
heartfelt song, written especially for her. 6 months later, you are
still mixing it.

9. You go to a trade show. You rush over to the brand new synth on
display, fiddle for 5 minutes, declare it "a piece of crap" and then
go on to tell the company reps how it works, where the PCM samples
came from, and offer to do them better samples from your own analog
wardrobes all in a very loud voice. They give you an embroidered
tour jacket on the condition that you go away NOW. (see 11)

8. Synth manufacturers call YOU for technical support.

7. First thing you think of after sex is turning on your synths.

6. You get excited about talking electronic toys and try to subvert
them into saying bad words or doing weird stuff so you can sample
them.

5. You dream of finding a $50.00 Moog 55 at a garage sale, and after
you've thought of it, you stop at every one you see!

4. You carry around a picture of your modular in your wallet to show
everyone.

3. Your monthly power bill is always in the triple digits.

2. You have a rack-mounted microwave oven.

...and the the #1 sign that you've been hanging around synths and
samplers too long:

You understand every last term and joke used in this post!

[Internal Error Records]

my cats name is Glitch :-)

[djshiva]

my cat's name is edmund, but i still laughed my ass off at this post!!!

;)

[Internal Error Records]

i miss you lisa!

philly needs you back!

happy new years!!

[Kevin Gorman]

lol that was a good laugh

[Mindful]

Thats well f**in funny that is!! :lol:

and so true

[Komplex]

32. You step out of your studio and realize that your family moved and
you don't have a clue when it happened.

hehe

[Zektor]

I sometimes catch myself off guard...talking to myself. Like im another person. As in...split personality... :roll:

Maybe I should get a dog, so that I HAVE TO get out.

[slavestudios]

the fact that #1 applied.... :lol:


i :love: my studio

[Honeey]

Wouldn't have it any other way!

[davethedrummer]

i like the thing about the cut off of the door changing
i get random thoughts like that while i'm dreaming
last night 'cos i was ill i thought i had to lie a certain way in bed to get a better signal path to my feet??
something like that anyway...i know it was meant to be something musically connecting , of course i woke up and thought " what the hell....????"
ah well back to the studio

[miss bass]

I had a dream the other night that this person was trying to stab and kill me....

As for the top 40, how about the top two..

1. Cheesy sweaty pants
2. Smelly poop feet...

Well come on if these top producers spending hours sweating it out in a studio...

[xfive]

Hopefully people's studios are properly ventilated as to not cause untimely death to gear and/or computers....

I know I don't sweat in mine.

[jon connor]

im constantly hearing a phone ring after a hard session various frequencys floating around in my head my eys are like a china man,i feel like i have radio active poisoning frying my brain,always a beard a big ginger 1 hahahaha!

my girlfreind thinks i need help!

anyways very good post that 1 we can all relate to wikid! :clap:

[andy james]

18. Somehow, you haven't been able to budget for clothes for 2+
years, but you have found thousands of dollars to buy gear.

this is ohhh sooo true!!!

5. You dream of finding a $50.00 Moog 55 at a garage sale, and after
you've thought of it, you stop at every one you see!

i still search every garage sale i see hoping to find some analogue synths!

GREAT POST :clap: !!!

[audioinjection]

ive seen this post lotsa times, still makes me laugh

[jon connor]

yea man my mate grimes from mind your head records found a kitten at at a car boot sale for a 5 quid, 5 quid man you wanna here the sounds that come off it wikid stuff! ;) unbeliveble!

[BloodStar]

hehe,.,wicked,post :clap:

[TechMouse]

last night 'cos i was ill i thought i had to lie a certain way in bed to get a better signal path to my feet??
something like that anyway...i know it was meant to be something musically connecting , of course i woke up and thought " what the hell....????"

There's a reason for that...

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