Lost Buddha Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 40 Signs You spend too much time in the Studio: 40. You not only tap in time to the indicators on your car, but know how many 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 neer 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 article ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEMO.BOFH Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 HAHAHAHAHA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyolopher Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 FUCKIN GENIOUS!!!!!! hahahaha, ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Nice one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phobium Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Funny stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 41. You don't hear the words to any of the songs on the radio because you spend all your time working out how many hi-hat samples they use and how long the patterns are. 42. You hear a whooshy noise in a club and shout 'Enigma!' 43. When your friends are DJing at a party you are constantly leaning over the DJ mixer to tweak the eq - 'just to get the best out of the sound system'. 44. When DJing you ALWAYS only run the mixer as loud as the sound engineer says you should. 45. You know exactly how GMS made that sound. 46. Infected Mushroom pester you on MSN for technical advice. 47. You have a bank of your own original sounds for the FM7. 48. You can make your computer speak without using a speech synthesis program. 49. You get to visit the Cistine Chapel and the first thing you do is clap your hands, listen and say, "Hmmmm..." 50. You know the resonant frequency of your girlfriend's foofoo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 51. You read a thread called '40 Signs u spend too much time in your studio' and immediately think of another 10 really cool ones they missed out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowball Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 51.you have a generator in your garden shed,that is rigged to kick in automatically when there is a power failure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 51. You read a thread called '40 Signs u spend too much time in your studio' and immediately think of another 10 really cool ones they missed out. 597651[/snapback] haha nice one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Great thread!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 15. You can tell the difference between 12dB/24dB filters by ear... 597553[/snapback] Are you kidding? That's par for the course! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Buddha Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Great thread!! 597710[/snapback] thanks Tatsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qa2pir Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Haha, I dig number one truly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Great thread!! thanks Tatsu 597772[/snapback] I think old metacortex deserves thanks too, don't you? http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php/...c/44624/forum/2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Buddha Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 hehe yes of course i didnt know about him , but i already replied to his topic thanks colin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Don't have a studio, but reading this stuff was fun ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amphiton Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Had a good laugh! Thnx! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Buddha Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 good to know u guys enjoyed it. some guy did this i found it a lot funny so i tought about to share this with yas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKS Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Ahaha! Funny thread! Thanks a lot for making this day more fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaWasp Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 That was good... but you missed... -You listen to music on the radio and off of cds and critique it, saying it needs to be mixed properly. -You listen to rap with full bass boost and, if it distorts, say the mixers did a bad job of mixing it -All your music is in 320kbps and if it's any lower you complain about quality -You watch tv and hope for the love of god, that you get enough money to get a nice sound system for your tv, then all of a sudden a new keyboard appears out of random - When you get drunk, you don't go crazy on the streets, you get crazy on the knobs anyway, very bored byebye. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowball Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 everytime your girlfriend bitches about something, you tell her to stop acting like an old synth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo void Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 everytime your girlfriend bitches about something, you tell her to stop acting like an old synth. 601995[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowball Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 601996[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Buddha Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 everytime your girlfriend bitches about something, you tell her to stop acting like an old synth. 601995[/snapback] oh shit ROFTL , bro ur awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowball Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 i actually told a girlfriend of mine yesterday too stop acting like a synthesizer ,because she was whining that her hair was ugly. she laughed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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