What else are you super knowledgeable about?

deathbyguitar said:
I'm much better at recording engineering at this point than I am playing guitar. I can barely play at this point beyond some stuff that I wrote. I've spent the last 20 years being obsessed with the idea of having great sounding recordings while being completely unwilling to pay anyone for it...meaning I had to learn how to do it myself. However, now I'm really confident in my recording/mixing abilities and intend to put the singer/songwriter cap back on in the near future.
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Dude I can relate to this so much! I used to practice guitar for hours on end and got pretty decent but then I got the recording/DAW bug and have completely switched gears. It all started when I decided to take on recording my bands EP back in 2018. I thought it would be quicker, easier and cheaper (wrong, wrong and wrong lol) Nowadays I’ll spend hours upon hours looping the same 10 seconds of a riff I record and try nailing the drums/guitar/bass tones. My favorite thing to do is to try to nail a “sound alike” and cover a song I love the production on. Could you share a sample of one of your mixes? I pretty much use only slate/waves plugins but want to expand and love to pick anyone’s brain about recording/production
 
jamesblonde said:
Dude I can relate to this so much! I used to practice guitar for hours on end and got pretty decent but then I got the recording/DAW bug and have completely switched gears. It all started when I decided to take on recording my bands EP back in 2018. I thought it would be quicker, easier and cheaper (wrong, wrong and wrong lol) Nowadays I’ll spend hours upon hours looping the same 10 seconds of a riff I record and try nailing the drums/guitar/bass tones. My favorite thing to do is to try to nail a “sound alike” and cover a song I love the production on. Could you share a sample of one of your mixes? I pretty much use only slate/waves plugins but want to expand and love to pick anyone’s brain about recording/production
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I'll PM you
 
Frodebro said:
My paternal grandfather was in the unit that liberated Dachau. He never talked about it, and it was only after he passed that my mom told me when she was showing me his uniform and other stuff from his time in the service. I was eighteen or nineteen, and that sparked an avid interest in learning more about WWII, particularly the European theater. I’ve read hundreds of books and have stacks of DVD documentaries on the subject.
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That's awesome! My grandfather was like that too. He rarely talked about the war. He was in the Army and fought in northern Africa and Italy under Patton. He saw some rough action and was wounded several times. He said getting shot felt like getting stabbed with a red hot poker. He did tell us one really cool story about their meat rations going missing in northern Africa. They posted a guard overnight to watch them and it turned out to be a female lion that was sneaking into camp and taking the meat. As if fighting a war is not enough, there's freaking lions in your camp at night too. Those guys were made of tougher stuff.
 
Dave Merrill said:
Did you build that, like 3D printing the parts and all?
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The bulk of it was a foam Russian SU-47 R.C. model. Then I modified it quite a bit, including a lot of 3D printed stuff that I designed. It's still in the R&D phase. But it's based on similar one that I actually designed and built about 15 years ago (pic below). But the tech wasn't readily available to make it stable enough. I got out of the hobby until about a year ago. Now the tech is crazy cheap and pretty sophisticated. Though the learning curve is way tougher than a Fractal unit.. LOL

I call it the 'Taint'.. ;) It taint an airplane, and it taint a quad.

Both are based on wing tips and motors that tilt up for vertical takeoff and landing. Then they tilt forward to transition to forward flight. At that point the wing tips are also the control surfaces.
 

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Nobody here knows this until now but for many years I was a pro-rodeo photographer, shooting from inside the arena, running from bulls with an attitude and errant broncs, hanging with people who quickly became my extended family.

I absolutely loved it. It was the hardest thing I could think of to do with photography because it takes split second timing and awareness of photo exposures and a third eye to watch out for what could be angling in from the side.

I quit doing it for many years because … well, because. But many months ago I was told by some friends that they’d really like me to return, and I mulled it over again and again, then dipped my toes in again last October for two nights, and had a blast. I submitted my photos and those went over incredibly well with their PR management.

So, I’m rapidly becoming re-immersed into that world.

That’s another one of many things I’ve done.
 
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