toomanyspeakers Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 To hear my wife tell it I just hired a carpenter to come in and knock down a wall so that my new K horns would have two perfect corners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 slipped on the wet stage at the NY State fair......in front of, probably 3000 people Classy ...! .....[:$] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletcherkane Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I directed a kids Sunday School Program once and decided to try to wirelessly mic all 15 of the main characters. Between the dropped belt packs (the only ones that got dropped were the rental ones...) and the feedback nightmare (Fifteen open omni lavs on a 20x10 stage..I'm not sure the best sound guy in the world could have eliminated all the feedback issues...) it would have been better to just mic no one and tell the grandparents to turn up their hearing aids...[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I think it was when I sold a 3/4 size Gibson hollowbody electric. Body was about the size of a Les Paul but about 3 1/2 inches deep. Brown hardshell with pink plush. $100. Or when I sold my tube Bassman head and dual JBL fender bottom. That's why I still have my '40s Gibson lapsteel. It rocks with the single coil! Bruce ... slippin' on stage. I can just imagine Duke... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Talk about Showmanship ......[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I was the only one of a group of surfers to make it out during a freak tropical storm . I say I made it out but truethfully the swells were as tall as my fathers house and whitecapping everywhere . " You couldn't get out far enough " . Made the first wave , nothin fancy , just a Nasty drop , bottom turn , and got the hell out of there before the Monster closed out on me . [li] . On the second wave I wasn't so lucky . I was fatigued from dodging and duckdiving the Monsterous swells and whitecaps . Paddled into it , would have had it , but didn't have the strength to paddle into it hard enough . Over the falls , Drilled , and was getting draged along the bottom . Then the leash from my board snapped . I was able to surface , probably down for 20 seconds , caught a breath , then got drilled again . Once more into the spin cycle , being tossed around under water like a Rag Doll . ( I Took A Breath Of Water ) . Should have been a goner , but managed to scratch and claw my way in . " Easily a 1/4 mile from shore at a beach break " . I was 17 and will NEVER forget it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Willy, that surfing experience must have really messed your brain up. What does that have to do with the craziest audio thing you've done?? [:^)][8-)][*-)] [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st. patrick Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I think Willy heard Gabriel and the other archangels blowing their horns, calling him home . . . . for me, that's close enough to audio to qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyholiday Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I was the only one of a group of surfers ... Cowabunga, you surfing your walnut Belle long boards ,or the Heresy short boards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I think the craziest thing I've ever done with audio is completely ignore it when making one of my senior thesis films in USC film school. 5 minute film, 16mm B&W, no sync-sound... All SFX (sound-effects, from ADR to foley) had to be added in after the fact... It forced us to make very creative use of the SFX library, but as for realism or suspension of disbelief, that's just laughable... There's a reason why student films are pure, unadultered crap. BUT!, they always told us... "Sound is 10% of the budget, and 50% of the film!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klipsch Employees Trey Cannon Posted November 11, 2005 Klipsch Employees Share Posted November 11, 2005 I set up a full pa in my back yard.... had 3 bands play and only 6 folks came to the gig... what a wast... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Willy, that surfing experience must have really messed your brain up. What does that have to do with the craziest audio thing you've done?? [:^)][8-)][*-)] [] Ooops , I missed the audio part ... What a Dork ... [:$] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Flipped a complete home theater system 3 times in 1 year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I was the only one of a group of surfers ...Cowabunga, you surfing your walnut Belle long boards ,or the Heresy short boardsDepends on conditions , I have 4 that range from '5"10 to '7"2 . I pretty much used the '7"2 this year . I'm about 20lbs to heavy for the other boards . Need to drop some pounds so I can use all of them again . [pi][pi][|-)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I set up a full pa in my back yard.... had 3 bands play and only 6 folks came to the gig... what a wast... Yeah but I bet it was rocken. I'd have to say all the work I've done to create my theater. All the sound proofing, all the construction (ongoing). Even fell off a ladder and shattered my wrist on the second day of a 2 week vacation where I was going to spend every day working on my theater. Had to have surgery and spent my whole vacation doing nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Whats the craziest audio thing that you have ever done? I'll have to get back to you on this one after I consult 3rd party sources...because to me, anything audio related can't be crazy [] That said, I have two audio experience favorites: -First, I wrote and performed a song comprised entirely of feedback (who said the sound board wasn't an instrument?) - I spent 3 hours setting up everything and 20 minutes calibrating and during the recording process a door slammed at the other end of the building throwing everything into an exponential increase in volume. So I had to spend another 30 minutes recalibrating. -Second, strapped on hearing protection and played some snare drum hits at 120, 140dB. Man I love that feeling on your chest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Where do I start. I've had so many audio misadventures. There was the time I decided to move my brand new Craig rebuilt Scott 299 with the power turned on, then there was the time I plugged in my Bogen with only half the tubes in it it (poof), then I read something about cantilivers on stereo cartirdges and promptly broke a $100 needle. Then I bought a Marantz 8b for $50 and was to cheap to pay a total of $175 which would have got me the Marantz 7C only a $3000 error. Then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelerFan Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 What, besides join this forum?[] Well I bid on an Academy to go with my Forte II's and watched in horror as it went for well over $500. I was so angry the next day I went to a big sale at Sound Advice and bought the whole Reference-7 set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audible Nectar Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 It happened right here, the very first day I found the forum. I do a search for "Klipsch Cornwall" and end up here. I see a thread about a week old with a seller within three hours of me offering Cornwalls. I email him, he tells me he's had lots of "looky-loos" but no takers, and he just wants them out of the house before the wife has a fit. I explain that I am three hours away and would be there to pick them up within 4. I get to the seller's home, where the condition totally justified the price, and merrily went home with the Cornwalls. I went from an idea to ownership of those Cornwalls in less than 8 hours. Now that wouldn't be anything new for that to happen to a forum member here, but that was my first audio move in 10 years. Hell, I hadn't given audio a thought until I typed in "Klipsch Cornwall", it was just a light that went off in my head when I was sitting at the comp one day - and look where it got me[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenratboy Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Killed a man just outside a truck stop in El Paso... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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