stefan86's offtopic random retard thread - post away!

It's not but it should be.

I heard it's very expensive in the US, and how people think they're cool for buying Zara, in Portugal it used to be an everyone's store, I think still is. But all the stores are getting too expensive, so I buy during sales only. I'm going to start buying clothes at the market or something in a few years I see.

The US isn't very expensive at all actually, it's cheaper to live there than Canada for sure. They don't get taxed very badly at all (even though they still bitch about taxes) in comparison to many countries, but the drawback to that is that they have shitty medical and education systems. Canada taxes everything but at least we get coverage out of it when shit hits the fan.

As in they forced teh marijuana upon me outside the wedding reception.

They shouldn't have had to force it, Marijuana is a wonderful plant! :)
 
The US isn't very expensive at all actually, it's cheaper to live there than Canada for sure. They don't get taxed very badly at all (even though they still bitch about taxes) in comparison to many countries, but the drawback to that is that they have shitty medical and education systems. Canada taxes everything but at least we get coverage out of it when shit hits the fan.

Guess I prefer Canada then :)
 
Hey Scav, I has a question for jew. You have some recording experience right? I am having some serious issues recording drums. This drummer wants to do it in sections because he makes too many fuckups but I'm finding it very difficult to do it that way. He records to a metronome but I have like 15 takes/tracks for a single song and it's sounding all screwed up when I try to piece it together. If you've recorded drums I was wondering exactly how you do it. Do you jsut push through a single take and fill in the fucked parts later for do you do it in pieces or what?
 
The US isn't very expensive at all actually, it's cheaper to live there than Canada for sure. They don't get taxed very badly at all (even though they still bitch about taxes) in comparison to many countries, but the drawback to that is that they have shitty medical and education systems. Canada taxes everything but at least we get coverage out of it when shit hits the fan.

Ive heard Canada has a bad medical system. Is it true? :)
 
Our medical system sucks mostly for the doctors. They get underpaid (except private clinics) because they are paid by the government. In the US doctors get paid a lot because they get paid by each individual patient essentially. A lot of Canadian doctors have moved their practices to US for that reason which means our hospitals are understaffed. So sometimes you'll sit there for like 6 hours bleeding before they even get to you unless it's life threatening.
 
Hey Scav, I has a question for jew. You have some recording experience right? I am having some serious issues recording drums. This drummer wants to do it in sections because he makes too many fuckups but I'm finding it very difficult to do it that way. He records to a metronome but I have like 15 takes/tracks for a single song and it's sounding all screwed up when I try to piece it together. If you've recorded drums I was wondering exactly how you do it. Do you jsut push through a single take and fill in the fucked parts later for do you do it in pieces or what?

If it's Cubase or Nunedo I have the perfect medicine for that.
 
It's still better than the US where they can actually make you leave the hospital because you can't afford it

Yeah,their system sucks :erk:

Oh well, If something bad happens,Im glad I dont have to worry will the doctors leave me because I cant afford the treatments.
 
Yeaqh that's total fucking bullshit. How can a doctor, someone whose hands you are supposed to put your life in turn away someone like that? That's seriously disgusting (and greedy) that a doctor of all people would rather let someone go on in pain because they have no money than help them. Then again I suppose that's more hospital policies than the individual doctor, they could lose their job if they start treating people for free
 
I use Cubase mostly.

Try this if you haven't:

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It basically let's you see the layers of takes in separate tracks :)

And you should make him play whole takes, then choose whatever part suits the most, you never know if suddenly he will play something better than the last time. No matter how much the whole take sucks, maybe you'll get the perfect snare + BD or cymbal hit that you can copy and paste around.
 
Hmm, never used that button. I'm a recording noob when it comes to drums, and it's really frustrating when nothing comes together right after like 4 hours of recording one song, and another 4 hours of trying to put it all together. I wanted him to just play it all at once and get a solid time down so we could work on other instruments. Then later on he could fix the problems, because doing it in pieces is just making it harder. I'd rather have a sloppy drumtrack with proper timing than a whole bunch of well played drum parts that I can't get to fit together right.