So, basically I wore you all out. Okay.

I'll check in from time to time.

I'll flip you for $40 on FT table Guru right now. Type urge overkill in chat and I'll sit in.

Thank you for Mclusky Do Dallas!
I could rave on and on about this album and many of your recordings.

What do you think of the chopping and screwing mixes of hip hop music?
Does this type of remix have any future in rock?

Also, should I ever fold KK preflop? (just joking, but I'm so glad to see you're a poker player.)

Edit: Also, thanks for the only good "Ask Me" thread in BBV. You know, OOT is recruiting...

Damn! I'm at work. I'll take a rain check, if we're ever on at the same time some night.

Happens once in a great while. Once my girlfriend got asked for her autograph, so it probably happens to everybody once in a while by accident.

KURT COBAIN: Hey Steve, I was wondering if you could turn up the gui...

STEVE ALBINI: Jesus Kurt, hold on. Grimstarr just tilted off $500k and I can't stop dreaming of Patrik Antonius.

(Insert incredibly offensive suicide by shotgun joke here.)

Super great funny band.
I have heard the DJ Skrew version of Big Moe's City of Syrup, and that record is extraordinary and f'd up. Almost everything else I've heard like that has been lame and typical, so I think that's the one good one right there.

Oddly enough, some bands ask for specific Skrew-isms (super-low speed vocal takes, brutal disruptive edits) and they seldom work very well. Similar to when the 808 bass drum sample was all the rage, and usually just sounded stupid and tacked-on.

Folded Queens to a big four-bet when 200+BB deep (but covered by a guy who could squeeze) full ring the other day and got into a beef with Pavaveda about it. He was all "how do you magically put him on KK+" and I was all "dude shut up you play limit HE shorthanded" and he was all "you have 34 percent equity against their ranges" and I was all "dude shut up I have two outs that aren't the nuts and I'm not playing for my stack with two outs and you're wrong about those ranges" and he was all "I disagree" and I was all "dude shut up."

I think most people are just trying not to bombard you. I have a que of about 500 questions waiting...

Let's say I live just north of Chicago (which I do) and am a fellow poker player (which I am) and want to sit in the studio with you one day.

Chances?

If you tell me one in a million, i'll take that as a positive.
So be careful.

P.S. You going to The Taste?

Can you tell us what your home audio system consists of? Be specific plz <3

WPOTY.

PITTM (Penis In The Mouth), you should totally lodge a complaint about me in ATF.

Have you heard any Wolfmother? If so what do you think of them?

this thread is so [censored] fantastic, thank you sir

can you comment on recording '24 hour revenge therapy'? that album sounds really different to me from the other jawbreaker albums, which probably has a lot to do with blake's surgery, different songs, etc. but also just the atmosphere of the album is great. anything you can say about the experience, or what those guys were like would be awesome.

what did you think when you heard 'dear you'? there are some great songs on that record but i thought it was brutally overproduced.

oh one other thing, i noticed you didn't mention damon che among the great drummers you've worked with? what was it like recording him?

sorry if this is a lot of questions

Hey Steve,

Do you do any mastering work and how valuable is it to a recording? Do you have a take on the so called 'loudness war'?

1. You are in the BB and unknown player makes a standard button raise. Do you 3-bet AJs/AJo/AQs/AQo? What about AT?
2. Same scenario as above except this time you have a small or mid PP.
3. UTG+1 opens, BTN calls, you are in the BB with 22/77/TT. Do you 3-bet?
4. You open OTB with 66 and average aggro TAG 3-bets in the BB. Do you call?


1. You open in the CO and BB calls. The flop is 9s 6c 2s. You cbet and get called. How often and on what cards do you 2nd barrel? (assume you have no hand no draw)
2. Same scenario as above except the flop is T55r.
3. Same scenario as above except the flop is 632r.
4. Same scenario as above except the flop is Q72r.
5. Same scenario as above except the flop is Kh Jh Tc.

There's a phone number on the studio website. You use the telephone to call it. That's the thing right there on the desk next to your computer.

I've had my quota of REO Speedwagon and Buddy Guy for the year, so I'll pass thanks. Big public scenes full of white hats, guidos and suburban blues fan dorks... no thanks. I'd rather have my nuts crushed in a vise.

Not all put together at the moment, but here's what I got:

VPI record cleaner (incredible, I recommend it)
Studer linear-tracking TT (to be replaced by a VPI JR)
Ortofon cartridge (to be replaced by a pair of bayonet headshells, one with a Shure VR15X and one with a Sumiko Blue Point "nude" special)
Hagerman Bugle phono preamp
Marantz integrated amp (to be replaced by a home-made tube amp once I get off my ass and finish it)
Custom Linnaeum-tweeter speakers with reflex bass cabinets. No model number, but made by Linnaeum with Focal drivers.

They're okay. On the whole, I'd rather listen to Dead Meadow.

how many musicians have you nailed?

mastering is the last step before CDs or records are mass-produced. Lately there has been a trend toward making records "loud" at this stage by compressing and clipping the audio for a more aggressive sound. I am of the opinion that the record shouldn't leave the studio until it is pretty close to exactly what the band want, and consequently I prefer more judicious mastering.

If a record needs aggressive mastering to "save" it, then aggressive mastering isn't enough to save it. Given a choice between sound quality and apparent loudness, I will side with sound quality every time.

This quiz is probably going to expose how much of a fish I am, but I'll try to answer it off the top of my head.

Call AT AJ, three-ball AQ+ and donk any low or Ace flop.

Three-ball anything bigger than Fives. Call other PP. Check sets and big card flops. Donk middle card flops. Check-raise flops where I make a draw that also have an Ace.

Not usually. TT+ occasionally I will reraise a healthy amount, but small pairs I'm hoping to bust somebody with a set.

Not usually. This isn't a great gamble if he's for-real tight and won't go broke with one pair. Also, very few flops will help my hand.

Second barrel depends on history with opponent, but probably half the time I bet any Nine and non-spade Aces, Kings. Maybe other non-straight cards if I get weird hair.
I'll probably check behind here. Maybe bluff an Ace.
I'll bet any big cards, depending on opponent's trapping tendencies, about a third of the time, and the bet will be pretty big. One pair and a draw, set or made straight are his most likely hands, and I'm hoping to fold the pair+draw hands and find out if I'm drawing dead otherwise. Less often he has a medium overpair, and won't like the continued aggression.
Check behind about always. He has a weak queen or a set and isn't folding often.
I'd have to make a pretty big bet here if I'm going to bother, and that would probably be about 10 percent of the time.

Steve thanks for doing this, in a completely heterosexual way I want to sex you.

No I am not gay or something.

How was working with Smog (Bill Callahan), if you remember?

Steve,

What do you think of The Mars Volta?

if you dont say ******ed [censored] i have no complaints. its your call baby.