No doubt, you have seen or, at least seen pictures of the unique and historic Capitol Recrods Tower in Los Angeles.
It’s not just the building that is unique, it’s what is underneath. There is a series of eight, different shaped echo chambers built 30 feet underground that were designed by our hero, Les Paul. Les used them, Buck Owens, Frank Sinatra, Brian Wilson, they have played a part in many, many great records. There are no others like them. Now, according to the L.A. Times, the echo chambers may be in danger.
A Marina del Rey developer hopes to construct 93 condominiums, 13,442 square feet of commercial and office space and a 242-space underground parking lot next to the landmark, 13-floor, record-shaped building.
But Capitol executives are trying to stop the multimillion-dollar project because of fears that pile-driving and excavation for the three-level underground garage will damage one-of-a-kind, below-ground echo chambers that are used for high-end recordings.
The developer has denied that the project would harm the reverberation equipment and has pledged to try to limit noise and vibration during construction.
The chambers are 18 feet from the proposed garage.
Dale Goldsmith, representing the construction company says…
“We’re confident there won’t be any long-term damage,” he said. “We’re prepared to indemnify them. They have a right to be concerned, but their concerns are exaggerated.”
Steps will be taken to limit vibration and noise, he said. “There are a series of mitigation measures to be taken during construction. Muffling devices, dewatering techniques, taking noise-generating equipment as far away as possible from Capitol,” Goldsmith said.
That sounds a little weak to me; no “long term damage”. I don’t know how you could do short term damage to these great echo chambers.
The developer, David Jordan has had a study done.
An acoustical study done for Jordan by an Oakland firm acknowledged that “without the mitigation . . . ground-borne noise from construction activities may temporarily impact operation of the echo chambers.”
But it suggested that “digital signal processing and other digital audio recording techniques can simulate almost every echo chamber effect.”
Screw the 50+ year old work of acoustic art, you can get a ProTools plug-in.
Morons.
Mindless yobs.
Regular contributor and problem solver, Patrick Darnell, offers this solution.
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Tags: brian wilson, buck owens, Capitol Recrods Tower, echo chambers, frank sinatra, les paul, mindless yobs, yob
Sans Direction wrote,
Morons like that should be violently removed from the gene pool.
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Link | April 24th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
J wrote,
OH…”Digitally Simulated”…
I misread that the first time…
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Link | April 24th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Hey, trouble doesn’t end there, trouble ain’t over. Get you coat, grab your hat… can’t you hear a pitter pat, life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.
What’s Black & White and can’t be seen anywhere?
Direct you feet to the photographer: I picked up two Pentax SLR, with telephoto and wide angle, and two Japanese SLR, with all the trimmings for $40. That’s right, $4000 in old equipment for $40. Then I shot rolls of pro-400 Kodak to check the light meters, lenses and such. I should have looked before leaping to find a lab that could process Black & White contact sheets. You see I innocently, reiterate innocent, was trying to teach my two last at-home kiddies how to “make photos like Ansel Adams.”
Guess what? I can not find a lab. The high schools have removed their old labs and gone digital… even A&M has removed their photo labs for digital. My cans and trays are all long gone. Enlarger is a memory… and so on. I’m eat up and don’t even know it.
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Link | April 25th, 2008 at 9:37 am
J wrote,
Well, you can cry me a river, ’cause I used to walk in the shade(with my blues on parade).
I don’t think it’s that expensive to set up a home lab; –try http://shutterbug.com/techniques/film_processing/0904sb_makinglife/
for sources of chemicals.
Great price for some quality equipment, though. If you made slides and got a slide scanner…bingo! A/D conversion!
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Link | April 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Turns out to be British 18th century Snob-latin:
yob (yb)
n. Chiefly British Slang
A rowdy, aggressive, or violent young man.
[Alteration of boy (spelled backward).]
Yob may refer to:
* Yobbo (also Yob), slang term for an uncouth blue collar individual or thug
* Yob (band), a doom metal band from Eugene, Oregon
* Yob (song) a song by Australian band TISM
* Yob (artist), Chicago based stencil artist
:the antithesis of what a good boy should be - rude, obnoxious, violent and stupid. Formed by spelling ‘boy’ bacwards, it was coined in England in the 18th century as it was very popular amongst upperclasses to speak backwards at the time.
Have you seen that boy? He’s a yob
yob chav thug hooligan bogan bully hoodie idiot lout punk townie yobbo yobs … Boy can that guy yob! He just kept going and going! …
References–
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yob
Definition of yob in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of yob. What does yob mean? yob synonyms, yob antonyms. Information about yob in the free online English …
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yob
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Link | April 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Thanks J, you sucha sweatheart!! I called for redemption, but got Pribek.net just the same…
and you were there, like M. Jackson’s nanny,, calling my game.
if I found SLR’s for 1%, probably can find the rest of it for same… I whined too early to ya.. apologies all around. And I hope Lewis Black visits you at dinner time!
:checking this link J sent, and eBway, thanks Palikar!
You can have your blog back now Pribek.
Link | April 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm