Friday
Apr152005
A Little Late Night Ebay - Dishes Party
Friday, April 15, 2005 at 02:47AM
So I'm trying to stay awake until 2am, cause that's when Ella needs to eat again, and I think I can make it, but man, I am TIRED. So I went around and found some things to put on ebay besides the guitar stuff I was planning on selling. There's some old computer stuff, and some random guitar accessories as well as a guitar each from Cason and I.
I was going to try and put a couple baby pictures on here, cause we have some new really cute ones, but I can't figure out how to do it. If anyone knows, please lend me a hand. And I doubt I made that ebay thing an actual link, but I know you can make it do that, too....
[Ed. This is why you keep me around and answer all my silly emails. Thanks, though, for not calling me in the middle of the night to ask me how to do this. ;)]
In other news, the rest of our Andy P session went well today. Andy Gullahorn was over playing acoustic guitar, and he was phenomenal, I spelled that wrong, I'm sure, and we got great acoustic sounds. I've never been this excited about acoustic sounds in my life. Using a stereo pair of Rode NT5's through API pre's, then a stereo RNC Compressor, to a Focusrite 428 converter. Man, they just sound great.
We've also been recording a little bit of each of the seven or eight acoustic guitars laying around, and then "blind taste-testing" them. This means the guys listen to a snippet of each and they just get a number to attach to each guitar. Once we've picked the one we like I let them know which one was chosen. We've been surprised a number of times. The McPherson has won out more than we thought, and the Avalon is actually darker sounding than the Lowden, which we didn't expect. Also, Charley is always awesome, but Andy doesn't like the way he plays, so the guitars won't be as good as they could be on this record. But they'll be ALMOST as good as they can be, and I guess we'll all just have to settle for that.
Now, I must do dishes, and ever more dishes, in hopes of being awake at 2, AND having clean dishes in the morning. (We have a dishwasher, but it's on the wrong side of the kitchen, so it can't possibly work, and is where we keep our chips and crackers and cereal and such. High class.) Good night.
I was going to try and put a couple baby pictures on here, cause we have some new really cute ones, but I can't figure out how to do it. If anyone knows, please lend me a hand. And I doubt I made that ebay thing an actual link, but I know you can make it do that, too....
[Ed. This is why you keep me around and answer all my silly emails. Thanks, though, for not calling me in the middle of the night to ask me how to do this. ;)]
In other news, the rest of our Andy P session went well today. Andy Gullahorn was over playing acoustic guitar, and he was phenomenal, I spelled that wrong, I'm sure, and we got great acoustic sounds. I've never been this excited about acoustic sounds in my life. Using a stereo pair of Rode NT5's through API pre's, then a stereo RNC Compressor, to a Focusrite 428 converter. Man, they just sound great.
We've also been recording a little bit of each of the seven or eight acoustic guitars laying around, and then "blind taste-testing" them. This means the guys listen to a snippet of each and they just get a number to attach to each guitar. Once we've picked the one we like I let them know which one was chosen. We've been surprised a number of times. The McPherson has won out more than we thought, and the Avalon is actually darker sounding than the Lowden, which we didn't expect. Also, Charley is always awesome, but Andy doesn't like the way he plays, so the guitars won't be as good as they could be on this record. But they'll be ALMOST as good as they can be, and I guess we'll all just have to settle for that.
Now, I must do dishes, and ever more dishes, in hopes of being awake at 2, AND having clean dishes in the morning. (We have a dishwasher, but it's on the wrong side of the kitchen, so it can't possibly work, and is where we keep our chips and crackers and cereal and such. High class.) Good night.
Reader Comments (10)
Maybe you should be putting that dishwasher on Ebay along with the guitars.
Hey, Andy....just joined the crowd here. Glad to see you doing this. You know we obsessed fans want to know every detail of your rock star lifsteyle!! What color socks do you wear? Who's your favorite Beatle? Why didn't you give your first child a rock star child's name like Moonbeam or Skypowder? What did you have for breakfast? What did you think about having for breakfast? If you could be any breakfast food, what would you be? Do you name your guitars? Do you name each guitar string? Would you send me your old guitar strings so I can exhibit them in the Andrew Osenga National Historic Site I'm opening here in Philly (across the street from the Liberty Bell)?
I have oodles more questions...this is the rockinest thing to happen in the vibrant world of Osenga fandom since...since...since....well, since Cason Cooley first condescended to play with you!!!!
I'm just all squiggly with delight!!!!!!
Andy, you die-hard ebayer, you. When I first read the title I thought you were selling dishes on ebay, and was wondering if the rabid fans would really go for a juice glass used by Osenga himself...
Doing links and pics isn't that tough, I can help out if you want. It'd be cool to get some baby pics posted. :-)
Now off to ebay to drool over the guitars...
And as I say that the link is converted to a real link... somebody (Geof?) is doing some real tech support. Dang admins... :-)
Dishwasher's on the wrong side of the kitchen. That's an interesting, confusing thought.
(I wonder if mine's on the correct side...)
Who, me? ;)
I still can't get over how much I laugh at your dishwasher, Andy. Too bad my plumbing skills don't cover such things, or I'd come route that for you.
Rog: If I remember Andy right, it's because there's only a water/waste source on one wall of the kitchen and no place for the dishwasher to go on that side.
Ahhh, so now it's a cupboard.
Ingenious!
:lol:
Dude, i so wish i had money...i'm going to be buying an mbox soon, and i need to get some mics and cables to start to record with it...and that sm81 would be pretty good to have lying around. Oh well...the summer will come soon enough.
"Using a stereo pair of Rode NT5’s through API pre’s, then a stereo RNC Compressor, to a Focusrite 428 converter. Man, they just sound great."
Color me jealous, though, I've spent some time with an RNC, and just couldn't get into it. I DO however love API with all of my body (including my ears).
Is it me, or has the RF moved to this blog without my knowledge??
Pretty sweet, Andy! I had to laugh about your dishwasher. But dude, when did you get a ping-pong table?!?!?!!?! I challenge you to best out of 27 next time I'm down.:)