Week Twenty-Six The Silly Season Cometh!
In ‘real’ media, there is a summer effect known as the Silly Season. This is when Parliamentarians are in Barbados or on The Riviera and very little National Newsworthy stuff is happening. And while we have car shows going on right now and all sorts of things going down most every weekend in multiples, the really crucial sound shows are reasonably well spaced apart, making this the using-and-playing season in the UK, with the launches and building stuff season having just been. So news is thinner on the ground.. it’s our silly season.
However, I can cook our own news, as I have the music from the Bass Mekanik to check out and am planning a visit to the Ace Café to get some footage of Ian Pinder’s bonkers BMW as well as checking out the tunes on the discs. For when I went to Miami, I got to visit with Bass Mekanik in his studio and even had a cuppa with his mom, which was emotional as I had just recently lost my dad at the time. In fact in some ways it was a bit daft to have gone and I felt rotten most of the time when not directly doing the JL Audio stuff. But the place is amazing, and I mean their factory and facility, as well as the madness of Miami. Where you sit outdoors inside a big insect cage (if you are lucky enough to own a property there) and where Miami Syndrome is a feeling of illness created by wildly fluctuating core temperatures as you overheat then get hypothermia from aircon if you leave it on too long or too low in over-reaction to the heat!
Another video has gone a bit mad. The Orion HCCA versus Boss Audio weapons-grade woofers video is past 100,000 views and there are those busy insulting me and Reno Rosato from CAS in the comments as well as arguing about woofers. They just like to make a ruckus. I reckon I will have to have this lad in future videos as the whole double act thing is what seems to roil the id of the viewer. Car Stereo & Security have Clifford SmartSTART and all sorts of products for me to cover and are HENCH supporters of Talk Audio. We are also going to do stuff with JVC and maybe even Pioneer at their showroom, as they have the most fabulous demo facilities.
Plus, I fancy Parrot Air Races around the ENTEC Sound & Light warehouse, with the new weeny drones. I already have the sound and the light departments lined up to compete.
As I write, I am feeling a tad smug, as I have arranged for my editor on Home Cinema Choice to get along to Sonisphere as a guest of my chum Big Mick, who does live sound for Metallica. It’s been fascinating talking to him all about the complexities of sound for the likes of HIS boys, for 100,000 people at Glastonbury as well. For a major stadium act to do Glasto is not unusual ( as Tom HAS sung from this festivals main stage) but the scale of sound for 100,000 people is just glorious and what REALLY floats my boat.
Just remember, WINDOWS DAHNTUNES UP!
Adam Rayner On Line Editor