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by Greg Avakian
Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:20 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: gimme
Replies: 18
Views: 16667

Or...
Join E-music and spend hours listening to new music.
Open two windows and bounce back and forth between allmusic.com and Amazon/CDNow.
by Greg Avakian
Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:14 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: My new favorite request
Replies: 14
Views: 14380

Hmmm...what about that Goodman small groups CD? Isn't that late 30s groove? Maybe I've got the date wrong...
by Greg Avakian
Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:41 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: My new favorite request
Replies: 14
Views: 14380

I enjoy the newbies too. There's a dance I DJ every few months and the first time I went there there was a full page of requests before I even started playing. I was not sure whether to be pissed or amused. The same guy in the same suspenders asks me to play "Gal from kalamazoo" everytime....
by Greg Avakian
Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:31 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Anti-War Songs
Replies: 26
Views: 21164

"Down by the riverside" by Lucky Millander ...hardly provacative.
by Greg Avakian
Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:25 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Where to find clips of all songs, not just first five
Replies: 20
Views: 13724

I would have to mostly agree, but it depends on what you get; there is some stuff you can definitely DJ, but watch out for cymbals. Anyway, unless it's crap I wouldn't buy, I use Emusic as much to figure out what I really want to buy and that definitely saves me more than $10 a month. The thing I re...
by Greg Avakian
Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:24 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Where to find clips of all songs, not just first five
Replies: 20
Views: 13724

Well, E-music is great because you can hear a sample, download the whole song, put it on a CD, drive around listening to it for weeks -and then decide if it's worth going out and buying.
by Greg Avakian
Fri Feb 28, 2003 7:35 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: swinging violin...
Replies: 44
Views: 28495

Regina Carter too.
While this may send some into a corner with hands on ears rocking to babble incoherently, I often play a swing version of "They can't take that away from me" by violinist Lenny Solomon.
by Greg Avakian
Fri Feb 28, 2003 7:26 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Nero? Really?
Replies: 30
Views: 23985

Ex recording engineer here: The normalizing feature should be a compressor, not a limiter. In other words, the volume above a certain threshold is "compressed" in a ratio rather than cut off. Imagine the "squashed" sound you'd get if the software totally limited the horns that co...
by Greg Avakian
Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:01 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Nero? Really?
Replies: 30
Views: 23985

shortyjul wrote: P.S. Greg - buy me a drink in Houston and I'll crowbar Roob in the shins for you - we'll split his cd's.
I have so much good music to carry around; I really don't need any "filler"

;)
by Greg Avakian
Wed Feb 26, 2003 9:35 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Nero? Really?
Replies: 30
Views: 23985

What's a coaster?
by Greg Avakian
Wed Feb 26, 2003 12:32 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Nero? Really?
Replies: 30
Views: 23985

Nero? Really?

http://www.yehoodi.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=58796

All the recomendations for Nero surprised me.

Does anyone here use it?

I've been using Music Match and am pretty unimpressed.

Any other suggestions?
by Greg Avakian
Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:08 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Does it swing???
Replies: 47
Views: 36964

I've never bell-curved my BPMs ...That's what I meant. :)

I figure we are all geeks to an extent, but I'm proud that one of us has stepped ahead of the pack.
by Greg Avakian
Tue Feb 25, 2003 11:42 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Does it swing???
Replies: 47
Views: 36964

GuruReuben wrote: Image
man, you are such a geek.
by Greg Avakian
Mon Feb 17, 2003 5:39 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Does it swing???
Replies: 47
Views: 36964

Yeah, I niavely thought that DJs would like to put some more energy into this topic and actually cite examples and geeky stuff like that...
by Greg Avakian
Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:15 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Does it swing???
Replies: 47
Views: 36964

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