F O U R T H E Y E

I assume that record companies have really tightened up the chain in regards to album pressings. The facilities that manufacture albums these day have digital copies only on machines which have no method to which an untrusted employee can gain physical access (it no USB ports, CD drives, etc). Like...

Just an aside, but as an IT guy I'd really be interested in the specific measures to keep a release like this under wraps for so long, especially with the physical production. Is every record plant janitor NDA'd up the wazoo? Encryption keys kept under Maynards pillow at home?

Just a heads up for anyone ordering from amazon.com to Germany (I'm not sure if the same applies to other EU countries) - we might have to pay the VAT (MWSt) of 19% on top of the order at the customs office. The VAT applies to orders with a merchandise value between 22 and 150 EUR. I just did the ma...

bob wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:50 am i got a FLAC file of FI and i dont hear any issues at 8:27/8:28 but that little jump at 8:10 i do hear as well.

I just got the Tidal FLAC and the 8:27 jitter is on there, too.

Thank you. I'll withhold the rest for my upcoming Netflix special.

Adam Jones, you lazy-ass control freak motherfucker. You've held up the band for a decade and would rather watch a part of your audience wither and die waiting rather than allow any riff onto a record before it caught 10 years worth of your stale fart smell, no matter how mediocre it is. And when th...

For you boys and girls from Germany: "JPC" has the album for 84,99 including a low price guarantee: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/tool-fear-inoculum/hnum/9425427 I just asked amazon if they would reduce their price to the same, but they won't. emp.de has it for 79,99€. But...

Anyone else think it sounds like some kind of defect in the audio at around 8:10? The transition is a little jarring. There are some changes in the mix at this point, sounds like both Adam and Justin change their sound setting. I found it a little jarring, too. But I'm more concerned about what sou...

It’s an amazing track, opiateofthemasses channel is live now breaking down the song, especially the guitars. If any of you play the guitar I recommend checking him out. Wow, what a throwback. We did a thing together a few years back, but I've never seen his face before, let alone met him (being fro...

True, they can only adjust the price for new orders. Just to be safe I've two preorders running now - amazon.com, and a more expensive one on a German store in case the .com preorder goes bust for whatever reason. I'll cancel one preorder as soon as the other gets shipped (or I'll end up with an add...

From a FB post by Germany's EMP Shop (translation by me): "Es wird nach dem aktuellen Stand keine Vinyl Version geben, auch ist die Version hier die Standard Version, eine günstigere ist nicht geplant. Derzeit zeigen einige amerikanische Shops deutlich günstigere Preise, wir haben uns informier...

I'm kind of with Boldizar on the vocals topic. My favorite Maynard vocals are raw, direct and without any obvious "production techniques" like harmonic layering, reverb effects, etc. He could do that nowadays just as well, no matter his age or range. These production choices to me are just...

amazon.de says it's "2 CD", format "Double CD", yet the number of disks is 1. What a mess.

Tracklist on amazon.de is up:

Fear Inoculum is the opening song apparently, all other tracks are yet untitled. Track 7 seems to have some sweary bits.

Preorder link on a German shop: https://www.emp.de/p/fear-inoculum/453833.html - for 79€ (lolwhut? My amazon.com preorder including shipping from the US totals at 59,90€) - it says "spectacular special edition with 2 CDs" Interesting. It would be great to get a formal press release of wha...

Preorder link on a German shop: https://www.emp.de/p/fear-inoculum/453833.html

- for 79€ (lolwhut? My amazon.com preorder including shipping from the US totals at 59,90€)
- it says "spectacular special edition with 2 CDs"

I've preordered as well right now. Might be overkill to order overseas, but german Amazon doesn't have the physical edition listed yet.

I really hope the special edition won't be one of these "sold out after 5 seconds"-affairs.

ziggy23 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 11:31 pm https://www.hdtracks.com/music/artist/view/id/28697/

Niiice! I have a 192KHz/24bit audio interface that just has found a new purpose in life.

Listening to Opiate on Spotify now - the subtle compression brings out some details I've never noticed before, just little things like background noise. It's interesting, even a bit weird to have music that I have listened so much to changed like that. Guess I'll have to listen to the whole catalog ...

Interesting sidenote about MJK falling into the mobile gaming/in app purchase hole for a while. So that's where his "get off the phone"-lyrics on the last APC record come from.

The voice/speech thing might just be an age related phenomenon. Like this dropping balls thing I keep hearing about.

Maybe Joe doesn't want the podcast to turn into a generic "tell us about your new project" type of talk show.
But in this case it was really awkward. I've learned something about centipedes though. I thought they were generally harmless, like bigger silverfish.

Thanks for the tip! Now I'm constantly checking my inbox.

Constantly F5-ing all the brower tabs. I'm going to be so unproductive today.