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Title: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 16, 2009, 08:29:01 pm
What else should I do while in Portland?
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on July 16, 2009, 10:06:50 pm
You're going to Ground Kontrol.....what else do you need?  ;D
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 16, 2009, 10:08:25 pm
Yeah, no kidding!  She was going to surprise me, but finally had to tell me after I kept bugging her about going there.  I've never been there before.  Going to record some arcade ambience while I'm there too since a friend loaned me his little quadraphonic recorder thingy. :)
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: telengard on July 16, 2009, 10:56:14 pm
Yeah, no kidding!  She was going to surprise me, but finally had to tell me after I kept bugging her about going there.  I've never been there before.  Going to record some arcade ambience while I'm there too since a friend loaned me his little quadraphonic recorder thingy. :)

Very cool.  I like the arcade ambiance project but I would love to hear what you record.  IIRC the arcade ambience stuff was constructed.   I was thinking about doing the same when I go to funspot next week.

~telengard
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 16, 2009, 11:24:45 pm
Yeah, no kidding!  She was going to surprise me, but finally had to tell me after I kept bugging her about going there.  I've never been there before.  Going to record some arcade ambience while I'm there too since a friend loaned me his little quadraphonic recorder thingy. :)

Very cool.  I like the arcade ambiance project but I would love to hear what you record.  IIRC the arcade ambience stuff was constructed.   I was thinking about doing the same when I go to funspot next week.

~telengard

Yes, it was constructed.  It's too artificial sounding and busy for my taste.
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: Dazz on July 16, 2009, 11:57:24 pm
Say hello to Major Tom for me!
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 17, 2009, 12:04:06 am
Say hello to Major Tom for me!

Nice Bowie reference!!!  Or, umm, is there someone there named that? :)

I love the Venture Bros episode with all the Major Tom stuff. :)
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on July 17, 2009, 08:24:08 am
Yes, it was constructed.  It's too artificial sounding and busy for my taste.

Yeah, it is a tad too busy. I've never been a huge fan of it, but I appreciate Andy's effort. I still use it in my frontend, since there really aren't any better alternatives that I'm aware of.
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 21, 2009, 04:02:21 am
Ground Kontrol was AWESOME!!!  If you ever get a chance, go.  It was nice when they kicked the kids out at 5PM and then stayed open until 2:30AM. :)

I did get quite a bit of audio from in there.  I'll have to go through it all at some point and edit out kids screaming, parts with overly loud music, etc.  I think there's quite a bit of good stuff there.  I have it as a quadraphonic recording. . I can keep it that way while editing and then mix down to a stereo version and possibly make a surround version too in case anyone is set up for that.  Will likely be a while before I get to this though.

Cool thing is that they were actually playing Andy's arcade ambiance tracks out the front door to entice people to come in! :)
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: RayB on July 21, 2009, 07:31:35 pm
What else should you do? ANYTHING the wife wants.
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: Paladin on July 21, 2009, 11:11:08 pm
My wife and I just went down to Portland yesterday to pick up my grail pinball machine - Eight Ball Deluxe.  We got a late start and didn't get home until 10:30.  We were way too hot and traffic stressed to stop by GK.  I've only been there once, but it was a blast.
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: TheShanMan on July 22, 2009, 10:16:31 am
Paladin/Gary/anyone: LMK if you're making a trip to GK. I live 20-30 minutes from there and don't get over there often enough, so I need an excuse to go. Meeting up with people is always fun. :)
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: SQrL on July 22, 2009, 06:23:40 pm
All this talk about GK is making me realize I need to make some trips as well.  I work a few blocks from it, so I might do some lunch breaks there sometime soon.  I love all the pins upstairs!
Title: Re: So my wife is taking me to Ground Kontrol for our anniversary!!!!
Post by: GaryMcT on July 24, 2009, 02:21:19 am
My wife and I just went down to Portland yesterday to pick up my grail pinball machine - Eight Ball Deluxe.  We got a late start and didn't get home until 10:30.  We were way too hot and traffic stressed to stop by GK.  I've only been there once, but it was a blast.

Cool that you got the pinball you were looking for!

Going to GK didn't help my wife's desire for a pinball machine at all.  It put Star Trek:TNG and the Lord of the Rings pinball machines up on the top of her wish list.