Chris Smart

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Last Activity:: May 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM
Member Since:: Aug 11, 2011
Websites:: www.ctsmastering.com

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Interests:: news, the coming apocalypse :) cycling, guitar, music, sound in general, storms/weather, hot food, bbw's, pubs/microbrew beer
Hobbies:: Well, strangling animals, golf and masturbating.
Television:: Daily Show, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Coronation Street (stop laughing!), just about anything on HBO, news, documentaries
Movies:: anything Monty Python, drama, comedy, horror (if it has a plot)
Music:: Zappa, Lenny Breau, Jeff Beck, Ed Bickert, Rush, mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever IV, Metallica, megadeth, cynic, Exivious, Death, Atheist, Tool, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Chris potter, Dave Holland, anything containing tabla, Meshuggah, anything Devin Townsend does, Animals as Leaders, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Thelonious Monk, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Primus, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Steve Masakowski, THE BAD PLUS
Books:: too many to mention - just read and loved Solar by Ian McEwan.
About me:: guitarist, mixing/mastering engineer, bbw-chaser, blind guy with perfect pitch and a sick sick mind.

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Chris Smart wrote on Dec 21, 2012 at 11:14 AM

"Listen to the moonlight bouncing off a rotten carcass..."

As we know from Frank's autohagiography, The film, "Run Home, Slow" 1965, was directed by former high school teacher Don Cerveris with original score composed and conducted by Frank Zappa.
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Run_Home_Slow_(The_Film)

Check out this dried movie remnant:

It wasn't even Frank's movie, yet the conceptual continuity is astounding. Yes, that is what would later become "Duke of Prunes" in the background! A hint of religiosity, dopey hunch-backs, sex as great fun or awful "sin" ... It's all there!

Did FZ have his entire body of work trapped in his head in the beginning, and spend forty years trying to let it out? The more you dig, the more interconnections you find ... as Monty Python said during the Gumby sketch, "My braaaaain huuuurts!"

FZ would have been 72 today. Happy Birthday Frank!

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patty wrote on May 17, 2013 at 11:26 PM

your hobbies really suck. literally!

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Devin B. wrote on Dec 13, 2012 at 2:30 AM

Hi from Omak, WA Chris. Nice to meet you digitally.

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Chris Smart wrote on Aug 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM

New Reissues?
I'm getting regular emails from Amazon saying "Just released, Bongo Fury", or "Just Released, Waka jawaka" etc. What's up? Did the regular CD's get moved and reissued on another label? Or have they been reissued and possibly improved, remastered?

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Chris Smart wrote on Aug 8, 2012 at 12:54 PM

String Theory: What Are Harmonics? | CTS Mastering Blog

This guitar-centric post attempts to demonstrate harmonics, what they are, how they are created, and why the harmonic series generates the chromatic scale and key structure.

If you have ideas for other topics I should blog about, I'm interested to hear them!

And of course, if you have anything that needs mixing or mastering, get in touch. Really, I'm trying to generate website traffic and get some work!

Here's the article:

http://tinyurl.com/9bte7bw

Thanks for reading! And, if any of you could redistribute this on your own feeds, or post to forums like gearsluts, The Gear Page, homerecording.com etc. I'd be eternally grateful!