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grateful for this video. mgmt is my fav band of all time

I get that a power line started the Eaton fire, but a power line failure should not cause your whole neighborhood to burn to a crisp. You say that you are not a victim, but where are your lights? Where are your neighbors? Where is FEMA? Shouldn’t you have at least a generator? How many billions do we have to pay in federal income tax to pay the salaries of FEMA fat cats just so you can live in the dark with no power or lights. PATHETIC!!! (Not you dude, THEM!).

I'm listening to this through a bluetooth bar from Xiaomi, and i do hear some difference. In every comparison. Albeit very subtle indeed.

What camera did you use for this? Looks fantastic!

You’ll have to do a part 2 with the new Shure/Korneff plugin that has just been released. Then a part 3 when the Shure/Black Lion hardware comes out. Great video!

Its great to see boutique hardware with real love and care put into all aspects of its design and function. Inspiration from classics rather than being a derivative work. Also the overlay images really help my meme addled millenial brain, thanks.

finally a piece of gear with actual sized switches on it

This was a fabulous review. If you’ve got an Overstayer SVC, I’d love a review of that!

This video aged so well that Shure and Black Lion Audio are recreating the Level-Loc!

You need to do another one, testing the Korneff brand new Level-Loc plugin, endorsed by Shure and Tchad Blake!

Ended up on this video by chance and what a surprise it’s been. Just lovely. Fun, informative, engaging. Excellent communicator, such a pleasant tone. Instant follow ❤

i always start new gear on drums too

I dont know how but my place made it too, I cant say the same for most of my friends. Good luck!!!

Many houses that survive often dont have smart meters. Research Smart Meters and Smart Cities.

Thank you for the wonderful video. While not a hardwear fanatic, this compressor i would love as hardwear. Fantastic piece of gear. Nice tube mush with a nice sheen topping to finish it off. At 18:50 i don`t like the sound. Completely killed the body of the snare but i reckon the settings were a bit extreme in favor of the demonstration. The plugin sounds very good too but nothing to write home about. However i would love if you would tweak a bit the plugin in the video. I have better suited plugins for my taste

I had this chat with a friend in L.A, what to take out of the studio! 175b YES!! Any vintage gear, B-9B, 1176 and custom modified gear. Crazy situation to deal with. 😮

Your story really hits home. I live in Studio City but my sister in law lost her home in Alta Dena and arrived here at our house Tuesday night with the clothes on their back. I have a home studio and as the fires started popping up here I was going through the same "what do I take"? Mic's, a couple guitars, a Distressor. You realize very quickly that the stuff that's worth the most to you is the stuff that is worthless to every one else, mementos, Art. My heart goes out to you and your community and to all my friends who lost their homes there. All the best.

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Was there any fog during the days leading up to the fire?

Hi David, One heartwarming image for me in this disaster so far was that of your daughter’s fish safe thanks to your power backup prep. ( Around 29:40 in your previous video ) Best wishes from an (ex) audio engineer now in the Netherlands. Keep strong.

29:42. Thats my kinda sensible prepping. Not your Assault rifles and a year of tinned food. But each to their own. Smoke hoods and a means to pump some water backup would be on my list.

TLDR: 29:49 the daughter’s little fish is ok. Bless ❤. All you need to know 😊 29:17 for context

What a talented story teller you are, Just in the first 6 mins. Thank you, wishing you all well.

Good thing you’re not black and had to flee with your belongings, or you would have been labeled a looter.

A good friend of mine had a terrible house fire that completely destroyed his home. He rushed inside to rescue his wife and child, getting them to safety before going back in. According to his wife, it felt like he was in there forever. In the chaos, he became disoriented in his own house and ended up grabbing a ridiculous ashtray-one shaped like a fish jumping out of a lake. The lake, I guess, was meant to be the actual ashtray. So don't beat yourself up Man. 😉

Gosh…what are all these people that lost homes going to do? Condolences of course. Is it not a coincidence that this Eaton fire started along with the Palisades fire? How can that be? Any word on what might have started the Palisades fire? Well done btw. I am in Houston.

glad your studio made it. we almost suffered a loss but all is well. being from altadena its a bit sad seeing alot of things gone but they will come back stronger and rebuild. take care of yourself.

Thx 4 sharing

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I grew up at 4293 Canyon Crest Road (The Meadows) during the 60-70's. Three generations called Altadena home for many years. So much death and destruction...my heart is beyond broken. Sounds like SCE is going to catch hell over the Eaton Fire! Power lines. My dad retired as a Sergeant with the CHP, while my mom was an RN who worked at Huntington Memorial Hospital. I see that Websters Pharmacy is still standing. They go way back in the history of Altadena. Thank you for sharing, David. Stay safe, my brother. Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Musician watching from MA. Took 5 days for your vid to pop up in my youtube feed. I feel for you and guys like Tim Pierce, Pete Thorn and so many others. Wish I was in a position to help. Hoping for your familys safety. You can rebuild.

These are all great conventional fire protections and defense solutions, but these are not normally ignited fires! Putting a sprinkler system around your house may look trendy and efficient but would totally act as a path for the energy created when you use oscillatory frequencies to vibrate objects... The energy or heat created causes the immidiate ignition of any metallic or conductive materials ... Hence why cars are smelting underneath highly flammable Sarsaparilla trees that were not burnt with all their foilage left intact... The best way I figure one could protect themselves with is mylar or ceramic coatings to reflect the macrowaves, or a Faraday cage.safe room... Unfortunately, due to the immense amount of energy produced, if the beem were to cross paths with you, cremation would be swift... So the structures are burned to the ground and cars are melted, yet the trees are still there with leaves and the bushes right next to the house are just fine...? I have seen super flammable ceder and gum and eucalyptus trees hanging with leaves intact hanging over multi story mansions that were completely leveled.... That's not normal! Kids plastic playsets next to incenerated homes, blue plastic trash cans sitting brand new looking inside garages that were leveled or next to cars and homes that were incenerated... Plastic usually turns to hot melting flammable goop when exposed to high temperatures! But okay your right everything is completely normal... No water in the fire hydrants? That's because the static energy that causes the crazy, not normal winds is caused by a macro wave energy source that vaporizes H2O in its beam path... That process obviously evaporated the water out of the steel pipes! Tell me how a brush fire burns pipes in the ground or ignites non flammable telephone poles and melts the electric lines and meter box's... I mean, smgdh... The energy concentration is so intense that anything, that is conductive, like metal or H2O, will have a ground fault reaction creating an arc, anything touching that arc would incenerate at extremely high temperatures, think plasma cutter, this is why plastic objects didn't melt, or the "open to the elements" super dry osb of the under construction home right next door didn't catch fire.... The osb was dry and had no H2O to boil or metal to combust... Unlike the steel banded tires of the car parked out in front of the leveled house that was also incenerated... It's the same thing that happens when you put foil in a microwave, but on a larger scale... The trees and foliage don't burn because wood doesn't conduct electricity very well... But DEW you know what does conduct electricity....? Everything that these "wild fires" DEW burn!

…and the power of song lives on 🙏

So refreshing to hear something that isn't the usual auto-tuned bullsh*t. Well done! 😎🤘

I rarely watch a 40min video but I have to say I’m so glad I watched it all , it was time WELL spent, God Bless you and your’s and stay safe!🙏

Thank you David. I don't know you at all - just stumbled across your video. (Subscribed now) I've watched 100+ videos in the last week on the catastrophe. Watching your video is the best 40 min I've spent yet. Guess I can relate to the "oh my god - what do I take?!" thing. I too am an older dad - lifetime musician with his man-cave studio, at a time of life where what really matters changes day to day. Sometimes hour by hour. In the end, it's mostly just stuff. I'm glad your place escaped the inferno and I'm so sorry for your friends that lost everything. I'm in Alberta, Canada but was born in Lancaster CA. Lived most of my youth in California and still have family scattered about the state. Strangely enough, I still have a strange tie to the area. But for a few tiny slips of fate, I could still be living there. I sincerely hope you and your family land on your feet and can carry on bravely. Sorry, I'm a bit long winded, but you really got me. Cheerz.

I feel like I just watched a documentary that will stay with me for a long time. I connected to so many things you said. Emotionally, intellectually. Lot’s of wisdom being shared here so thank you so much for sharing your experience and honesty. I’m a couple of blocks south east in Pasadena. I have a huge record collection, huge movie collection, physical media for the win :). Frequently did the exercise of “if the house was burning, what do I take?” And I was shocked how quickly I thought “it’s just stuff”. I just grabbed some hard drives and that’s it. Didn’t take a single record. I’m I going to stop buying records? Of course not. But it definitely was an eye opening experience. Wish you and your family, friends and neighbors all the best in the upcoming week. Be safe!

Your video is wonderful. True insights.

Thanks for sharing your story David. My family experienced the Airport Fire in OC a few months ago first hand. We were spared because the wind changed direction, but we had to evacuate. We saw the fire explode right in front of us and we knew we had to leave. Your video felt like re living that. Like you I recall making interesting decisions when it came to saving what I could. In the end I left high end recording gear, and vintage gear and took the most basic guitar, a pedalboard and an interface. Left with no amps, but I came down to the decision that if I was going to loose everything then at least I needed the basics to write music wherever I end up. My wife's was away at the time and her first request was one ukulele. When we came back I realized how all these pricey things I value, had almost no value when that evacuation adrenaline was kicked on. Our neighborhood survived. The appreciation and community love came together in an incredibly beautiful way here afterwards. I hope you experience that beauty in Altadena as the days improve. I'm glad you're safe...keep making great music. ❤

Great song! Intelligently expressed in the lyrics. Hopefully things stabilize and get better soon and that the power gets turned on.

Never seen your channel before but that was so excellently communicated, I wish you luck brother.

I live on Maui and these fires are obviously so similar to what our island experienced. It's heartbreaking to see more people go through the same thing, especially all of the conspiracy theories that do nothing but bring harm. Rebuilding takes forever and it will never be the same, that's just the harsh reality and it sucks. I'm so sorry to everyone dealing with this horror right now.

So glad and thankful you're safe. I hate knowing that anyone is having to deal with this and that this is so many people's reality right now. Appreciate your videos, your creativity and your approach to things. Here's to rebuilding back even stronger, and my thoughts are with everyone affected by this absolute nightmare.

Thank you David for this informative video. I lived in Altadena in 2009, my mother lived there, and I'm gutted by the disaster. I find your survival skills and communication with neighbors very admirable and fascinating since the major news media is a joke. There needs to be contingencies for the people of LA to communicate in future fire disasters, as we all know there will be more. Good luck to you and your family and friends. Many of my colleagues lost their homes. All the best to you from NorCal.

Leave USA and come back to Europe. USA are becoming more and more dangerous with climate change

The Fairlight Series III used for Terminator movie burned :(

On the bright side, with a generator, you can crank a full stack, and no one's gonna call the cops.

I just stumbled across this video and was delighted to hear that your studio and home are okay and your family is safe. A friend of mine, who also lives in Altadena, was also very lucky, but it was entirely due to her neighbors commitment to stay behind and try and save his own house. In the end he also saved hers. The rest of the houses on her street are all gone. She and her two roommates and their two cats are desperately looking for a place to live as her home won't be livable for at least a few months. (Putting the word out in case you hear of anything. Incidentally, she's also a musician. :) My wife is from LA and grew up in La Crescenta, but attended the Pasadena Waldorf school in Altadena. She was sad to see that much of the school campus is also gone. The two of us made a plan as to what we would do and take if there were a fire after the Marshall fire here in Colorado a few years ago. That fire also destroyed entire neighborhoods and businesses. As a musician and avid music collector it's hard to know what to take. In the end after our son and pets were safe and my 5 year old already had everything that he wanted to take I would grab our passports, my sons first stuffy, a small box of hard drives with photos and my own music on them, an unframed U2 lithograph that took me nearly 20 years to get all 4 members to sign, the very first record award I ever received (because like you with that one piece of gear that told you that "you made it," this told me that I achieved my dream of working in the music industry,) and finally...I would take this single loose photo print that definitely has seen better days, but is the only copy that I have of the first time I met Bono. If I am lucky to have enough time to grab all of these things that's what I would take. I hope that your brother-in-law is able to rebuild quickly.

I needed the last 5 minutes of this one today. Lost my studio last week and today was one of those bad days. Our house survived, miraculously. Altadena is amazing and I just want to swing hammers for our neighbors.

From this video, you should create a short/reel about the News being out dated.