Posts
I completely acknowledge the fact that this blog does not receive the updates that it should. This update will focus on the return of our console tape dispenser that went missing several months ago. The rights to this story are available, just contact me at cj@vibe56.com and we can work out the details and make this into the movie and/or mini-series it is destined for.
One of the first meaningful purchases I made as the new studio manager for Vibe 56 was this console tape dispenser. I made a joke at the time that the console tape dispenser signified our arrival of "real recording studio" stature. It wasn't that funny then, just as it is now, and you didn't even have to be there. This occurred in February 2006.
I noticed in the spring of this year that the console tape dispenser was missing. After keeping an eye out for it for a couple of weeks I finally broke down and focused a full, money-is-no-object, search of every last corner of the building for the console tape dispenser. The mystery only grew, while the case remained opened.
I came into the studio a few days ago and found the console tape dispenser just sitting in the middle of a table located in our kitchen/lounge. The sun was shining through the blinds on the window in such a way that the console tape dispenser appeared to glow. It was back home.
It turned out that the console tape dispenser had been returned to us by Drum Paradise. They had found it inside of a kick drum, presumably used to weigh the kick drum down in lieu of the more-typical sandbag, or even brick / large rock.
So we're back to being an officially sanctioned "real studio" as governed by the presence of our newly-returned console tape dispenser. It feels good to be whole again.
