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How long ago did you activate the phone on Tmo?
Are you a tmobile customer and use with tmobile service at all?
Yes I am a T mobile customer
After I got my phone, immediately I activated it. To be exact it was 15th March 17
After I got my phone, immediately I activated it. To be exact it was 15th March 17
I know it doesn't make any sense, but if you bought a Tmobile phone from Samsung and it was locked, you have to have it active on Tmobile for 40 days before they'll unlock it.
Ryan, it does not even allow me to do temporary unlock also. Also if I do IMEI check, this IMEI no itself is not in T Mobile inventory. That is why I am worried a lot
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Yeah since tmobile didn't sell it, it won't show up in their imei check since it didn't go through them. What error do you get?
In temporary unlock/Permanent unlock also it says "Unlock Failed: This Mobile Device is not eligible for Unlock"
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More than likely then this is going to need some sort of override. I don't know if codes work on these devices and all unlocks need to go through their app.
I would call tech support (maybe speak with a senior rep) and see if they can escalate a request. They will need to check the imei with Samsung out side the normal system to verify it is locked to them then find someway to manually add it so you can use the app to unlock it if you meet all the requirements.
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What phone is it? Does it have all the T-Mobile apps pre-installed? If it doesn't have any of the apps pre-installed and you had to manually install them then it isn't a T-Mobile device and it is up to Samsung to unlock the phone.
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Hi tidbits, It is samsung S7 edge, it has all the T Mobile apps pre installed. Including the unlock app.
Did you use a backup from a previous phone? Try uninstalling the T-Mobile app.
Ironically every time I tried to purchase a carrier branded phone from Samsung's website they have always sent me to the carrier page.
If you bought it directly from Samsung it would be the unlocked model and you should have the receipt.
No if you go to Samsung US website you see carrier specific models now. if you buy one of them, they are locked for the carrier. I am sure about it.
Just for reference this is what I see when I click on a carrier version, and unlocked version. So you would have to buy unlocked or you are forced to go to the carrier to purchase one. This is why I asked because for as long as I remembered Samsung has always forced you to go to the carrier page to purchase their products. When they started to sell unlocked devices was the only time you can purchase a device from them.
That's interesting. I see the same for all colors. Seems like for a short time Samsung threw their remaining inventory that carriers won't pick up and unloaded it by giving a discount. Then Samsung failed to give carriers the IMEIs to input into their system. If that's the case then Samsung needs to unlock them or send T-Mobile the IMEIs of the inventory they sold on their own.
Seems that way..... But yeah, I was able to successfully unlock using Twitter T-force group, they are wonderful and 100 times better than normal on call customer care. Kudos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nice. They probably did some legwork and scolded Samsung for not giving them the IMEI's so the system didn't know what devices they are.
Yep, that is fairly what could have been happened
So if you got it from Samsung. They need to fix the problem if you got a carrier version from them as T-Mobile would have no record of it.
I am unable to uninstall the T Mobile app, so it proves that my devices is configured and locked for T Mobile.
Hey vigneshprabhu! In order to use the T-Mobile Device Unlock app, you'd need to meet the same eligibility requirements as users who request an unlock code (many Android devices) or remote unlock (iOS devices) outlined here: Unlock your mobile wireless device. I'm sorry that you're getting the runaround here - reading that we're advising you to contact Samsung, who in turn are directing you back to us, is definitely frustrating.
In this forum, we don't have the individual account access necessary to review your account and determine if requirements are met, or to put in a standard unlock request - let alone an override or (as I suspect will be necessary in this situation) file an escalation.
Please reach out to our Care team or T-Force (through Twitter or Facebook) and give us another opportunity to help here. Those teams can review the account, determine your eligibility, and submit an escalation request if needed. Thanks for posting here, and I'm sorry again that you're having such a tough time with this.
- Marissa
Thanks Marissa and everyone for your valuable inputs. I was able to contact customer care through twitter and raised ticket for the same. Hope it gets resolved soon.


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Brandon Triche scored a career-high 29 points to go with six rebounds and five assists, leading No. 6 Syracuse to a tougher-than-expected 76-65 victory over reeling Seton Hall on Saturday night.
C.J. Fair added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Michael Carter-Williams had 14 points and nine boards as the Orange (21-4, 9-3) rebounded from a loss to Connecticut earlier this week and remained tied with Marquette and Georgetown for first place in the Big East Conference.
Fuquan Edwin had 21 points and Eugene Teague added 14 points and nine rebounds for Seton Hall (13-13, 2-11) in its seventh straight loss and 11th in 12 games. Aaron Cosby was the only other Pirate in double figures with 10.
The banged-up Pirates put a little scare into Syracuse, opening a nine-point lead in the first half before wilting under the Orange's talent and depth.
James Southerland added 11 points for Syracuse, which gave coach Jim Boeheim his 911th career win despite getting points from only five players.
Triche was the difference in eclipsing his season high of 25 against Rutgers and his all-time best of 27 against Oakland as a freshman in 2009-10. He hit 10 of 18 shots from the field and put an exclamation point on his performance with a final-minute 3-pointer, his fourth of the game.
The Pirates proved pesky, limiting Syracuse to 38.7 percent shooting from the field. They trailed by six at the half and they were still within 53-47 almost midway through the second half. Carter-Williams then made six straight free throws in a one-man run that coincided with a fan at courtside being ejected for saying something to referee Michael Stephens.
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Seton Hall, which was outrebounded 42-32, came in coming off a two-point loss to Rutgers and coach Kevin Willard probably wasn't thrilled knowing the Orange had been beaten earlier this week at Connecticut.
The Pirates, however, shot lights out in the first eight-plus minutes, hitting 7 of 10 shots and opening a 21-12 lead against a talented team that had scouts from the Nets, Jazz and other NBA teams sitting among the media. Four of those makes were from long range, with Haralds Karlis' shot from the corner giving them their biggest lead at 21-12.
It didn't last long as Syracuse closed the half with a 24-9 run. Triche, Fair and Southerland scored all but one point in the outburst with Triche and Southerland collecting eight points and Fair seven.

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CARSON, Calif. – The way LA Galaxy midfielder Mike Magee sees it, Juan Pablo Ángel deserved better.
According to Magee, one of the best players in Red Bulls/MetroStars history deserved a more gracious exit and better treatment than he received in 2010 from his former club.
"If I have my facts right, I think they told him midway through the year that they weren't going to pick up his option," said Magee, who played with Ángel for two seasons in New York and is now reunited with him in LA. "First of all, it's not right to tell someone that and he still scored double-digit goals. It's really bizarre but … I'm not surprised."
Ángel parted ways with New York following the end of the 2010 season. In four years with the Red Bulls, Ángel scored 58 regular-season goals and led the club to its only MLS Cup appearance when the Red Bulls reached the title game in 2008.
Yet the veteran striker was let go by the club because he no longer fit into Hans Backe's plans. With Thierry Henry now on the roster, Ángel was banished to the Re-Entry Draft on the way out.
"When I spent my time there, it kind of seems like a lot of things go the opposite of what you think," said Magee of his former club. "I think he scored 11 goals last year or something [Ángel had 13] and he wasn't even playing a lot in the end."
When he arrived at New York in 2007, Ángel did so with a load of fanfare. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, then in charge of New York, brought the Colombian in as the club's second Designated Player. A longtime standout with EPL side Aston Villa, Ángel made an immediate impact on his teammates.
"In New York, we had so many so-called big signings and I think when we got him, there was a feeling where you weren't sure," Magee said. "Soon after he got there, probably that day, you realized that this guy was for real."
New York had gone through their share of big-name players who did not pan out, including Branco, Sergio Galván Rey and Lothar Matthäus. Initially the fear was that Ángel would join that list.
"That day in practice, he was the hardest-working guy and his goal-scoring rate speaks for itself," Magee said. "It was definitely a great thing because we were literally getting player after player who was supposed to be the next best player in the world … [but] a lot of guys didn't pan out. He definitely changed that."
Ángel won over New York with his workmanlike, blue-collar talent, and Magee said he's done the same with the Galaxy. Even though Ángel has just one goal in eight games, the veteran striker still puts in a lot of hours and teammates could learn a thing or two from that, Magee said.
"Juan's a great guy," Magee said. "He's a great person, a hard worker. Sometimes DPs – not on this team – kind of come here, get big contracts and kind of relax. He's definitely not that guy. He works hard. He's in the gym every day working his butt off. He's a good example for the young guys. We need that for the young guys."


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Go to http://imageshack.us Upload the picture you want from your computer. Click on the HOST IT button, and once your picture is uploaded, you will get a screen like this:
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Can someone give me a clue how to upload a photo. When I hit the little insert image tab. It says I must enter a URL. I have a really cool photo to share,but what a time I'm having. Please help.
me too!!! wanna upload a pic but it sez please contact board member.i did, and she gave me this. duz anyone know whats goin on?
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never mind. If you failed to upload after following the steps I send you in IM, we may need to check it again. Give us some time to rectify this. Thank you.
BTW: try the steps mentioned about once more and do let us know.
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However, there is a problem with the boards that is currently preventing some members from uploading photos from their computers onto their profiles. This is being looked into, and hopefully will be resolved shortly.
Until that time, if you want to show us what you look like, feel free to post a picture of yourself, using an image hosting site, on our "Pictures Of GhostVillagers" thread in the Real Life Board
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But the same process can be followed in any of the image editing software, though the keys and options to do it might be different.
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Just a few years ago the school had just 206 students, but with hard work in expanding the prekindergarten program, the school now has 423 students from pre-K to eighth grade with 108 in the prekindergarten program alone.
Principal William Ferguson said if it weren't for the new program, the school would not be what it is today.
"When I became principal I booked the first school in the Diocese to put in universal prekindergarten," Ferguson said. "Today, I have one of the largest."
Ferguson added the more important part about the program at his school in particular is the high turnover rate.
Now with a thriving state-funded prekindergarten program, the school has found success in serving their students throughout the school during their time in early education.
"You can get kids sometimes in the 7th or 8th grade, but the bottom feeder, I had nothing, so I put in the universal prekindergarten and we went up," he said. "Now I have two kindergarten classes."
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Today, the school's board is looking for more space and has considered converting basement space, currently occupied by two bowling alleys, into two new classrooms.
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"I'd like to think that a lot of it has to do with the Catholic identity," he said of the school's success.
While tuition at St. Elizabeth's is $4,100 for Catholics and $4,600 for non-Catholics, parents still say the education is worth the cost.
Both of Yvette Ortega's children have been in the school since prekindergarten. Today, her daughter is still attending the school while her son is a graduating senior at Christ the King High School in Middle Village.
"I was not impressed when I was talking to neighbors about public schools," Ortega said, recalling when she was first looking into sending her son to elementary school. "I also wanted a smaller setting, and as a devout Catholic, I wanted to give them a Catholic education."
Ortega, the director of the school's universal prekindergarten program, did say that she was worried about the financial constraints and sending a child to a school with such a high tuition.
"We moved to Woodhaven where our taxes were low, and I was able to send them to Catholic school," she said. "It was tough but they both graduated."
Estela Jordan lives just two blocks from the school and has a first grader and fifth grade student currently enrolled.
"I heard that this school had a good program," Jordan said. "When my son entered kindergarten, he started reading big words that I never expected."
Jordan grew up in the Catholic education system and said she wouldn't have wanted to enroll her children in any other school.
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One of the talks I do explains how 'simple' in the K.I.S.S.1 principle is not the same as 'easy'. Sometimes the easy option can introduce complexities into the system that become detrimental and actually introduce complexity. The simplest example is testing. Not testing is the easy option; but it introduces uncertainty and complexity into your system that will be difficult to pin down at a later date.
That said easy and simple are not mutually exclusive, which is an important thing to remember, especially when you're caught in the throws of trying to fix a supposedly simple problem.
I spent far too many hours yesterday trying to write an install script for one of our components. The underlying issue is simple: "As someone installing the component, I want the configuration files to reflect the idiosyncrasies of my setup so that I can compile the code". Or, if you prefer BDD format: "Given I am installing the component, when I perform the compile step, then the compilation should work".
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nearly 200 lines of code in, deep in callback hell with grave concerns about whether my script would even pass code review I discovered some pretty nasty bugs that meant that minor configuration changes to a live server would cause an automated deploy to suddenly require user input, which we didn't want. Adding logic to provide an override to this would make things even more complex and my nice, simple solution was disappearing out of reach.
It was then that it hit me that I was providing the wrong solution. This is something that really needs to be set once per environment and then left. It's not going to be used a huge amount of time, it doesn't need to be gold plated. With that in mind I wrote a simple shell script that checked for the presence of an environment variable. If the variable existed, use the bindings file it points to, if it doesn't, use the default; simples.
All told, with error handling and everything, the script is 21 lines long. Not only that, but it provides a nice way to handle upgrades to the environment in live without having to redeploy.
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A Camp Lejeune Marine has been charged with murder in the December shooting death of a grandmother outside of a Jacksonville bingo hall.
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"The young guys are stepping up and guys are playing hard and guys are playing a full 60 minutes," junior left tackle David Bakhtiari said. "It's good to see our unit continuously progressing."
Injuries mainly to Handler have forced the Buffs to move around a bit. Handler missed three games earlier in the year and then sprained his knee on Saturday against Oregon, so he's likely to miss another two or three games. In his place, Munyer has moved to center, Harris to right guard and Nembot to right tackle. Ryan Dannewitz filled in for an injured Bakhtiari last week (Bakhtiari expects to return Saturday against Stanford).
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"We had so much potential coming in, and now it's really starting to unfold," he said.
For the most part, however, the Buffs credit their hard work and not just among the starting five.
"It's been a tough year from a standpoint of wins and losses, but it's been extremely gratifying for me as a coach to see these guys grow and continue to get better and better as the weeks have gone on."
Early in the season, it was the offensive line that took a lot of blame for CU's struggles. Yet, despite dealing with injuries and having never really played with continuity among the starting five, the group has become the leading unit of the team.
At the beginning of the year, Bakhtiari was the starter at left tackle, with Alex Lewis at left guard, Gus Handler at center, Daniel Munyer at right guard and Jack Harris at right tackle.
"I'm starting to understand calls more and understand defenses," he said.
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Brad Cotner, Jeromy Irwin and Marc Mustoe and senior Eric Richter have worked their way onto the field a bit, too.
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The fiscal cliff talks continue in Washington. Plus, November's unemployment rate is reported and the ECB meets. Polya Lesova has details on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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News Archives - 2011
Study abroad this fall—deadline extended to April 1
It's not too late to study abroad next fall! Augsburg Abroad is accepting applications for Center for Global Education summer and fall study abroad programs in Central America, Mexico, Namibia until April 1. Augsburg Abroad is also accepting applications for summer and fall International/Exchange Partners Programs in Norway, Germany, Finland, Slovenia, and China. Please note that the deadline for programs other than those coordinated by CGE and IP has passed.
There are currently eleven Augsburg students studying in Mexico at Augsburg's campus in Cuernavaca, a picturesque colonial city known as the "City of Eternal Spring." Psychology major Amy Voigt said, "Every day that I wake up in Mexico is my favorite. I can honestly say that I am unable to choose just one day as my favorite. This is an opportunity of a lifetime that I will cherish in my heart forever."
Voigt, a Weekend College student who came to Mexico with her seven year-old son, added, "As an older, non-traditional student, I have felt extremely welcomed and accepted in the program and homes we live in. The thing I have liked most is allowing myself and my son to engage in a learning experience in which we learn something new about ourselves and others every day."
All of the students appreciate the fact that they have been able to meet graduation and major or minor requirements while studying abroad in Mexico; core requirements are offered such as language courses, religion, the business keystone, a fitness course, and LAFs in fine arts and other areas.
Maren Daniels, an art education major said, "I have been pleased by Augsburg's program in Mexico in relation to my graduation requirements. I feel like I have been working my way to graduation. In addition to taking a fabulous Mexican art class that includes numerous excursions, I am taking REL 200 and WST 357, which meets an LAF in the humanities. I am also fulfilling a fitness requirement by taking the Latin dance class. It's been really fun to learn Spanish and dance at the same time, and it's a great way to get exercise. I am being challenged here."
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"Family Tree," which recently capped its often-hilarious first season, proved a great showcase for the power of improvisational comedy wielded by expert hands. Like fellow HBO standout "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the Christopher Guest show provided unrehearsed humor within the framework of a narrative.
Storyline doesn't matter much at all on "Whose Line is it Anyway?," which makes a welcome comeback Tuesday after a nearly six-year absence. But on a show without second takes, the stakes are heightened, with laughs expected to fly by the second.
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That's part of the challenge – and the fun – of improvisational comedy performed in front of a studio audience. At a time when too much unscripted so-called Reality TV clogs the airwaves, the return of "Whose Line is it Anyway?" offers made-up-on-the-spot material that's intentionally funny.
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Picture this: you have managed to get a ten-minute slot with a potential investor in your start-up. So far, so good. But what are you going to say in that time?
First, here are some things you are NOT trying to do in your ten-minute pitch.
WRONG OBJECTIVE #1: Convince the investor to invest
Er – what? Surely that's exactly what you should be aiming to do? Well, no. Any investor who makes a decision to invest a large sum of money in someone they have only known for ten minutes is not a smart investor, or they have enough money that they can afford to take a wild risk. Unless you know your investor is either dumb or rich and crazy, you should not expect them to be ready to sign a cheque (US: check) within ten minutes. It takes longer to get a "yes". Equally, you can get a straight "no" in much less time than that…
WRONG OBJECTIVE #2: Tell them everything about your company/product/service
You have ten minutes (in this example). Remember that – ten minutes. Six hundred seconds. That time goes very quickly, especially if you don't start on time, which you almost certainly won't. If you can tell everything there is to tell about your company in ten minutes, it's not worth hearing. Don't try to cover everything lightly, saying too little about too many things. Choose the few messages you need to get across, and get them across well.
WRONG OBJECTIVE #3: Make them want to buy your product/service
You're not making a sales pitch. An investor expects something different. He or she will want to be sure that people will buy what you're offering, but you won't convince your investor to part with his or her cash purely by convincing him or her that they would want to buy your products. Victor Kiam liked Remington shavers so much, he bought the company. That was such an amazing story because it was so exceptional. Your investor doesn't need to want to buy your products. Don't explain why they should buy them – explain why you are sure other people will buy them. Remember, you are selling an investment opportunity here, not a product or service.
That's enough wrong objectives for now. Yet how often do investors complain about entrepreneurs who make those basic mistakes? All the time.
Here are some key objectives you should have for your investment pitch.
GOOD OBJECTIVE #1: Be memorable
So you have ten minutes on this investor's agenda. How many other pitches will he or she have to sit through? Often a dozen or more in a day. One of those pitches is going to be memorable, and that's the one they will consider calling back. Make sure it's yours.
If you give a fine performance and the investor seems happy, but they can't remember you or your pitch the following morning, you've failed. If you had to choose between being convincing and being memorable, you should choose memorable every time. That way you'll at least have a chance of being called back for a second, probably longer presentation.
GOOD OBJECTIVE #2: Be professional
An investor judges the team as much as, if not more than, the idea or project itself. A great team with an average idea will be more attractive than a poor team with a great idea. It's important therefore that you look and sound professional. Look and speak as if you already are a successful CEO, because investors will be sizing you up and seeing whether they can imagine you as one. Looking and sounding professional means many things, and it will be the subject of another post, but it runs from mastering whatever technology you are using through mastering and preparing your subject, all the way to the way you stand, the clothes you wear and the way you speak.
GOOD OBJECTIVE #3: Answer the key questions
An investor does not need to know everything about you and your idea in the first ten minutes. However, there are some key questions that you will need to answer – otherwise, either the investor will ask (and resent the fact you didn't communicate better), or, worse, they won't ask because they have given up caring.
The first thing to remember is the number one question asked by investors AFTER a pitch: "So what do you do exactly?" If you've gone through a detailed study of your market, the competitors and the opportunity, but you've failed to explain what you are actually planning to do, then you've failed – big-time. Here are some of the key questions you need to answer:
- What do you do?
- Who are you (and why should I trust you)?
- How will you make money (and how much)?
- How long will it take?
- What are the risks (and how do you plan to address them)?
- How much cash do you need (and what will you spend it on)?
- Do I have a good feeling about you?
How to answer these questions would be the subject of another post (and also form a key part of the Ideas on Stage course "Winning Pitch"), but you can probably work out why each of those is important, and what you can do to weave the answers into your pitch. The last one is not so easy, however. At the end of the day, investors are individuals, and they make decisions which are neither 100% objective nor 100% rational, just like you and me. You could have the greatest credentials and a rock-solid business plan, but if the investor doesn't feel like they want to do business with you long-term, the answer will be no.
All I would say about this is: research your investor, be professional, try to make a connection, have a great answer ready to the question "why do you want me as an investor?" (other than "well, you're the only one who returned my call…"), and do your best to get along with the investor, but if you don't hit it off, walk away and find another one. You don't want to be stuck doing business for years with someone with whom you have a tenuous relationship, any more than the investor does. Some personality types just don't get on well with each other. Better that you find that out now.
GOOD OBJECTIVE #4: Make them want to know more
Here's the final objective. In ten minutes, you only just have time to answer the key questions above, ideally in a particularly memorable and professional way. You have learned not to expect a decision there and then. Your ultimate aim is to be called back for a longer chance to discuss your business opportunity. Therefore you need to make sure they are interested enough in three things to want to know more about them:
- The team
- The business plan
- The chances of a good return on investment (RoI)
If they are interested in the business plan but not you, they won't call you back. If they are interested in you and the business plan, that's fine – but if you can show them a chance of a good RoI, and make them feel there's a chance this could be a very good deal for them as well as building a business, then they will at least want to know more about it. Just make sure your financials are based on clear and reasonable assumptions which don't fall apart when the investor asks the tough questions.
Don't expect to raise cash in ten minutes. The best you can hope for is to get a call back. The way to do this is to be professional, make your pitch memorable so it is the one they remember the following morning, answer the investor's key questions, and make them want to learn more about how this could be a good business, and more importantly, a great investment opportunity.


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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Gender in the Publishing World
(there will be many generalisations in today's post, I realise there are exceptions to every rule, and that people are individuals first, categories second . . . but today I am afraid I will be indulging in generalities. My apologies.)
Today I wanted to ask a question that's been on my mind a lot lately:
how big a role do you think gender plays in the world of books?
This is a broad question and meant to be. There are so many different levels on which one can discuss this topic. And it of course depends on your role in this world, there is a different perspective from each area: publisher, agent, author, reader . . .
For example, as an author, I often wonder whether men (or I suppose boys in my case with my audience) are put off reading a book with a female author's name obviously at the bottom. I know lots of boys read JK Rowling, but there was a reason her publisher suggested she use her initials only. Not only did they hope to widen her potential market, they also felt that because her main character was a boy, it was the best way not to alienate that audience.
I have to say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of boys who read Alex and really enjoy it. We are told often that boys will not read a book with a female protagonist, and I actually had a boy the other day look at me in shock when I mentioned Alex was a girl. This boy had already read the book, in which I say often that Alex is a girl, and yet I suppose because it isn't about the fact that she is a girl, that she isn't particularly "girly", whatever that is, he actually forgot he was reading about the opposite gender and saw her more as an "everyman" (everywoman?) kind of character. Something, I must be honest, that was indeed one of my goals with the book, so I am immensely pleased. But at the same time, does this mean that if I write a "girly" protagonist I will lose the boys who so enjoyed my other books simply on that fact alone?
As a reader . . . I have noticed that a novel written by a woman that centres around romance (though isn't necessarily a Romance Novel), tends to be shuffled aside as "chick lit", while similar novels by men are categorised as general fiction, and tend to be treated with a bit more respect. I have also noticed that men keen on writing Romance Novels feel a need to change their names to appeal to that audience as well. I have also heard tell of men being frustrated with an industry and audience that is predominantly female, and that the male audience/POV isn't always taken into consideration.
This disparity between the genders seems to exist in every genre. Agent Kristin Nelson wrote in her blog post entitled Dad Wisdom & Publishing:
"From my personal experience (and I really can only speak from that perspective), I truly believe that for literary fiction, it's much easier to sell boy writers than gals. I know. Who can possibly make such a general statement but I have to say that I've encountered several worthy manuscripts that I'm rather convinced that if the writer had been male, the novel would have sold."
She also wrote another very interesting blog entry about the genders entitled PW Survey Says about the differences between genders within the publishing industry itself (an industry, one will note, that is heavily female).
And I find it all so distinctly odd. I do think that there are certain types of fiction in which, for whatever reason, certain genders prefer to write, but if someone from the opposite gender has done a decent job of it in their "wrong" genre, why shouldn't they be allowed the same chances and same level of respect for it? And why is it that two people can write a very similar story, and be shuffled off into totally different categories?
On a personal level I have met some interesting reactions with being a woman who is also funny. Many people (usually men - again generalisation) simply refuse to believe at first that I am as funny as I wind up being in my writing. Even in person I have had men look at me in total shock and say, "Actually you're quite funny." My books get that same response, and I must confess there are times I wonder what sort of reaction they would have got if the name on the cover had been Adrian, and not Adrienne. I wonder if by reading a book with a female name, readers (another sweeping generalisation) expect a certain sincere offering, and when a woman makes an ironic/satirical or cynical joke, the reader gets confused and sees it as not meant to be funny in the first place.
I have no proof to back that last statement up, it truly is just a question lingering in my mind that I'm not sure will ever be answered. But I do think there is an inherit prejudice (either in favour or against) an author of the "wrong" gender in a certain category. Someone will see the name, not even process it consciously, but somehow it will still affect how they read the work.
In fact I would suggest you try this little game at home, where you pick up a book by a female author say, and open it up and pretend it was written by a man and see if that changes your perspective on it (and vice versa)? I have, and I have to admit that there are times where it really changes the way in which I read the book. But maybe that says more about me, than anything else.
So what do you guys think? Am I totally off my rocker? Does gender matter in writing? In the publishing world? Is there a bias for one over the other in certain genres? And really anything else you feel like contributing to the discussion!
15 comments:
- Stephen Duncan said...
I knew I shouldn't have left home this morning without my PhD. Dang.
Certainly, gender has some significance in different aspects of publishing. I don't have the stats in front of me, but I understand the book reading audience to be disproportionately female. As a beer drinking, fist pumping, loud-mouthed, occasionally sensitive, male novelteer (not a word - and please stop swooning), I find that to be incredibly daunting. How do I make my books appeal to the greatest audience out there?
But then I look at the books on my shelf. And I'll tell you, they're mostly men. That wasn't on purpose. I've never looked at a book and thought, "Geez, some woman wrote this, and now this awesome inside cover sounds less awesome." If a story appeals to me, then it appeals to me, regardless of the gender of the author.
A completely baseless observation I've noticed lately, and I'm guessing these things are cyclical, but it seems male authors are being overtaken by the women. Rowlings replacing Kings. Meyers replacing Pattersons. On top of that, all the authors that I've met of my generation that are up and coming are mostly female. Maybe it's just me. Admittedly, the author circles I frequent are limited.
In the end, I hope none of it matters and that the story sells the book and the book sells the author. Anyway, my two cents.
I found in Steven King's Carrie he portrayed female characters well. I don't really think the gender of the author should matter if the character is believable.
- TwiceBorn said...
I think the reason some guys put down books writen by females is because more often than not girl don't write enough of the ironic, cynical humor you were speaking of. Your the only female author on my bookshelf that comes to mind right now and the main reason I read your book is because it had a review by Eoin Colfer on the back and I knew I could trust him.
I would love to read more books by female authors, but when most of what is out there is stuff like Twilight which I don't have the stomach for it turns me off.
As for Alex herself, I just think she's a great character. I like female characters just as much as boys.
- Becky said...
I definitely think you're right about women in comedy; I wrote and edited sketch comedy in college and had a depressing number of people tell me that girls couldn't write it/should perform it. Not counting me, of course, but you know...Generally. Girls. It was infuriating and I ended up as the comedy troupe's writing coordinator specifically to encourage more of our female members to write.
As for books, I remember thinking awhile ago that Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series really surprised me because it was written by a man but was about body issues, a very female-coded topic (especially with a female protagonist); but I also wondered if it would have been as popular or received the recognition it (rightly) has if it had been written by a woman, or would it have been shrugged off as books by girls for girls? I don't have a real answer on that, but I think it's depressingly plausible.
- Ed Wyrd said...
I can't speak to your experiences, and since you're published and I'm still struggling to get published.
However, I can say, that when I was a boy, a teen, and I hate to admit it, even into my 20s, I DID have a bias toward male authors. I just didn't think women could write the kinds of action/adventure, sword and sorcery, bawdy fantasy tales I was reading. And at the time, late 60s and early 70s, that was probably true (but whether that that was a case of women not writing that or publishers not wanting to print it is another story).
I'd like to think I've matured a little over the years (and I think the industry probably has, too) and I'm less hesitant to pick up a fantasy work by a woman. In fact, most of the leading authors in Urban Fantasy are women (which makes me wonder how hard it will be for me, a male, to break into that field).
- Unknown said...
Interesting Post.
I used to only read adult books, mostly fantasy/horror, and 90% were from male authors.
Then, since I wrote a YA novel, I started to read 90% female authors. Because 90% of the YA books are written by females.
My first book on submission (a YA) never sold. Maybe some of that had to do with my gender. I don't know. Probably not, but I can use any excuse I want to. ;-)
So my second book on submission is MG humorous geared towards boys. I thought it might sell quickly because that seems to be the perfect fit for the market. But I'm still waiting. Hoping.
Anyway, I don't think most teenage girls would pick up a book by a male author unless it was a girl protag or was getting VERY popular. And editors know this.
I wish more teenage boys read books. Make my life easier.
I loved both or your books, Adrienne. I think, at the MG level, readers don't pay too much attention to the gender of the MC or the author.
Just my opinions.
- Adrienne said...
Thanks so much for all your responses so far! It's really interesting hearing the different perspectives out there, and I have to admit especially interesting hearing the male perspective. As you might imagine I really can only speak from personal experience, and seeing as I'm a girl and all, that's the POV I have to work with.
Anyway, I hope people keep posting, I'm really enjoying reading all of these! Thanks so much!
(also thanks for all the compliments, they are so not necessary, but totally appreciated nonetheless!)
- KatieB said...
Great post.
I've been wondering for a while now if the gender of the protagonist has anything to do with the marketability of the book. After all, it seems girls can read books about boys without getting cooties, but the same isn't true in the reverse. Would Harry Potter have been so successful if he had been Harriet? I'm thinking no, and it breaks my heart because I think girls need great stories about themselves. (Yours is on the shopping list!)
As a writer and mom of boys, however, I have contented myself with the "write what you know" axiom, and have happily writing about boys. I never imagined - in my blasé post-feminist approach to life in general - that the gender of the author would have anything to do with it (OK, I can imagine some bias in the chick lit and the hardboiled detective world, but not in kidlit!) Wow. Food for thought.
- Chris Edwards said...
I've been a guy my whole life and read nothing by a male author until I was about eight years old. It was all Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume and Laura Ingalls-Wilder--stories about kids like me (male or female) in relatively realistic situations. The first male author I read was C.S. Lewis, who simply put the normal kids in abnormal places.
I can't speak for Children's Lit or YA, but for adult novels, I can't see any gender disparity at all anymore. If anything, I'd say women have dominated modern Canadian fiction, in terms of sales and critical success. Maybe their gender informs their writing, but an awful lot of men are reading them anyway, so I say they've tapped something universal.
- J said...
Great topic. As you say, it's hard to guess at how much the gender of an author affects the sale of the book, especially general fiction. In my case, I read mostly romance (something I have been doing for years and years, and have no shame in whatsoever!) and honestly, if I ever came across a male author in the romance section, I would be genuinely interested in reading it, providing I was interested in the topic. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are several men writing romantic fiction under a female nom de plume.
At the same time, however, I think the bias can go both ways; just as a male reader (might) hesitate to pick up an action/adventure novel by a woman, I could see myself (and many other women) hesitating to pick up a romance by a man.
For the record, I wrote a paper on the evolution of sex and gender through the modern romance novel, and was somewhat surprised to learn that romantic fiction makes up a staggering percentage of fiction sales in North America. I think it was something ridiculous like 80%. Crazy.
Way behind on my blog reading. Hope this comment isn't too late.
We had a chat about gender perspective last night over dinner. I have an insight that it may be a generational thing. The people at table ranged from 33 male to mid-40s female, to 51 male to 55 female [me]. Each one of us had a different understanding of gender bias. The two younger ones couldn't believe that as recently as 1980, women in Australia at least couldn't serve in general policing. I provided the little gem that it was once legal to advertise jobs in the newspaper as only for Men or Women. [I'll bet there are readers here who didn't know that.]
Anyway, other parts of our conversation were about how the youngest thought that the 'brains' of men and women were different enough to make a difference in their ability to do different things. I asked him if I could slap him right then. He spent the rest of the evening making amends.
So I think you've hit on a topic -- gender bias or discrimination -- that is ready for a new debate, in society as well as in the publishing world.
- Adrienne said...
Thanks guys again! I have to admit to loving these sorts of conversations and I appreciate you all participating. And it's never too late to post a comment! So if anyone is lurking unsure if they should or not, I say, the more the merrier!
- Polenth said...
I didn't really understand gender roles till I was in my teens, so I had no idea of the genders of most authors I read. I know that's not average though... my peers thought it was deeply important.
In life, people tend to view me as male, even when they know I'm female. To the point that it's not unusual to see someone referring to me as 'he' online, after reading my profile and seeing I'm female. It'll be interesting to see if that extends to publishing.
- Tymethief said...
I'm an equal opportunity reader. If you can write well, in a genre I enjoy, then I don't care about your gender.
There are occasions where it does come into play however. Take Elizabeth Moon, I love to read her books, provided the main character is female. On the rare occasions her main characters have been men I have found them unconvincing and the books starring them difficult to slog through. I loved Robert Jordan and am very upset about his early death (particularly since the Wheel of Time series wasn't done yet) but sometimes I want to reach into the books and strangle his female characters.
But when I look at my private library (over a thousand books and ever-growing) my favorite authors are a decent split: Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, J.K. Rowing, Robert Jordan (RIP) Charles de Lint, L.E. Modesitt Jr...
Gender doesn't matter, can you reel me in with your story, do I find your characters convincing... that's what matters.
- C. L. Freire said...
I think it really depends on the reader. Oddly, when I started writing my book back in '03, I chose to use my initials (C. L. Freire), for what I later learned was the same reason Rowling's agent suggested she do so.
In general, boys may very well feel weird letting the world know they're reading a "female" author's work, but in the end, if it's a good book, I don't think they'll care as much....especially if it becomes "the thing to read.." LOL
Congrats on the success with Alex. I'm so happy for you.
And thank you for your kind words about Midnight. I was really touched. I will catch with you on what happened on my road.....OMG, what a nightmare! LOL
Hugs and Congrats:)


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Free Amp 3
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multi guitar amp-sim
, with built-in Guitar synth.
Includes Guitsyn, a built-in guitar synth
7 different amp types
7 different EQs, all have there own controls for comparison
6 speakers, plus bypass, adjustable by the mic placement
Separate MIDI volume control, can be placed pre or post amp
Host Sync and Tap Tempo for Tremolo and Delay
Noise gate
Tremolo, Triangle and square modulators
2 compressors, pre and post amp
Wah can operate by MIDI CC, plus has auto features
Drive pedal, with a choice of seven overdrive types
Chorus with added filter
Phase Shifter
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Apr 27 2020
/ 5
Apr 17 2020
Stoby Joe
/ 5
Just downloaded this plug in and I think I'm in love... It may have some drawbacks that I have yet to discover, but coupled with DVS Electric Guitar by Martin Best (I'm a drummer, so I know little about getting a guitar tone) I was able to get a reasonably legit guitar sound with 5 minutes tweaking... Well worth the download. P.S ... I use Reaper, so I can't vouch for how it may work in other DAW's.
Jan 23 2019
/ 5
Fantastic, loads of presets, loads of customizable patches, loads of options therein, yet not too complicated. Probably the best all round free guitar FX suite available.
Dec 23 2018
Robinson Carvajal
/ 5
Too bad the Fretted Synth site no longer exists. They had great products. This suite here is my favorite of Fretted Synth but there is another equally interesting version that is worth trying (there must be other sites that still available) and there is still an identical leaner version without the stompbox FX
Sept 02 2019
Here is that version you were looking for: http://www.vst4free.com/addons/FA3_Amp.zip
May 19 2018
/ 5
This works great for doing Electric Wizard/King Crimson style vocal distortion.
Aug 17 2017
Im pretty dumb
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How do you install this on FL, because everytime I put in in the effects folder in plugins, it says it cannot open it.
Jun 04 2019
Same here, help !!
May 18 2017
/ 5
In FL Studio, the WAH pedal is always very distorted and does not work the way that it is intended to work. I use this over direct MIDI input, but the wah hasn't worked for any of it.
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Mar 12 2017
/ 5
Just awesome for bass, love it! Works well with Reaper DAW.
Feb 04 2017
/ 5
This is the ultimate "everything in one" VST for guitars. What kind of Amp do I want my computer to think I own? up to 6 effects, nice presets. Really sweet. Thanks Fretted Synth, this is my favorite VST by far. (I use FLStudio12
Nov 22 2016
joseph hail
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Thanks for all of the free stuff good job .
Nov 09 2016
Bill Compeau
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I am extremely impressed with this plugin, way beyond my expectations!!!!!
Sept 29 2016
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Cubase 5... can't make it work. I ve unzipped into the vst plugins folder, but i cant open it
Aug 11 2016
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!!!FIXED CRASH ISSUE FOR FL STUDIO!!! Go to wrapping settings (that gear icon from the top left), go to processing and check the BRIDGED option for all the FA plugins. Enjoy!
Apr 03 2016
Paramike ...
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Fix for free amp ... I was having crash issues using multi channels ... I copied directory with free amp 3 to /program files(x86)/Cakewalk/VstPlugin/name your directory ... copy all files representing the number of guitars ..example /program files(x86)/Cakewalk/VstPlugin/guitar1 /program files(x86)/Cakewalk/VstPlugin/guitar2 ... once I had a *.dll file for each guitar ... it ran fine ... no crash ...
Mar 07 2016
Viper ITB
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Wonderful plugin. Bass, guitars (el and acc), keys - you name it. Works like charm on everything you toss it at, adding realism and analog feel.
Dec 09 2014
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This is a great pluggin, but I'm experiencing a major problem with it. I'm using OHM and FA3 works great when assign to a single track, but when assigned to two tracks it causes the program to crash. Any fixes? I'd love to keep using if possible.
Apr 23 2015
Try increasing the cpu usage, probably accessable through the preferences or settings. There are different ways to have the program drain less energy from your computer, or however you describe it.
Sept 26 2014
Yazan Markabi
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Great plugin and easy to use.
Sept 24 2014
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OH MY GOD! This thing is soooooo good! Im a total newb but even i am way past empressed by it. It can turn any guitar vst(even the most crappiest ones i have) into a REAL guitar sound. Donate if you can peepz, this is beyond worth it!
Jul 28 2014
/ 5
Great! Good sounds and very low CPU load. Just a question: how can i load presets or save mine? I really can't find them! Thanks
May 14 2014
/ 5
Definitely one of the best free guitar amp sims. Easy to use, very good sound.
Oct 13 2013
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This is bad plugin. When load 1 plugin - all work, when 2 plugins - crash programm (Sonar X2, FL studio 11)
Sept 19 2013
/ 5
Not bad. A bit fiddly tho.
Feb 21 2013
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Hi guys, I have a problem! I started using freeamp3 with Reaper however when I'm playing the guitar I can hear my sound twice! I hear a clean guitar and then 1sec after I hear the distorted sound coming from FreeAmp3. Does anyone know what might be the problem? Thanks!
Feb 21 2013
Hi, you might have a direct monitoring system on your soundcard, so turn this level down to mute the clean sound. Then setup the soundcard driver latency (buffer setting) to a low value to hear the plug-in sound in real-time.
Jan 16 2013
dubali beat
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I like it. it work very good in my Acid pro 7 and FL Studio 10
Jan 04 2013
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ncia! Soy un guitarrista 35 años y esto tiene todo lo que necesita además de algunos. Ojalá pudiera dejar de luchar contra los problemas de compatibilidad de Windows 7 controlador realtek ac97 driver ASIO Y eso Silly. Agregar a Microsoft para arruinar una buena cosa con otra debe tener actualización del sistema operati
Jan 02 2013
/ 5
trying to install FA3 dll in both audacity and VSTHost. The plugin crashes both on start up (tons of errors). Running Win7 64 bit. Any ideas?
May 22 2012
/ 5
Great work man. Just rediscovered this and was amazed at the sheer quality of presets.
Mar 26 2012
/ 5
Great sounding plug-in. But it crashes my DAW (cubase 5) everytime I close the program. Everything just freezes up including the mouse. Very frustrating. Also it adds pink noise to the mix down. Is there a solution?
Mar 22 2012
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Sweet FA2.5 so I'm back to check 3.0. I Painstakingly weeded out the Wanna be host progs and the plugins that work with the "Certain" host progs And this one is the best By FAR! I'm a 35 year guitar player and this has EVERYTHING you'll need plus some. I only wish I could Stop fighting the Win 7 driver Compatibility issues realtek ac97 And that Silly ASIO driver. Leave it to Microsoft to screw up a good thing with another must have OS upgrade and the ensueing 5 yrs of patches hotfixes identified vulnerabilities service packs and workarounds.to cover up another piece of garbage OS!Im going back to win 98!!
Feb 09 2012
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Great sound as soon as applied but doesnt like the mixdown proceedure, crashes cubase everytime. (sad face) any hints on fixing this?
Mr. Bean
Feb 18 2012
Freeze the tracks with inserted FA3 first, then mixdown. Good luck!
Dec 24 2011
/ 5
You can't do better than this for free. Awesome!
Oct 29 2011
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I agree can this thing be free. Very nice good interface and the stompboxes are realistic.I only try it very fast for the purpose to check if it's working. And yes it works under Energy XT software. Thanks alot and if its working after next test im ready to make a contribution ..
Jul 23 2011
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Worked in Sonar 7. Locks up my CPU in Sonar 8.5 --so bad that I have to hold the power button on my tower to get it to shut down. Task manager does not even come up. Not sure why that is, but I miss this thing. Very cool plugin.
Aug 05 2011
Sonar 8.5 locks up for me as well when I try to load a Sonar 7 or 6 song that has Free Amp 3 as a VST.
Jul 22 2011
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I tried it with Sonar X1 and it would come up but I couldn't get it to work right plus it crashed on me a few times.
Mar 09 2011
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Makes a mockery of expensive alternatives. Low(ish) CPU and simple to use. Great work.
Jan 25 2011
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Oh yeah real nice, absolutely the best free amp i've tried by far. Big hats off too all involved with this one.
Nov 19 2010
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Wow!!! What's the catch??? This is absolutely AWESOME!!! Can't believe it is free! I would have been willing to pay for it, even though I am broke!
Nov 14 2010
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Great, really great, however, 2 instances of freeamp3 in the same project will crash your host (cubase, nuendo, reaper). It is good to warn it
Sept 16 2010
king conjo
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hey this thing is good to have. I use it with reaper and it beats hauling around a big amp and a case of pedals. Also recording has become easier on the ears for my girlfriend and our neighbours. thanks a lot
Jan 14 2011
Fully agree, this is a must have..a very realistic amp and effect sound!
Sept 07 2010
/ 5
So good. Been looking for free amp sims for a while and finally found a good one for guitar and bass
Apr 14 2010
/ 5
Awesome! The presets are useful and the sound is great - I especially like the pedals and the fact that you can mess with mic placement. I'm using this in Samplitude 10 and it couldn't be easier. Can't believe it's free.
Feb 28 2010
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WOW! This is as real sounding as amplitube and as gritty and clever as Izotope Trash. Perhaps not the widest range of sounds ever, but more than enough for most people aswell as a lot of attention to detail in the effects and the control you have over the sound. Brilliant stuff, if anyone ever tells you nothing good in life is free, point this out!
Feb 27 2010
Without Name
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Really Good vst...It's impressive what it can do...But i don't really like all this amps...
Dec 13 2009
/ 5
This is a really good guitar fx plugin! I can't believe it's free! The stompboxes sound really realistic and even the emulated mic-placement is great!


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Category: 300 News Posted by: DaisyMay
The Art of War
Article Date: March 1, 2007 | Publication: Time.com | Author: Lev Grossman
Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595241,00.html
Something very real did happen 25 centuries ago in a narrow pass on Greece's northern coast called Thermopylae--the name means "the hot gates." In August of 480 B.C., a force of about 7,000 Greek soldiers assembled there, including 300 Spartans under the leadership of their king, Leonidas. The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces. They were there to meet an army of more than 250,000 Persians under the command of King Xerxes.
The odds were ludicrously bad, the outcome a foregone conclusion. Most of the Greeks retreated, but the 300 Spartans, the hard core of the Greek army, chose to fight on, using the natural strategic advantage of the pass. They lasted three days--beyond all hope, beyond what should have been militarily possible--and then they died. Their refusal to surrender their freedom to the Persians inspired the rest of the Greeks, who ultimately rose up as a nation and beat back the invaders.
That was then. On March 9, a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae, called 300, will hit theaters. It was made by a young director, stars nobody in particular, and it looks like nothing you've ever seen. Very little in 300 is real except the actors. Sets, locations, armies, blood--they're all computer generated. It's beautiful, and it might well be the future of filmmaking. But should it be?
In 1962 a boy named Frank Miller went to the movies with his parents. The movie was Rudolph Mat�'s The 300 Spartans. Miller was 5. "It had a deep, deep effect on me," Miller says. "I actually snuck across the theater in order to confer with my dad and make sure the heroes really were dying. I stopped thinking of heroes as being the people who got medals at the end or the key to the city and started thinking of them more as the people who did the right thing and damn the consequences." When Miller grew up, he created a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae called simply 300. Miller's account of the battle--now doubly refracted through two media--was read by a movie director named Zack Snyder.
Snyder, 40, cut his teeth on high-concept, effects-heavy TV commercials. He made his feature debut in 2004 with a feather-light, razor-sharp remake of the zombie classic Dawn of the Dead. (Rent it just for the opening credits, where zombies rip various cities to pieces as Johnny Cash sings When the Man Comes Around.) Snyder is something of a dork. Only a dork--the finest, most discriminating of dorks--would have read 300 in the first place. When Mat� made The 300 Spartans, he packed up his cameras and his actors and his caterers and went to Greece. When Snyder made 300, he did what dorks do: he locked himself in a room with a bunch of fancy computers.
Snyder is one of a small, hypertechnical fringe of directors who are exploring a new way to make movies by discarding props, sets, extras and real-life locations and replacing them with their computer-generated equivalents. Cinema has always had a tenuous connection to reality; they're severing it almost completely. It's a technique loosely known as "digital back lot." George Lucas was a pioneer, as was Kerry Conran, the lonely genius responsible for the much praised, little-seen Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In Robert Rodriguez's cult hit Sin City (also based on a Miller graphic novel), practically nothing is real but the people. It's not so much cinema as synema. And it's creeping into more mainstream movies: in Blood Diamond, a tear was digitally added to Jennifer Connelly's flawless cheek, after the fact, to put the exclamation point on a crucial scene.
For Snyder it was simply the only way to get the look of Miller's 300 off the page and onto the big screen. "One of the early versions of the movie I wanted to do was a Lemony Snicket kind of method," he says, "where you build a giant environment in a giant hangar, and it's an actual 3-D world, but it's just done with painted backgrounds. But it's incredibly expensive, and you need the space. When I saw Sin City I said, 'You know what? I could do that.'" He could and did. Snyder shot 300 almost entirely in a warehouse in Montreal. He filmed exactly one scene outside, and that was just because it's hard to do galloping horses in a warehouse.
Strange things happened in that warehouse. The digital--back lot approach places an immense burden on the director. "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!'" says Lena Headey, who plays Leonidas' wife. "And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" Snyder had to make his actors see what he saw, and he saw things that weren't there yet. "Every now and then I'd stop and go, 'This is crazy!'" he says. "'What are we doing?' And then we'd shake that off and get back to work."
Ironically, acting on the digital back lot is a lot like plain old nondigital stage acting. It's just lights and bare floorboards. "You don't have any boundaries," Headey says. "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of, 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now,' or 'I'm going to hit this!' You don't have any of that." With so much computer-generated make-believe going on, the actors' physicality is the movie's only link to the real world. To turn Hollywood pretty boys into Spartans took eight weeks of intense dieting, exercise and martial-arts training. Onscreen their ripped abs look as if they're trying to bulge their way out of their stomachs. (The buff, largely unclad Spartans are also the producers' main hope of getting anyone other than straight men to see 300.)
Shooting took a brisk 60 days; post-production took a full year and 10 special-effects companies. Every frame was manipulated and color-shifted to create an intense, thunderstorm palette. Creatures and landscapes and entire armies were created from scratch. With the kind of computing power directors have at their disposal, editing becomes more like painting than moviemaking. Time speeds up for dramatic effect, then slows down to capture a balletic spear thrust. Computer-generated elephants rear up and plummet off computer-generated cliffs. The Persian King Xerxes becomes 9 ft. tall. In one scene a nubile oracle dances in a trance, her hair and her flowy, filmy wrap swirling surreally around her otherwise nude body (300 earns every inch of its R rating). There's something odd about the image that you can't put your finger on, until Snyder explains that the dancer was actually performing in a tank of water and was then digitally placed in the scene: "She looks like she's in pain, but she's really just holding her breath. Which works for the scene."
The result is a gorgeous, dreamlike movie that's almost too perfect. Every frame is neat and composed, like an oil painting, not a hair or a grain of sand out of place. All noise and dissonance have been digitally eliminated. It's beautiful, but it's more beautiful than it is real. Movies are invigorated by the tension between the director and reality, the struggle of the artist to tame the reluctant, intractable world, and that tension is missing from 300. If you've ever seen Hearts of Darkness, the documentary of the disastrous campaign to make a very different war movie, Apocalypse Now, you've heard Francis Ford Coppola say: "My movie is not about Vietnam. My movie is Vietnam." Coppola's protracted, Pyrrhic struggle against the jungle stokes the movie's crazy energy. In 300 there's not really much of a struggle. If 300 is the Battle of Thermopylae, then Snyder is the digital god-king Xerxes, and not the Spartans.
In Snyder's defense, 300 isn't really a movie about a battle at all. It's a movie about a graphic novel about a movie about a battle. "It's not trying to be reality," Snyder says. "The blood is treated like paint, like paint on a canvas. It's not Saving Private Ryan. It's something else." Maybe that's the only way to make a war movie right now, or at least, the only way to make a war movie that's not an antiwar movie. 300 turns the ugliest human spectacle imaginable into something beautiful, and it's to the movie's credit that it doesn't confuse what it's doing with anything real. Onscreen, death actually has meaning that it often lacks in life. Conflict isn't complicated. Motivation is clear. "With 300, the why is obvious," Snyder says, "and that's a thing that maybe doesn't even exist in real life. Maybe when it happened it wasn't even that clear. That's why it's a piece of mythology. It's what we would hope for." 300 is a vision of war as ennobling and morally unambiguous and spectacularly good-looking. That's one hell of a special effect.
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While visiting the exhibit of weird religious album covers I wrote about last week (highly-recommended, btw), I ran into Howie Pyro, of superstar mashup crew The Illuminoids (and that most Maniacal of podcasts Intoxica Radio) who informed me that, contrary to what I had written, he had contributed at least as many records to the show as Don Bolles. My apologies, Howie, I was just going by what the LA Times had suggested. Mislead by the mass media! Another first.
The exhibit reminded me of how many odd religious items I have. I was surprised - thrifting for tunes means coming across countless zillions of religious records, most of which get passed over. But I guess they can add up, even if you get just one in a hundred. So I thought I'd post some more from my archives. Yes, there's no shortage of scary Christian ventriloquist/ horrific child singers/ ranting preachers, etc. But here's a record I recognized from my collection (albeit with a different cover then the one shown) that's actually some nice listening.
"In the Land Beyond My Dreams: Organ renditions of Paramahansa Yogananda's Cosmic Chants, arranged and played by a Self-Realization Fellowship monk" is nothing but mystical organ instros a la '50s exotica star Korla Pandit, but this is from 1970. Ripped from a sealed vinyl copy I scored recently in Las Vegas on safari with my brother (thanks, dude!)
"In the Land Beyond My Dreams"
01 - In The Land Beyond My Dreams
02 - Blue Lotus Feet
03 - From This Sleep Lord/Do Not Dry The Ocean of My Love
04 - Light The Lamp of Thy Love
05 - In The Valley of Sorrow
06 - Recieve Me On Thy Lap
07 - Deliver Us From Delusion
08 - They Have Heard Thy Name
09 - When Thy Song Flows Thru Me
10 - When My Dream's Dream Is Done
Or dig this sample mp3:
Paramahansa Yogananda "Blue Lotus Feet"
There are verses printed on the album cover to accompany each song. Most of them aren't too interesting, but I like this surreal poem for "Blue Lotus Feet":
"Engrossed is the bee of my mind on the blue lotus feet of my Divine Mother."
Sing along!


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As of this writing, [last week's Jezebel post titled "The Daily Show's Woman Problem"] has generated almost 1,000 comments and nearly 90,000 page views. It's a prime example of the feminist blogosphere's tendency to tap into the market force of what I've come to think of as "outrage world"—the regularly occurring firestorms stirred up on mainstream, for-profit, woman-targeted blogs like Jezebel and also, to a lesser degree, Slate's own XX Factor and Salon's Broadsheet.Ha. A lesser degree. Hidden question: How can we get those page views?
They're ignited by writers who are pushing readers to feel what the writers claim is righteously indignant rage but which is actually just petty jealousy, cleverly marketed as feminism. These firestorms are great for page-view-pimping bloggy business. But they promote the exact opposite of progressive thought and rational discourse, and the comment wars they elicit almost inevitably devolve into didactic one-upsmanship and faux-feminist cliché. The vibe is less sisterhood-is-powerful than middle-school clique in-fight, with anyone who dares to step outside of chalk-drawn lines delimiting what's "empowering" and "anti-feminist" inevitably getting flamed and shamed to bits.Consider the radical idea that women are human beings.