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Post by hoofyflipflops on Nov 29, 2021 10:52:20 GMT
I stumbled across these golden memories from May 2014 a few minutes ago on my HDD. Heh. Him and Paul McCartney were sick, gosh dang it!
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Nov 30, 2021 0:27:33 GMT
None are plausible. But also none are interesting. If you're gonna make shit up, at least make it worth reading. I really liked his story about meeting the Manson girls when he was a kid on his bike. I don't believe him, it's a work of fabricated bullshit, but it's decent fiction. Lots of detailed imagery. Decent fiction. That one is the easiest to call bullshit on, easily. But my favorite is being the high rolling DJ on two different L.A. radio stations. Naturally, he met all the stars of the day. I had to put in a little work to debunk it. At best, STEVe was an intern, right out of college. Maybe answered phones, maybe handed out bumper stickers. But not one person I've talked to from KMET has even heard of STEvE.
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Post by UDII on Nov 30, 2021 4:22:31 GMT
I stumbled across these golden memories from May 2014 a few minutes ago on my HDD. Heh. Him and Paul McCartney were sick, gosh dang it! Macca probably caught it when he was over at Hoffman's residence.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Nov 30, 2021 19:16:39 GMT
That one is the easiest to call bullshit on, easily. But my favorite is being the high rolling DJ on two different L.A. radio stations. Naturally, he met all the stars of the day. I had to put in a little work to debunk it. At best, STEVe was an intern, right out of college. Maybe answered phones, maybe handed out bumper stickers. But not one person I've talked to from KMET has even heard of STEvE. Yesterday I did another search on the LA Times archives. It's difficult because there was/is a coach out in California named Steve Hoffman. Aside from a couple of DCC and Audio Fidelity mentions, no scoops about "someone named Steve Hoffman" and his groundbreaking radio work or his minty guitar collection.
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Post by guffman on Nov 30, 2021 20:14:49 GMT
You just don't have a direct line to Steve as a Facebook friend of his who's known him face-to-face for over 22 years.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Nov 30, 2021 21:13:24 GMT
Do too! I can't help it that he's blocking me on all social media though.
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Post by guffman on Nov 30, 2021 22:36:11 GMT
How are you gonna know when that cha-cha compilation comes out?
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Post by gobshite on Nov 30, 2021 23:20:00 GMT
One of the last and one of the biggest lies about Audio Fidelity. Clever Daddy. Keeping the goobs occupied and from asking questions with some horseshit "special project" while Marsha quietly dismantles the PO box in the background. Smoke and mirrors. Hoofy lost me forever when he dangled that cha-cha compilation and failed to deliver -- worse than the MyPillow guy.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 1, 2021 2:45:29 GMT
That one is the easiest to call bullshit on, easily. But my favorite is being the high rolling DJ on two different L.A. radio stations. Naturally, he met all the stars of the day. I had to put in a little work to debunk it. At best, STEVe was an intern, right out of college. Maybe answered phones, maybe handed out bumper stickers. But not one person I've talked to from KMET has even heard of STEvE. Yesterday I did another search on the LA Times archives. It's difficult because there was/is a coach out in California named Steve Hoffman. Aside from a couple of DCC and Audio Fidelity mentions, no scoops about "someone named Steve Hoffman" and his groundbreaking radio work or his minty guitar collection. He just makes it so easy. But we knew that when all of his "I met __________ and I got to ___________" stories involved people who can't dispute the stories. Of course, Bob Ezrin tearing STEVe a new asshole was a nice treat.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Dec 1, 2021 17:22:40 GMT
How are you gonna know when that cha-cha compilation comes out? That's why I depend on my boys, my boys, my Stereo Central boys. And girls. To tell me.
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Post by Brick Wall on Dec 1, 2021 22:10:32 GMT
Classic. Rob LoVerde's public pantsing of Daddy for using a copy tape for his DCC Roy Orbison comp was great as well. Stunned SHiTEs as far as the eye could see. So much for Original Master Tapes, eh STEVE?
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 1, 2021 22:16:47 GMT
Classic. Rob LoVerde's public pantsing of Daddy for using a copy tape for his DCC Roy Orbison comp was great as well. Stunned SHiTEs as far as the eye could see. So much for Original Master Tapes, eh STEVE? Has that one been archived anywhere? I’d love to read it.
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Post by Brick Wall on Dec 1, 2021 22:48:15 GMT
Got you covered, Suze. It's still festering on the Blog site. Copied and pasted here for posterity. Steve Hoffman wrote:
A moderator brought this thread (and this last post) to my attention.
visprashyana,
If you read a post that you think is in violation of a Forum rule or a troll type thread-crap, you should "report a post" using the little button on the bottom left. The post would be reviewed by a moderator and then action taken if warranted.
I wish a Representative from MoFi/Music Direct would register here and give the people some information about releases, etc.
Andrew Sandoval from Rhino, Cary Mansfield from Varese, etc. come here all the time to let the people know about the new releases and what is coming down the pipeline. I can't understand why MoFi doesn't do the same. Maybe they think they wouldn't be welcome? They would. After all, the people here are MoFi's core audience. Instead of Trolling in the Night, a real person with a real name from Music Direct should register here and let the gang know the real scoop.
Record company people who visit here under their own name are extremely well protected from troll posts, harassment and hassles. We have 22 moderators. Unless a real person from a real record company registers here, misinformation will continue because this is a Forum. Anyone can speculate about anything. If you want accurate information, spread the word:
MoFi/Music Direct is invited to register here and post accurate information about upcoming releases, press releases, etc. any time they wish.
Can you recommend this? Let's get the show on the road. Our 16,000 members will appreciate this. Steve Hoffman wrote:
Bill Porter. Glad I looked him up before mastering the ELVIS and ROY.
"From DC to LIGHT". That was his recording philosophy. He used an RCA Optical limiter in recording. His recording was mixing, as you know. He didn't remix, he recorded live to three-track and two track simultaneously. At RCA-Victor they had the good sense to use his work "straight".
At Monument sometimes his three-tracks were remixed adding extra compression, etc. Why they felt the need to do that, God alone knows. Of course in 1963 Bill Porter left RCA-Victor, Nashville to build the Monument Studios. The stuff recorded there had a different sound.
On the DCC and Audio Fidelity ROY ORBISON stuff I mastered (after consulting with Bill Porter) I used some of the three-tracks in mastering, discarding the two-track stuff that overloaded. Thanks to Rhino this was possible.
Listen to UPTOWN on the DCC. Notice how much better it sounds than any other version out there? The three track is CLEAN. The two track "mix" that was made by Monument is squashed and overloaded. Why use that since Bill Porter mixed as he was laying down the music live? He wanted it to sound the exact way he recorded it. All you have to do is turn the three channels up equally and you have your vintage "mix" with all the correct channel balance, reverb, compression and EQ all right on the tape.
I'd say that at least 10 songs of the 20 on the ORBISON ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS versions that I've done were from the three-track. It varied between the DCC and Audio Fidelity so they don't match. Doing the Audio Fidelity version, Rob at Sony found several different mixes of certain key songs that he dubbed off for me that sounded better than others. So, each version I mastered is key because they vary. Rob LoVerde wrote:
Hello. "Rob at Sony" here. Actually, now Rob at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Although I have refrained from posting on this forum for some time now, I have been mentioned here by name (well, my first, at least) and feel that I should clear things up on this subject for my one and only post on this thread.
In the Bill Porter-penned letter included in the DCC Gold CD and LP and S&P Records LP of "The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison", he states:
"All of the songs were live mixes, direct to 2-track. The 3-track was meant as a safety back up, which I never used."
That said, how can there be any advantage to using his 3-track over his 2-track? The 2-tracks are not "mixes", they are recordings. There are no remixes that were made by Monument with "extra compression, etc." Each song, one 2-track master, period.
Regarding "Uptown", I have not heard the 3-track, (although I have heard the DCC Gold CD and LP) but I have heard the 2-track master and it is not "squashed and overloaded". It is what it is...Bill Porter's live to 2-track recording.
What I "dubbed off" for you at Sony Music Studios for the S&P Records LP were the one and only 2-track recordings. I didn't find "several different mixes" of anything. In fact, the masters I used to make your dubs are exactly what I brought to MFSL personally when they licensed this title. I also mastered, along with my friend and engineering soul-brother Shawn R. Britton, the Gold CD and LP releases that will be available soon. We think it's the best version of this compilation...and each and every song was mastered directly from the ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING. We think forum members will dig it, too.
Thanks for reading. Over and out.shawnrbritton wrote:
Greetings, SH Forum Members.
This is Shawn R. Britton, the Senior Mastering Engineer at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Please forgive my lack of typing skill as I have my right arm in a sling. As I understand it, Rob LoVerde posted on this forum yesterday regarding our version of The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison versus previous SH versions, and the tapes that Rob provided from Sony Music for the various versions available.
That post was removed without explanation, as was a following post questioning where Rob's post disappeared to.
What is this, the Bill O'Reilly show? Sean Hannity? Pre-Glasnost U.S.S.R.? In case you are missing my point, let me quote from above at the risk of being redundant (I do work for the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.)
"MoFi/Music Direct is invited to register here and post accurate information about upcoming releases, press releases, etc. any time they wish"
Apparently Rob DID wish to post.
My question is simply this: Do you have something to hide? All The Best, The above exchange was on SH.tv. A few days later Rob poated on the old Stereo Central Forum: Rob LoVerde wrote:
Hello all,
Yes, it is indeed me, the real Rob LoVerde. :wink:
As I'm sure all of you have figured out, Shawn and I were banned from the SH Forums for being, how shall we say...men who know too much.
I'll say this for anyone who might be reading. If SH had never invited Music Direct/MFSL to his forum with such bravado and then named me (albeit as "Rob at Sony") in a later post, using my name to further his false story, I never would have posted on SH.tv again.
Rob LoVerde wrote:
I thought you guys might find this of interest.
I had sent 3 messages to the webmaster at SH.tv, asking why I had been banned without any notification. After my third inquiry, I received this e-mail:
"Rob, your attempts to contact the moderation staff via the webmaster email were not purposefully ignored. They went unanswered due to a technical challenge. Your Roy Orbison master tape comment was removed, as it was deemed as a topic inappropriate for discussion and possible conflict of business interests. By referencing your own deleted post, and Shawn R. Britton's comments, this violated forum rules and caused confusion with forum members. As a professional in the industry that most of our members are unfamilar with, please understand the opportunities, impact and difficulties that presenting conflicting information on a site such as this can cause."
Webmaster
My reply:
Hello “Webmaster",
"a topic inappropriate for discussion and possible conflict of business interests"
What a scholarly choice of words. I'll tell you what is also "a topic inappropriate for discussion and possible conflict of business interests": stating time after time on a public forum, the details of the work of other individuals in the industry, when the person in question (SH) could not POSSIBLY know said details, yet said details are stated as fact. Particularly when those comments are unflattering and completely unfounded, which is most of the time.
"By referencing your own deleted post, and Shawn R. Britton's comments, this violated forum rules and caused confusion with forum members."
I'll tell you what else causes "confusion with forum members": LYING. Lying and revising one's story to put oneself in a positive (albeit completely false) light. If I caused confusion with forum members, I consider that a good thing; your forum members need to be enlightened and don't deserve to be lied to. Over. And over. And over.
"As a professional in the industry that most of our members are unfamilar with, please understand the opportunities, impact and difficulties that presenting conflicting information on a site such as this can cause."
As a professional in the industry, I will not allow my name to be used to further a bullshit story. SH stated something that was untrue regarding my work and I will not tolerate that, no matter whose forum it is. Besides, if I am mostly unfamiliar to your members, why would SH not refute my claims publicly? Don't bother, I've got your answer: Because I told the TRUTH. And the TRUTH is not something that is allowed to stand on the SH.tv Forums.
Instead, what SH did was ban me and my fellow engineer from the site, after personally inviting us to post. I hope you realize how foolish and guilty this makes you look. You (and your TWENTY-TWO "Gorts") can moderate yourselves into a ripe old age, but you can't change history and you can't change facts. You had alternative courses of action to take and yet you took a CHILD'S way out. I hope you are proud of yourself.
Not Shawn, nor I could care any less about being removed from the forum as neither of us have any use for it, anyway. You can have the fantasy world it provides all to yourself. Rob LoVerde Rob LoVerde wrote:
This is something I've always wanted to clear up.
Regarding my previous status at the SH Forums as "SH Protege"...I never put that there. It was put there for me and because I didn't want to hurt Steve's feelings, I let it stay. We were actually good friends at the time. Once I found out about his, shall we say, less than admirable ethics, I asked a moderator to take that off and they replaced it with "Forum Addict".
If I have been anyone's protege, it was first and foremost Joe Yannece, then of The Hit Factory Mastering Studios. Joe Yannece is one of the undersung heroes of mastering history.
After he took me under his wing and I moved on to Sony Music Studios, it was Joe Palmaccio, Vic Anesini and Mark Wilder who both taught and inspired me. I felt like I was going to school and getting paid for it.
Now, being at MFSL, Shawn Britton has been (as I said in my Gorted post) my engineering soul-brother. Not only is he an incredibly gifted engineer, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more honorable human being.
Just setting the record straight because one can do that kind of thing here. Thanks for reading.
Pug wrote:
Wow. How do you really feel? For those of you who don't know why I quit as a Gort...
I'm sure you guys are familiar with what happened to Rob and Shawn from Mofi. That's the event that lead up me to leaving as a Gort. SH started a thread welcoming the Mofi guys and to come on over and discuss what they are working on with the people at SHtv since they're Mofi's target audience, etc. As soon as they poated, he banned them for it.
Nice. :rolleyes:
The next morning we were getting hit with angry PMs from forum members who saw what happened. We (the Gorts) tried talking sense into Steve. We tried to get him to make right what had happened and he of course wouldn't. Behind the scenes he would complain to us about Mofi/Music Direct. What horrible people they were, etc... I live right by Music Direct and I know a lot of the employees there very well and they're the nicest, easiest going people I know. I'll spend hours at MD talking music, gear, etc.. and for Huffy to be ripping on people that I considered friends did not sit well with me.
I decided that I would step down as a Gort at the end of the week. Before I quit, I happened to log the forum and found that a thread had been deleted called "What happened to the people at Sony". It was people wondering what had happened to people like Vic Anesini, Darcy Proper, etc. I looked through the thread. There wasn't a single deleted post in the thread. I read the posts and none of them broke any forum rules. I checked to see who deleted the thread and it was Huffy. To spite him, I restored the thread. It broke no rules, there was no reason for it to be deleted so I restored it.
A few hours later SH is pissed and wants to know who restored the thread. I told him I did because it should have been deleted since it didn't break a single rule. I click into the thread and it had drifted from Sony to what happened to the Mofi guys and a lot of forum regulars were complaining about the forum, the censorship, the bannings, etc.
I don't remember the exact wording but essentially Guffy implied that because of me (I had restored that thread after all) the forum was now ruined.
Yes, it was all my fault apparently. :rolleyes:
I logged out, fired an email to Rudy that I was done and to remove me from the Gort list.Pug (Sean) was one of the Gorfs at the time. He had finally had enough too and split.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 1, 2021 23:10:41 GMT
You know what? I guess I have seen that exchange before… But, thank you for taking the time to put it up here for quick and easy reference. Hoffman is an absolute shit stain…
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Dec 3, 2021 6:23:37 GMT
A list should be compiled of all of STeVE's bullshit stories and sayings.
Here's a few, in no particular order.
01 Rob at Sony (the MoFi banning) 02 The Shadows EPs in France 03 Met the Manson Family 04 Plucked Juice Newton's pubes 05 Made out with Olivia Newton-John 06 Lunch with celebrity who recently passed (too numerous to mention) 07 Used the master tape (too numerous to mention) 08 As a child, met Elvis 09 Listening session with Macca 10 Sir George told him 11 Was a DJ 12 Sold guitar collection for 200K 13 Is one of them there millionaires, bucko 14 A celebrity kissed him in Tower Records 15 DCC almost got The Beatles 16 This is your forum
I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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