The PaninAudio. Stories of real life ...

Adolfo Barbatelli

Let's clear the field of doubts: PaninAudio is not a sandwich that reads mp3s. Apart from the fact that the device on which you are reading these lines can already read them and therefore there would be no need, consider that mayonnaise takes up a lot of memory and the salad creates problems for the bluetooth transmission.

Let's make a historical premise: over the years '80 going out every night without having dinner at home, and therefore eating the sandwich at the pub daily, was not within everyone's pocket and so on Italia 1, in the comedy show on Saturday night, Enzo Braschi presented the character of the paninaro, a parody of a social phenomenon forerunner of the fashion victim who slavishly follows trends.

Enzo Braschi - The paninaro

 
Unlikely as the latest scream might have been, and in that era it meant brushed hair cemented by gel, highlighter sweatshirt with a silkscreened mark as big as your head from which came the collar of a shirt with a naive floral pattern, down sleeveless, calf-high crease jeans where Scottish patterned socks, cowboy belt and hiking boots sprouted, the sandwich man had it, or was just going to get it, at any price.

One day our paninaro falls in love with music, buys a guitar, certainly not entry level, and starts strumming it every day and, slowly, in the pubs where he has always gone to eat, he begins to do his first lives.

Years pass and today our hero has become one of two guitarists in a band, one of whom is armed with a limited edition custom shop guitar with the same scratches as the guitar of Hendrix in Monterey, point to point amp with tubes selected through an international competition of the APT* covered in vegan friendly eco-leather, a pedal board with ninety-six pedals, obviously boutique, cables in lunar mineral fiber, prototype plectrum of kevlar fifth generation developed by NASA, while the other has just the guitar, a pedal and enters the system.

Jimi Hendrix

 

Guess our friend which of the two guitarists he is? And the guitarist with the best sound and the most interesting parts, what will he ever be?
Here it is, it's him: the PaninAudio. In his life he spent the equivalent of a villa in Positano on valuable instruments which he then resold after two months at half of what he had paid to buy other instruments he had read about in a magazine, a forum or simply had seen them. advertising.

Then comes the moment in the life of a PaninAudio in which, I do not pay for his performances as an instrumentalist, since it is the public that is ignorant and does not understand his art, decides to do things big and lands in the world of 'audio recording and, of course, his way to building the sound goes through purchases.

He takes his credit card and buys the reissue with the autographs of Beatles e Pink Floyd of the bench abbey road, the microphone of Frank Sinatra with the marks of the revolver shot with which his mafia friend struck him when they tried to sample an "alternative" snare drum sound, the monitors the same as those that, he read in a magazine, were used for mastering the soundtrack of Avatar and he places them in a cubic room, with all empty walls, where he turns everything on even at the cost of losing his hearing thanks to the sound pressure of the chaos of uncontrolled echoing frequencies.

Abbey Road Studios

 

But our hero doesn't give up: he writes, records, arranges, mixes and even faces the holy grail of mastering do it yourself, after all, the mastering plugin suite he bought is used by the best professionals, it says on the box! And that's how his first hit is as good as ready.

Unfortunately, a bad magic falls on his intentions when he brings his hit to his DJ friend in the club where he is about to play, asking him to shoot it on the system, the friend presses play and it seems that only the subwoofer is on ...

He is now disheartened and, a week later, while searching on google for "spell audio mixing", on the display of his iPhone 12 (he already has it) his girlfriend appears and, with her little hearts eyes, tells him she needs to talk to him. He joins her and she tells him they are about to become parents.
They get married, they lived happily ever after and he sells off every tool, at half price, to buy one suv to be able to transport his family.
PaninAudio buys, uses little and sells for money. You too have probably bought one of the countless and excellent tools that passed through his hands at half the price he had in the shop. PaninAudio is our friend.
We love him ...

Adolfo Barbatelli

NOTES:

* The Association for the Purity of Tensions was born in 1924 in Zurich with the mission of selecting components matched up to the thirty-eighth decimal of any unit of measurement.

Our friend PaninAudio did not accept the disclosure of his image so in the picture we have a great guitarist, Sebastiano esposito endorsement Reference Laboratory e Mezzabarba Custom Amplification, whom we thank for lending themselves to this game.

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Adolfo Barbatelli, Neapolitan, guitarist, music teacher, anthropologist, and producer of SenzaLegge. In his Mr. Red Studio he produces and experiments without limits. www.imparamarley.com www.facebook.com/imparamarley
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