Found most of this at Wikipedia...Hilarious stuff. Lava Lamp also known as Astro Lamp. Was invented in 1963 by Edward Craven-Walker. He called it the "Display Device". Reminds of CRT, LCD, TV, HD... The patent link is: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3387396 Check out Claim #2 (Definitely user friendly language) "The decorative system of claim 1 wherein the decorative aqueous mixture in one said windowpane structure is an essentially different color than the decorative aqueous mixture in another of said windowpane structures." For those of you that like to DIY (do the words DIY acoustic treatment with fiberglass come to mind...yes, yes they do...:)) I found a site for DIY Lava Lamps: http://www.oozinggoo.com/howto.html , however, it looks like this is similar to frying a Turky. If you don't know what your doing then don't do it, otherwise you might just qualify for the coveted Darwin Award. Peace!

I rent a Grammy statue from my friend for only $500-00 per month (he has two) - it imbues me with the spirit of several rock legends and adds a lot of analogue to my sound. My clients say they can hear the difference in double-blind testing.

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Sixfinger


What if you mix surround?

I don't. Can't afford more lavalamps.....(yet)

When are the 64-bit lava lamps finally going to be released? This is important!

dmbaer


When are the 64-bit lava lamps finally going to be released?
 
This is important!

Dang...you stole my line!

Used to have a lava lamp - moved house, no lava lamp in new studio = loss of direction. You have solved the problem for me. Many thanks.

The only time I used a lava lamp in my studio is when I got jumped in the pool hall and my eye was the lava lamp.

As per sig, none here, BUT, cool beans if'n ya gots one.  Cooler beans if ya got a fiber optic lamp or two, IMHO.
HeyDan  

When I was lucky enough to have a full basement studio, I used to have black lights and red bulbs at opposite corners of the room, with a grid of black acoustic foam squares on the ceiling. The effect was a soft slow gradient transformation from red to deep purple and it was absolutely beautiful, especially at the point of mixing. Crazy as it sounds, I do think I listened and thought differently in that soft quiet room than I do in my new above ground daylight studio.

Part of my signal chain......Mic - Pre - Lava Lamp- iface