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No, the date you just read was not a typo. This is, in fact, a link to Things and Stuff for July 5, 2008, since there was no Things and Stuff last Saturday. There will, however, if things work out, be a stream tonight (this being July 6) at some point to make up for it, live from Florida, featuring myself, Derek, Kelly and Brandon, live from the KLA campground in Polk County, Florida.
I didn't originally post the archive for this show last year, because I didn't like it at the time. It was done on a vastly scaled back studio setup, due to the main Phonic board being broken. I used a $39 Behringer UB802 as the board for the show, the VoicePrism for a mic preamp, compression, gate and effects, and the Ultramizer compressor/exciter, all rigged together with some virtual duct tape, and managed to make it sound pretty good for what it was. I listened back to it a couple of weeks ago, and decided it wasn't as bad as I originally thought, so now it's available for those who like that sort of thing.
It features a few loud, clippy wizzing fireworks sent in by Everett, which were edited to be slightly less painful than the original broadcast, and lots of other random things that I honestly can't remember, since I don't have the file locally, and don't feel like downloading it from here to make fake show notes. So, have fun being surprised.
Now, for a short and rather dumb voice post from Florida, recorded on Saturday night while at the Everglades Restaurant/bar at the hotel, which is hosting the ACB national convention this year.
Seems there was a slightly out-of-tune baby grand piano at the place. Derek started playing it, so I got my recording stuff out (in this case, the Zoom h4 and Audio Technica AT822) and was immediately told to play as well. I honestly just wanted to record the piano from the inside with the X-Y while he was playing, but ended up playing and recording. Unfortunately, the batteries in my recorder died a few minutes after starting, but the best bit was captured, that being the fact that we were a bit loud and were told to turn it down slightly, in a nice way. Have the PDAudio Everglade Piano Experience and enjoy yourself choaking on it.
As a random bit of information, I'm thinking when I eventually finish writing the webpage for PDAudio.net, I will probably convert all my audio content, including some stuff that was never posted, to mp3, using the rather nice mp3 encoder on the Zoom H4 (which is probably the best one I've ever used) rather than Ogg, since it is compatible with more players, though I like the ogg format.
Now, I will go to bed, for tomorrow/today is the last full day of convention fun, since we'll be checking out of the KLA campground at 11:00 AM Tuesday, probably hang out at daytona Beach for a while, then start the long, lonely 13 hour road trip back to North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon/evening. I've yet to purchase a train ticket from Charlotte to Greensboro, since I don't know exactly when we'll be in the area, but I will most likely be back home by Friday night at the latest, so the pointlessness that is Things and Stuff should continue as normal. Isn't that lovely?
I didn't originally post the archive for this show last year, because I didn't like it at the time. It was done on a vastly scaled back studio setup, due to the main Phonic board being broken. I used a $39 Behringer UB802 as the board for the show, the VoicePrism for a mic preamp, compression, gate and effects, and the Ultramizer compressor/exciter, all rigged together with some virtual duct tape, and managed to make it sound pretty good for what it was. I listened back to it a couple of weeks ago, and decided it wasn't as bad as I originally thought, so now it's available for those who like that sort of thing.
It features a few loud, clippy wizzing fireworks sent in by Everett, which were edited to be slightly less painful than the original broadcast, and lots of other random things that I honestly can't remember, since I don't have the file locally, and don't feel like downloading it from here to make fake show notes. So, have fun being surprised.
Now, for a short and rather dumb voice post from Florida, recorded on Saturday night while at the Everglades Restaurant/bar at the hotel, which is hosting the ACB national convention this year.
Seems there was a slightly out-of-tune baby grand piano at the place. Derek started playing it, so I got my recording stuff out (in this case, the Zoom h4 and Audio Technica AT822) and was immediately told to play as well. I honestly just wanted to record the piano from the inside with the X-Y while he was playing, but ended up playing and recording. Unfortunately, the batteries in my recorder died a few minutes after starting, but the best bit was captured, that being the fact that we were a bit loud and were told to turn it down slightly, in a nice way. Have the PDAudio Everglade Piano Experience and enjoy yourself choaking on it.
As a random bit of information, I'm thinking when I eventually finish writing the webpage for PDAudio.net, I will probably convert all my audio content, including some stuff that was never posted, to mp3, using the rather nice mp3 encoder on the Zoom H4 (which is probably the best one I've ever used) rather than Ogg, since it is compatible with more players, though I like the ogg format.
Now, I will go to bed, for tomorrow/today is the last full day of convention fun, since we'll be checking out of the KLA campground at 11:00 AM Tuesday, probably hang out at daytona Beach for a while, then start the long, lonely 13 hour road trip back to North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon/evening. I've yet to purchase a train ticket from Charlotte to Greensboro, since I don't know exactly when we'll be in the area, but I will most likely be back home by Friday night at the latest, so the pointlessness that is Things and Stuff should continue as normal. Isn't that lovely?