Throw a couple more hampsters on the treadmill…
I got the bottom end running…
Someone thought I had better run some wire to them boxes…
Hey…
they worked…
Bill…
Quote: (woxnerw @ Oct. 02 2009, 7:56 PM)
Throw a couple more hampsters on the treadmill..
I'd volunteer but those doggone jumper cables make me nervous... I might "tread" fast enough for ya'...
Keep at it Bill. Lookin' good bud!
D
I stole that jumper box from one of them EHS trucks that hog all the road when some one calls 911…
No…
I didn’t…
That’s what’s left of the old Buick…
I’m promoting this
Stage…
Rob…
the Drummer,.
Bobby, the Keysboard player, Louisa, the Front Girl…
I know the Bass player and Guitar player, but not so well… Check out the photo page…
One Hot Stage…
Bill…
Like the studio and the vid Bill!
I’m gonna look into seeing if I can get Robie to take my Zoom H2 with him and get a feed off the House mix for me…
Maybe, we can sync it up with his camcorder…
at the ParkSide Pub at the end of the month…
It would be nice to hear how Louisa is doing , now that they are back-at-it again…
Bill…
Rob and I just got off the phone…
There’s more to sync’ing audio and video than what’s easy…
Recording sync tracks on the video and audio in step and on frame is easy if you got the equipment…
Not so easy if you don’t…
It was just a thought…
Bill…
[EDIT] I was gonna add… This Rob Smith and Dan Lachance, the guy that we see up here every-so-often… Did I spell his name correctly… Both of them being drummers … work on different stages together… Well anyway, I believe they do similar styles… I don’t think they are the same age… but… close…
The musical community ain’t so big around here…
Studio Update:
Not much going on these days…
I’m either out of money…
or…
I’m out of money…
Take your pick…
Anyway, this morning I looked out the window to check the progress of the day…
It’s pitch dark out…
Normal, for the shorter daylight hours…
It’s 4:30am, or so…
Cool night…
My furnace is beginning to cycle…
Long winter ahead…
Anyway, I see the Midnight Quartet, knocking on the studio door…
wanting to book some tracking time…
Little did they know I’m checking them out…
Now you tell me…
What are junior kids doing out at that hour…?
Does their parents really know where they are ??
OR…
do they really care ?
Anyway, it’s pretty hard to see in the windows at that hour…
and daylight…
SO…
I now have installed some blinds to cover peeking-in to see what’s going-on…
The photo blog has been Updated to show the door and windows as they appear from the outside and inside…
My camera has pretty poor ASA ratings…
I took the photos without any flash, inside the building…
BUT, it will show some idea of the Room Mood without any lighting…
You can see pretty good in the daytime without any lighting…
Then…
the other day, I found some Sony Buds…
The cheep pair are the first ones…
They’re O.K.
but not any AKG 241’s…
The other Sony pair were some 60% off the retail price…
I couldn’t pass them up…
These buds are Nice On The Ear Drums…
There’s nothing that I can hear wrong with them…
I’m gonna watch and be sure to get a couple more if they go on sale again…
Taxes in…
they were just over $18.00 loonies…
Full retail…
they would have been some $45.00 with taxes…
It’s lookin’ cool, Bill. I’ve gotta say, though, if I saw a building like that, I’d want to have a peep
"There’s more to sync’ing audio and video than what’s easy… "
(Ihaven’t sussed how to “quote” yet)
I found n-T a year ago when I was asked to record a local band. A promo dvd was the plan. I suggested to the fresh-out-of-medea-college filmaker/s that it would be best to do the sound first, yeah? to a bpm…did they listen?
Over a year later, I’ve just been dumped with a bag of vid’ tapes and no result! What a suprise - not.
The guys are chuffed to mint balls with the cd I bunged 'em. I’ll pop some up if it’s ok with covers?
I wiah I had your energy, Bill. Nice work.
Post your stuff…
It’s a way of staying close to what keeps you interested in your hopes-and-dreams…
Peeping and finding nothing in there some morning is two-different things… Maybe, I need to get me a Daug, with big chopps and a set of teeth… 
If I get anymore energy I’ll have to quit my day-time job and go at this full time…
I’d have to say, I’m trying to pay more attention to what my doc’s been preaching, to me, about my health… I’m cracking the ice on what he’s been trying to tell me me now for 15-16 months…
If I had continued down the road I was on I’d not be here today…
So-he-tells-me…
I’m so far away from doing any tracking it’s scary…
The guy I know just called to say they are into rehearsal for a project they are interested in doing…
I suggested they take their rehearsal to two-track and write it to a CD…
then come in one-or-two at a time and track their lines from listening to their practice-and-ghost sessions, and then take it to a mix session and see what happens…
The procedure is known as Ghosting…
There may be other descriptions of the process…
But trying to record a whole stage in one foul take (in real time) is a tough thing to do, in any venue…
Bill…
Quote: (TonyR @ Oct. 11 2009, 6:04 PM)
"There's more to sync'ing audio and video than what's easy.. "
(Ihaven't sussed how to "quote" yet)
Hi TonyR:
"Quoting" was a nightmare for me, as well..
I'm still working on it..
Kids find doing things like that so easy..
I'm just gonna check to see how this appears..
It's not exactly how I'd like it,, but....
Bill..
Studio Update:
Today, I’m working on this LAN Permissions Issue that I find I am unable to over come…
I now think that I have named the Hard Drives on these machines, other than calling them Drive C and D .etc and them not naming them correctly, on the other machines on the LAN Network…
Then, I am unable to get the Network to identify the Drives on the network’s machines…
This has become One-Big-Problem…
It’s almost impossible to create and continue this studio installation without having the LAN recognize all the drives on the network…
Anyway, I may be making some progress here…
This morning I enabled something on the LAN to open up a file…
on another machine…
This is what came up…
Here’s a Link to the owner of the MusicStop…
The guy I worked for and operated his Service Center…
AND…
the guy who recorded…
It’s All In The Game that a friend of his sent me the guitar tracks and I attempted to do a Bass Line on it…
and Screwed it all up…
Anyway, if you’re interested in the music he creates in his studio you just might like this material…
This guy winters in Sarasota Florida…
when the weather gets ugly around here…
Us normal beings just have to Grin-and-Bare IT…
Bill…
Quote: (woxnerw @ Oct. 18 2009, 7:42 AM)
Us normal beings just have to Grin-and-Bare IT..
Bill..
Say "grin and bear it" and nap through the winter
Ggrrrrh!
Bill! I know what you mean about you finding it empty.
I had a shed full of seasoning fire wood. A year later,
I went to get a basket full - and some nugwart had emptied it.
Hi Gents:
I’m seriously considering becoming a Snow Bird and going south for four-or-five months…
The frost belt is in-and-around the Carolina’s, somewhere…
There’s this saying…
You pack a flat-nosed shovel in your trunk…
The first time some one asks you what the shovel is there for…
That’s where you look for a place to winter…
There’s a lot of people reverting back to wood heat around here…
BY/We, I mean those of us who live over here can sustain ourselves by burning wood for heat…
Use no petrol…
Our climate can grow enough wood to do that…
However, it’s quite labour intensive, to cut-it-up for heating/use…
Then there are these neighbourhoods that are building common boiler plants…
They (these boiler plants) are large enough to support 6-10 houses…
They pipe in the steam and there is less labour to cut-up/burnable wood, four-foot lengths…
Over on Cape Breton Island that practice is becoming popular…
However, Cut-and-split wood is being looked at…
Big Time…
People go out to load up the wood box only to find that their wood pile is flattened to the ground…
The instrument makers see this wood pile and tear it all apart looking for that perfect 1/4 saw’n-and-split piece of wood…
to build fiddles, with…
Cape Breton Spruce is regarded as special instrument quality wood the world over…
It (the growing season) has the right sunlight and humidity conditions to create nice open grains for fiddle tops-and-backs… AND…
the hardwood like birch has the right qualities for necks and fretboards, and all…
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I went to get a basket full - and some nugwart had emptied it.
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Do you think his name might have been TonyR ?
The more I listen to Russell’s tracks…
the better they sound, to me…
This guy is a perfectionist when it comes to the music he creates…
There’s a drop-down menu under “Music”…
that will open up two CDs to sample…
It was back in the '60’s…
we covered Venture Songs…
They had to be perfect, for him…
and they should…
Bill…
Studio Update:
Today is a wet mild day… The temperature is close 15c…
I’m beginning to get some audio hardware into the studio…
I dragged out the Hill 24-8 to 16-2 console and a bunch of other stuff yesterday…
I have some major maintenance work to do on all this stuff…
The console’s meter bridge needs meter bulbs and the group buss es need major work to get the mixer up-and-running properly…
It’s been going on two years sense all this stuff has seen any amount of up-time…
Every knob you touch is full of noise/grunge…
I’ve got the photo blog updated for anyone who might be interested in what the room looks like with the mixer setup-and-running for an input/output check-out and all…
While I have it opened up, I am considering installing phantom power switches on each of the strips…
We’ll see what it looks like for the upgrade process.
The console strips never had a individual switch for each strip…
An oversight on Hill’s Designers for that model/console…
Link to Photo Blog
It would be so nice if we had a mild, snow less winter…
My heating /fuel tank would just love it…
Bill…
Coming along nicely Bill. Enjoy.
Studio Photo Blog Update:
The weather is so nice…
I’m dragging hardware from the old studio area into the new room…
I am beginning to place all the toys to see how the placement fits the room…
Photo blog update
The meter bridge is re bulbed and I’m putting the PFL and track soloing monitors through their paces…
Things are starting to take shape and work, at-long-last…
I’ve got to get some XLR males and females and some RTS 1/4’ plugs and a roll of
two-conductor shielded wire and get busy at the patch bay wiring…
The temporary wiring has run it’s course…
I continue to say…
I’ve forgotten just how good that Hill Desk sounds…
However, I need some decent A/D and D/A converters…
to go with it…
Bill…
Wow, does that look fabulous Bill. What kind of deal are you going to give us n-Trackers on studio time?