a look behind the curtains

here at the home of “The Cog Speaks”, that is.

22 apx minutes of ‘radio play’,,,  

Actual production times

Start recording at 9am,,, Pre-show music already modified (fade out) and processed, ready to go.

Intermittent recording/edit (serious lapses in attention or pauses removed) through the day to 2pm.

Final edits during playback (coughs, dog barks, etc removed)  or ‘well, that didn’t fit,,,,’: Total playback time cut from 26m to 20m  Add in cut out music and edit for fade out.    Through to 2:30pm.  

AI transcript production and manual edit for readiblity/typos: 1 hour.   3:30 pm.   

Upload, title and edit post, insert proper attributions for musicians, 30 minutes.   4 pm post time.

7 hours  

7 hours!!!!

in contrast, one of my regular(written) posts takes 30 minutes to an hour (or so) to ‘produce’, depending on wordcount/visual content, including final read-through/edits.    I write from the hip, but speaking from the hip: not so much.  LOL   It was, there were no scripts and after my initial ‘mind-map’ was tossed on the trashheap (about 30 seconds in)  it went all over the daggum place,,,   Not too badly, I hope.  

I am getting much more comfortable with “HOW” I sound in playback.   More able to focus on WHAT, instead of HOW, and thats huge.  I still have that Cincy drawl, but I don’t think I can ever get rid of that.   At least it isn’t Appalachian ‘talking through a mouthful of marbles’ speech.  I did catch a couple of times where the local dialect tried to slip in: what can I say, I’ve lived and worked here for 17 years now; there will be some ‘mission creep’ in my psyche/speech.    I still stick out like a mashed toe in public when I open my mouth though.   I still get the ‘Y’ain’t fro’round here, isya??” on a weekly basis,,,

NOPE, ah shur ain’t!!! (I recall the first time here, at a restuarant, and the waitress asked if wanted ICE in my drink: her words sounded like she said ASS and I swear, I stumbled, tripping over my own tongue on how to answer that question and not lose face.)

Looking back on yesterday, how much effort I put in on this, I am going to keep it to a once a week thing.  I mean, I put in nearly a full days work effort for a 20 minute, give or take a few seconds, post.   If I were actually at work, that wouldn’t be possible of course, and the J.O.B. does pay me, whereas this,,,  So far, its a cost,,,

If’n you feel I am providing something GOOD to the world,  any help to support my efforts is appreciated

Or maybe I should consider that “INVESTMENT”,,,   will see.  and I don’t walk away from investments before they’re proven liability or asset.   I hang on to tools over the years despite thier not making me money in the idle times,,, this needs considered in the same frame of mind.  On a side note,,, I LOVE technology,,,   I bought a pair of BlueTooth headphones.    This pair can handle two BT connections simultaneously.   One is the Macbook, the other the phone.    I was in an edit session when a phone call came in, and I didn’t have to swap things around.  just hit pause on the Mac, and I was taking the phone call.   Now, that could end up being ‘distracting’ during a high energy rant or something, but at the time, I was in edit mode, so no problem. It was still nice to not be chasing through apps and hardware to take a call, even if it wasn’t all that important,,,  The only downside for what I am doing: these don’t have ‘real time’ monitoring ability,,,   I tried to ‘active solo’, but the time lag was around 500msec and that,,,, no,,, that doesn’t work,,,,

  

More laters,,, if you have a subject matter you would like to HEAR about, let me know in comments; I’d love to have some input to work with.  

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