The joys of studio work
Opened Audacity tonight, Had my pre-written script all set up,,, and just to let you know/understand, I write the script, but ONLY to keep my head tracking in a certain direction, I don’t ‘Stick to the script’,,, Its not exactly from the hip, like my writing, but it ain’t far from it either.
A little Smithery last night
This right here ladies-n-gents, is a Jennings J-22. Also known as one of the most dangerous pistollas in the world.
Gonna sit out the rest of the night
Sorry y’all, was a rough day. Solo, final detailed install of a powered gate, dodging rain, and trying to keep the components dry between so nothin’ fried.
No time to look around the world, so no opinion on jack-
And MamaKat is being GrumpyKat today,,, sigh. Damned schizophrenic kitteh,,,
I can’t even say the water calls today,,,, whooped
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Quicky in the mornin
Reading this still, but the point that reading is taking a hindteat to ‘other entertainments’ has been on me mind. This only adds to my quandry
Still gonna do the podcast but wish more would find the gumption to crack oprn a book or 3,,, i,personally think reading exercises MORE nuerons than simple visual inputs, like video, or strictly audio. With reading, your mind ‘makes up’ the lack of the other two, visualizing the scenes, embellishing the spoken parts. (Like with the Balrog scene in LOTR: self and EX both said “Just the way I imagined it!” )
More later, playday likely since the wets rolling, and that might mean ‘stay close, spend nothing’ day
Gettin’ there,,,,
New Macbook came in today. I ain’t gonna lie, I absolutely LOVE this new one. Much bigger screen, fast, OMG so fast, and hooking up all the bells and whistles, stuff is working seamlessly,,, Using a blue tooth speaker as my ‘studio monitor’ instead of cans and I have made some headway in setting up my DAW to my liking. Still working on that voice thing.
I really miss Live and on the Fly,,,,
That could mean that I miss the band LIVE,,, (and no, I still can hear them when I want: good band, but went strange with a quickness.) No, what I am missing is being able to ‘mix on the fly’: grab that fader, or Gain Knob, mix in bussed effects, adjust the parametric EQ, or patch in a compressor/limiter,,,,
ON THE FLY,,,, LIVE, in your face, Screaming Jet Engines level dB’s
sigh,,,,
The New Mic came in today (still need a decent set of cans, Using my Ulitmate InEar monitors currently. Good, but may be a bit clinical for the goal.)(yes, I still have them 18 years later and yes they still work flawlessly. They’d frellin’ better for a $1000 set of headphones.)
I’m experiancing a curve here. Add EQ, sample, adjust, resample, adjust more, resample,,,
TEDIOUS SO F-ING TEDIOUS!!!
That there is why I LOVED mixing live. We had the tools, and patching or bussing things around the board was the schizznizzle. When we went with Digital Consoles, that became even easier, One of my favorite Digi consoles, even though it wasn’t pro-level, was the Mackie TT-24. I personally owned this unit when I was prepping to go back out on my own, That TT meant ‘Two Touch”. Anything I needed to do was two touches away from the main screen. And screenshots of the entire board could be done. Like the settings you dialed in at a particular venue or for a particular band: SAVE and then later, two touches from the main screen, pull it up and ALL THE FADERS AND KNOBS would shoot to the last place they were at when you saved it. WAY COOL.
Some of the higher grade Digi Boards could have used a lessoning on “User Friendly” from Mackie, IMO. (and its been many years, they are likely MUCH BETTER,,,)
But I blew the ears and lost the creds. It would take years to regain my position, even if the ears were up to par again. Will admit, can’t see it happening from this side of 57, ears or no ears.
But I miss that. These Computer interfaces are strictly studio style, and TEDIOUS is the operative word. I can’t really complain about their functionality, but user friendly is NOT a key feature. Especially not when the guy doing the fun is used to HIGH SPEED LOW DRAG stuff.
I’ll get it. Lots of reading to a mic, playing with settings, sampling, editing, sampling new mix, etc etc etc,,,
And I found I have somehow picked up a ‘california lilt’; where I raise the voice pitch at the end of a sentence. Almost as if every sentence is a question or begging forgiveness for speaking. IRRITATING!!! I’ll be untraining that with a quickness now that I am aware of it.
Yes y’all, I have been busy, and ain’t done yet. When I have this polished up to where I don’t gag when I hear it, You will get a chance at it. So, bear a little more patience with this grumpy ol sound-dood; he will deliver,,,,
L.L.L.L.L!
(side note: new ‘puter is still Enroute. Johney had some issues making it to the shipper,,, but I do have a tracking number now.)
more Charlie stuff,,,,
When faith is questioned, Faith is strengthened.
Or obliterated.
That is what the left is in fear of. I personally believe that deep, DEEP down inside, the left knows that their ‘world’ is based on fallacy and whimsy. And those don’t hold up when exposed to the voices of reason and logic.
That was what Charlie Kirk brought to the table. Admittedly, watching some of his videos, he also fell prey to the Faith Fallacy: His ‘pillars’ that were based on fallacy were spiritual, not moral, so he was able to withstand the storms he found himself in. This one being a great example.*
Here, I have to tell you, I agree with BOTH of these gents. I will also say that the body language of the younger debator SCREAMED arrogance while Charlies was that of the warrior; stolidly awaiting the firestorm forthcoming. The younger debator also did a lot of the “Talk fast and loud” tactic, and I find that annoying as fuck.
But I agree with both
and disagree with both.
thats the point of OPEN DEBATE, air the sides, let audience make the connections as they will, and then, maybe someone can come in and ‘do it again’ and the whole evolves
or maybe I should say “DISTILLS”,,, Thats what we do when we distill a product, be it alcohol, water or whatever: we refine it to a purer substance. Preferably one that is healthy and sane. That should be the goal in debates, not ‘winning’. (and yes, I know we distill poisons as well,,, and that could be the end result of debates as well, seeing how many a greek debate ended up in war sanctions back 3000 years ago.)
I won’t go into the agree/disagree parts here (In a way, I have already in my seperate page: if you have dived into that, I am sure you can spot the areas where I am like “Nope, Don’t agree!”)
Where I will say I agree, and I noticed that the Arrogant YOut! kept skipping around it, was the Man/Woman aspects that are traditionally THE NORM. There was another video where this same subject was handled a little differently by Charlie, but I haven’t a clue if that was before or after this one. I would say ‘after’ as he seemed to be more solidly planted in his convictions in the other video.
I DO agree with that point. I have no issues if someone(s) want to live in a homogenous gender relationship. Thats the business of two consenting adults, but I DO BELIEVE, that MARRIAGE is a contract and that Contract signals the intent of PROGENY, and any homogenous relationship is not going to be able to reproduce. Sure, they can adopt or something, but thats not reproduction: someone else did the hard work there. The Marriage contract should not be sullied by whimsical relationships, or short term business gain: it SHOULD be a lifelong commitment with the intent of furthering the species and your particular set of genetic contributions to the same.
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*I call FAITH a fallacy for the simple fact it can not be PROVEN/DISPROVEN. A good Charletan can appear fully faith drivin’ and not have a shred of belief. I don’t believe that to be the case in Charlie: his faith was ‘rock solid’ whether it could be proven or not. I noted that the kid tried on a couple of occasions to drive a wedge in that faith and failed completely each time.
So, if you took my calling faith a fallacy, please do not be offended, its merely a definition in this case. You can’t prove/disprove it, so technically, should not be used in debate, but Charlie LIVED his faith: it couldn’t be put aside that easily.
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