Jul
30

OMG! A Podcast!

I’m calling it Check In #1 and it isn’t a new show or anything. I am, in fact, working on New Guy In Town as my personal podcast project and as you will hear in this little update, there have been some significant audio issues. That being said, I always reserve the right to post audio or video here. It’s my blog, and I’ll cry if I want to. So here you go with a little update/check in. Get it, clever name yes. Ok, enjoy.

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Jul
28

New Media Setup

I don’t mean new media as in “new media” I am talking about a new setup for my podcast and video productions.

Nothing in my podcast hardware setup has been working right since the move. It’s one of the reasons there has been only one podcast since moving to Portland. Most of my equipment is pretty old now and is starting to get long in the tooth. After much thought, what I am doing is replacing my Yamaha mixer with a new Mackie mixer. I am taking the ART Tube preamp out of the equation all together. My DBX compressor/limiter might be bad as well as it’s doing very bad things when connected. I’m going to connect it differently with the new nmixer, so we’ll see if that helps. If not, I may add a new Presonus compressor. The computer interface and Heil pr40 microphone will remain the same.

For video,  have a great opportunity to use a green screen down in the basement. It’s just a matter of how I construct it. I am thinking of options now including purchasing one. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

And there you have it. So much new happening, including the new carpet going in for the basement and master bedroom. It will be much more cozy in the lab. Are labs supposed to be cozy? Well, mine is.

Jul
19

New Guy In Town Podcast #1

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So incredible delayed but finally here is the podcast, such as it is. My apologies for a fairly butchered podcast. My regular microphone went out in the middle of recording so I switched to a portable mic and that ran out of batteries in the middle of that recording, so I stitched together all three and out came a show. In this podcast I answer the question, why did I move to Portland?

Rest assured, future shows will be of a much higher quality. You may even get some video from time to time.

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