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Sorry. I definitely wasn't as clear about that as I could have been.
The whole "demo the building" is my passive-aggressive reaction to the situation. It's the producer's boyhood home, and while selling it was an agreement he entered willingly, it's an anchor to his past which is disappearing.
That isn't necessarily bad in and of itself, but there are all kinds of other anchors of his which are disappearing at the moment, so he's under a pretty serious load.
At least, the current plan is to keep the facade, which apart from nostalgia value, kicks the living shit out of what calls itself residential architecture in this city for the last two decades. It's not even that great of a facade, it's what they do now being that agonizingly awful.
Yay! My daughter would approve. Every day that she goes to the garage with me she wants to check the live traps, first thing, before I can do anything else. So far we've caught that huge rat I mentioned before and a smaller field mouse (about the size of yours), then relocated them to the dump. "Papa, they have to go back to their home. It's important!"
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
As long as he wasn't chewing anything or making a mess (they usually do), he wouldn't be too tough to live with. My college roommate often let his pet rat (a massive black one named Othello) run free in our apt, and he wasn't a problem. He was completely fearless too, and shameless when it came to begging (for food or to be petted). At some point I want to get a Gambian pouched rat, I think Emma would really like that, and they're smart enough to be leash and litter box trained and can be quite affectionate.
I decided I would machete the yard. Plan was to go until I cut myself.
Lasted about 10 minutes.
Especially dopey way too. Apparently all kinds of spiders and shit had taken up residence there. They'd fly out and land on me. Was brushing one off and brushed my hand into the machete.
Could have been far worse. Little more force in the wrong direction and I would have cleaved my pinky.
I decided I would machete the yard. Plan was to go until I cut myself.
Lasted about 10 minutes.
Especially dopey way too. Apparently all kinds of spiders and shit had taken up residence there. They'd fly out and land on me. Was brushing one off and brushed my hand into the machete.
Could have been far worse. Little more force in the wrong direction and I would have cleaved my pinky.
Also... recording.
Hah...now the whole not-killing-rodents makes more sense, city boy. When the zombie apocalypse comes you'll be the first, yadda yadda yadda....
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
Recording is about 95% done. We're slowly moving into mixing now. One reason we're taking that slow is wanting to get sound effects we're going to need.
It's overkill for this project, but looking to the future, it made sense to pick up a sound library. One clause of the EULA I don't really like. You may not "change" the sound effect. We may have to **** that clause.
There was a short lived geek game show, where one of the games was you had to troubleshoot a problem for your (fake) grandmother.
In the episode I saw, fake grandma had put the DVD in upside-down, which screwed everybody up because the default assumption was a misrouted cable.
It was timed, too, and fake grandma would interrupt with questions about whether you're eating enough, or just start randomly talking about her fight with the neighbor lady.
Monday's ****job will be 90 minutes between when I get in the door and the start of the show. I go longer than 60, we look like we don't have our shit together.
Originally, the plan was we get in at 8p, and the show was supposed to start at 9:30p.
It was a bar, so everyone seeing the show sees us setup. For a 9:30 show, you ideally want to have everything setup by 9, so the audience doesn't see the "magic" being made.
After pitching a fit, I was able to get the load-in time moved to 7:15. An extra 45 minutes to setup.
Even with that extra 45 minutes, the show didn't start until 10:30. That's how much prep we had do.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
With little fanfare, today we finished the tracking, at least in terms of finishing what we set out to record. We're still adding things as the mixing progresses.
The producer feels some pretty hefty pressure, and is still trying to get Logic into the muscle memory. He's not happy with the first track, but is moving onto the second.
It's a long shot, but we're auditioning for "Tiny Desk Concerts" on NPR.
It's cool for me, because I get to use the whole spread of skills (lighting, camera, sound), but a little nerve wracking, because there are so many vectors for me to **** the whole thing up.
Recording this at my apartment, in a room with crappy acoustics, so our best option is to mic each instrument.
Thankfully, I don't need to rip the Apogee out of the studio because for location work I happen to have...
Which is a Sound Devices 16-track field recorder. Any reality TV show worth its salt pumps its audio into one of these.
I need at least 10 channels to do this right, and the recorder "only" has 6 preamps, so right now, it's plugged into my "lunchbox" from the studio, which has another 6.
I'm sure I'll find something for those two extra channels to do.
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