Ferocious storm last night! I removed pipes & left mics recording about 9pm. MixPre recorded six tracks 32/192k for six hours before it filled 128GB memory card. You can see the storm slowly petering out…
8040×2 8020×2 8050 + Geophone stuck to roof…
#sounddesign
#gameaudio
The wind in #wellington is forecast to be even stronger tonight… so I am preparing v2 of the aoelian pipes!
8 pipes this time, with 8 mics, gaffer taped to my boom
just waiting for the rain to stop
cabled up
OK previous v2 setup was a total fail… wind too strong & overloading the mics in such constricted space…
Pipes 2v2 out the window is working better!
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One hugely positive aspect of recent tech that it seems has gone largely uncommented by the hoi polloi, is the quiet created by being able to work in the studio without hard drives! SSDs mean I can plug a pair of mics into an interface & overdub congas, while everything is running.
My Mac Studio has a 1TB SSD in it & I use two external 2TB OWC SSDs as my work drives, and they are very quiet.
When I need to access sound library, its via Ethernet to 48TB NAS.
– When I need to backup to SATA Dock, the non-quiet SATA HDs are used, but thats downtime.
– When I need to use my Kontakt Instrument library, thats stored on a RAID as its huge.. And the HDs inside the RAID are very non-silent. But I don’t spend a lot of time in that mode at the moment. And I tend to print & disable/unload Kontakt Instruments asap, so there are always workarounds…
Count your blessings kids!
Before SSDs, to achieve this level of quiet usually required having a ‘machine room’ with cables through the wall, or some kind of ventilated iso box for the Mac & drives.
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C.S. Lewis on Writing:
“The bread is cake!”
How to BBQ after the revolution?
Photoshopped album covers by Igor Lipchanskiy:
“THIS SONG IS CALLED I AM NOT COMPENSATING FOR ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR”
From this:
to this:
JUST. SAY. NO.
new HISSandaROAR library released last week:
SD081 CAMERA ROBOTS
Three motion control bots, captured 24/192k with audio + EMF
Visited a friend yesterday who has repaired the shutter & lens on my 1898 Instagraph camera… He showed me his camera collection and… lets say I feel better about my bunch of cameras & synths, outboard etc..
In related news, there is a fairly bonkers collection of film and cinema gear up for auction next week… Including this 3D raised type, used in the credits of NFU films for many years
But also:
Are you sick of Premiere? DaVinci? Avid?
Apparently it is all from John Bells (RIP) collection who owned Time Cinema in Lyall Bay, a small 40 seat cinema
Sphere Music in the UK are currently running another VEIMA Synth Auction with the acution running Saturday November 1 to Saturday November 8 (with Second Chance Sunday on November 9)
And you may have seen mention of this auction in Nashville: Florian Schneider Collection with LOTS of rare AF gear ex Kraftwerk
In the Wairarapa yesterday