Mid-afternoon on Monday
2005-09-05 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearAs usual on a long weekend without a convention, I'm left with the lingering feeling that it's Sunday again and I haven't gotten anything done.
I did manage to go for a walk this morning, and went to Peet's to buy two pounds of coffee. Since that particular Peet's is on Bascom, that meant that in order to get home I had to go past Guitar Showcase. Bought a guitar stand (since the one I have, though it folds up quickly and is very nice for travel, isn't particularly stable) and, after some internal debate, dropped $100 in their consignment shop for an AKG C1000S microphone. That's about half the street price of a new one, and means that I now have a stereo pair if I want to do some field recording.
Meanwhile, since I didn't manage to get any recording done at ConChord, I've been thinking about remote recording sessions. An Audacity project consists of an XML file and a directory full of 1MB data blocks. It uses floating-point samples, so that's about 10MB per track per minute. 100-200 MB for a song doesn't seem to be unusual. Since adding a track doesn't change the blocks that are already there, collaboration could be done using
For initial distribution, one could put a song or three on a CD with room left over for a stripped-down DeMuDi Live, or a whole album on a DVD. I'm starting to think about mix-it-yourself singles.
I did manage to go for a walk this morning, and went to Peet's to buy two pounds of coffee. Since that particular Peet's is on Bascom, that meant that in order to get home I had to go past Guitar Showcase. Bought a guitar stand (since the one I have, though it folds up quickly and is very nice for travel, isn't particularly stable) and, after some internal debate, dropped $100 in their consignment shop for an AKG C1000S microphone. That's about half the street price of a new one, and means that I now have a stereo pair if I want to do some field recording.
Meanwhile, since I didn't manage to get any recording done at ConChord, I've been thinking about remote recording sessions. An Audacity project consists of an XML file and a directory full of 1MB data blocks. It uses floating-point samples, so that's about 10MB per track per minute. 100-200 MB for a song doesn't seem to be unusual. Since adding a track doesn't change the blocks that are already there, collaboration could be done using
rsync or a version-control system like svn or cogito.For initial distribution, one could put a song or three on a CD with room left over for a stripped-down DeMuDi Live, or a whole album on a DVD. I'm starting to think about mix-it-yourself singles.