benadrian wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:19 pm Oh man, I had an audio engineer screw up today.

My wife does voiceover work. Almost all of it is still remote. This means we set up in my studio and I engineer locally. There is a zoom call so everyone can see everyone else, and then I connect to a remote engineer at the production company. We use software called ipdtl to send "high enough" resolution audio. I also record a safety backup at 24/48 here at home. I use Audacity because it seems the most fool proof for recording one mono audio track and doesn't interfere with the audio streaming.

Well, this morning the setup was different. we were doing ADR, so there was video involved. It was actually pretty easy. However, in my nervous state I booted up Audacity before plugging in the audio interface. Then I set everything else up. Because of this, Audacity defaulted to the built in microphone on my laptop. Meanwhile, I'm monitoring through my interface's control panel, and the remote engineer is getting the good audio. Since I'm just sitting quietly in the record room, my wife's voice is still getting picked up by the laptop mic, so I'm seeing level.

Anyway, about 45 minutes into the hour long session, I realize what I've done. I quickly reconfigure and try to get as much as I can. Luckily, there were no internet drop outs on the keeper takes but I still felt really stupid. I can do so many things at an expert level in the music tech and audio recording world, but throw me into the TV production worlds and the 10% I don't know makes me feel really shitty sometimes.

jfv wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:57 am @ Cedar Point Amusement Park w/ the family.

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:55 pm Elon Musk and Grimes broke up and Grimes is now dating Chelsea Manning. I don't know why this is so hilarious to me.

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:00 pm

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:55 pm Elon Musk and Grimes broke up and Grimes is now dating Chelsea Manning. I don't know why this is so hilarious to me.

And Jordan Peterson's daughter apparently has a child with a Stalin fan. It keeps getting better.

rsmurphy wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:14 pm
I bring this up because I just read an article about a dumb "dance" band called The Chainsmokers, and a space tourism company, World View, that will be launching them to the edge of space to be the first band to play in the stratosphere. Like, they couldn't think of anyone else? Anyone more relevant or important? All of that money at your disposal and the best you can come up with is The Chainsmokers.

Wealth makes you lazy and creatively bankrupt.

lotharsandwich wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:17 pm What's even dumber about this (though I guess maybe nothing's dumber than the existence of The Chainsmokers?) is that actual astronauts have been playing music in actual space -- not just the stratosphere--for years:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/astro ... the%20trip.