THE ELUSIVE SOUND OF SILENCE

The other day, I received my new Zoom H4n audio recorder, ostensibly for 
the purpose of recording dramatic audio media, and audiocasts of various 
stripes.  It's a fairly easy machine to understand, at least, 
considering the uses I'll be putting it to.  If there was live music to 
be recorded or something like that, things would be more complicated for 
me, but this isn't the case.

The issue now is to find a place to record.  I did record the raw audio 
for "Driving With Eddie" out in the shed over the weekend; this isn't a 
permanent solution, and I'm not ecstatic about the results, but it was 
a location I'd had in mind for a while, and I'm glad I tried it out.

See, there are a couple of problems with recording here in the house.  
First, and foremost, I can only record when I have quiet: it's a small 
place with thin walls, so even small noises travel well.  That means I 
need to wait until either I'm alone in the house (never happens) or 
until everyone's asleep.  Now, when they're asleep, I can record all I 
want -- unless what I'm recording is loud.  "Driving With Eddie" is 
composed of about twenty minutes of shouting, so it was plain it 
wouldn't work (I did some preliminary recording of it about two months 
ago, and Little Bronx woke up from the noise).  So that leaves other 
locations as a requirement for at least certain types of shows.

The second issue I have with the office is its acoustics, which are 
awful.  Boxy, stale, yucky, not at all what I'd like to have for a 
recording studio.  I may just put up with it for the next project, 
simply out of convenience, but I won't like it.  I have a variant on my 
"micbox" design that I'm playing with, anyway, which may help, so, who 
knows?

After "Driving With Eddie", I think it'll be time for "The Ballad of the 
Pirate Princess".  I need to do some collaboration on that one, though, 
as I really need artwork and other voices.  Well...maybe other voices.  
I'm not sure what I'm up to just yet.  Time will tell -- and it ought to 
tell pretty soon.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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