In the wee small hours
I really shouldn't be writing essays at 3 a.m.Getting a CD device could have nothing to do with the
recording process, since it is merely a playing device
that is used to feed sound information into the the
mix, so that can have no effect on the ultimate sound
levels quality recorded.
Also the tale I sketched out on "my back pages" in my
previous note was waaaaay to optimistic in one
respect.
I would likely still be living on Napier Lane with a
good-looking, 6-foot-1, intelligent,
sexually-demanding, crossword puzzle-doing brunutte
with hazel eyes and dependable coke connections.
However, I would NOT be making anywhere near the
$110,000 I estimated in my foggy 3 a.m. mind. It would
be closer to $80,000 (I decided this after checking
comparative time-line inflation figures on the
Internuts).
The $80K would still be more than enough for me to be
happily tossing down shots of Old Overholt and
Tullamore Dew along with Pamela and Jill and Seamus
the Owner and John My Hat and the occasional TV
anchorette and just-passing-through IRA fund-raiser
down at McGovern's Bar, that is, if they haven't
demolished that revered meeting place for another
Walmart, too.
Honestly, I don't know why I keep struggling to
write fiction when I could do better, quicker and
easier, by telling the autobiagraophical truth -- with
names amended to protect the guilty, of course.
Finally, for this email, I'm wondering if the problem
for our sound levels is the difference between sound
levels as registered on the mixer and the sound level
registered on your laptop. You know, as Microsopft
somehow insists on forcing the .wav format over .mp3.
After getting the CD player, maybe I should look for a
plain, non-Microsoft linked digital recorder to accept
the mix and then upload the digital recording to my
drive and then covert the content to .mp3 for copies.
But the plain recording wouldn't be in a formet that
could be accepted by the drive, would it? So I've not
got us any further along with this long email.
Maybe it would simpler and cheaper just to bring the
levels down on the mike and channels 1,2 and 3.
We'd have to do more tests all the way through the
formatted and saved disk to know which levels were
"perfect" levels for us.
All of which problem could probably have been solved
in advance by simply asking a knowledgeable geek what
to do and where to set things -- but then we don't
have consultent fees worked into our $0 budget, do we?
posted by Tom Nadeau at 11:25 PM
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