Things and Stuffs for August 14 and September 18, 2010

[borrisinabox]

Good hello, and welcome to the last few hours of summer. In case you were wondering, I can't wait for it to die, good and proper. Unfortunately, it's doing a terrible job of that at the moment, with highs still hanging out in the 90's (Fahrenheit, of course, as temperatures in that range centigrade would be a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.) This particular summer definitely hasn't been one of my favorites. In fact, the most fun bits of the past few months happened just before summer
technically existed. Things broke during it, and now we're here. So, summer, please turn around and shove off. You are no longer welcome in these parts. Good bye!

Now, for the reason I've actually bothered to write in this thing.
I have two Things and Stuff archives for you today. One of them is over a month late, so it's new to me, as I've now forgotten what it actually did. So, let's find out together.

Things and Stuff for August 14, 2010

• The show started out with a happy hello... that is, once the thing decided to work. Phone calls for this show were provided by my Nokia E71 mobile phone patched into the board, and used as a sip client, since my normal phone patch solution took a temporary nosedive. This,
  incidentally, was the last major thing I did with that phone, as I got an iPhone 4 to replace it a few days later. Sadly, this solution sounds better than some patches I've heard on commercial stations. Oh well.
• After a standard first call from Derek, and a call from Jonathan talking about near-death experiences, MaryAnn showed up to play with her new Panasonic cordless phone, and it's associated ringtones.
• Bringing back an old bit from last year, I rediscovered some very crappy, but amusing vocal samples from the Yamaha Motif X-Panded sample bank for the Motif XS. Rug rats, anyone?
• Let's do bad things with voip equipment, effects processors, and FX Radio, for no particular reason.
• We find that the world outside my window is boring, as usual.
• The mommy call broke, but she showed up in studio during a phone call from Steve Matzura of New York City, making things interesting and odd, bringing forth conversations about baby squirrels. No, I'm not kidding!
• Monty called in from an iPhone, and talked about... wait for it... bandwidth! Shocking, isn't it?

If any of this random crap interests you, feel free to download the stupid thing!

A note: No one bothered telling me that the output on the show was incredibly low, and dynamics were all over the place. I
used a multiband compressor to squish it post-stream, which is why it sounds a little different than normal.

Things and Stuff for September 18, 2010

And now, the show for this week, a rather odd one.

• At the beginning of the show, I announced a prize for the first person to correctly guess what brand of microphone I used on this particular episode.
• The first call from Derek reminisced on past events from TBRN's nearly six year history.
• Mom showed up to talk about the flight of honor, an event held to honor World War II vets. My grandmother was a marine, and participated in this event on Saturday.
• A clue was given about the microphone name. It has an h in it.
• Because I was bored, I decided to look up the procedure on how to do step-recording on the Ensoniq TS-12, and made some rather stupid sequences as a result.
• A couple of disturbing tracks submitted by Andre, followed by the first "fast track" in over four years. Remember those?
• Thanks to a random file recorded in a car five years ago, we remember such things as the freaky fwoof alert, blart, and other things that are now dead.
  
• A bad idea called, and suggested that I do a drunk Things and Stuff. Nope, won't happen. This was followed by the first successful use of the click alarm, at least on Things and Stuff.
• I need plexiglas®!
• Jayson Smith pointed out that Thursdays are bad for you, yet again. July 4, 1776 was a Thursday... Enough said.
• Time to be boring, and play live things using my Motif XS and Ensoniq TS-12. No good reason for it, really.
• Jayson Smith called in, and among other things, promoted "super data recovery," a service for... um... getting data from broken hard drives... Yeah, sure. Appropriate music is provided.
• Another look back at Things and Stuff of the past, this time taking a look at the events of August 12, 2006.


• Venison tried to fool me, but didn't.
• The brand of microphone I used was announced at the end of the show. No one guessed, and no one won the prize, which, as it turns out, would have been said microphone.

And, just to be boring and predictable, the download link is very much over here.

Have an enjoyable double-archive time, while I hang out with another relative of Mr. McHurtford. They do keep showing up, for some reason.