Why is the internet so boring in the summer?
I'm starting to find it pretty amusing, that after yeeaars of managing to not give a crap about Audio as an educational pursuit, suddenly I am soaking up all kinds of research about Audio. Mostly related to recording and editing; I still don't give a crap about speakers or rack processing or any playback stuff.
Anyway if you've got questions, I've got absurd shedloads of bookmarks now.
Shopping the hardware is annoying as hell. Mics aren't so bad, it's easy enough to find folks demo-ing their mics on YouTube, to get an idea of the sound. But for mixers and interfaces? You kinda have to have the thing in your hands, and wire it into your own stuff, to see how it will behave. User forums are sometimes helpful. Guitar Center really sort of isn't.
Also, editing the shit is pesky; I'm practically hardwired for looking at video clip thumbnails to navigate a timeline project. Looking at waveforms is not quite as helpful. They tend to look awfully similar across the timeline, which becomes tiring.
And then there's that terrible signal-to-noise thing. And did you know how many hours you can lose, just fooling around with EQ? And good god, Adobe Soundbooth, how can you have such a sweet timeline editing interface, and be so completely shit about saving projects with the effects parameters intact, without randomly dropping chunks of the clip I'm editing? Didn't you guys invent the .aep? Do I actually have to read the Help to get this? ugh.
(Yep, tried Audacity for a bit. We um. Didn't quite get along. I was too demanding and persnickety, and possibly made it cry. I think we parted on okay terms, though. I mean, it's still on my hard drive. I didn't drag it out in the yard and burn it, then salt the earth, which is my default response to MS Word.)
I don't know why I bitch and gripe the most, when I'm actually having fun. That's possibly a question for a therapist, some day. At least this keeps me the hell off tumblr, that little addiction was starting to get worrisome.
Anyway if you've got questions, I've got absurd shedloads of bookmarks now.
Shopping the hardware is annoying as hell. Mics aren't so bad, it's easy enough to find folks demo-ing their mics on YouTube, to get an idea of the sound. But for mixers and interfaces? You kinda have to have the thing in your hands, and wire it into your own stuff, to see how it will behave. User forums are sometimes helpful. Guitar Center really sort of isn't.
Also, editing the shit is pesky; I'm practically hardwired for looking at video clip thumbnails to navigate a timeline project. Looking at waveforms is not quite as helpful. They tend to look awfully similar across the timeline, which becomes tiring.
And then there's that terrible signal-to-noise thing. And did you know how many hours you can lose, just fooling around with EQ? And good god, Adobe Soundbooth, how can you have such a sweet timeline editing interface, and be so completely shit about saving projects with the effects parameters intact, without randomly dropping chunks of the clip I'm editing? Didn't you guys invent the .aep? Do I actually have to read the Help to get this? ugh.
(Yep, tried Audacity for a bit. We um. Didn't quite get along. I was too demanding and persnickety, and possibly made it cry. I think we parted on okay terms, though. I mean, it's still on my hard drive. I didn't drag it out in the yard and burn it, then salt the earth, which is my default response to MS Word.)
I don't know why I bitch and gripe the most, when I'm actually having fun. That's possibly a question for a therapist, some day. At least this keeps me the hell off tumblr, that little addiction was starting to get worrisome.