Update
A real update
1.) I moved. I'm now living in Jim, Tara, Alexa, and Lyssa's apartment. It's pretty cool. Jim will be leaving soon to make his movie, so I'll take over his room when that happens. Now I'm living in the living room. Appropriate and slightly reminiscent of my first apartment out here with dan.
2) I moved because Dan proposed to Becca and they got their own place.
3.) I have a full time job working at a theater manager / audio tech at USC. So far so good. I've been there for almost 3 weeks.
4.) In those 3 weeks I've already been assigned a sound design for one of their shows. I'm getting a stipend on top of my hourly rate and it's fun.
5.) I graduate in a few weeks. Then I'll be a Sound Master. Take that, fuckers!
6.) I already have 2 sound designs lined up for the summer with a third pending.
7.) I got Logic 8 recently and I've gotten a chance to play with it. It's awesome! I dig it.
8.) MIDI is a kind of digital signal that allows different pieces of hardware to talk to one another. It has 5 pins in it, but only uses 3. The standard distance that MIDI can run without a MIDI amplifier is 50'. My friend DAVE made a MIDI to XLR cable that allows you to fire MIDI codes down the much more reliable, shielded cable much further. All you do is connect the 3 functional MIDI wires in the cable to the 3 XLR wires. Today I built one of my own and successfully sent a signal 600' before I stopped because that's more than what I need. But now I'm curious how far XLR can send it.
9.) I've stripped the vocals out of 4 songs for the show I'm designing, each one requiring a different solution. It's a fun exercise.
10.) I wrote another story for The Keyhole Opera. It's an interview with a Luck Slinger. I like it. It explains the reasoning for knocking on wood.
1.) I moved. I'm now living in Jim, Tara, Alexa, and Lyssa's apartment. It's pretty cool. Jim will be leaving soon to make his movie, so I'll take over his room when that happens. Now I'm living in the living room. Appropriate and slightly reminiscent of my first apartment out here with dan.
2) I moved because Dan proposed to Becca and they got their own place.
3.) I have a full time job working at a theater manager / audio tech at USC. So far so good. I've been there for almost 3 weeks.
4.) In those 3 weeks I've already been assigned a sound design for one of their shows. I'm getting a stipend on top of my hourly rate and it's fun.
5.) I graduate in a few weeks. Then I'll be a Sound Master. Take that, fuckers!
6.) I already have 2 sound designs lined up for the summer with a third pending.
7.) I got Logic 8 recently and I've gotten a chance to play with it. It's awesome! I dig it.
8.) MIDI is a kind of digital signal that allows different pieces of hardware to talk to one another. It has 5 pins in it, but only uses 3. The standard distance that MIDI can run without a MIDI amplifier is 50'. My friend DAVE made a MIDI to XLR cable that allows you to fire MIDI codes down the much more reliable, shielded cable much further. All you do is connect the 3 functional MIDI wires in the cable to the 3 XLR wires. Today I built one of my own and successfully sent a signal 600' before I stopped because that's more than what I need. But now I'm curious how far XLR can send it.
9.) I've stripped the vocals out of 4 songs for the show I'm designing, each one requiring a different solution. It's a fun exercise.
10.) I wrote another story for The Keyhole Opera. It's an interview with a Luck Slinger. I like it. It explains the reasoning for knocking on wood.