Seriously, the last few weeks? Digital audio workstation. Webserver. External storage drive. Backup server. (Well, that’s replaced, not fixed; the old one worked, just really slowly.) CD-burning robot.<\/p>\n
This week? I have the replacement transformer for my field-modded-by-somebody SM58 microphone. That should be easy to fix, and then it won’t buzz in the presence of phantom power anymore. Damn, that was annoying.<\/p>\n
But mostly, I’m doing a lot of cello recording – final work on Leannan Sidhe’s Mine to Love<\/i>. And Betsy’s cello, Godiva, gets pretty fierce? And lo, securements come off and my studio reference monitors say WELCOME TO BUZZTOWN!<\/p>\n
Yes, Betsy’s cello broke my speakers and made me upgrade them. SONIC ATTACK GRAR!<\/p>\n
But that’s fixed now. At least, as fixed as I can make it. These little x77s – if you can even call them that anymore, I’ve modded them so much they’re less than half original – can only take so much bass no matter how much fiddling you do. Right now the biggest source of buzz is at very high volume and from inside the sealed tweeter assembly<\/em>. I can’t fix it, I’d have to replace it, and ribbon tweeters are kinda spendy.<\/p>\n To wit: maybe I shouldn’t turn them up quite that loud. But it’s tempting, because it’s kind of cool being able to shake the floor with 20cm high bookshelf speakers.<\/p>\n AND NOT BY DROPPING THEM jesus you toons. C’mon.<\/p>\n Anyway, back to music mines. But first! Anna’s new book, Valor of the Healer<\/i>, is out! She’s got a post up on the official Carina Press site, talking about strong female characters that aren’t physical badasses<\/a>, and wants to hear about your favorite strong female characters who are strong without the physicality part, because that’s kind of her lead character in this trilogy – strong, despite physical weakness.<\/p>\n Eleanor from The Lion in Winter<\/i> comes to mind, for me, and if you haven’t seen The Lion in Winter<\/i> yet, go watch it right the fuck now, seriously.<\/p>\n