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Archive for 23 November 2007

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The local place was having a 20% off sale between 8 and 10 and I took advantage of it to get a new microphone to record South Coast Shaman. For those that keep track of these technical details, it’s a Rode NT1-A. I’m really looking forward to working with it. My BLUE 8-Ball — which I absolutel loved — gave up the ghost when the condensor in it started throwing noise and I had to stop. Many of you will remember the delay in the last episode of Full Share when, after finally rewriting the ending, I had to replace equipment. Unfortunately I thought it was the pre-amp that had gone bad, but it was the mic, and I wound up doing the last episode of Full Share on a cheap Radio Shack mic. I did a lot of work in post-production to clean up the resulting file, but for the new book, I wanted a new, high quality mic and the Rode comes highly recommended.

Ok! I need to get back to chapter 35. It’s gettin’ excitin’ and I’ve been elbow to elbow in the shopping frenzy all morning.

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