Hmm, they haven't asked me yet, and I have two different accounts. :(
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evil jimi - Mar 21, 2008 7:08:40 am PDT #5291 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
beekaytee - Mar 21, 2008 9:00:01 am PDT #5292 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Speaking of sound. I'm looking for a nice loop of music to open my blog-audio and podcasts.
Any ideas for places to look? I want something relatively simple, maybe with a little bounce and NONE of that midi-synth feel.
Fred Pete - Mar 21, 2008 9:40:02 am PDT #5293 of 25501
Ann, that's a ferret.
bonny, you might want to check out an old Big Band tune called "Jersey Bounce." Benny Goodman did a great version, though it might be too bouncy.
Sheryl - Mar 22, 2008 5:10:51 pm PDT #5294 of 25501
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Help!
I downloaded Thunderbird for the Mac, and am finding some problems. Mainly, each time I open it it shows all the messages in the newsgroups as unread, even though I either marked them as read, or read them. Also, when I click on the icon to start it I get the "do you want to open this program" message each time. What is going on here?
DCJensen - Mar 22, 2008 7:30:05 pm PDT #5295 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Sheryl, did you copy thunderbird from the .dmg file to your applications folder, or are you running it from the mounted "disk"?
beekaytee - Mar 22, 2008 8:51:16 pm PDT #5296 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
I've got a giddy, Audacity question for the sound mavens.
I'm having so much fun with this tool...thanks for the rec Steph! I've removed great gobs of a 2:55 audioblog entry, thus, making myself sound a bit less dorky. Magic!
My question is this: I made the recording using audioacrobat, over the phone. I cut out some of the ssssing using a silk scarf over the handset and then removed much more through sound reduction in Audacity. So proud.
Still. It sounds very much like I did it over the phone. Yes, eventually, I will get a decent headset microphone, but since I want to do interview podcasts, it seemed best to use a tool that makes it easy on guests who don't have microphones.
Anyway. In all the magic tools, is there a way to make the recording sound less phoneish? I tried equalization, but that didn't seem to work.
omnis_audis - Mar 22, 2008 9:20:50 pm PDT #5297 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
to the best of my knowledge, you can't add frequencies that aren't there.
beekaytee - Mar 22, 2008 10:07:55 pm PDT #5298 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Thanks o_a. Yeah. I'm getting the sense that the easy way just isn't the best way.
Any recommendations for an effective, albeit, cheap microphone with good noise reduction? I'm thinking I need to do higher quality recordings for the regular entries and just let people deal with the phone quality sound for interviews.
omnis_audis - Mar 23, 2008 2:13:04 am PDT #5299 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Full Compass has the Snowball on sale: [link] Don't know how long it will last. Is that cheap enough?
Sheryl - Mar 23, 2008 5:34:28 am PDT #5300 of 25501
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Daniel, I tried moving the file into the Applications folder, but it still did the same thing. I think it's still behaving as if I were booting it from the disk.