I LOVE Technology (I am such a geek!)

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:30 am

So here's the backstory -

I'm on location for a 2 day gig. It started this morning at 6 am and is running until tomorrow at 6 PM at which point, I get to pack up and QUICKLY make my way to the local college and record their orchestra at 7 PM tomorrow and 7:30 on Saturday... (Thank God for redundant rigs and a helpful intern or two!)

Anyway - there's no way my sanity would be preserved if I had to do all of this for 2 days straight (btw, tonight, I get out of here at 7 PM or so...)

So, I've got my laptop (not the one in the pic - that's my recording laptop) and my cell phone linked so that I can use high-speed internet over the cell lines (at no additional charge per minute!) so I can cruise RO and all of the other wonderful sites I want over the next couple days while running the rig in the background.

Add to that the wonderful abilities of phones to take pictures and upload over high-speed, it's just frigging cool what can be done nowadays!

Here's the pic of what I'll be staring at for the next 48 hours or so:

This is one of the choir festivals that I record each year that BobRogers and a few of us chatted about in the Acoustic Music forum about a month back. Hopefully, there will be no vomit involved this year! (Trust me, find the other post - it's worth it.)

I'll kind of use this as a "Blog" of sorts if anyone cares... Confused

Cheers-
J

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:52 am

Cool, keep feedin' us pics!

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:56 am

Probably not too many pics to come -

It would either be a bunch of the same view or a bunch of pics of teenaged choir girls. (Sorry, you'll have to go to "other" sites for those pics...)

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:36 am

Okay...here's another scary picture...

How could us location guys live without combos???

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:19 am

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:17 pm

I like locations

but
I've just done a site check on my next location

Sad

I don't like locations anymore

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:18 pm

Details?
Pics?

Com'on, where is it??

Train station bathroom? (I can imagine worse...)

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:55 pm

That monkey avatar is starting to make sense Smile

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:04 pm

I'm glad to see you are feeding yourself well during these long sessions. Alice did her festival last week. I think she ended up running the crappy CD recorder most of the time. A couple of 14 hour days were good for her. She didn't have an internet connection to keep her occupied. I think she finished Terry Prachet's Men At Arms.

Her symphonic band got hosed and got a 2. They were the first band of the festival and the adjudicators had not been fed yet. Tough. Her concert band got a 1. A make up call according to her, but it might have been a great performance by the second chair horn.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:11 pm

I can't give pics
perhaps during the record I'll get some pics

a tin garage
with some wet deadening on the walls and roof
it's old ... smelly
and the roof in parts is so low I have to duck

I need to make a hole to get an old PA multicore out
a very old multicore
I don't know if any lines still work ... Sad

out along a dirt path to a spare bedroom in the main house
... full of ... MESS
to make a temp control room

yuk

it is walking distance to a surf break
Smile

it may take a lot of willpower to stay focussed on the record

I'm not taking my GOOD mics

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