Music

Oh, you think that's funny do you. Well, you won't be laughing when those nut grabs your nuts. Just listen to the song and heed the danger that is the undead peanut.

Jon Rosenberg is responsible. Click here to find out how.

When you get paid big money, well, even small money to make records you master the recordings. That means someone with better ears than you listens to the tunes and make the lows lower where they should be lower, and the highs higher where they should be higher. It's very precise witchdoctory kind of work. In the end it tends to make things jump out at you, the vocals, the solos, a 3D snake head baring it's fangs. OK, not so much the snake head.

Jeff over at BZT, who does a weekly show you should be listening to and has a great set of ears, commented that he thought he'd lost high end when he downloaded the song "Renovation". Well, he hadn't lost it, it was never there. Then after he'd played "Renovation" he played some Jethro Tell and man could I hear the difference.

Long and short of it is, I went back and spruced up "Renovation." You might say I renovated it, but then someone would undoubtedly smack your silly face, and there's enough violence in the world so let's just say I added a glossy coat of paint instead.

So, go to the music page and get your brighter, more sparkly version of "Renovation" today.

BTW, I'm working on an electronica tune. When I visited Dolf he asked if I'd ever thought of doing something in that vein and so it's been in the back of my mind ever since. Yes, it's to late to stop me. No, I'm not sure when it will be done, but I am working on it.

One of my favorite lyrics is from Neil Young's song, "Tell Me Why".

"Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself, When you're old enough to repaint but young enough to sell."

I'm sure that was in the back of my mind when I wrote this song.

Just in time, too. Next week we're having three windows put into the den.

In the music business, it's all about connections. At least that's what I'm told. I don't know squat about the music business. In the studio however, it's all about connections.

This weekend I was convinced that my music card had a faulty connection in the line out jack and as a result I was getting only the left side through my speakers. So, I went and bought a new card. That sounds easy, but before I can make the decision I have to jump through terrifying hoops of existential angst over how much I should spend, where I should buy it, should I upgrade, blah, blah, blabityblah.

I decided I would just get what I had before, a SoundBlaster Audigy, a very good amateur sound card. Suites me since I consider myself to be a very good amateur musician. When I got to the store, they only had the next generation cards available. Perfectly understandable. You could buy the old card online, but in the brick and mortar establishments they are only going to stock the latest and greatest.

One feature of the Audigy card is that it has a front panel. Well, the new fangled card has the same feature and it looked like pretty much the same thing so I gambled that my old front panel would work with the new card. Of course it didn't, so I went back coughed up some more dough and got the fancier, new fangled card with the fancier new fangled front panel.

After, everything is installed, yes my friends, the right side is still missing. The long and short of it is well just short, a short, in an RCA cable, which I will generously assume was the only one I did not trade out when hunting down the problem.

I took the card back to the store and got my money back with no hassle yesterday, bringing this sad episode to an end. Now maybe I can get some work done.