Feb 24
Redux
KH | Audio Production | 02 24th, 2009| No Comments »

Got rid of a lot of noise, but there’s still a little fuzz here and there. Still play too stiffly. Had about 3 minutes of recording and this was the best I had. Even did it over as I over-amped the entire thing by having volume knobs set to 10. Practice makes perfect.

KH – Solo riff from Stranger Things Have Happened (by The Foo Fighters)

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Feb 23

I had grown tired of watching my pitiful guitar collect dust. Knew it was missing some strings, but I found that I had a pack so I restrung it. I haven’t tuned a guitar in years. Found low E, but it got worse from there. Found a cable to plug into my sound card and downloaded the Free Music Instrument Tuner from the Ubuntu repositories (apt-get install fmit).

After learning a couple easy songs, I looked around for some recording software. I basically just wanted to end up with a decent quality MP3. As much hype as it was getting in the beginning, Jokosher just didn’t work for me. Tried everything and it just couldn’t pick up a source. I found that Audacity worked well, even if working with the program can be a pain. Crashed on me a couple times and I have to have no playback going when it’s started, otherwise the program doesn’t recognize any output.

I made a couple recordings, but they are quite noisy as it’s a sloppy setup. There’s no stereo. I know I can play these songs smoother, but I got nervous during the recording and would just be happy I got the notes right. Timing is way off and made worse by the sloppy editing. Just a test.

KH – Tetris Theme A (Korobeiniki by Nikolay Nekrasov)

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KH – Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Gerudo Valley Theme (by Koji Kondo)

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Feb 11
Poetic Spammers
KH | General | 02 11th, 2009| No Comments »

I didn’t realize ZenPhoto didn’t have any kind spam protection active by default. I have been getting these poetic spam comments. It was kind of cute at first, but I’m over it. Let’s see how Akismet does.