Sometimes drives get a bit warm and need some cooling down. This Maxtor USB drive was getting way too warm after some long data transfers.
Archive for the ‘Production’ Category
Drives on ice
Friday, April 10th, 2009The man with the bits – Chris Bloch
Thursday, May 8th, 2008OK, so I violated rule number one. Never argue with someone who is passionate about something. I also went blowing right through rule number two: Never argue with Chris Bloch about recorded music and sample rates. My friend Chris Bloch has a great set of ears on each side of his head and a good personality in between. So when I started the argument that today’s “POP” music wasn’t worth any more then a 128Kb sample rate, things got ugly.
Avolite Personalities
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008So the good thing about being a production geek is that you can have some off the wall, crazy problems. Like today for example. I had to stuff a Osiris light personality into a Avolite Diamond III console. Props to Brad from AVO and Darren from Royal for their help. The problem all started when there was some miscommunication about the console that was being used for the show. The Diamond didn’t have the correct settings (known as personalities) to control the lights we were using. No problem, download a file from the Inet. Hum, Inet has no file to download. Avo has some of the best support I have seen from a company. Brad whipped up a file and emailed it over. No dice.
Marantz CDR420 & digital noise
Friday, February 1st, 2008MONO MP3 160Kb test recordingCame across an interesting problem with the Marantz CDR420 the other day. It seems as though this unit does not like to record mono MP3 streams no matter what the resolution. I have some test audio files if anyone is interested to hear what the issue is.
The units have enough storage capacity that PCM or MP3 Stereo @ 320Kb should be used for recording.
Jumping Jeff Blackwell over at Blackwell Studios recommends:
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1901&brandID=4
I like the fact that it is getting good reviews and you can use it as an external sound card. Might be the next thing for the Big Yellow Box.
Btz, btz, btz
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The sound that you hear when you cell phone is too close to an audio device.
I recently came across a short post explaining what it is:
“The reason for the buzz is the nature of time-division mulitple access (TDMA). In the US, we operate mobile phones at 850 Mhz and 1900 Mhz; in Europe, 900 Mhz and 1800 Mhz. Good so far; that’s not going to make noise that we can hear. TDMA fits more subscribers into the same bandwidth by assigning different terminals different timeslots (vs. CDMA, which uses black magic). These timeslots happen to be spaced 4.615 ms apart, yielding a signal envelope which looks a lot like a dirty 217 Hz square wave. All sorts of things (like “wires”) are good at picking up a 217 Hz square wave at 0.5 W, and 217 Hz is conveniently smack dab in the middle of our auditory capabilities.”
- Jered
via www.bunniestudios.com/blog/wp-trackback.php?p=210
