Various music stuff

 Double harmonic scale. Double harmonic scale.

Ableton

I dunno. Marc told me that lots of Broadway use Ableton in the pit now. It's funny because that's the musician's choice when the sound department's choice is QLab.

Hipshot string-bending system. Costs more than a Squire Tele. But could be very cool.

Chance's ranking of classic Star Trek.

Stuff to know about the Behringer Neutronabout the Behringer Neutron.

Factory reset procedure: While pressing the buttons and hold down “OSC SYNC” + “PARAPHONIC” + “KEY TRK”, Power on the Neutron.
Release buttons “OSC SYNC” + “PARAPHONIC” + “KEY TRK”, The 5x LFO LEDs should display a pulsating pattern.
Pot calibration: While all 5x LFO LEDs are pulsating than turn the

OSC1 SHAPE pot fully to LEFT
OSC2 SHAPE pot fully to RIGHT
LFO SHAPE pot fully to RIGHT
LFO RATE pot fully to RIGHT
PORTA TIME pot fully to RIGHT
When this is done press VCF “MODE” + LFO “KEY SYNC” simultaneously.
Neutron will restart.

Map of my male ancestors travels over the millennia. 

DUO QUANTIZE FEATURES

STANDARD BANK

1.Bypass - Inputted voltage is outputted

2.Major - Root, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th

3.Minor - Root, 2nd, flat 3rd, 4th, 5th, flat 6th, flat 7th

4.Major Pentatonic - Root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th

5.Minor Pentatonic - Root, flat 3rd, 4th, 5th, flat 7th

6.Blues Scale Root, flat 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5th, flat 7th

7.Whole Tone - Root, 2nd, 3rd, flat 5th, flat 6th, flat 7th

8.Chromatic - All 12 notes

OCTAVE BANK (OCT mode)

1.Bypass - Inputted voltage is outputted

2.Octave - Root

3.Octave and Fifth - Root, 5th

4.Octave and Flat Fifth - Root, flat 5th

5.Major Arppegio - Root, 3rd, 5th

6.Minor Arppegio - Root, flat 3rd, 5th

7.Dominant Arppegio - Root, 3rd, 5th, flat 7th

8.Chromatic

This gaming chair by Hinomi is not cheap but it has swing-out arms for playing guitar. 

Production of films

The following text is excised from my PhD thesis based on notes from my committee. It's all about the production of our films over Covid. I thought it should live somewhere, so here it is.

Imaginous Dumpiteritude

 I'll just leave these here.

This is my modification of this meme. I think this meme is hilar.

I dunno what this is or what's up with it but it was on my desktop.

I used to religiously send this to everyone on Facebook until I got too many complaints about using old material. 

My highly-skilled drawing of a moose. 

This was me in probably 1980 or possibly 1979 in 10th Grade at Metuchen High School. 

Fun brid.

This is my drawing of a "bunny tank". I don't remember why, I had some Internet reason for drawing it.

I think this is a 30 Rock joke.

This is a power plant background image Ian Hubert made. 

I made a conspiracy theory.

New Comedy Album

 

Live at the Regulators Palace It is neither "live" nor an "album" nor "comedy" for that matter. But it's what I've got.

 

The Sagacious Empathy

 

https://pleasurefortheempire.bandcamp.com/album/the-sagacious-empathy New album. Experimenting with a couple new sounds.

Opera News

In opera news, we (Marc Schmied and I) spent two days (two hours and then four hours) recording the bass for Red Flag of the Future. 

Opera is hard work. Puppet opera is even harder.

He's a dynamite sight reader and he gets a monster sound out of that instrument. I put up three microphones: a Warm U87, a Schoeps hypercardioid, and an AEA 84 ribbon with Cloudlifter, directly into the Allen & Heath SQ5. Of course, for the first day the mixer got real weird. My friend Todd, whose house we recorded in, pointed out that some devices seem to have an "urgency meter" which detects how important things are so they know what would be the most inconvenient time to stop working correctly. 

I don't know. All of the faders decided to fight me and act like their motors wanted to be somewhere else on the board. I reset and recalibrated and rebooted and it helped briefly but then became a pain again. Weirdly, the next day it seemed fine. I have no idea. Even Samplitude was acting badly. I have no idea. Again, things got better on day two.

Marc Schmied on bass.

Also on the second day I brought the AEA down and closer to the bass. I felt the U47 won the contest at about 6 feet from the bass up in the air pointed roughly at the sound holes. So that one stayed up there, but the ribbon got closer in case we wanted more detail from it. 

I need more computers.

Oh, and right, to add to my stress I managed to drop the 47 while initially setting up. I mean, it's not the world's most expensive mic (like it would be if it were a vintage Neumann U47) but it was frustrating to watch it slip from its cage and hit the hardwood floor. Still, it seems to have survived without being visually or sonically impaired. 

Note change of position of ribbon microphone. Also, movie ticket on computer is for Dune 2.

So despite technical gremlins, the recording went very well. Having a great player like Marc really expands and opens up the sound. I realize it's a kind of cliche but it really does make it all sound more organic. I'm very very happy with what we've got. Marc is a spectacular player. It makes so much difference.