Dusty Chalk

Right now? The Road to Hell. In general? Lots and lots of Chris Rea. Tasty guitar playing, tasty guitar tone, tasty singing (Ohmigosh, that voice...), tasty songwriting. Just...tasty everything. Dude was peak.

😭 Fuck.

Huge thanks!

Does anyone know if the Headroom Portable Desktop Amp is center pin negative or positive?

Some Anti-AntisocialPersonalityDisorder-ant would be a start

AI is not yet at the stage where you should trust the answers given you. For example, I used an AI to translate an algorithm (Reverse Bits in Word by Lookup Table on this "Bit-Twiddling Hacks" page) to Rust, and the values in the lookup table that it came up with -- it had trouble converting the macros to values, plus it didn't use macros -- were wrong. Fortunately, I know Rust well enough to have vetted and corrected the answer, but I feel the same needs to be done for everything -- let it suggest to you, but don't copy and paste the answers, make sure you understand everything it's doing with its solution. That said, it can be a very powerful tool -- I used the entire translation (fraction of a second) and vetting process (an hour or two at the most) as a learning experience. I would recommend you do the same with your efforts. E.G. don't assume that the fault was yours, make sure you understand exactly what the fault was, and learn what it would take to fix it. Or if it was the AI's fault, learn what it would take to have caught it before building the circuit.

(waits for another Alton Brown post before posting another American Gods post)

RIP the two servicemembers and one civilian in the attack in Syria the other day. (pours one out)

"According to multiple sources, the couple were killed by their son Nick, and their bodies were discovered by their daughter Romy. " Oh, man, that's fucked up. Two someones are going to need a lot of therapy...I wish them both eventual peace. something something not oedipus something something

Finally getting around to American Gods, picking up where I left off (starting season 2).

I don't have experience with a lot of ribbons, but I was fortunately stopped from going down that rabbit hole by my local professional musician friend, Dave, many years ago. There are a lot of ... not good ribbon mics in the budget area. And yes, I know "DIY" ≠ budget, but since ribbon mics are so easy to get wrong, I wouldn't. I have my beloved Shure KSM313, which I would recommend for string ensembles (and vocals, which was going to be my primary application), but they are not cheap, and a matched pair will be even worse. Instead of ribbons, you would do well getting a matched pair of large condensers, like a Rode NT2A. (I have two, but they're not matched...that said, if you're not adamant about imaging, you can always do a Blumlein pair, which doesn't require a matched pair, and yields a very comfy stereo playback experience.) General comment for both of you: I would recommend listening to grawk over me on this subject, he has far more experience in this. I even still have some of his hand-me-downs.

Ryan Miller in the first several shots reminds me of someone. Actor, comedian, or something.

No. Not unless your head has the acoustics of styrofoam, the dummyhead needs to mimic the acoustics of a human head, mostly because of the proximity of your head to the microphones (earholes). The sound at the microphones is a very complex signal that is not just a function of the sound coming from the sound sources (unadorned live music -- throats and musical instruments; recordings -- speakers), but the HRTF that the acoustics of your head do to the sound as well. Paging @Dreadhead...

I won an album today. Sharon Mansur's Trigger -- which is jazz fusion and unholy carp, this might break me -- it's right up there with Hiromi and Fox Capture Plan! Just listen to this shit:

Someone called me out because "Drone" was in my top 5 genres in my Spotify wrapped, so I'm leaning into it and listening to my favourite drone musician of all time, Chris Meloche: https://tidal.com/artist/ARTIST_TOP_TRACKS/view-all?artistId=7876954&moduleId=ARTIST_TOP_TRACKS&moduleIndex=0&type=TRACK_LIST

I was curious, so I Googled it...nice!

Happy belated birthday, Todd! I do very much hope you had the best of days yesterday! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Man in the High Castle, The Last Emperor, Bond film Licence to Kill, much from the Mortal Kombat franchise, bunch of action movies(!), &c.)

Newb question: I just bought 10 lbs. of coffee (enough to last me a year). What's the best way to store it? Hermetically sealed, frozen, or other?

Snarky Puppy, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley, Somni (LOL that ending, where the drummer is air drumming over his drums after they get quiet the second time.) This is their second collaboration, the first one being Sylva which I absolutely adored (probably because I got to see it live).

That's awesome! Congrats to him on being the furthest from Trump one can get.