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I made a pop filter for vocal work! It looks like this:
For those who don't know what this does: when you pronounce letters like P and B and D, you have a pronounced rushing forward of air - a pop, more or less. (Put your hand in front of your mouth and say "pop" with a big emphasis on the first P and you'll feel it.) This is captured by microphones as a low-frequency thump sound, and you need to put something in front of the mic that stops that air rush without stopping sound. A couple of layers of nylon hose work pretty well. You can buy them for $15-ish each, or you can make your own pair out of old hose and coat hangers. The professional ones have advantages - flexible necks, good clamping devices, things like that - but this was free, and not very difficult to make.
(Now if only suck filters were so easy to make...)
I think I'm finally starting to get a little tiny bit of momentum in studio. Yeah, the computer keeps trying to make me work on it every other day, but the last few times, it's all been on the Windows side (which is the file-server side) and I! Don't! Care! so its attempts to distract me FAIL MIGHTILY. The Ubuntu side has been behaving pretty well (touch wood) lately.
In other news, I'll be busking at Everett tomorrow morning during the early part of their market until their official band shows up, or for, oh, I dunno, two hours, whichever comes first. Then I'll head down to Lake Forest Park and hang out there for my hour. The weather forecast is good so it should be fun. I talked to Clint at Soul Food Books very briefly last night, he wondered where I'd been, so I said I been busy! Because summer and playing out a lot, but that I'd be back for the open mic again in October. I was thinking, however, for some reason, that September's open mic was today (which is hello genius still August) but of course it's really next weekend, so maybe I'll do that.
For those who don't know what this does: when you pronounce letters like P and B and D, you have a pronounced rushing forward of air - a pop, more or less. (Put your hand in front of your mouth and say "pop" with a big emphasis on the first P and you'll feel it.) This is captured by microphones as a low-frequency thump sound, and you need to put something in front of the mic that stops that air rush without stopping sound. A couple of layers of nylon hose work pretty well. You can buy them for $15-ish each, or you can make your own pair out of old hose and coat hangers. The professional ones have advantages - flexible necks, good clamping devices, things like that - but this was free, and not very difficult to make.
(Now if only suck filters were so easy to make...)
I think I'm finally starting to get a little tiny bit of momentum in studio. Yeah, the computer keeps trying to make me work on it every other day, but the last few times, it's all been on the Windows side (which is the file-server side) and I! Don't! Care! so its attempts to distract me FAIL MIGHTILY. The Ubuntu side has been behaving pretty well (touch wood) lately.
In other news, I'll be busking at Everett tomorrow morning during the early part of their market until their official band shows up, or for, oh, I dunno, two hours, whichever comes first. Then I'll head down to Lake Forest Park and hang out there for my hour. The weather forecast is good so it should be fun. I talked to Clint at Soul Food Books very briefly last night, he wondered where I'd been, so I said I been busy! Because summer and playing out a lot, but that I'd be back for the open mic again in October. I was thinking, however, for some reason, that September's open mic was today (which is hello genius still August) but of course it's really next weekend, so maybe I'll do that.
