Apr 06 2005
I'm still alive…
I have hours and hours of binaural recordings I haven't edited. By the end of this week I'll find something interesting and release it into the wild.
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Mar 24 2005
HFJ gets reviewed by Area 51
Area 51, a very, very slick comedy podcast (#34 on Podcast Alley) put together by a group of top-notch professionals who probably lost their jobs when Clear Channel pillaged and burned their former places of work, mentioned Herro Flom Japan on their March 24 podcast.
Dude, I know the levels were off. It was my 2nd podcast. Ever. In my whole life. Come to think of it, I'll fix the levels tonight and re-upload it.
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Mar 23 2005
My equipment
It seems like quite a few people are curious about the setup I'm using to record binaural soundseeing tours. Actually, I wouldn't recommend using the rig I hobbled together because it picks up the sounds inside my mouth and upper digestive tract. Check out the binaural mics at soundprofessionals.com instead.
But, since you asked…
- Recorder: iRiver 799
- 2 mono to 1 stereo jack adapter: Sony PC-239S (no doubt Radio Shack has something that'll do the same thing.)
- recording earbuds: Sony ECM-TL1 (two of them)
There's picture of the monstrosity here.
At home I use a Plantronics DSP-400 headset and Audacity. The noise canceling mic works great. If I were using an el cheapo mic, the racket my PC makes would practically drown out my voice. And the headset came with a CD full of excellent software, which I unfortunately lost long ago.
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Mar 18 2005
Pocky on Boing Boing
Today's Boing Boing has a link to a post on another blog about the Pocky commercial that was in French. My coworker is the guy who wrote the lyrics. He's French. I call him "Frenchie." But not to his face.
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Mar 18 2005
Being Rich Pavovitch
Hitch a ride inside my head while I roam the streets of Kabukicho in search of…well, audio. My favorite part is when I buy a bottle of green tea from a vending machine and you can hear the sound of me drinking it as if you were there inside my head. The hawkers who try to temp me into their tittie bars, nightclubs and whorehouses won't take no for an answer until I practically beat them over the head with it. There are a few craptacular camera phone pics in the gallery. I also updated the gallery for last week's show.
Please don't announce this podcast to tens of thousands of people. I don't want to incur the wrath of the bandwidth gods. Let's leave it as a well-kept secret for now.
The tour was so long that I didn't get to cover some things I wanted to, like my meeting with Scott Lockman of Tokyo Calling. He came to my company's office on Thursday evening to discuss a teaching gig. It's funny how radio guys never look the way you imagine them. Matching the face with the voice for the first time is like watching a movie that's been dubbed–only difference is the mouth moves in perfect sync with the voice.
My apologies to those of you on dial-up connections–this one's also a bigun'. Also, sorry for the audio levels being set way too high, but unless you're an audiophile you probably won't notice. Just turn the volume down a bit.
Thanks to everyone who left comments. What a nice bunch of people you all are.
