David & Leila: Hello, and welcome to Friday,
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whoever, whoever Friday is. If you have any great facts for us corrections, or you just want to chat male or FunFactFriday.com. So Lila Yeah, what we're talking about this week. You don't know. Maybe this guy knows. Maybe this guy knows. Who do we have this week? Vantrue bands
of podcast age podcast, EJ,
oh, podcast, EJ, and on the YouTubes. But podcast.com is where you want to go to follow it, right?
That's correct. Yeah. podcast.com always send people to your URL.
Yes, we send people to FunFactFriday.com. However, however, when we send out something and we want people to like, listen to it right there. Sometimes we'll put a link to like, curio caster, or one of those new newfangled modern podcast apps, that does all kinds of cool stuff, like chapters and whatnot. Yeah. But yeah, this week, we're gonna be joined by our guest, Andrew Scott, a podcast, EJ and I like podcast, EJ, don't get me wrong. I know that you're big channel.
But I actually like Bandaru says more. I enjoy that. Because it's a it's about more things. wants to tell us a little little bit about the difference between the two channels.
Yeah, so podcasted, but we didn't mention what we're talking about this week. Microphones? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Microphone. Well, we'll talk about that in a minute. Let's hear more about Andrew
outcasted I review audio equipment, microphones, interfaces, preamps. All the like. So it's it exists to help people get better audio. The banner says podcast, I just rant about whatever the heck I want. And that's why like be content creator news. And because most people found it through podcasts, which I get, I answer a lot of questions about audio there as well. But there's even some times I'll talk about philosophy, okay. Unintentionally,
it that I think is what probably got me hooked. Before we get into the microphone talk. I like when when you were talking about things like you would start talking about like being having your own website, your own.com where you'd send people there. Or I don't know, if you have a mailing list. I don't I don't think I've ever heard you mentioned one. But other people have this like get get your listeners, your people on your mailing list. And I think that was when I started
really like listening to bands who said actually subscribed. I rarely subscribe to things. But I was like, Yes, this guy, this guy gets it. But um, okay, so I, oh, sorry. We're getting off of our little outline here. Value for value or value for value podcast, we put the show out for free, everybody can listen and watch soon enough. And if you get any value out of it, feel free to send us some value back however you see fit into some
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like raising seems like he has he has free content. And that attack is one of the reasons we started accepting guests because yeah, you know, it's like we can we can just let you talk for a few minutes. I can take a drink of my my tea and listen to you talk. But yeah, so we actually didn't receive any value. I don't know if anything's wrong with my node or if we just didn't get any get a boost this week. Either way. That's fine. We do always get value from Dred Scott who does our chapters for
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with only him.
I've only I'm the only one with a story. And I've actually got to get my phone out to tell the story properly.
And I accidentally deleted the OneNote so Oh. I meant to think this notebook but I hit delete
this notebook. Oh, I think you were the owner of the notebooks. I think you just deleted it for good. All of our show notes for 153 episodes. It'll be fine. Okay, so there was this guy, I'm looking in my bookmarks on x.com to find this video, and apparently I did not bookmark it. So there was this guy who was driving down the street with a full grown bull in his car. He had cut out the, the passenger side of his vehicle and put a cage around the passenger side of the vehicle.
Oh, we just got a boost. Awesome. We'll read that in just a second. But he had a full size bull in the entire passenger side of his car. He got pulled over. And this is I don't I don't have the full news report. But this is how I imagined the interaction going. You know what we're pulling you over, sir. Well, it's probably the bowl in the side of the car there. Yes, sir. You can't do that. That's illegal. Now hold on a minute, because last time I got pulled over last week. I was driving
down the road. I had my phone in one hand and my coffee and the other and nothing touching the wheel. And that officer told me that I had to steer the car. What? Steer steer the car. Okay.
I don't know what that means.
A steer is a bull. i Oh, okay. Well, you could have said I had to steer the car. Okay. Okay. And there's the link it is. Let's see. I'm opening the link from chat, which is always dangerous. moving violations. Link will be in the show notes. This bowl is as big as the car. It's fantastic. But yeah, that's it. That's the news story. Got some clicking going on over
there have the one note on my phone. Okay. I figured it out. I just accidentally closed it on my computer. So
Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, it's still it's still on the probably on the OneDrive. Oh my gosh. Okay, so yeah, the show notes are going to have the whole thing. Wow, there we go. And loot. Listen to that. Look at that. Dred Scott boosting 55,555 Satoshis. I don't have the air horn sound sound on my board.
We need to make a specialist. sound board. There we go. We need to get special.
Clipping that Dred Scott. Yeah. Well, I I wanted to record there's a section on there's a movie Blazing Saddles, not a family movie. But they're talking about something or other. And when somebody says would you do it for Randolph Scott, who is old, old western cowboy, hero, right. And like, there's this Randolph Scott. Like, there's like a choir singing it and everything I wanted to like hire a choir. But it's expensive to hire a choir to just say like Dred Scott. And
I tried to do it with just my voice now. It was horrible. Even with auto tune. You know, I have a saxophone now. Now that's true. You do have a saxophone.
Alright, a saxophone. Thanks for
speaking of phones and tiny versions of them. Oh, micros. Let's talk about microphones. Now. Typically, I like to start with the history of the item. Because this is a fact show. And I looked into the history of microphones and microphones were invented. Correct me if I'm wrong bandroom microphones were invented in 1978. By Joseph microphone. When he went to his neighbor, Rick Mirantis, his house with his regular sized phone. And Rick Maraniss had a machine in his
attic. That shrunk the phone to a micro size.
I could not have summarized it better. Okay, that is a perfect description of the history.
I used AI to come up with a summary I had a six page dissertation on it and the AI summed it up just right right to that. No, okay. So do you know when microphones were invented,
I don't know the exact year but I believe around the 1800s. The later portion of the 1800s is when recordings came around and back then, I don't know if they would be classified as microphones. They were more horns, that directed sound down to a stylus that would carve this sound into a wax cylinder. So less of a microphone and more of just a horn. I don't know if you classify that as my I'm
sure I would so that's the definitive answer then. Alright
so sometime 19 hundred's
Do you are you looking it up? Leila? Do you take it live? Leila likes to fact check live as we're going through stupid stuff. Yeah for things that we bring up that aren't part of it and I had the actual invention date pulled up but guess what? I closed that we've just been window closed and fools on this episode. Mid seven or 1877
Okay, so I was I was correct in the later half of the 1800s and yet
yeah, there's a date before that
they're lying Hold on.
No, no, no, no. Okay, this is cool. This is what this is what I like because like, we will pull up as we'll pull up notes will and I will be looking at different different sources and will get completely different information from two very reputable looking sources. Totally. So in 18 No, sorry. 1665 the English physicist Robert Hooke was the first to experiment with a medium other than air with his invention, the lovers telephone, which stretched a wire with a cup
attached to the end. So it's like the old thing you did as a kid with like, a can of beans with no beans in it?
Or a solo cup?
I guess you could use that if you want to go low quality. Yeah. With the string tied between them. I guess that is a microphone on the strictest sense. It doesn't. You can't, wouldn't be able to record it. Sure you can. It does. Convert the sound waves into a vibration on a different medium and then transfer them so somebody else can hear them. Technically at a different time. Right? Yeah. Different time different location you go so 1665
That's interesting. I never would have considered that. That's a very good fact that you have found Friday we are well on the way to fulfilling the promise of the show.
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I'm excited. Yeah,
it's very exciting. So okay, so what got you, you into microphones?
I got into microphones because I was in a band and we needed to record but we were in high school and couldn't afford studio time. So I went down to where every aspiring recording artist goes nowadays, which is RadioShack and bought a microphone that connected to the 3.5 millimeter input of my computer's motherboard.
And was what kind of mic it was it was just like the whatever you can grab for the money. Yeah, just
a Radio Shack dynamic that germinated into a I think it was a quarter wrench. So I got a quarter inch to 3.5 mil adapter as well. To plug into the mic input of the motherboard.
RadioShack was the place to get adapters. I had every adapter you could possibly imagine to go from like the CD player because I wanted to get plugged my CD player into my boombox to the boombox I had didn't have a CD player, but I had a portable CD so I had to get the adapter to do that and then and then I wanted to plug it into the TV because I was going to record the CD onto a VHS tape. Not for any reason
other than I wanted to see if I could do it. Like record music overtop of something I was recording to put my own background music in a movie. I don't remember if I ever got it working but I just remember going in there every time I needed an adapter of any kind it was great. Yeah. Are they still around? RadioShack
I've never seen one. I can look it up
RadioShack actually shut down the short the stores and they came back a year or two as a crypto company.
Oh yeah, there is a dude bought the name RadioShack didn't he?
I think so. Yeah, I
think some guy just bought the name and was using it for a bunch of stuff.
They got a really weird have to look at this. What Mason?
We are renovating radio shop but this is radioshack.com is renovating like eyestrain and then there's a whole their story their team, huh? We're gonna have to dig into that. Maybe that deserves an episode. We'll have to find. We'll have to find an old l RadioShack. Manager in question.
Totally or someone that can pretend to be a RadioShack? Manager? Yes. This is what we do here. Welcome
to RadioShack. Do you need any batteries?
Oh my gosh, the RadioShack batteries lasted like 30 seconds in my game here. Oh, wow. So okay, so you went and bought a RadioShack microphone and you were just like this. This is what I'm going to be known for.
No, I had no not at all. So we just needed to record something to get into battle of the bands at high schools. So that's how we did it. We just plugged it in. We even record it directly on a boombox. So there wasn't any love or deep interest at the time, it was just a means to an end. Even when I started a band in college, I didn't have too much interest in it, it was just out of necessity, I need to record demos, right, I need to
try to write a song out. So I would either do di plugging my guitar directly into the computer through an interface or getting an SM 57 and putting it directly in front of a guitar cab. So it wasn't some oh my gosh, this is an amazing topic to focus on. It was just a tool. And then a couple years later, after I finished college stopped playing music. I wanted to start a podcast and I started researching mics and couldn't find what I was looking for. I couldn't find the videos with
the tests I want same. So I just started making the videos that I was looking for. Because I was a huge fan of YouTube. I had been uploading to YouTube since 2005. If you can believe it, it's been around that long. And I just love to YouTube. So I thought I'll share what I can try to offer value back to people.
And you've been I know that you've been a podcast, especially evolving your method. As folks give you like a hey, you know, if you compare it to other microphones around the same price, that would be useful. And that's what I find extremely useful about podcasted. When I was looking for this mic, the se v seven. I wasn't looking for it specifically, but a dynamic mic that I could use for use for a
podcast that wouldn't break the bank and sounded good. So I was like, Well, let me go see what let me go see what Andrews got. And I looked around looked around and you have a higher voice than I do. So sometimes it's a little tough. Oh, we got another boost. Sometimes it's a little tough to like, but you also describe you know, this gives you a lot of high end.
This gives you a low, you know, low end that cuts off this. And I was like okay, so based on what you said, this V seven looks like it's the one for me. And I think it sounds pretty good to be 100 bucks, you know?
My all time favorites.
What what are those ones we have? Yeah, CB seven. Oh, we have vintage edition. I have the green one. Yeah, that's the vintage edition.
It's one of the best looking microphones out there. That vintage finish on it is that they are dead.
It's for the folks who don't have who aren't sure it has like that green. Almost like a 1950s. Metal. Like you think of like an appliance from the 1950s would have it
like, what's that statue in New York?
The the statue that represents freedom or something? Yeah.
That color
statue in New York. I've got lots of statues in New York. That one
though. You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I think it's rocky right? That's
the rocky that's in Detroit Right? Was it wrong? No, Phil it was a Philadelphia right to Detroit. I don't know. I haven't seen Rocky in Philadelphia. I've seen rock elfia And we just got another boost from Dr. Scott Well, what's the same amount with the same message that may be a duplicate 55,555 more or something's wrong there's a repeat of the same the first one either way, thank you again Dr.
Scott for that appreciate that. We like the live boosts when we go live and Okay, so you you started you're like hey, you know what, I don't see a lot of of microphone reviews. And I want to I want to start just just putting it out there and has it always been Have you ever just like oh man, there's there's people making money doing this. This is what I want.
I want to I want to get out there and and I'm gonna be like the hottest microphone review channel, and I'm gonna use clickbait titles and, and weird pictures of me making funny faces on my thumbnails to try and make a million dollars on the YouTubes
10 out of 10 Absolutely I every single video I try to make it as click Beatty as possible. So our pilots something along the lines of sure SM seven B review slash test compared against the electro voice our e 20. absolutely
got to get them clicks completely clickable, you got to just the
most clickable, most enticing title that has ever been made.
We did an episode on clickbait. You got to have your face on. Yeah, you got to have your face like doing the Home Alone face. There's oh my gosh, there are so many YouTube channels and they make so much so many views and everything telling you how to do your thumbnail to make people click your video. And I guess if you're going for mass appeal, you got to use those slight little psychological tricks, but um, excuse me. Yeah, that's that. You seem to be more niche.
Yeah, I never expected a YouTube channel about microphones to have 1000 subscribers, let alone 300,000 So do you feel
like the the COVID situation got you a lot more. A lot more viewers and listeners because of people wanting to start podcasts because there was a huge boom right around. I mean, we started a month after COVID lockdowns went into place.
Yeah, big time. So right around, I think it was May were really picked up for me. I think that's because people realized, Oh, we're gonna be working remotely a lot more. So it was less everybody filling their time with podcasting. And more. I need a mic to sound good. So my boss doesn't think I'm an idiot. So I think that was a lot of the the boost in audience that I had. And I looked across all the other
audio YouTubers, everybody had a big bump. And on top of that a lot of people were just stuck at home looking for something interesting to to learn about
just watching watching more YouTube in general. Just and that now that that's Thankfully all over and will never come back. Totally. Full on loop, pull on your caller there. That's all over and we'll never come back. Do you think? Have you seen Have you seen your numbers go down to specifically since you were you did get the huge bump from COVID?
Or? Yeah, absolutely. My views and everything is down. I'm looking at figures that are 2015 2016 numbers back when I had 10,000 subs. It's a mix of things, I think we see drops because not only are people going back into the office, not only are people losing interest in making podcasts, but people have less disposable income. So they're not going to spend it on something like a new microphone. Right? If they have a decent microphone, as I bumped my elbow, they're going to be fine.
They don't need to upgraded every year like a phone, you don't feel that need. And that's the beautiful thing about mics. They have an incredibly long life. You can get a microphone and use it for 30 years. That is unheard of. In modern day society.
We have we have about 10 CEOs of microphone manufacturing companies that are in our audience. So just absolutely don't give them the idea of making ones that only last a couple years.
Now that was outgoing XLR analog microphone, please. And thank you.
Yeah, I like that. And but, and like I said this SABC I love it. I love the way it sounds on my voice. And it's going to last so long. But then that doesn't let me go look at other microphones. You know, because I'm one of those people. If I've got a good pair of shoes, I'm not going to go looking for new shoes. Even if I see a nice pair of shoes and they're a good deal. I'm not going to get them I've already got a pair of shoes. So now I will buy different mics for
different purposes like this one. If I'm doing voice acting of any kind, I don't use this one. I'm going to use unless the sound sound I'm going for. I'm going to I've got an AKG over there that picks up a lot more it's a condenser mic so it picks up a lot more subtlety and you know you want that so, but I'm not gonna go buy another condenser mic because that one sounds good enough. So my my new shiny syndrome doesn't get doesn't get appeased as much as I would like.
Well, I think there are two different kinds of people, there are people who look at microphones simply as tools. The se v seven for both of you is just a tool, you get it to record your voice for a podcast, it does that it doesn't Well, you have no need to upgrade. You have the AKG, you have no need to upgrade. But then there are people who have a sickness in the brain like myself, who are constantly seeking a slightly different tone. Oh, that the top end on this is ever so slightly
smoother. So I think that's worth a couple $1,000 more. No, no, it's not. But it's that sickness in our brain that tells us Yeah, that's justified. So I think there, those are the two different kinds of people who look at microphones. And
I was gonna be you started the channel before you bought a bunch of microphones. I was like, did you start the channel just so you could write off all of your, your sickness purchases? As tax write offs as a business expense?
No. So I had that microphone that I'm on right? Well, a different microphone. But this is the model that I had before I started the channel. It's the one that kind of inspired me to start the channel CSM seven B. And it's still one of my all time favorites. So I know people hate the SM seven, I don't understand.
Why do people hate it so much? Because it's popular.
And on top of that, it's because it is popular. And that means that a lot of people who don't understand what it is, or if it's right for them, they buy it, they misuse it. And they put out audio that sounds bad. So that leads to the SM seven be getting a worse rap ends up getting panned kind of like the Blue Yeti. The Blue Yeti is a fine microphone, it works if it
fits your use case. Yeah. But a lot of people misuse it. It's designed poorly in that regard, where a beginner doesn't know what side to speak into, you'll see a lot of people speaking into the top,
it's because of the like it's like it's a stage mic, and they're talking into the top of it.
Exactly. And it also has multiple polar patterns. So that means it picks up audio in different areas around the microphone. And as four of those people don't select the correct polar pattern, which leads to it picking up far too much room noise. Far too much reflections. So although it is a fine microphone, it became too popular, and too many people misused it. So the Blue Yeti got a bad rap as well. And the SM seven B, although it's a different style of microphone,
and a completely different price point. Yeah, kind of it has this same syndrome. It's gaining the same reputation as the Yeti in that regard.
Yeah, I've I've wanted to try an SM seven B. And just for the I know that it's supposed to be good at background noise reduction, which is not as much of an issue now that we've put up sound treatment of the walls and things like that, but just a mess with one. But they don't have any microphone rental places around here.
And also the I did a bunch of testing, it's a bit outdated, because there are a lot more broadcast dynamics now. But when I tested 13 of them in one video. The seven B was one of the worse performing in terms of background noise rejection, so it was a it's not the best. If you're looking for background noise rejection and you're looking at the broadcast dynamic category, there are better options out there.
I feel like those the one we're using now does it does Okay, except for like there's one sliver right here that if something comes in from this direction,
I get about 70 degrees.
Yeah, so there's just like if, if I've got if I didn't have the fan in the room where it is because normally I can have the fan on and it doesn't really affect too much. But if when I had the fan in a different spot in the room, it would pick it up even though I wouldn't pick up stuff next to it. There's just that one spot that's sensitive to it. Yeah. But it's neat and you know, you want to use different microphones for different stuff. Leila Did you have a question about?
Yeah, what's a good microphone for like an instrument?
What kind of instrument
your instrument Yeah.
And the saxophone.
She's She's AXA
phone, okay. It's So the saxophone. I've never miked up a sax, but that has a very harsh top end. There may be an audio engineer in the chat room or listening who's going to scream, but my thought would be some kind of ribbon mic, maybe, because that smoothes it out. But it could also be He wants all of that detail and crispness. So a condenser microphone may be the right choice as well. But it's also really loud. So you need a condenser mic that has a high
Max SPL, what that means high sound pressure level. So if you have a low max sound pressure level, you can make the microphone sound distorted. And if you have a really loud sound source, like a jet engine, or a saxophone, I don't know why I pulled those two very similar sound sources. You can actually distort the microphone and ruin the recording.
When I when I started, we have we have the couple of pencil condensers oh, maybe we can. We can try those out. You can tune into those with your new saxophone. It is loud. Yeah. Like, when she practices that thing. I'm almost like go out of the studio. Because I'm like, No way. All the cool stuffs out there. I'll go out the studio. I've got good my Nintendo games.
You You have a couple of microphones, you have three different kinds. Try the dynamic, because that could be a good one. The se v seven is fantastic sounding. It's relatively neutral, it doesn't get overly boosted. But then you also have those pencil condensers which if I'm remembering correctly or the Behringer C twos, yes. Or were they Okay, so with those those are used a lot on a know the
Samsung damn G zero twos. Yes, Caesar Oh, twos. So pencil condensers are used a lot on acoustic instruments like violins or stick guitars. So maybe give that a shot. Yeah. And then maybe your your data let you borrow that AKG and try that on there as well.
Maybe, maybe. But yeah, I started let's see my microphone journey. And like I said, I'm not I try to only buy things on eBay. I've the first podcast episode I ever released. I used the ex Xbox 360 Rock Band microphone. Not terrible. It's not a bad mic. Surprisingly good. Right. So the first episode of media spot I recorded on that. And then after I got two or three, maybe it was the second episode didn't know that. Yeah, I gotta I gotta I was so funny how I had it rigged up. I
didn't have anything to hold the microphone. Except for the No, I didn't even have the stand that came with rock band because we bought it secondhand, and didn't have any kind of stand with it. And then and needed it to be like in the same spot at all times. And I was in this I was like under under a blanket to try and cut out the room noises. So I took a wire coat hanger, and I bent it and fastened it to where it would wrap around my
neck. And then like wrapped it around the microphone to hold it directly in front of my face. Because I needed my hands I needed one of them to like, hold the what I was reading. The other one. It was just as it was the whole it was crazy.
So it looked like one of those harmonica holders that Bob Dylan would Yeah, like a rock band microphone but
it was a rock band. I love him and made out of a coat hanger. It was the coincidentally it was the same coat hanger that I would use to get into the bathroom when I had accidentally locked the door and closed it behind me and I needed to get in there because I did that more than you would think an adult person would
I've only done it once and I used a staples gift card
yep to get into I gotta get in there. I don't do that as much anymore. I've learned I've learned learning has occurred. Talking about the audio technician in the chat room was going to scream about what she said blueberry in the chat screamed but it was for something unrelated to the topic at hand. So just let let me know if you saw that.
Blueberry and audio engineer.
Blueberry is a man of many talents. He is on the behind the schemes podcast, not a good show. With lavish on Monday nights at 1030 Eastern and he works on the road for plays and does like he's done. I believe he's done Disney on Ice. And he's done. Oh so he says yes he is a lighting sound and he does lighting sound and something to do with goats. I'm not sure if you if you listen The behind this game don't know what he's talking about. Blueberry. He's a man of many
talents is very, very talented guy. And he's a friend of the show you actually did an episode with this couple, four or five episodes ago, talking about talking about be on the road. He had some really great pictures of theater, behind the scenes theater pictures. And he's he's lit up a lot of really cool theaters.
So I would love to pick his brain about the actual audio engineering that goes into live theater because that kind of mixing has to be complex. Because you can't have 14 Open microphones, if they're all wearing headsets. They're all wearing the hair line mics. You need to have really dynamic microphone mixing.
Oh, yeah, there's there's a dude, from what I understand from what blueberry was telling me. Every audio guy that's working the mixing board at a live show. They only hire people with six fingers on each hand.
So they are very smart the way they
do. It's actually a very niche job.
But unfortunately, they've all murdered a nega. Montoya's father, so they have to worry about that, that the laws after him. Yeah.
Oh, wow. And he go Montoya. I told you he had the he came up with the movie references Leila, like you're gonna have some movie references thrown at you. Hard and fast tonight. Oh, I had a whole a whole thing. Oh, okay. So after that, I bought a Blue Yeti. Because everybody was buying a Blue Yeti, it's the best microphone in the world, right? For the price. And I bought it and I realized, wow, this thing can hear my neighbors arguing three houses down. So I, I
messed with it, I got it to where I could use it. And then I used that for quite a few episodes. And then and then didn't didn't release an episode for about five years. And then we started this show. As I started buying the gear we want the Behringer 8500s. Because they're $25. And way better than they should be at that price point. Absolutely. And then bought bought an interface. And you know, we've been working our
way up ever since. And with generous donations from our listeners, we've been able to afford a road caster Pro two. And that replaced all of the other audio gear, which I still haven't gotten around to selling. Yeah, but yeah, where where are we? Are we now where we are? And I don't see us buying anything else for a while. Yeah, I do enter all of the microphone contests where they're given away free ones though. So maybe we'll get some freebies that way.
That's the way to do it. Get the gear that's good enough to get the job done. And then if you get something for free, no bother. Yeah.
Or, you know, you always gotta be on the lookout for like a really good deal like somebody's somebody else is upgrading and they're selling their stuff for cheap, you know, and you'd be like, hey, you know, I know you take care of your stuff. And you get it off of them. I did sell the Blue Yeti
but I'm going to share something that may make you kick yourself I know that it's not popular to say there was a glitch but there was a glitch on Shures website and was for about six hours yeah I went where everything was 40% off
I did I saw it I went to the I was this close and for those listening you know how when you put your fingers really close together that's what I'm doing. Really close to getting a couple of essence seven B's but even at 40% off I was like you know what? I believe we had just gotten back from the cruise and we had spent the money that we spent on the cruise and I was like we don't really need
that's probably a smart decision. Yeah,
yeah.
We spent so much money on that cruise.
All right. And we got a boost from blueberry 17,776 which is the blueberry boost bandroom very much enjoy your discussion on audio gear. I super easy not at all rabbit hole. What what did you type blueberry? is super easy not at all rabbit hole of a question. Okay, so I'm guessing a super easy but I I have a guitar, old line six amp and a moku Motu MK four interface. Not happy about the tones though. I'm hung up on either moving in a pedal direction or perhaps it is or
perhaps is there more wiggle room with plugins. Also, would you would you make your music bootable?
Okay, very good question. I have I have a few follow up questions, but I'll assume we're not going to get answer so well. He's in the chat. So yeah. If you are recording the line six amp directly into your interface, I would say stop doing that. Unless it has a line output that's designed for that, it's likely going to sound funky, it's going to sound wrong. What I would recommend is getting
something like an SM 57. And putting that mic on the actual line six speaker on the speaker cabinet, because that's how we actually hear the guitar amp. So that's what's going to sound most natural. You do have another option, though, where you don't use your amp at all. Yeah, mic, the amp is the best route to go. The other option is using amp simulators. The way you would do that, take a quarter inch out of your electric guitar, plug it directly into your your audio
interfaces, instrument or Heisey input. And then record that signal into your digital audio workstation, which would be Pro Tools, Logic Pro GarageBand, something like that. And then there are these things called amp simulators, which take that raw guitar signal. And they simulate an actual guitar amp so you could then change it. After you've done the recording. You can try a bunch of different guitar amps to get the exact right sound.
So Vantrue Where are you a nerd?
Why Why am I a nerd because I have no life. Too much free time. Like I was listening to this and you're like
her eyes are just glazing over.
Yeah, it's fun. So
the the reason that I am so nerdy about audio is because I find it so amazing how accessible it's become. Because that means that a lot more people are going to be able to get their artistic or creative ideas out to actually convey their ideas. And that's pretty cool to me.
It is it I think that's really cool. And our philosophy about being a nerd on this show is that literally everybody's a nerd about something. Yeah. When you're a nerd about microphones, you may be a nerd about your own kids, you know every single possible thing about them and you talk about them all the time. And you may be a nerd about football or politics. You know, there's being a nerd about Leila is a nerd about fun. Not fun factor Fridays. Five Nights.
I don't talk
to facts with Freddie. Freddie.
We're starting a new podcast. That's actually a surprise. Totally.
What would it be? It'll be brains. Fun. Five facts night at Friday, Friday. We've been
saying that five times fast. I'll do it later.
I'm a nerd about brains.
Yeah, she's she's really into like, brain chemistry. All that stuff.
I like the way that people's brains work.
Okay, that's very cool. Very complex. Make sure to steer clear of ABI normals brain.
Abnormal. I'm unfamiliar. onken.
Steve. What?
What?
Frank Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein. Whoa, okay. Gorgos to get oh my god ox over the normal one and it gets the abnormal. Abnormal. Yep.
Okay, it has been 7000 years since I've seen them.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
There's Well, I'll tell you later. All right. I'll learn about so. So yeah, it I enjoy the fact the microphone it lets like what I do with me this pod. I love the fact that I can get voices from people all over the world. And then I can go into a DAW and I can make it sound like they're in the same room together at the same time. With their, their voices bouncing off the same walls and being interrupted by the same
background noise. And it's just it's an amazing, amazing thing you do like like blue, blueberry and the chat waveforms can change the world. And it's yeah, it's it's honestly a fairly easy thing to nerd out about. Once you start start looking at it. Like I learned that the they sold just the like the capsule for the SC seven se v seven. And like you can get a wireless thing and put it on there. And you can you know there's
interchangeable parts. I want to build a microphone. I never Well, I've always wanted to like not always, but ever since I started looking at him, I was like, This doesn't look that complicated and get the soldering iron out and go grab some. I don't know what what vibrates a bee's wings, I'll go rip up these wings off and strap some electrodes to it and get a read. Yeah, gotta read from the saxophone and hook some
electrodes up to it. So, and any any tips for us? As we start to venture into video again, before we were streaming, we were Simas, streaming to our own website, using open source, video streaming software, and Twitch. Would you recommend even doing a YouTube channel at this point? Is it even is there even a reason to start a YouTube channel?
Absolutely. Absolutely, there is. I know there are a lot of people who think YouTube is the bane of the entire world's existence, that YouTube is evil. But YouTube is incredible. It provides so many people the ability to get their voices out there to share their what they're excited about and to find an audience and community. Yeah, and as far as sorry, go ahead. Yeah,
into nerding. out about what they're a nerd about. Exactly.
And as far as finding that audience, it's so much easier on YouTube, not everybody is going to grow a channel and have 10 million subscribers. You may find that your channel maxes out at 1000. But that's 1000 People 1000 People are interested that have heard your voice. Exactly. And they care about the same stuff that you care about or care about what
you have to say. And that is amazing. There's this whole skewed, I guess, perspective or belief or hope that I'm going to start a YouTube channel and become the next YouTube millionaire billionaire. Why does it have to be that? Why can't it just be? I found a community of people that I like interacting with. And that's incredible. Most people don't have that. That's amazing.
We that's kind of the way it was, I can't remember who we were talking to about this recently. But we were like, you know, we have, we've got a modest audience with this show. Probably because we haven't marketed a lot, we've got a wide appeal where you know, a fun educational show. That's kid friendly, right? But then I'm like, we've got this many people listening to us. It doesn't seem like a lot compared to what you see on YouTube with some of these superstars or whatever.
But if you took that many people to interview people, right, and you put them in a room, you'd be Wow, that many people show up every week, to hear what we have to say. By choice, you know, and it really is, it's amazing to think about, it's crazy to think about, and then when I mean, we've done stuff to like we did a Christmas parade here in town. And there was 15,000 people there. And we were up there in front of them, they were cheering for us. And we were just, we were live broadcasting
from the back of the float that we made for ourselves. It was it was just it was just a truck that we decorated with a truck. We made some banners with the show logo and like, you know, listen to us on, you know, this, all the things we had a QR code and but just getting the opportunity to stuff like that, and like my wife has some co workers that listen to the show. And you know, it's like, it's so cool that we have people who want to listen to us, they interact with us, they send us
stuff. I know we've got a couple of our coffee mugs and on people's desks at work, you know, it's it's so neat to to build an audience and interact with them. I don't know what we would do with a million a million listeners or viewers. I don't know what we're going to do with that.
So you stress out, you stress out and every single thing that you put put out is now an incredible burden. Unless Unless you're irresponsible, and you just don't care about the impact that you have. That's a horrifying proposition. Yeah, having that many people listening.
Yeah, cuz you know, they're there. There's going to be people that are going to cause problems in your community, once it gets to a certain point. And they're going to, you know, give you a hard time for literally everything you do because then that's just how it is. Like, for example, bully steed in the chat right now, me this video of the parade or it didn't happen. Love you bullies to hear. I don't think we have any Video. I know we do have pictures and the audio from
it. But nobody that I know of. There might be some out there. But yeah, so I mean, did you have any questions for us about? Anything? Let's try to thank
you. Yeah, absolutely. What is your favorite fact that you have learned over the life of this podcast?
Rats? Don't I don't even know if I've mentioned this in the podcast, but rats don't store anything in their bodies. They just eat it and poop right out. Like, it just goes straight through them.
Just grabs what nutrients can on the way through? Yeah. Like,
that's so cool to me. So resting
when so when that mouse was eating the oats. We didn't mention this on the podcast. I wanted to Oh my gosh. Okay, so this is one of those things that would be so much better with video. Are you going to tell what happened? No, you can. Okay. So we have some food in our garage. Like where we store stuff, you know, stuff you can put in a garage and not cause problems with it. Right? Well, we had some oatmeal, some some oatmeal from Sam's two big huge bags, oatmeal. And it was time
to cycle that into the house and you know, restock it. So it was out there for a little while. Went to go grab it. And there's a little hole in the top. Like now, Scott Scott. It was one of the few things that we didn't have in a container that allows couldn't get through.
But we also we looked at it and there's little poops
and almost no oats missing. Yeah, so this mouse, this mouse chewed through the boss chewed through the bag at the top of the bag. Ate a couple of bites oats was like you turned around. And this hole was super tiny. So he had to like back up to the hole in the oats. And drop a deuce.
He just wanted a restroom you wanted to toilet. I guess it's made a good toilet again. And
it just ruined the whole two pound bag of oatmeal.
So isn't that expensive? We weren't
but still it was not Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't that big of a deal just like two
years ago.
Well, it's it's the personal attack. It literally has it out for you. It felt
personal. It did. It was that mouse ended up underneath our piano. And it was a whole situation. I am looking for the pictures bully steed. I will have to get back to you. I'm writing and write that down to do that. For the for the parade pictures. Yes. And actually, if I can find them that they should be in the chapter file. For this episode,
he made a friend with this mouse.
I did. It was under the piano and you know those little grabby things like it's like a maybe a two or three foot long metal tube. And it has a pusher on one end and a little little grabby claw comes out the end for picking up like tiny screws when you drop them in the car engine or something. We got a little bit cheese, I got a little bit of cheese and put it on the end. And I was gonna like coax him out right? Well, he
made friends with the end of the grabby thing. I put it under there and he pulls the cheese out and he like kind of like goes to nibble on the the rest of the cheese on the little metal piece. But then he started like hip pushing it with his nose and like batten at it. And it was in a playful way not in like an attacking it way. So he became he became friends with it. So then I started playing with him, you know underneath anyway, he didn't come out and then the cat got him. So poor
guy, poor guy. I felt bad. So proud. Yeah, the cat was very, very proud that she she got got rid of the mouse.
Did she bring you a gift she did how you found out and my wife
almost stepped on it barefoot. Because she loved it right at the end of the bed. And it was during the night that this happened. So she got out of bed and if she hadn't been looking where she was walking she were to step right on it.
This is why I keep my door closed. She brings me roaches sometimes
we find Occasionally she we don't have a lot of bugs. Where we're at, thankfully, and when we do that cat is on top of it. It looks at the spider she's afraid of spiders. Yes, she is afraid of spiders. So
like bad at it in this way. She does not like spider she's okay with roaches. And I don't
know what my favorite fact is. We've just had so many I'm trying to think of one that was like like, wow, oh, you know what? It has to be the volcano in the cornfield. It has to be that one.
What is that?
So there was this guy? It's it's on our volcanoes episode. There's this guy. And he was out in his cornfield and it just started shaking and then boom like two days later, there's a full size volcano in his cornfield. That's it. I'm gonna find the source for that one. I'm gonna go to fun fact. friday.com and click episodes, and then find the volcanoes episode by pushing Ctrl F.
But we had a cert idea, but we forgot the volcano,
volcano. Ah, we're gonna have
like popcorn coming out of the volcano.
There you go. That's great. We can
make a I do it. Here we go. Volcanoes can grow quickly. Although some volcanoes can take 1000s of years. Others can form overnight, for example, the cinder cone volcano, para Kooten appeared in Mexico and a Mexican cornfield on February 20 1943. I love the way you just said Mexico, Mexico. Within a week, it was five stories tall, and by the end of the year, it had grown more than 336 meters tall.
What Isn't that ridiculous. So
my man's out there and he's like, he's like, all right. So I got I got some corn growing. Just hanging out. And then Marlboro barometer oil. And then by the end of the week, he had a 50 foot tall volcano erupting in his cornfield, just making it making it all popcorn. He went
on a vacation and he came back and he was like, where's my corn go?
Where'd my field go? Why is it so hot?
That's shocking. That's that's something we need to be worried about. Or aware about. I hate
it once a new fear gets unlocked. There was one Oh no.
When I buy a house, the backyard may turn into a volcano overnight.
There was a house exploded I think in Pennsylvania recently. Because there are mines underneath it. And gas had built up in the mines and blew up the house. That was a that's not a fun fact. But anyway. Stuff like that. New fear unlocked. Yeah, there was one where a guy was driving down the street. And I only saw the aftermath picture. Nobody was hurt. Thank heavens. He was just driving down the street and the
car in front of them's tire hit a huge piece of rebar. And it bounced just in such a way that it went underneath his car, and then went to bounce back up, punched through the floor underneath his feet. When he's driving, and shot up straight past his face. barely missed his face and stabbed into his seat rest had the head part of his seat rest. His head rest is what that's called. That's what that's called
the head part of a seat rest. I like that better
bully bullies deed says hashtag climate change. Yep. Volcanoes just erupt and
this is what we need to be worried about. Yeah, so
I'm like I'm like Okay, so now I got to worry about random rebar just stabbing into my face when I'm driving that now. I got to think about that.
That there was the tire that came off the truck in California and just launched the the car into the air. 15 feet. Oh, no. Yeah, that was really a popular video a couple of months ago.
Another thing I'll put in the show notes if I can find it. There's a very funny video. Not funny for the guy. But he wasn't seriously hurt. So he was walking in a tunnel. And the tire came off of the vehicle and hit him. Right knocked him over. And then it's like a security middle video from inside the tunnel, middle middle, and the tire goes further down the tunnel. Well he gets up and gets us gets himself situated and
gets his bag or whatever he's carrying. Well, the tire had rolled down the tunnel but could because of the speed of which it came off. But it was going uphill. So it got to the top of the hill rolled straight back down. And he wasn't looking and boom right into his back knocked him down.
My gosh. Are you sure this wasn't kind of no it was the watch that hill sketch or something.
It was though the cars were all trying to dodge it and they were oh my gosh, it was so I will try and find that it was like a year ago I watched it so I'll try and find that and put it in the show notes if I can find it. So that's parade pictures and the tire hitting the guy. That's what I got. That's what I gotta find. So yeah, that's my favorite fact. Volcanoes can grow quickly.
Thank you for that new fear. I needed that.
That there was a TV show. Manifest. I think it just finished up a couple months ago that was part of the plot was a volcano was growing underneath New York. So well I
remember the Why am I drawing a blank on his name Tommy Lee Jones in the 90s action movie volcano,
which came out right around the same time as Dante's Peak is, which is why I get the two confused.
Dante's Peak the Pierce Brosnan vehicle which is incredible with Linda Hamilton if I'm not mistaken.
I don't remember. All I remember the scene at was LA was a Tommy Lee Jones one. And they put up those traffic barriers to hold the lava and, and they were spraying it with water hoses from the firetruck. That's what I remember about them, right? And then I remember in the Pierce Brosnan one, he got hurt somehow, but survived for multiple days when he probably really wouldn't have in real life. Yeah, and it kind of broke broke my suspension of disbelief.
So to tie Dante's Peak to bring this full circle, in Dante's Peak, Linda Hamilton is the mayor of this city. And she's giving a speech. The microphone that she's using on the lectern for that speech is the Sennheiser MD 441. You.
You're a nerd.
Classic, handheld dynamic. Yes, I take windows of this microphone and a movie and identify them.
We were watching last the other day. And there was just a girl speaking into a microphone, and I was like, oh, that's the bla bla bla bla bla. And also,
it's always the SM always the SM 58. Every every microphone on the cruise we went on was an SM 58. And they do not take care of them. Those things were dented up all over
the thickness.
But yeah, I love it though. You're great at this. So let's, we're sitting in an hour. So let's while we wrap up the recorded show. We appreciate the boosts from drab and blueberry. And yeah, check us out on store dot FunFactFriday.com Pick up some merch. bandroom Why don't you tell tell the folks where they can find you and what you want to plug.
Absolutely. If you want to find out more about microphones if you're looking to upgrade your audio check out podcast ditch.com podcasters.com. That's pretty much it. And that's like thank you for having me podcast with the word
age at the end. Exactly. All right. Yeah. So we're gonna see y'all next week. We don't we may or may not have a live show next week. We don't have any guests. But on the 14th we will have Kayla and Emily from QBO the mechanical keyboard manufacturers that we met at the convention, so we're going to be talking to them on the 14th live at 7pm on that Thursday. Nice. We'll see y'all next week. Stick around for the after show if you're here live
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