The H2N is solid. I used it to record the guy's recital (he played Für Elise), but I also recorded video with the iPhone. The iPhone audio distorts in few places and has muddier bass. (It is still amazing given that its mics are tiny.) The H2N did pick up the sound of my feet moving, but that could have been my mistake for putting it on the floor.
I bought a Zoom H2N handheld recorder from Goodwill, and I knew there was a risk there but was still disappointed that it added a quiet but audible pitched noise (maybe around 1760 Hz?) to its recordings. You can hear it in the first bit of audio I attached. So, today, I took it to the basement and took it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it. Nothing. I put it back together and tried it out. No 1760 Hz whine! Miraculous. Like turning a computer off and back on again to fix...
We went to the NEC Brass Bash (well, half of it because it ran too late for the guy), and the played an all-French-horn Jurassic Park! The best piece, though, was Eric Ewazen’s Concert Fanfare. I didn’t bootleg that, but here’s MUSIK UND KUNST PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT DER STADT WIEN performance of it . Half of the power came from the acoustics of that concert hall, though. To this day, large acoustic performances in space like that haven’t been captured by recordings....
Some nice hard rain is happening.
The guy is trying to learn Cave Story on cello now.
Dracula’s Recital
These high schoolers warming up have a really mature tone.
Egg Stackers I wrote some filler music this morning. Even though it’s purpose is transition, I still want it to be good, like the acoustic bits on Master of Reality.
Some sounds from our house
We now have two trumpets in the house! Hooray for affordable plastic trumpet technology.
I thought I came up with this riff, but it sounds very familiar.
The guy can play the Mario 3 Airship BGM! (AKA, Mars, Bringer of War, Jr.)
Jingle Bells!
Trumpet is happening!
Deflating packing material
I accidentally recreated a version of the Super Mario Bros. Starman theme, but I think I’m going to keep it. Playing two chords with syncopation isn’t a thing you can lock up for one song.
Who knew a bowl with water in it could be so cool?
Thumb on mug handle: It’s not a bad sound!
I haven't done the Disquiet Junto for a while because I've been spending my music time on a long project. Then, I took a break from that to work on a shorter project, but that turned out to be long, too. This is the 666th Junto prompt, so I felt I had to make time for this. I noticed that "six" backwards sounds like "skisk", so I recorded myself saying "skisk", then reversed the recording to confirm this. Then, I wrote some riffs. I was able to play the triplet one backward, but the other one wo...
Hey, if you says "skiss" then play it backwards, you get "six."
Two-handed Tetris progress continues
The sadness of Russian blocks dropping wafts through the house
There’s a graveyard’s worth of riffs that haven’t worked out for this Mario Kart type song. This isn’t even all of them.
Two-handed Tetris underway. I tried playing this on guitar. I am totes not used to playing two parts at once, and it was a train wreck.
Another Rush E wipeout. There’s progress, though.
The sound of the sea!
Porting Tetris to all platforms
Starting on the Tetris
Middle school strings at this camp are tight. Maybe more impressive is that they’re actually imparting feeling and style into their playing. A lot of middle school kids never get past the mechanics of playing the right pitch at the right time.
Elementary/middle school guys already sounding better than last May.
