lynxreign | Ah, Friday!

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Ah, Friday!

Here I am at my last day on this job. The economy isn't great, but I have some leads on new jobs. I'm hoping my time between jobs isn't more than a month. We'll see. I'll probably apply for unemployment on Tuesday, or at least find out how long I have to be out of work before I can apply.

Seven more hours here and I'll be able to put this whole unpleasant experience behind me. I'm looking forward to having a little time off. I'm going to use the time to work on some programming: teaching myself new languages, working on my own projects, doing some for other people and boning up on OOP. I'm also going to continue going through my crap. I've another box or two of things I think I can get rid of and some shelving I can either give away or sell. I've already put my pinball machine on Craig's List and that's where the dvd/cd shelves would go too.

Unless someone reading this wants them? Anyone want dvd/cd shelves from Ikea?

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Yay for getting out of there. Congratulations!

I would covet the cd shelves, but I think they won't fit zipdisks so well, and that's what I need to store. That, and cassettes.

Perhaps when I am ~~old and grey~~ older and totally bald I will have developed a complete elephant's graveyard of dead recording media. I've got the Victrola, cassette players, a turntable and cassette fourtracks and a digital 8 track that records to Zipdisc. I need an eight-track cassette player, and maybe a stereo reel-to-reel to feel like I've really got started.

Wow. Zip discs. I remember how great those were. And Jaz discs were da bomb. ONE WHOLE GIG! It was mindboggling.

Now, less than ten years later, I've got six gigs of RAM and something like 20 TB of storage. I <3 progress. :D

Yeah... I have a Jaz drive...

Why did I just picture you saying that with Jazz Hands...?

Yup. The Roland vs840ex was brand spanking new in 1998 and could record 8 tracks of (data compressed) editable audio to a 250mb Zip disc. 6 tracks, if you wanted better sound. A significant improvement in sound quality and editing ability over the cassette 4-track machines I'd come up with, though recording time was/is pretty limited.

MEK STILL HAVE TWO ZIP DRIVE.

REMEMBER... SCSI?!?!

=M=

ARGH! I hated SCSI!! I used to waste so much time troubleshooting the SCSI arrays I used to have. The worst was taking them on the road. The fucking things NEVER worked when I arrived.

Hee. The Roland has a SCSI external zip for storage. I can swap in this dingus that lets me record to 1gig CF, which gives me all 8 tracks at the best level, but it's a little hitchy sometimes, so I swapped back to zip. I figure I'll do that until the drive kicks the bucket, then put the CF reader back in.

MAKE SURE NO CHANNEL CONFLICT, MAKE SURE NOT SELF-TERMINATE MID-CHAIN...

MEK PROBABLY STILL HAVE PHYSICAL SCSI CHAIN TERMINATOR SOMEWHERE IN BASEMENT.

=M=

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I have an 8 track player, a portable, wind-up victrola, a turntable (that can also play 78s), a cassette player and reel to reel tapes, but no reel to reel player.

Any DAT?

The shelves are wall mounted. If you'd like I can get one to show you this weekend.

No DAT. When it was state of the art, it was too expensive for me. Then I got hold of a MiniDisc recorder, which worked nicely for taping rehearsals. That died on me a while ago.

I wouldn't mind seeing one, if it's easy for you to shoot.

What am I shooting?

Oh, I thought the shelf thingy.

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MEK HAVE DAT RECORDER SOMEWHERE IN BASEMENT. GOT BACK IN DAY WHEN WAS PRIMARY FORMAT TO SUBMIT DEMO TO LABEL, BEFORE CR-R!

=M=

I always had someone else in the band who had one... and once I got going with CD-R, labels went kerflooie. I use the CD-R for mastering, but sometimes I think I should just skip it and go straight to MP3, since that's the main way anyone ever hears m'stuff anyhow.

We still use DAT a fair bit for field audio. And AIT for media back-up.

What are these "cassettes" you speak of...? :p

They're those things you left in NJ for someone else to dispose of.

No, I only left CDs there. I left those cassettamathingies back at my parents' place. :p

Not all of them!

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Ah! Wondrous things. Two spools of thin, magnetically charged tape, in a plastic housing. You needed a machine designed to convert the magnetic fluctuations on the tape into sound waves. What you'd do is, you'd put the cassette into the cassette player, press play just like on a CD, and then the tape would get all tangled up inside the player and you'd have to throw the whole shebang out and get a new one.