Dusty Chalk

Celery

Happy belated birthday! (party favour noise)

I agree about wired, but I will still say: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro -- $180-ish $160 open box at Sweetwater ...because nothing isolates like they do, other than IEMs (nothing I've tried other than the Koss Pro 4AAA or whatever the nomenclature was, and those are uncomfortable as heck) There's a trick to making them not boom, but I don't remember what it is -- match the impedance? Headamp pico? Also, for $200-ish, you can get them in all black. Dan probably meant the WH1000 XM6 (my current housemate has the XM3s), which are over ear, sound good, and isolate enough that she doesn't hear me if anything is playing.

I did Chinese takeout, as I do every year. It was delicious.

I haven't seen another Alton Brown post, but there were a couple others, so: first episode of season 3 of American Gods

Happy birthday, Ric! (party favour noise)

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2596646917320744 Hiromi Uehara, David Fiuczynski, Tony Grey, Martin Valihora - "Ue Wo Muite Aruko"

Happy birthday, Ken! (party favour noise)

You know, there's a Chris Rea fireplace "visualizer"...but it's Christmas music, so I, personally, will pass. I would love an ambient/IDM fireplace, though... Ah...close enough...

Right now? The Road to Hell. In general? Lots and lots of Chris Rea. Tasty guitar playing, tasty guitar tone, tasty singing (Ohmigosh, that voice...), tasty songwriting. Just...tasty everything. Dude was peak.

😭 Fuck.

Huge thanks!

Does anyone know if the Headroom Portable Desktop Amp is center pin negative or positive?

Some Anti-AntisocialPersonalityDisorder-ant would be a start

AI is not yet at the stage where you should trust the answers given you. For example, I used an AI to translate an algorithm (Reverse Bits in Word by Lookup Table on this "Bit-Twiddling Hacks" page) to Rust, and the values in the lookup table that it came up with -- it had trouble converting the macros to values, plus it didn't use macros -- were wrong. Fortunately, I know Rust well enough to have vetted and corrected the answer, but I feel the same needs to be done for everything -- let it suggest to you, but don't copy and paste the answers, make sure you understand everything it's doing with its solution. That said, it can be a very powerful tool -- I used the entire translation (fraction of a second) and vetting process (an hour or two at the most) as a learning experience. I would recommend you do the same with your efforts. E.G. don't assume that the fault was yours, make sure you understand exactly what the fault was, and learn what it would take to fix it. Or if it was the AI's fault, learn what it would take to have caught it before building the circuit.

(waits for another Alton Brown post before posting another American Gods post)

RIP the two servicemembers and one civilian in the attack in Syria the other day. (pours one out)

"According to multiple sources, the couple were killed by their son Nick, and their bodies were discovered by their daughter Romy. " Oh, man, that's fucked up. Two someones are going to need a lot of therapy...I wish them both eventual peace. something something not oedipus something something

Finally getting around to American Gods, picking up where I left off (starting season 2).

I don't have experience with a lot of ribbons, but I was fortunately stopped from going down that rabbit hole by my local professional musician friend, Dave, many years ago. There are a lot of ... not good ribbon mics in the budget area. And yes, I know "DIY" ≠ budget, but since ribbon mics are so easy to get wrong, I wouldn't. I have my beloved Shure KSM313, which I would recommend for string ensembles (and vocals, which was going to be my primary application), but they are not cheap, and a matched pair will be even worse. Instead of ribbons, you would do well getting a matched pair of large condensers, like a Rode NT2A. (I have two, but they're not matched...that said, if you're not adamant about imaging, you can always do a Blumlein pair, which doesn't require a matched pair, and yields a very comfy stereo playback experience.) General comment for both of you: I would recommend listening to grawk over me on this subject, he has far more experience in this. I even still have some of his hand-me-downs.