So I have been toying with the idea of starting a video blog on youtube. I feel like I need to do more with the Wreckless Media Radio youtube account along with push back those old shitty videos we did so people don’t get the wrong impression of us.
I think it would be fun to just have a 10 minute blog every other day, just to talk about whatever. Maybe something that happened to me that day. Maybe news with the show. Maybe recap last weeks episode.
I’m not exactly sure what it would be right now but I think I’ll just do a test vid and see how it turns out. Now I’m not sure whether I should post them on here or on WMR. Decisions, decisions.
For the past two years I have been trying to get that talk radio sound (as my last post stated). I got it sounding better but it STILL is not where I want it. So I’ve decided… I’m gonna hire a sound engineer.
I don’t care how much it costs or if it is even worth it. I am making a personal vendetta against shitty sound. Sounds dumb but I feel like a mad scientist, ripping my hair out.
After 2 years of podcasting and experimenting with settings and spending weeks and weeks tweaking audio I was never able to get the sound quality I wanted. I have always been seeking that deep, punchy, talk radio sound quality and it always seemed out. I’ve spent tons of money on equipment that people promised would give me that sound with no results.
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY, late last night after 7 hours of being in the studio tweaking audio I have FINALLY figured it out! I needed to reverse the polarity, no I’m serious. Sounds like something a crazy scientist would only say. Yesterday after reading around the internet for 2 hours I came across something called Phase Reverse. Now the description of phase reverse was in regards to an effect in Cubase. What this effect does essentially, is flip the sound wave on the timeline. I did this to a test recording and it looked more like the FM talk radio clip I was comparing my levels to. Read the rest of this entry »
We all knew that it was coming. We could hear the squawking of the Vultures months ago. Deminski and Doyle (D and D) are no more. The Day we have been dreading is among us.
As soon as 97.1 Free FM’s untimely death at the hands of CBS executives, all of us Detroiters let out a collective gasp of horror. All of our favorite shows were gone in a flash (and a lot of our not so favorite). Due to the overwhelming popularity of Deminski and Doyle, they were kind enough to spare us and move them from drive-home to mornings.
D and D have been in Detroit for almost 9 years. They embraced Detroit and in return we embraced them. They held a mirror up to life in Southeastern Michigan and we could see ourselves in it and relate. Besides being genuinely nice guys, they were damn good entertainers. Read the rest of this entry »
For the past week or so I have been trying to replicate a film look with my Panasonic DVX100b. The whole reason I got the DVX was to do this and it has the ability to do it, A lot of indie film makers use this exact camera, I just don’t know what the fuck I’m doing yet.
I have learned a lot so far and I am getting closer, but still not perfect. Believe it or not I have learned A LOT from a 15 year old kid from Tennessee. I found him on the DVXuser.com forum and I am in awe of his work. Take a look for yourself: http://www.mattmatheson.com/rage/film.php?…
That looks like FILM and he is using the same camera as me. Read the rest of this entry »
Well I haven’t made a blog entry in a while and I figured today would be a good time. I am at work right now pondering how I can best spend the next 8 hours until 5 rolls around. I’m all caught up on my AutoWeek work after being out sick for most of the week.
I have a few projects that I need to work on and finish soon. I have to finish up a shopping cart application for this guy here at work that is trying to sell his artwork from his site. Hopefully that goes smoothly. I’ve never made a shopping cart before for a site, but I can imagine paypal makes it easy. The other site I need to finish working on is the new Hometown Tales website. Which is what I might finish today. It should only take about 2 hours of solid work to get this thing up (crosses fingers). Read the rest of this entry »
I’m sitting at my desk right now in my office and I am waiting patiently for 2:30PM to roll around. I will be departing at 3:30 and will arrive 4 hours later in Vegas at 4:30PM. The SEMA auto show is happening and since I work for AutoWeek Magazine, corporate is sending me out there to video tape it. So from 9 to 5 everyday I will be video taping and interviewing people from the industry, checking out sweet cars and models. Then I will be hitting the Casino’s and getting trashed. So although it will be work It will be more of a vacation than anything.
I do wish I was going with friends instead of co-workers. Not that there is anything wrong with them, they just are a lot older than me. I’ll just pay a hooker to hang out with me all night. Read the rest of this entry »
I peaked my head out of that pile of stress and just when I thought I was escaping… bam! A whole new batch a stresses get dropped on my head.
One of these days I’ll get this shit outa the way.