Done, Done and done

Yes it is all done, thesis is in and project is over! Whoo hoo at last, I can get on with my life....well not strictly true, I still have to do a viva (presentation and questions) which is next tuesday....and then it will be really done....and I can't wait.

Haven't blogged for a while, because I was so busy with the Thesis (which went I handed it I realised that my graphs hadn't come out and my conclusion sentence was some how replaced with "111111111111111" ....ie something was on the keyboard before it was printed...oh well they will be corrections before the final thing is bound...i hope)

SO that plus I have been trying to get things fully operational in my studio and I have been encountering a few problems....it would seem that everything decides not to work at the same time....my power amp is crackling and causing one speaker to fade in and out, one of my guitars pickup selector is broken on the neck pickup. I have discoved a bug in Samplitude when trying to record midi note, it records them with a 5 minute offset....annoying or what. It seems to be due to my Korg Kontol 49 and the fact that it is USB. I will be trying it later with a bog standarf midi interface.

So the future....yes...time to concentrate on getting stuff up and running and income coming in...although it looks like I am going to need some form of employment to make ends meet....McD's perhaps! "would you like fries with that"

And the blog...well it is a year old now, it started to vent my frustrations with Danny Boy....and he is gone.....so now I am going to use it to focus more on my passion....sound. music and recording...so yes it will probably become very boring :)

Peace

Neil

Zank

A very brief post after what has been an incredibly busy week working on my thesis, as the deadline approaches.....very quickly. I still have a fair bit to do, experiments and adding my experimental results to the doc, but most of it is pretty much done. Just needs a good old read through.....so yes this is a brief post to point you in the direction of ZANK.

Zank is a totally cool short, from Mr Hal Weaver and it can now be seen at
Weaverwerx

Oh and I did the music and sound design on it. I will write a hell of a lot more about it asap, and I will also be posting a WMV version on my site.

Enjoy....it is well cool

Peace

Neil

Just over a week

and all this is over! And as previous posts have stated...I can't wait.

This week has been intresting, in terms of the fact I ran some experiments through my coder and the existing coder and well the output was.....noise! To be specific it was white noise. So it would seem I have 10000's of lines of code which produces white noise when ever you try to make an mp4 file. Great I can really see that taking off.

Anyhow after much investigation, it turned out that my input files were using a slightly different wav header format, than the coder was expecting (Hmm perhaps I should be writing this in my thesis instead of here!...oh well maybe i'll cut and paste this sentence!)....yes so now it appears to run my files, so I have to repeat all my experiments again. On running one file though, it is intresting to see how much quantisation noise is introduced when going from wav to mp3....it makes me sad to think that a generation are growing up listing to an inferior sound reproduction. It is also funny that studios are rushing to upgrade to 192Khz and 32 bit recording, yet their output will be listened to on a crappy iPod, with the life compressed out of it. Oh well that is technology I suppose....perhaps I really am now becoming an audiophile....but then again Analouge really does sound better....imho!

So once this is done what then? Well I am back basically, been off the scene for a while, but I am read now to get back to gigging, releasing and promoting a new Light B4 Sound CD and getting this film thing really rolling. I also have one or two other projects up my sleeve (yes it is a long one!) which I hope to get of the ground.

As for the blog, well yes it is about me and my life, but I am hoping to focus it a bit more on sound design and music so that it is intresting to read for those in the business....and I haven't got to much ranting left in me since Danny boy left. Well apart from the fact that out boiler isn't working and I have been having cold showers for a week now! But then again at least I have running water and food in the fridge and I am greatful for that.

This time next week hey!

Peace

Neil