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What creative projects have you been working on?
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I've been doing more abstract art! I bought impasto and texture paste too. I wanted to try play with texture and things like that.
I don't have pictures this time because I don't think the current ones look good. But I'm trying to remind myself I did abstract to play and explore. As a release.
It should not be about whether it's good.
I was just gonna check and see if this topic was up! Fortuitous!! I am at about 30"-35" on my blanket! So about half. Unfortunately, the math I did for total yardage/meterage was not quite right so I won't have enough to achieve the height I want, which is likely because I didn't take into account how wide I made it. I'm going to use what I have for now and then order more. I probably will only need about 6/7 more skeins of each color, but the cost is gonna gut me a little. The overall cost of this blanket is a secret I'm taking to my grave because I didn't cheap out on materials ðŸ˜
I will post some pics when I get home! I'm just using a moss stitch but I think the effect of the two strands looks rather nice for such a simple stitch c:
Still eagerly awaiting those pics. I want to see this blanket! ;)
Keeping me honest over here xD I am forgetful lol but here's a few shots of the blanket so far! Hopefully the link works, this is my first time using the imgur app lol.
https://imgur.com/a/xf9mxiU
Oooh, pretty. I love that mix of colours! And I can't even imagine how long it's taken to make so far. Thanks for sharing. :)
Raising a child - it's really hard.
I've also taken apart the first arcade machine I built and am in the process of building a monster.
4 screens, new PC, pull out wheel, Dreamcast theme, ARGB addressable strips within and throughout.
Eager to get it done!
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I recently finished a sound proof room in my basement for my drums. I have started to dig into the sorcery that is sound engineering with the goal of recording a good drum sound. Along with that, I’ve started pulling apart some electronic music with stem feature in the sound recording software. Learning to balance out my acoustic drum sound to blend in with the songs (I’m a rock drummer mostly, but developed a fondness for Kpop). While I was at it, I want to see if I could record video of it from multiple angles, include parts of original video without getting copyright strike if I posted it to Youtube.
Its a bit of a mess, but hope it teaches me about:
I have experience mic'ing an acoustic drumkit in a live music setting. There are lots of good guides online on how to mic drums well, but if you want to have a conversation with someone I would enjoy talking about drum mics and all that
Thanks! I'm pretty much at the micro adjustment phase (eg. do I put the bass mic in front, inside center, inside off center, 3 inches away, 6 inches away, etc.). I managed to reduce a great amount of snare buzz by backing the snare mic about 6 inches from the drum pointed at the center of the head. This kind of stuff is pretty exhausting, but has very rewarding results.
I am however, never going to turn down insight from anyone who has clocked time in the arena of audio sorcery. I have found that most sound people have insight only experience can provide. Any suggestions are welcome!
Yeah, fine tune placements like that is not so much my experience working in a live setting, since I a, not just doing drums but other instruments as well so I have limited time on placement. If I am not liking the sound of the snare, I may do quick mic adjustments but normally it is good enough.
To try and record drums, there are so many factors that go into getting good recordings, which are:
Good quality drums. The drums should sound good accoustically. Good mic choice and placement will not fix a bad sounding snare.
Good amount of drum mics, and depending on how many mics, which you choose. Depending on size of drumkit, running 12 drum mics is not as crazy as it sounds. However, you can also get a decent recording with three drum mics, as long as they are the right type. By this I mean it does not make sense to have your three mics to be hihat, snare bottom, and a tom mic, if you have three mics, probably kick, snare, and overhead
Good mic placement, which is what you are working on. This one is easy to figure out (especially at home where you are not paying studio costs), by just doing adjustments and listening to differences. You could also find good basic guides online for it, like if you are running two overhead mics, to equally space them out, I believe they should be equal distance from the snare, but I can not remember exactly what the center point to measure from is.
Good mic choice. This does not mean the most expensive mics, as the Shure SM57 (costs $100) is a quite capable drum mic and is used quite often, especially for snares, but they also work on toms and hihat. There is also some personal choice on drum mics, some prefer a pencil condenser on hihat, while I tend to prefer the Shure SM7B when I have access to one which is rare.
I am 95% of the way through crocheting a blanket I started in June 2022. It has been a labor of love for almost 3 years now. It's for myself, so it kind of gets shoved to the side when I have projects for others that I need to work on. The pattern is incredibly intricate, and it uses really fine yarn, so it isn't huge for how much yarn and time it has taken. I have about 8 rows to go, and each one takes around 2-3 hours, so I have anywhere from 16 to 24 hours to go. I am determined to finish it before I start a new project!
Not particularly creative, but I spent some time figuring out how to circle-pack a given image.
Pretty cool! Is there some particular reason to do that or is it just for the art/fun of it?
I was certainly inspired by some art that I linked to above. My not so subtle agenda in such exercises is to remind people that you can build simple things like this in a cross-platform way without needing bloated, untrustworthy web browsers. LÖVE is a 5MB download and very infrequently updated. And there are zero ads or dark patterns.
I've finished up working on my new music release. An EP i've been working on last year.
Sent it out to the usual stores over the weekend and it should be available by mid-february. So, fingers crossed!
Unfortunately, I don't think many people will know about it other than friends and family.
But I'm working on improving the advertising myself.
I was going to wait for the next of these posts, but I'm so pleased with the result that I want to share. I finally got around to doing a risograph workshop and got to make my first print.
I've been learning and making my first few loop in sonic pi. I really enjoy it. I just wish more things were built in. A plugin manager would really make it my preferred way of making music