Daily Archives: February 9, 2004

I’m not that bad…

Sometimes I worry that I’m a little bit of a packrat. On the other hand, it’d take a lifetime of work before I got to be as bad as some people.

I think I’m going to go home tonight and start throwing stuff away…

Home Brewed Music

I’ve been playing around with audio a lot lately, both for work and for fun. Work has been mostly doing cleanup of the audio track of a keynote lecture that we videotaped. I made the mistake of trusting some new equipment and recording the live sound from the lecture in the camera instead of sneaking an audio recorder into the podium and synching it up in post-production. Fortunately, the shareware sound program Amadeus II does an excellent job with filtering out excess room tone, finding odd peaks and amplifying low points without distortion.
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