An interesting night this week. Enjoy the mp3s. See you next Wednesday at The Fawcett Inn.
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Whimwise played on the 24th.
Fresh from last night’s regular Wednesday Open Mic at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Southsea.
Grant, on track 2, will be playing with his band in the pub next Thursday, 30-8-7.
Altered Native at The Fawcett, audio problems seemingly overcome now.
Firstly, a short note about this recording. This was recorded on the same day as I installed iLife 08 and with that the new Garageband, we also had plans to use Aggregate audio to record some ambient mics with an iMic, this didn’t quite work so we gave up on that and just recorded as usual. Unfortunately not all went to plan and it wasn’t entirely apparent until after the recording.
I have been using the left USB slot on my MacBook Pro for every recording so far, but for some reason it has now decided to have some sort of audio corruption when going form the mixing desk to the left USB. You hit record in Garageband and all looks fine until you stop the recording and play back. The recording mysteriously becomes half it’s length and also speeds up. Randomly clicking the “Follow Tempo & Pitch” box eventually sorts this but there’s a noticeable hiss in the recording (as can be heard in these). Switching to the right USB seems to fix both of these, however M-Audio apparently don’t recommend using the right USB on a MacBook Pro. The his is also noticeable when recording directly into Quicktime so I don’t think it’s a Garageband thing.
Even more confusingly, to try to isolate what exactly is happening I plugged the iMic into both USB connections. In the right USB you get an even louder hiss and in the left USB it’s fine.
The long and the short is that I’m now running the desk into the right-hand USB but if anyone has any explanations or suggestions I’d be grateful and whilst I am tempted to blame Garageband 08 it just seems too unlikely.
Anyway, here’s the recordings and sorry about the quality.
These are recordings of the bands last night – Midnight Dance Party, The SLM and Black Fox. A few slight audio hitches again, it’s all a learning curve.
There’s even an iTunes podcast available for this, but it only shows the first of the files for each entry.
It seems that every post is a Fawcett Open Mic post these days. Well, not one to buck a trend here’s another. And if you’re one of the acts who played and have found this site looking for your mp3s – hello – and leave a comment with a link to your site if you have one.
It’s worth noting that we (Jonny and I on the sound, don’t think I’m doing all this myself) had a few issues with sound levels at the start. So with out further ado here’s Fresh from this Wednesday’s Open Mic at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Southsea.
Asylum Seekers, Myspace »
Trancient Dreams and Akahum have very kindly let me upload this Friday’s (10-8-7) live recordings from The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Southsea.
Fresh from this Wednesday’s Open Mic at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Southsea. Meet us next week.
Maybe I need to get myself a domain purely for these.
By the way, If any of these are you leave a comment linking to your site or whatever and I’ll add in the details.
Lots of fun, went well again last night. Here’s some MP3’s, basically separated by artist;
And here are the previous weeks for prosperity, including Tribe of Cro and previous open mics.
Meet us every Wednesday for Open Mic from 8pm at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Southsea.
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