Remember Remember the 5th of November
Anyone who corrects me and says 6 days gets banned.
Just kidding, lol.
Just kidding, lol.
The Radio Project Post
I promised I would make a post about it eventually and this is the one.
In summary, this project was quite typical. I had an idea which seemed good and easy enough to do, I had the capabilities to try it out and did such, and upon execution, unexpected and unforseen issues came up.
My big issue with this project is the amount of planning that needs to go into it. Every station (theoretically) needs DJs, commercials, a playlist, guests, so many things to say and so much scripting. Spitballing on a mic is much much harder than I thought it would be.
The second toughie was mixing. Whereas I had a really high quality microphone and really good quality music files to use, they still didnt mix well together. Trying to alter my voice was a big issue as well, echo effects did some justice but my voice still stuck out like a sore thumb.
Third thing was final product. The original intent was to have these stations as CDs for use in my car, but while making them that too became problematic. Originally I was going for each vocal and song being seperate tracks so I could skip them, but then my voice would never blend with the music. I tried making mega chunk files so my voice could blend more, but then the files would be hard to skip on a CD, so if i felt like avoiding some song some day I would never be able to. (or some/all the vocal tracks....)
Ultimately it became an unsolvable conundrum.
Since what I had made so far I'm not proud enough to call finished, (and due to copyright issues....) I won't be releasing any audio from the project. That being said, I may at some point try uploading some of what I have done and linking it on PTE for people to judge and tell me what they think I could do to improve/be less bad/make fun of me. (ok I'm joking about the last one)
However, the station ideas and song titles planned to be used will be posted on a PTE page, (which will replace the SOTW, because I've decided to scrap that idea yet again lol....) so those interested can see how far the project got before the red light(s) came on.
For those who commented and thought it was cool, appreciate your support.
On that note, I'm back to "working" on more ric-olzow projects. more ideas at least...
Also the secret project I talked about some posts ago.... I've lost interest and will likely work more on it later. Its really mediocre, but if you're curious to see it, check it out HERE.
Maybe someday I'll actually finish another project....sigh...
In summary, this project was quite typical. I had an idea which seemed good and easy enough to do, I had the capabilities to try it out and did such, and upon execution, unexpected and unforseen issues came up.
My big issue with this project is the amount of planning that needs to go into it. Every station (theoretically) needs DJs, commercials, a playlist, guests, so many things to say and so much scripting. Spitballing on a mic is much much harder than I thought it would be.
The second toughie was mixing. Whereas I had a really high quality microphone and really good quality music files to use, they still didnt mix well together. Trying to alter my voice was a big issue as well, echo effects did some justice but my voice still stuck out like a sore thumb.
Third thing was final product. The original intent was to have these stations as CDs for use in my car, but while making them that too became problematic. Originally I was going for each vocal and song being seperate tracks so I could skip them, but then my voice would never blend with the music. I tried making mega chunk files so my voice could blend more, but then the files would be hard to skip on a CD, so if i felt like avoiding some song some day I would never be able to. (or some/all the vocal tracks....)
Ultimately it became an unsolvable conundrum.
Since what I had made so far I'm not proud enough to call finished, (and due to copyright issues....) I won't be releasing any audio from the project. That being said, I may at some point try uploading some of what I have done and linking it on PTE for people to judge and tell me what they think I could do to improve/be less bad/make fun of me. (ok I'm joking about the last one)
However, the station ideas and song titles planned to be used will be posted on a PTE page, (which will replace the SOTW, because I've decided to scrap that idea yet again lol....) so those interested can see how far the project got before the red light(s) came on.
For those who commented and thought it was cool, appreciate your support.
On that note, I'm back to "working" on more ric-olzow projects. more ideas at least...
Also the secret project I talked about some posts ago.... I've lost interest and will likely work more on it later. Its really mediocre, but if you're curious to see it, check it out HERE.
Maybe someday I'll actually finish another project....sigh...
Sickness
Apparently I have a throat infection
There was a strep throat test done. Highly unlikely strep though.
I'll get my voice back soon and should get better given time.
Have you tried the new spoilers yet?
I'm working on a super rad secret project!
but dont tell anyone k
no its not the radio project which I'm still sorta working on too. This isn't the last post of it I spoke of though.
Static in the radio project
While making strong headway with the Radio project, I stumbled upon complex issues:
I realized that making the file a giant mp3 would make skipping songs (because not every song fits every moment) impossible. This rendered my method moot. As well, I never thought of it, but the vocal bits could become tiresome as well, hearing them over and over.
This has made making 'true' radio for CD useless, thus for the CDs I've scrapped the idea and are now just burning the plain music on the discs and labelling them after the stations.
However, that leaves me wondering about the mp3 chunks. I've also created a bunch of logos for the radio stations, figuring that if I were posting them as videos, something like a logo to stare at would be better than a black screen or something lesser. I may still make the mp3 chunks and post them to PTE, still deciding on that bit. Regardless, if all else fails, the logos and info about what thought went into the stations will be posted. (as with the logos and info, theres no issue of any copyright qualms)
Expect one more post about this radio business thing. It's certainly given me much to think about in terms of audio engineering. And radio itself.
I realized that making the file a giant mp3 would make skipping songs (because not every song fits every moment) impossible. This rendered my method moot. As well, I never thought of it, but the vocal bits could become tiresome as well, hearing them over and over.
This has made making 'true' radio for CD useless, thus for the CDs I've scrapped the idea and are now just burning the plain music on the discs and labelling them after the stations.
However, that leaves me wondering about the mp3 chunks. I've also created a bunch of logos for the radio stations, figuring that if I were posting them as videos, something like a logo to stare at would be better than a black screen or something lesser. I may still make the mp3 chunks and post them to PTE, still deciding on that bit. Regardless, if all else fails, the logos and info about what thought went into the stations will be posted. (as with the logos and info, theres no issue of any copyright qualms)
Expect one more post about this radio business thing. It's certainly given me much to think about in terms of audio engineering. And radio itself.
Green Light and Radio Free Riccy
As you may have guessed from the title, The Great Gamble of 2013 has succeeded! The dates have been confirmed so no alternatives are needing to be sought.
It's actually very good that they have been, because due to booking tickets and dental appointments, this trip actually turned 'Go or Go', before being green lit. Drastic measures have been averted is all I can say. (Though this seems to happen every time it seems... Ah well, always good planning plan B and Cs...)
As a reminder to those interested it will be from November 5th-14th. Also noteworthy is due to changes (hence how it turned 'go or go'..) I will now be accompanied by my mom, staying at my uncles in Hometown (The one I was living with, remember?). I will also very likely be staying at my sisters new place during this time too, though how this will affect availability is yet to be known.
Yes this means I have more than just bus access.
In other news, the radio project has actually been coming along smoothly, though it stands at its greatest hitch yet: recording DJs and mixing music/DJ to make the files. After whenever I figure that all out and actually get it done, I have planned to "release" the stations. They will be available as videos on PTE, more on that later.
For those in Hometown, See you in November.
It's actually very good that they have been, because due to booking tickets and dental appointments, this trip actually turned 'Go or Go', before being green lit. Drastic measures have been averted is all I can say. (Though this seems to happen every time it seems... Ah well, always good planning plan B and Cs...)
As a reminder to those interested it will be from November 5th-14th. Also noteworthy is due to changes (hence how it turned 'go or go'..) I will now be accompanied by my mom, staying at my uncles in Hometown (The one I was living with, remember?). I will also very likely be staying at my sisters new place during this time too, though how this will affect availability is yet to be known.
Yes this means I have more than just bus access.
In other news, the radio project has actually been coming along smoothly, though it stands at its greatest hitch yet: recording DJs and mixing music/DJ to make the files. After whenever I figure that all out and actually get it done, I have planned to "release" the stations. They will be available as videos on PTE, more on that later.
For those in Hometown, See you in November.
(Somebody might get this picture...)
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