I had a blast recording an International Mac Nerds podcast with @martinfeld and @burk. We all met one another through micro.blog, so a big thanks to @manton and @macgenie for creating the rendezvous point.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: silhouette 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: the boy among the play equipment. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: I think it’s time to clean the filter of our heater. 📷 #mbaug
Keep Practising 13: Interview with Patrick Canion
Andrew is joined by his brother, Patrick Canion to discuss his work and life, most notably how he has made the transition to living in Switzerland after spending his entire working life in Perth, Western Australia.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: sound 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: the best way to transport your turtles. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Nothing fancy today, just the windows at the front of my home. 📷 #mbaug
It might be my imagination but this Microblog Photo a Day challenge seems the best yet. Lots of interesting and high quality photos being shared. Thanks @macgenie for coordinating it all.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: black-and-white 📷 #mbaug
Have I only now discovered that when typing URLs in Markdown - I don’t need the //. I can type https:url.com. For how long has this been a thing?
Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: As a parent this makes for a nice view 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: daytripping 📷 #mbaug
How can the input levels of two USB microphones be so different? The Rode Podcaster barely registers a waveform while the Audio Technica ATR-2100x is ready to blow past the point of clipping. Both USB mics. It’s doing my head in trying to level them against one another. 🎙 🎤
I am so terrible at sticking with a single note taking system. I really tried to consolidate on OneNote… Then I remember the cool features that NotePlan has that would fit perfectly with what I’m trying to do here…
Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: I decided to bisect this PB&J sandwich. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: The pattern on my jumper has a bit of flow to it. 📷 #mbaug
Down the Podcasting Microphone Rabbit-hole
Oh boy, it’s happening to me. Some months ago when I made the decision to start doing some podcasting, I did my research and selected the Rode Podcaster microphone as my weapon of choice.
It’s been working fine for me, but at the same time, I’ve never been totally certain that it’s the right mic for me. I’m an amateur and I’m learning as I go but the Podcaster struck me as sounding somewhat ‘thin’. Plus the gain from the mic was really low. Research suggests this makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the end result but it still made me curious about other options.
The Podcaster was not cheap so I’ve been reticent to spend more money on hardware. Yet I could resist it when I saw a good price on the new Audio Technica ATR 2100-X which is a combination USB/XLR microphone. I’m still in the USB world directly connecting to my iMac. I haven’t - and at this stage don’t want to - go down the preamp rabbit hole.
Today the ATR-2100x arrived. I’ve given it a 45 second test to date, so this doesn’t act as a review. What I noticed immediately is that it sounded richer and the gain was definitely higher. However, the dynamic range was therefore more limited compared with the Rode Podcaster. In the test I did, the Podcaster handled it all whereas the ATR-2100x experienced clipping.
I will keep experimenting and will likely record my next episode of Keep Practising with the new Audio Technica.
All this is to say, it appears I may be starting the slippery slide towards becoming an audio gearhead. Send help!
Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: Peace walking to my new office looking at Perth CBD. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Bug 📷 #mbaug
Judging by this video my FetchTV DVR is going to have better universal search than AppleTV.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Floating 📷. This boat once floated around the entire globe. #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: Up 📷 #mbaug
