Yes I was ill and in all likelihood should not have been  driving   Friday, Sat or Sun ( oddly I was recovered enough for work) but I had intended to  record   two authors discussing their upcoming book  for a podcast and vidcast.  I had no  idea there was going to be a third party there "directing"  and trying to recreate  the smoothess of Michael J Fox as seen through a heat haze  by Mr Magoo . 

In short I deferred the video section to a "professional" that would rather use a digital 8 single CCD with internal mic rather than the 3ccd external solution I'd carted.  Then the fun about  mic placement, trying to keep them out the shot,  er thanks , but  no , I need my mics just where they are.  ( When you realize the sound  that the camera took it's a major ass saving)  Seemingly people on the web have a short attention span.. er bollocks.  People with short attention spans happen to use the web too  anyone that sat through a 14.4 modem render of a page clearly has some staying power

The Zoom H4:  You get a lot for your money. A nice UI is not one of those things and trying to make quick on the  fly changes to the levels , should you need to , is something I'd avoid. So I set it up nicely only to get a low battery warning, yes I had spares but on changing them all the settings  are lost.  JOY!   I'd love for this thing to save recording profiles or just have a manual  gain wheel or external control  that's not several  clicks into a menu.  For the money this is still a bargain though I may start directing  casual users to the H2 which debuts soon.


After transferring 880MB of audio  into my poor single core p4  decided that nearly any change would take 2-3  minutes, any really complex change   a cup of coffee and a book.  Thankfully  I'd been to Fry's  on the Friday  for their anniversary sale.  I walked out  with a core duo chip and mobo for $90  and am still giggling. I've still to build the system( toddlers are no use for assistants)

Spent last night editing the "directors" continued interruptions, miscues and just general ass-hattery out with Sound Forge 9  which beats the snot out of the predecessor ( my last update was 6)  for the task.  I'm not sure if it's myself that's improved re workflow of identifying regions and marking them up, the shuttle that lets me wheeeee through the long boring bits, er valuable content , or that I can save the workspace as I want it  so I see the same views for same tasks all the time.   For two track editing I still go to this program more than  Pro Tools and Cubase.