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Note to self: stuff usually works better when you bother to check where it's supposed to be plugged in.
Yeah. So, after fiddling with the ion's effects and trying to figure how to route stuff and everything, (specifically the vocoder, 'cause vocoders are cool) and being mildly disappointed for a few days of fiddling 'cause I couldn't get stuff to work (but not too dissapointed 'cause I was always easily distracted by some other new knob or button or blinky), I bothered to, you know, check my most basic connections. And quickly remembered that I never bothered to switch them back from when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
r4c and I swapped stuff around and hooked the Prophet up in a weird way to record straight into the computer, skipping the mixer 'cause some needed adaptage wasn't readily available. I'd like to think I'd remember, or at least notice this stereo RCA cum mono kludge with a coupler on one side and the other side hanging flaccid and unused before calling into question my mad skillz, but no. Guess I was blinded by all the new LEDs on my new toy, or something. Routing is almost always common sense. Or it should be, anyway. (Unless you're working with Dr. Nick, who generally eschews the less-is-more principle in favor of More Gadgetry, or just odd whim. "Oh, the left channel of this stereo mix is 30 minutes in on track 8 of an unlabeled ADAT and the right channel's on track 6? Right on- we'll know exactly what was happening next week." But I digress.) Sometimes it's just a problem to make myself think linearly along signal flow for anything longer than a minute or two at a time, I guess. Unless I get into knot untangling mode (which is the same thing as cable-tracing mode, except with less leaning over) and be really content to sit quietly until I figure it out. I wonder how many other sound geeks also knit?
Long story short- vocoders are cool. And I can go to bed happy tonight having successfully played with mine. With some reverb and delay added, you know, 'cause that never hurts anything. S4 came in and told me excitedly that I sounded like... you know... that one song.
"Laurie Anderson?"
"Yeah! Yeah, her."
*grin*
Yeah. So, after fiddling with the ion's effects and trying to figure how to route stuff and everything, (specifically the vocoder, 'cause vocoders are cool) and being mildly disappointed for a few days of fiddling 'cause I couldn't get stuff to work (but not too dissapointed 'cause I was always easily distracted by some other new knob or button or blinky), I bothered to, you know, check my most basic connections. And quickly remembered that I never bothered to switch them back from when
r4c and I swapped stuff around and hooked the Prophet up in a weird way to record straight into the computer, skipping the mixer 'cause some needed adaptage wasn't readily available. I'd like to think I'd remember, or at least notice this stereo RCA cum mono kludge with a coupler on one side and the other side hanging flaccid and unused before calling into question my mad skillz, but no. Guess I was blinded by all the new LEDs on my new toy, or something. Routing is almost always common sense. Or it should be, anyway. (Unless you're working with Dr. Nick, who generally eschews the less-is-more principle in favor of More Gadgetry, or just odd whim. "Oh, the left channel of this stereo mix is 30 minutes in on track 8 of an unlabeled ADAT and the right channel's on track 6? Right on- we'll know exactly what was happening next week." But I digress.) Sometimes it's just a problem to make myself think linearly along signal flow for anything longer than a minute or two at a time, I guess. Unless I get into knot untangling mode (which is the same thing as cable-tracing mode, except with less leaning over) and be really content to sit quietly until I figure it out. I wonder how many other sound geeks also knit?Long story short- vocoders are cool. And I can go to bed happy tonight having successfully played with mine. With some reverb and delay added, you know, 'cause that never hurts anything. S4 came in and told me excitedly that I sounded like... you know... that one song.
"Laurie Anderson?"
"Yeah! Yeah, her."
*grin*
