Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009 No Comments »
On our recordings at church there has been a very audible hum. Last night I spent a couple of hours trying to get rid of the hum. I discovered that when I connected the board to the new recording PC, the noise went away. A balanced connection is most likely the solution. This has been [...]
Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009 No Comments »
I am a little tired of having my servers break. Lately, I have been having to do maintenance on my servers almost every night. My backups haven’t been running for a couple of weeks now. I have been trying to move everything off the old web server so it can be my dedicated backup server. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
My current web server needs to be rebuilt so I have been trying to move everything to another server. I first tried to move my PHP apps to a Windows Server 2008 box. I must say I am not impressed with the FastCGI module in IIS 7. If could have been due to the OS [...]
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
I finally got around to connecting our church piano to the MIDI controller. I must say I am impressed with the setup. I spent a couple of hours downloading a bunch of instruments. Most of them are not worth using, but I found some good grand piano and Fender Rhodes samples. I still have a [...]
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Has anyone seen the new Pepsi Refresh Anthem commercial? It starts with Bob Dylan and shows a series of then and now pictures. The final montage is some rapper that is supposed to represent our generation. Does anyone else have a problem with rap being our generation’s defining music?
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2009 No Comments »
When we moved into our new house in August of 2008, I was in a hurry to get my servers and network back up so I tried putting everything in one closet. This turned out to be a bad idea because I have been fighting heat problems ever since. Mike, a friend from work, offered [...]
Posted in General on Mar 13th, 2009 No Comments »
I have purchased some equipment so I can do some multi-track recording at our church. We are also going to try and use a MIDI controller to interface with an audio program so we can change the sound of our piano. I order the parts for the PC and the piano and they should be [...]
Posted in General on Mar 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I am so ready for some consistent warm weather. This weekend was very refreshing. I got to vacuum up some more leaves. Yeah!!!
Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
With part of our tax return I decided to buy a bass guitar (and many accessories). I have always wanted to learn how to play. I have been playing for about 3 weeks and I am still having fun. At some point I think that I may play in our church’s secondary worship band. I [...]
Posted in General on Jan 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Have you ever noticed after it snows that everything sounds different outside? Everything is slightly muffled. I was filling up the car with gas and a car drove past the station. I could barely hear it because of the two inches of snow on the ground. I also enjoy how the moonlight reflects off of [...]
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