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Speaker 1:It's also as I swallow saliva in my mouth. It's also brought to you by patreon.com/ichrissupporters. That's a really terrible sentence. Let's try that again. Supporters of my Patreon, which you can check out at patreon.com/ichris, which you should doubly check out even if you've been there before and you're like, no way I'm not giving this schmuck any money.
Speaker 1:You should go check it out because there's a video on there featuring my son who's hilarious and awesome. Well, my kids are awesome and hilarious, but, just in that moment, my son Mason joined me and was awesome and did a great job of playing off of what I was doing. He didn't, it may look like like if you watch the video, maybe it looks kinda like I was, prompting him or there was a script for him or something, but it was literally like I wanted to make the video. He was being annoying wanting to play, which, you know, how dare he. And and on a Saturday, less.
Speaker 1:Who plays on Saturdays? And I was like or maybe it was Sunday. Either way, it's the Lord's day. You rest. You don't play.
Speaker 1:Anyways, we I was like, I wanted to make this video. I wanted to get it done. I just wanted to get something out. I made tried two or three previous attempts at all. It just looked like garbage.
Speaker 1:I was I felt like an idiot. I looked like an idiot. I talked like an I wanted to do something. So I was like, k Mason, you're gonna help me. So he was gonna just sit on my lap, put on the headphones, and sort of listen as I did it.
Speaker 1:But then he started like chiming in with comments after I'd make said stuff or did stuff on the video. And, and like mean, the version that's on there is edited. Like, I chopped it down, but it didn't do any sort of manipulation of what he said or when he said it. It was all like timed. It's all linear.
Speaker 1:Just, you know, chopped out all the extra bits, I guess. The not funny bits, not as funny parts. But, so, yeah, definitely please go check it out. Please share it if you think it's funny because it would be awesome to have more people see it and, maybe wanna support to it. So I'm doing here.
Speaker 1:I also, someone to record a video or not a video, an op episode, audio episode today because I got a new little piece of gear that came in. I should have done a video version actually. It's a thing called a Fethead, and all it is I'll post a picture on Instagram or something later, but all it is is it looks kinda like a little XLR microphone and it or a jack, little mini cable adapter kinda thing, but it's just a pass through for the mic so that from the mixer to the microphone cable that kind of boosts the signal without boosting extra hiss and noise, which the microphone I have, a Heil PR 40. I know this isn't the podcasting show, the Show Me Your Mic podcast, but you might find it interesting. The PR 40 microphone that I use is really, needs a lot of juice, a lot of power, a lot of volume, basically.
Speaker 1:And so a mixer such as mine amplifies the signal, but the mixer the preamps on the on the mixer tend to be a little bit loud or hiss. They're not they're good. They're not bad, but it definitely kinda breaks up and gets a little hissy at the top end, and it doesn't leave me a lot of room to boost it even further if I wanted to. So what this does is gives I think it's 27 decibels of pure clean ampage amping ampering. I don't know what the word is.
Speaker 1:I'm not a sound guy. I just play one on podcast. But anyway, I'm gonna switch it now halfway through. Don't even know if you'll be able to hear the difference. Like I definitely I was playing with it before.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's something where you'd notice a difference necessarily but it does give me a lot more headroom in the audio to play with and mess around with. Okay? So I'm gonna hit stop and then, when I come back, it'll be with this other thing. You tell me if you hear a difference. Make my $100 worthwhile.
Speaker 1:Yep. That's the end. Okay. So the this is now with the Fethead installed. For any audio geeks out there, I had the gain on my channel, mixer channel around it was like nine or 10 before.
Speaker 1:Now it's down around seven ish or so. I'd have to I'd have to play with this a bit and and find the sweet spot, but it definitely gives me more room to crank it up if I wanted to. It's probably is a bit louder than it was before. I I need to sort of, like I said, figure out what's a good volume for what I hear in my headphones, which I can just adjust here locally. And then what you guys actually get in the audio file should be louder than it was anyways is what I wanted it to be because it was really low low level signal that I was getting out of the mic and mixer.
Speaker 1:Now what I have to do, next step, doesn't stop there. Don't worry. There's there's still more money to be spent, is do a little bit of soundproofing in the room because as this thing now picks up more, it's louder, the gain is better, I can hear more echo and sort of tinginess in this room, which up until now I hadn't really noticed too much because it was lower level audio. So that's my next project. Carpets on the walls maybe, egg cartons, you know, the usual.
Speaker 1:Anyways, go check out the Patreon video. The, I was gonna say something else, I don't remember what. Lots of fun happening over on the YouTube podcast. Good stuff dot f m slash at you two, a t u two. The band is over in Germany right now as we speak recording or playing a concert, and, it's crazy how much listening and periscoping and mix learning and basically being able to tune into a live concert on the other side of the world.
Speaker 1:I said to Sue the other day like walking around the house I've got, Mixlr is the an app that just streams audio basically and anyone can record audio and then broadcast it out with that app. And so there's lots of people who are using this for concerts and it's kind of crazy that I'm walking around our house you know making lunch listening to a concert happening for on the other side of the world effectively broadcasting off of thing in my pocket. It's not like some massive, you know, computer box that has to do all this processing and receiving of audio and broadcasting it out. It's like someone in Berlin is holding up a slightly larger than credit card kind of sized thing and somehow from that device is being broadcast to my little credit card sized device in my pocket. Kind of weird when you really think about it.
Speaker 1:It's pretty amazing. We live in crazy times. Okay. On that note, I'm gonna go see how the concert ends and get some work done, and you should too or not. I don't care what you do.
Speaker 1:Drink some coffee. Have a chocolate. You deserve it, and go watch the Patreon video and tell all your friends. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
Speaker 1:Bye.