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November 13, 2006
Concrete Skyline at the Ruby Room tonight
If you're bored in the east bay tonight and you like my radio show, come down to the Ruby Room here in Oakland between 10PM and 2AM and hear me spin some music. The Ruby Room has fun hangouts and booze. Seeya tonight.
Posted by gene_wood at 01:30 PM | Comments (0)
November 05, 2006
Picking the right mixer
Tapco is a generic brand made by Mackie for people who
want a mackie device but don't care about the mackie brand (economical
mackie mixers basically). The one that looks most interesting is the
equivelant of the Mackie 6306, and it's called the Blend 6. It goes
for 99$ pretty much everywhere. There may be additional differences that I'm not seeing between the two. The 6306 is 20$ more than the Blend 6 and 6306. Let me know if you notice any. [Obligatory Proaudio Porn]
The Mix.50 is a 5 channel mixer, with only 1 mic in. It runs for 45$, but 1 mic input, just isn't enough. It looks kinda cute.
There's a "Mix.60" which is like the "Blend 6" but goes for 60$. There are significant differences however. The blend 6 has 2 mono aux sends, essentially creating a second stereo bus (in addition to the mains). The Mix.60 only has a single mono aux send creating 1 stereo bus and 1 mono bus. The Mix.60 has a less detailed VU meter (4 LEDs instead of 8), but it has a midrange (2.5kHz) EQ knob, missing on the Blend 6. Both provide phantom power.
Tough choice. Unfortunately the next step up, at least from Tapco, is the Blend 16 which goes for $380. The rest of the "Mix" line continues to lack 2 stereo busses, which just kicks it out of the running for me.
I'll post again when I get one.
Posted by gene_wood at 12:04 AM | Comments (0)
November 04, 2006
A better way to write blog entries
The web interface to MovableType is pretty good. Good enough that most people (including myself) haven't looked for or even known that there was another option. I recommend downloading Firefox 2 (though it's not necessary) and getting the free Performancing plugin. I'm going to try it out, you may want to also.
The URL to configure in Peromancing is http://mt.cementhorizon.com/cgi-bin/mt-xmlrpc.cgi
Posted by gene_wood at 11:22 PM | Comments (1)
November 01, 2006
Safe in the Castro
Last night was a great time in the Castro. To those who've been wondering how we all are, the answer is fine. At 10:40pm when the shooting was, everyone was over at 140 Noe (3 blocks away) partying. It is a bummer that each year, Halloween in the Castro is less and less our community having a good time and more and more an excuse for south bay punks to drive up, start fights and make rude comments to women in slutty Halloween costumes. Thankfully, at least, it looks like no one died.
Posted by gene_wood at 10:30 AM | Comments (5)