Xander's Random Audio Shite

Author: KanawhaCountyWX

  • Exceptionally Good Vinyl Mastering

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    While sorting through my late father’s last record crate, I found a copy of Weather Report’s 1977 album "Heavy Weather." For some reason this is amazingly well mastered, not sure why it caught me by surprise as much as it did but damn this sounds good. Turntable is an AudioTechnica AT-LP120X using a VM95 cartrage.

  • Live (For Once In A While) (MIDI Recorder Demo)

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    five-track Yamaha keyboard MIDI recorder demo of a song I’m working on. Not at all polished in the slightest, just a quick proof of concept.

  • Whoops, I Left Speech Mode Enabled

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    Recorded from my internet radio station which relays emergency alerts for the whole country. I was using a computer to monitor a particular source, and I forgot to turn NVDA’s speech off, so this happened during a Severe Thunderstorm Warning relay

  • Chipmunk Radio News

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    This is what happens when you stitch two files together using FFmpeg, and don’t normalize the sample rate

  • Certified Angry Xander Noises

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    KanawhaCountyWX

    We lost power this morning, and our big Generac backu generator shit the bed months ago, so we broke out the spare Black Max generator, except it was running terribly, and when I’d switch the choak from start to run it’d just die. I can’t wait until we get the damn Generac fixed.

  • Audio Processing Torcher

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    So as it turns out the song "2 Funky (Radio Mix) by Candy Dulfer from 1993 has very poppy percussion that brings heavy-handed audio processing down to its knees begging for mercy. Here’s how this song sounds through GranComp3’s Deep preset, and I can hear it screaming in pain.

  • This Is Only Three Synth Voices?

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    My hat is tipped to the Commodore 64 chiptune greats. This particular track is the title screen music from R-Type, composed by Chris Hulesbeck and Romero Vaca. Keep in mind, at any given moment, there can only be three notes occurring at once, so for chords and the like clever rapid programming tricks had to…

  • MIDI On The BrailleNote MPower Is Something…

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    KanawhaCountyWX

    I used to own a beat to hell HumanWare BrailleNote MPower, and this unit had a software MIDI synth that was removed in the Apex, not sure if the Classic or PK had the software MIDI synth. The synth file is "wince_gm.dls" and according to Jake Gross, some samples in this DLS are stored in…

  • apco pROJECT 25 aUDIO qUALLITY cONCERN

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    KanawhaCountyWX

    So I’ve finally gotten my Uniden Barecat BCD996P2 digital trunking scanner working the way I want it to (I had one setting set wrong and it was decoding everything.) However, I want to gripe about the audio quallity of P25 Phase I. West Virginia uses P25 Phase I and Phase II for a lot of…

  • Adventures in Locating a Missing Phone Handset

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    KanawhaCountyWX

    Context: the first part of this was a video I filmed on my phone to share with some sighted friends on Discord. I needed to emboss a document on my embosser (circa 1995 Juliet Brailler), and I had to move stuff from atop the lid (small LCD monitor, cordless phone base, stack of paper, spindle…

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