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I'm not dead...

G'day bloggers,

Relax, I'm not dead, I know it's been a few days between posts, but I've been preparing some awesome audio stuff for ya's for next year.

I'm absolutely amazed. Never would I have imagined DAT tapes that are nearly 17 years old still play fine without errors. Which is terrific because I have a lot of my 2RDJ-produced material on them and just got around to transferring them in the last couple of days - and I'll be presenting them next year on the blog. Some of the stuff is awesome but some of it is "huh? What was I thinking?". Anyway, the tapes survived (thankfully as some dillweed had only rolled ONE deck, ensuring there was never a safety master of any of these tapes - the transferred stuff were the absolute final mix tapes..*the* masters..). Tell you what, either they were stored fine or the Tascam DA-20 series of decks handle the tape really gently.

Can anyone say hot? Oh boy. We are sweltering in Sydney right now. Hang onto your hats as the temp climbs to 40 to 41 degrees tomorrow.

Oh and a gripe with Sony - you have cans (headphones) that break easily. I have TWO pairs, each a different model. State of play is this:

Exhibit A: V100 series - no sound in the right channel. Sussed it out, no disconnected wires on that side. Cable break. Undo cable to patch it up. Find cable has white insulation around it stopping flow of signals. Try and strip this away without a soldering iron and you totally screw up the good wiring. Grrrr...

Exhibit B: V250V series - plastic headband that breaks easily. Wanting to source another V250V headband as the cans work fine without cable problems anywhere. Be a bugger to chuck 'em as they work fine. Break is just above the left earpiece where it's on a swivel base - portion where it suspends has broken off leaving left side in collapsed state and feeling very uncomfortable when worn.

Exhibit C: Borrowed sister's cordless cans - not bad, but stupid thing can't handle a decent signal level. It ducks, and it ducks often. Sometimes it's so bad it sounds like an audio compression box has had it's gating circuit up too high. Triple grrr...try doing mastering with this piece of crap. OK for listening but nothing else.

Still, it's not all bad tonight I guess - I had the most wonderous packet of Salt 'n' Vinegar chips in the last hour and about to get onto a very cold glass of Milo. Yum!

posted by Frankster @ 10:51 PM