Merry Christmas

Yeah,

Just here to say Merry Christmas all.

I hope you're doing well in whatever it is you do.

Maybe next year will be awesome!

And by the way, watch this... (I helped with some audio)


Watch it in You Tube in full HD! Yeah!

Old Things

Here's one old thing:

Welly Stomp by mgarthaudio

And here's another:



So the first one, "Welly Stomp" is a track I wrote on the DS-10 about a year ago probably about a year anyway. It's a dedication to Pete Wellington, just because he like synths and thought welly stomp sounded good at the time.

The second one, well... the music is about a month old but the video is about a year old -I decided one day, when walking back from town with Ed (wearing a wooly hat in summer) and Simon (the other one) when I decided to film them walking. I had to keep running past them to get the next shot.

I don't know why I did it.

Still, there's the video, i just wanted to put the music on YouTube with a video, so I used an old video instead of filming something more recent, such as... snow?

Yeah, it's snowing.

Again.

Actually, I was walking home when it started to snow and by the time I got home the left side of my body (and face) was covered in snow and numb because of the wind. Then a gritter lorry drove by spraying salt which kicked up everywhere, and as I was merrily singing in the snow I got salt in my mouth. Salty.

That sums up my entire day. So far.

Cool.

Mmm Helicopters

Now then,

Film is all done and sent off to the editor. Great. Only thing is I missed the delay caused by channel effects! It's about 86ms, which is noticeable, and I've asked the editor if he could trim the first 0.086 seconds off the track to get it back in sync.

Nevermind.

Now, it's the Harriers' (jet) last flight today. I don't know much about planes, but that aircraft is incredible! Shame to see it leave. Anyway, I was watching the news and the planes were going on a last flight past a few RAF bases near me. Great. I charged up my batteries and prepared my recorder only to read that they started at 1pm and landed again at 2.45pm or something (it's now 3.30pm) and I missed them.

The last flight and I missed them.

However! I was looking out of the window at a rainbow and I see headlights in the sky. "Ooo" methinks. So I scrambled outside and recorded this:

Chinook Fly By by mgarthaudio

Yep. Chinooks. Although this is just a clip from the recording. I'm really pleased, little to no background ambience/noise, just the heli. You can even hear it squeeking! Very cool. At least now I've got a good quality reference file (96kHz/24bit).

Well, until I find something else to talk about...

Farewell

mixing = done

I've slowed down considerably with my posts.

Nevermind.

I've finished mixing the film, send it off to the editor tomorrow morning. Hopefully he'll like it. I've tested it on a couple of speaker systems, tweaked the bass a bit more (my stereo speakers don't have much low end response, but my 5.1 sub shouted at me to cut down the bass! so I have done).

I think dynamically speaking it sounds good. As a documentary style film, it's a lot a talking and not much action.

A couple of times I enhanced the mono sound effects with a short delay (about 28ms) for a better stereo effect, and the used MS (mid-side) techniques to widen the stereo image a touch. Tried to restore the bad audio -removing clicks, hiss, hum, buzz etc but in some parts I couldn't do anything.

I normalised the entire film to -1dB, which should be loud enough. I orignally thought I was working to -10dB, but that's for television, and apparently film has full use of the dynamic range? If the test DVD is too loud or distorts or whatever, i'll address them when they happen, otherwise job done. I'll post when the film is live!

Next? Any offers? Want your film/video/music mixed?

Updating

Hi,

I'm busy and rather cold so I'll keep this short...

Yesterday (Monday) I had my job interview for a position in Southam, for a QA position. Whether or not it went well; I'll find have an answer withint the next two weeks hopefully. I really enjoyed the experience, it was my first ever interview as well. Seemed to have a great working environment and great people working there.

So that was fun.

Today, back to (temporary) work as an image processor (photoshopping pictures for use on an internet gift website).

Then this evening I baked a cake thing -i decided to make a flapjack style thing, then poured sponge cake mix over the top (cinnamon flavour, with raisens, sultanas, currants and chocolate drops). It's interesting. Tastes good enough.

Finally, the rest of my evening I spent remixing a film -I now have all the music, dialog and most of the sound effects. Just waiting for one more scene and it's done! You can watch it at last!

Very exciting!

Oh and I'm playing Pokemon Heart Gold at the moment, just caught myself a shiny red Gyrados with one net ball. Oh yeah! And great news about Golden Sun DS coming out really soon, and I played a demo of a game called "999" or something, it was quite fun -had to search for things, make things, remember numbers, work out clues, although I don't think there's much replay value...

Now I'm blogging off, cheerio.