Geoffrey Taucer

I'm going out of town tomorrow and won't be back until the 29th, so I figure now is as good a time as any to give words of holiday cheer. Happy Christmas/Hannuka/Kwanza/Saturnalia/Whatever the fuck you celebrate!

I definitely plan on entering this sometime, whether there are prizes or not.

Looks good to me, though I've never actually recorded a real piano. I'm sure articles exist on how best to record a piano; I just don't know where they would be, and I'm too lazy to look right now.

Several things to keep in mind: 1) Your soundcard is decent, but not great. Don't expect a flawless, pristine recording out of an audigy. 2) Pianos generally sound best recorded in stereo; you can't do that with just one mic. Also, I don't believe the audigy has any stereo input, but I could be wrong. 3) Do you have a preamp? A mixer? You'll need one or both to plug the mic in and supply phantom power. I definitely think the NT1A is an excellent choice of mic. I have two that I recently got for recording acoustic guitar, and they sound absolutely fantastic. I don't know if they'd work as well for a piano, but they are absolutely perfect for recording acoustic guitars. As for preamp/mixer/soundcard, I'm sure there are products out there that could cover all three; look for audio interfaces with decent mic preamps and phantom power.

So there will be an actual OCR panel? What are you/we/whoever going to do for it?

Sorry about the lack of any update on this little project of mine, I recently had some family trouble and haven't had the time I thought I would to continue the project. Anyway, everything is still a go, but nothing probably will happen until after the holidays. My apologies again and just keep your eyes open for some more news. No problem, no rush.

Jeez, 11 people staying at Zircon's?

Bahamut is officially my hero, and I will hump his leg vigorously next time I see him.

I swear I hit the "edit" button. EDIT: This has come up before

We still need to compile that OCR dining guide. And we can do an OCR cookbook as well.

(ignore this post; I tried to edit it, and somehow came up with another post)

Black Hitler?

GAAAAAAAAH! I STILL DON'T HAVE A WII!

Another question: if people being wiis, does that mean we're going to be walking around NYC carrying wiis? Sounds like a bad idea to me.

So any updates on this?

This is fucking awesome.

Well, they sort of do, but without getting rid of the quality loss. I'm sure there are people who can explain this better than I can, but basically the idea is this. You start with the original wav file. Then you compress it to mp3 or ogg or whatever. You lose some data in the compression process. Now, even if you decompress those back to a wav, that data has still been lost; in other words, by converting an mp3 to a wav, you aren't decompressing it to it's original form, you're just creating a wav rendering of your mp3. Whatever quality loss or compression codecs came from that original compression to mp3 cannot be undone, because that data no longer exists. So if you then compress it to another format, or even if you compress it back to the same format, it will take that rendering of already-compressed audio and compress it again, resulting in further quality reduction and introducing further compression artifacts. The only way to get it in another compressed format without having artifacts and quality loss from double-compression would be to take the original wav (not the compressed-then-decompressed one) and encode it in that other format.

If your audio collection is already in a compressed format, you don't want to convert it to another format; that would mean compressing it twice. Twice the quality loss, twice the compression artifacts. Stick with mp3

Hopefully we'll be finished with a certain piece (the one with the folks, that we're doing for that thing) by then... perhaps we can work on that other thing. Or perhaps some entirely new thing.

We definitely need more weed so we can think out-of-the-box like zyko.

Definitely an awesome tune. I'll add it to my list of "songs I need to remix someday," but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll ever get around to it.

What's your price range? This will help us a lot.

That's a good point, and one I hadn't even thought of.

Ok, that we have had drama, this can be an official site project.