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Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
Oct. 12th, 2024 04:13 pmI got up early this morning, because one of Gretchen or I needed to take K off to rehearsal this morning, as we're less than a week from the opening of the fall play over at the high school. I grabbed the short straw without a drawing, because I *also* needed to be up to write the deposit check for the massive upcoming work on the fence. Nothing will happen there until Julie shows up to mark the utilities and I am told that they are not moving quickly at the moment, partly because the request went in on Friday and partly because Monday is a holiday. (Not for me, but for many people, including the kids.) But I am looking forward to a better fence.
Meanwhile, since I was up early, I decided that it was time to swap in the new 4K cable box. I pulled out the old box, getting covered in dust myself, plugged in the new box, and discovered that the new 4K cable box was an HD box, which is functionally identical to the box I had just dustily unplugged. I got back on a chat with an Xfinity rep and suggested that when I request a wired 4K DVR cable box that I actually need a box with all of those attributes. I have been promised that the next box that I receive will be correct and have been given a small discount for the next 12 months in compensation. This would not be nearly so irritating if I hadn't had a similar problem when trying to replace the cable box in the bedroom when we put a 4K TV in there.
Laundry, in the meantime, had been set in progress and Gretchen joined me for a quick lunch over at Texas Roadhouse. When we got back, I headed off to the basement to swap laundry and download the new plugins that I'd picked up with the Ultimate 13 upgrade from Universal Audio. I got everything installed, fired up Cubase, and Cubase refused to talk to the Apollo's Thunderbolt interface, although everything *else* was seeing the Thunderbolt connection.
*sigh* I read assorted webpages, followed the suggestions, uninstalled the software, reinstalled it, rebooted the computer, and eventually got the connection working again. Thunderbolt! It's not just an interface, it's an adventure!
But I finally managed to pull up the scratch track that I've been using to play with lately in Cubase and start auditioning the new plugins. There were some nice amplifier plugs that may be useful in some environment (although not so much with this track). The new Topline Vocal Suite might come in handy some time, but not at the moment. I was ready to button everything up when I remembered that I had the new SSL 4000E channel strip that I should check out.
Oh, my! I started fiddling with this and quickly found that it likes my voice. I mean, it likes my voice *a lot*. I am going to need to get some other people to listen to it to see if they like what it does with my voice nearly as well as I do, because it's always suspect when you are listening to your own vocals, but wow.
Now, I just need to get all of the CD orders placed for OVFF.
And I also now know who my rooting interest is for the rest of the baseball postseason. That would be Cleveland, as the remaining teams are all from New York and Los Angeles. It's been a long time since they won a World Series.
They'll do. :)
Meanwhile, since I was up early, I decided that it was time to swap in the new 4K cable box. I pulled out the old box, getting covered in dust myself, plugged in the new box, and discovered that the new 4K cable box was an HD box, which is functionally identical to the box I had just dustily unplugged. I got back on a chat with an Xfinity rep and suggested that when I request a wired 4K DVR cable box that I actually need a box with all of those attributes. I have been promised that the next box that I receive will be correct and have been given a small discount for the next 12 months in compensation. This would not be nearly so irritating if I hadn't had a similar problem when trying to replace the cable box in the bedroom when we put a 4K TV in there.
Laundry, in the meantime, had been set in progress and Gretchen joined me for a quick lunch over at Texas Roadhouse. When we got back, I headed off to the basement to swap laundry and download the new plugins that I'd picked up with the Ultimate 13 upgrade from Universal Audio. I got everything installed, fired up Cubase, and Cubase refused to talk to the Apollo's Thunderbolt interface, although everything *else* was seeing the Thunderbolt connection.
*sigh* I read assorted webpages, followed the suggestions, uninstalled the software, reinstalled it, rebooted the computer, and eventually got the connection working again. Thunderbolt! It's not just an interface, it's an adventure!
But I finally managed to pull up the scratch track that I've been using to play with lately in Cubase and start auditioning the new plugins. There were some nice amplifier plugs that may be useful in some environment (although not so much with this track). The new Topline Vocal Suite might come in handy some time, but not at the moment. I was ready to button everything up when I remembered that I had the new SSL 4000E channel strip that I should check out.
Oh, my! I started fiddling with this and quickly found that it likes my voice. I mean, it likes my voice *a lot*. I am going to need to get some other people to listen to it to see if they like what it does with my voice nearly as well as I do, because it's always suspect when you are listening to your own vocals, but wow.
Now, I just need to get all of the CD orders placed for OVFF.
And I also now know who my rooting interest is for the rest of the baseball postseason. That would be Cleveland, as the remaining teams are all from New York and Los Angeles. It's been a long time since they won a World Series.
They'll do. :)