Good grief what the hell is this thing? I thought that Sony in the last post was cool but this Aaton Cantar-X rocks! 8 simultaneous channels of recording onto an internal 127 gig 2.5″ hard drive or flash memory. It has tons of controls including having actual faders for those touchy feely type engineers. Up to 96Khz sampling and built in CDR burner? Wow. There’s no price on their site…that means it is sssspendy.
How about the cool bluetooth remote? Awesome.
Sony PCM-D1
Man does this recorder look cool? I would have killed for one of these 10 years ago.
It’s a portable digital recorder, capable of 24/96Khz sampling rate recording. It records wave files into 4 gig internal memory or onto memory sticks. It has analog VU meters, runs on four AA batteries and is made out of Titanium.
The only drawback is the $2,000.00 price tag. But for a “pro” $2,000.00 is par for the course on a unit like this.
In this CNN article, some artists who are pissed off at their record labels are showing their fans how to circumvent the copy protection of their own CD’s… What?
I did a today gig for a long time client and buddy named Marko Johnson. Marko is one unique cat. He’s a didjeridoo maker, player and teacher.
What is a didjeridoo? “The didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a unique wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines of northern Australia. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or “drone pipe”. Musicologists classify it as an aerophone” (google). It is said to be the world’s oldest wind instrument. It is hollowed out piece of wood and you blow into it like a tuba player would. There is a special technique the player uses called “circular breathing.” The player fills his mouth up with air and blows in the “didji” while breathing in air through his nose. By doing this he is able to blow constantly through his didji without a pause in the sound. Marko can play his didji literally for hours without a pause in the sound if he wants.
The main blowing creates a drone tone, and the player also can create some interesting overtones by changing his jaw and lips.
Marko’s house isn’t much of house at all. There’s no furniture that I could see. But there’s plenty of didjis and hand made musical instruments all over the place. Musicians apparently converge there all the time to jam.
Marko’s didjis that he makes and sells at www.rounddoor.com are all over his house. He makes some amazingly beautiful pieces of art that are also musical instruments.
Marko has also invented some very cool mini didjis. They are called didjboxes. Check them out on his site www.didjbox.com.
Much has unfolded over the last few days.
Mainly I had a knock down drag out email bashing contest between me and a client. This client has been one of my best for over 10 years. All the sudden he says I’m a price gouger and accuses me of jacking up my rates because “I saw his house.” I guess this guy is so into himself and how much dough he makes he’s flipped his lid. I’ve never seen his house and I’ve actually given discounts to him for all my services.
So the big album project that was slated for later this month has been shit canned. More details to come, but I’m too tired to write about it now…and I’m just finishing watching “The good, the bad and the ugly.”