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New Year’s London, UK, 2020 recorded from an open microphone in Kilburn, London. I used the built-in audio recorder in VLC media player to capture the streaming mp3 file from the URL on Locus Sonus Soundmap.The recording starts at approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 and runs to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, London Time.
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New Year’s New York, 2020 recorded from an open microphone in Queens, New York. The same technique was done for this recording as for London. I recorded from approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, Eastern Standard Time.
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New Year’s Chicago, 2020 recorded from an open microphone somewhere in Chicago. The same technique was done for this recording as for London and New York. I recorded from approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, Central Standard Time.
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Here is my recording of New Year’s 2020 featuring the sounds of the celebration at midnight at my home in Seattle. The recording starts at about 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 and ends at about 12:16 AM, January 1st, 2020. Along with an inexpensive Dell laptop computer, I used VSTHost with LoudMax and ReaFir for VST plug-ins. One microphone was placed outside a living room window at the front of my house, facing west, and the other just outside on my back deck, facing east. This year there were gusty winds up to forty miles per hour. The microphone at the front of the house was subjected to the strong wind and I covered the microphone with a fuzzy “dead cat” wind screen. That helped somewhat, but there was still some wind noise causing distortion and clipping. Pictured below are the microphones, adapter cables and wind screen for the microphone at the front of my house.
In addition, a wire was connected from the metal window frame (where one microphone was placed just outside) to the outside metal cabinet my Focusrite audio interface to reduce hum pick up.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackMan. I know you have nothing to with it David, but if anybody else is seeing this – not feeling this website overhaul at all.
Do tell! The site is almost the same as before. It was necessary to move & update it a little. Feel free to email me with suggestions at seeland@negativland.com.
Well, I’m getting security error messages, comments got deleted from this page, and you seem to have lost a large amount of what was on the old main site. (Though I guess that’s what the Wayback Machine is for, but still.)
I realize some of that maybe needed to be tidied up, but all I see on my end is another example of things being “fixed” that weren’t really broken, and “updates” that are more something to do than anything that was some real burning issue that needed to be attended to.
I’m just an old grump, though. Don’t mind me. Or as a great man once said, “I don’t know a damn thing about anything, OK?”
Hey Leona! We are still building and rebuilding the new site, so anything at all from the old site that you wish was still here, please let us know. That would be very helpful! Also any site errors you find.
The two main issues that pushed us to change things were – our old site was not very functional or viewable on smart phones, and, for good or bad, that is how most everyone (except maybe you and me) look at the internet these days! So it was, in essence, quite broken. Being more user friendly means that our mail order sales have noiticeably gone up since we went live with the new site! So that is very helpful to us in staying afloat in a very practical way. The other major factor is that with Don Joyce dead and OTE being run/curated by Wobbly, an overhaul was long overdue there, too. We will eventually have over 1000 more hours of 80s, 90s and early 2000s OTE shows up at the internet archive, and many of the post-Don OTE shows will be on negativland.com as well.
And the old site was very hard to use as an ADMIN, so we rarely worked on it and it was often dead for many, many months at a time. The new site is easy to edit, update and expand, so that is a big and positive change for us moving forward.
The best news in there, for me anyway, is the news of a massive influx of more old shows. As a matter of fact, I recently unearthed an old paper catalog from 1995, and after re-reading it, I went to the Archive to find many of them weren’t there, which I found strange. So hopefully this new batch will include some of those (since they obviously existed in tape form at some point.)
As far as everything else – you guessed correctly on the phone issue. So some things I’m destined to always remain a bit cranky over, I’m afraid. But more shows being available will certainly help in offsetting the “tough darts” aspect of those issues.
I have a name suggestion for the comments section.
Mark Zuckerberg Presents: Not Facebook (A Critical, Commentary, News Reporting, Teaching, Scholarship-Related, Research Project)
It’s only fair! 😀
Woohoo I have the same Focusrite!