Audacity Forum

kozikowski wrote:
Manchester? It's raining, right?

Koz

Yup, absolutely right - but we expect a brief break in t'clouds tomorrow ...

Sounds from my newspaper today as though you could do with some of in in LA, right? I hear they're planning to seed the clouds to try to provoke rain for you, Koz.

WC

Mags wrote:BUT I thought you were going to use the extract from Shared Solitude which I recorded specially,

Yes indeed I have been using that and getting some good results. However, I switched over to Windows (My machine is dual boot Win XP / Linux Xubuntu) so that I could test the scripts in a Windows environment to make sure that they still worked, and I inadvertently left the "Shared Solitude" clip on the Linux partition (which cannot be accessed from Windows). The "original" clip that I posted was the best one I had to hand at the time, and I just had enough time to run off a test sample and upload it before rushing off to a rehearsal.

I'm hoping the weather improves this weekend as I'll be up in Yorkshire (playing at a festival and camping in a tent). Hopefully get some more work done on the plug in next week.

kozikowski wrote:I think I recognize an early stab at noise reduction in there where I didn't get rid of all the artifacts, so the clip has competing patches.

Yes, I think you're right. I'll post a better sample in due course.

Mags wrote:Deessed mono
It sounds as though I have a lisp. Ah, that's because you have over-processed it, I see.

Yes, exactly.

Mags wrote:Is this the local natter club, discussing the weather ... it drizzled here in Birmingham, England. Anyone got anything better to do? I have a poem called 'Brolly', rather funny, you don't want that TOO, do you !

Anyone for tennis?

Mags, the weather does have some slight bearing on recording, if you are transcribing from vinyl. The moist atmosphere helps prevent static clicks, as Koz has pointed out to me in the past.

And yes please to tennis - two weeks of Wimbledon on the Beeb - pray for minmal rain then ....

WC

<<<I hear they're planning to seed the clouds to try to provoke rain for you, Koz.>>>

Anything to prevent having to ask unpopular questions, like, why don't you stop wasting water?

Today's LA Times has a piece by someone who pointed to a street where he lives that's had water running down it for so long it's green. The street, not the water. Indeed, when you rinse the carrots for dinner, that water can go on the philodendron, not to the city sewer.

I found the original 'Shared Solitude' clip and I'll figure out a way to post it. Longer clips are better because when you're designing an audio tool, you have to be careful that it doesn't work only on one short audio segment. I'm particularly interested in having the tool work on the longer clip because that one has two problems; background noise and sibilance.


"Natter Club." That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

<<<Er..Koz. I don't have a poem called 'Natter Club', but you can certainly use it.>>>

Cultural ships passing in the night.

In Hollywood-Speak, I would ask permission to use the phrase "Natter Club" for my own purposes. I had never heard that before. Given certain phrases are closely associated with performers or writers, the answer isn't always "yes."

Gilda Radner had a character called Rosanne Rosannadanna who, when caught up in a mistake, would offer the phrase, "Never Mind." It became closely associated with her performance. Wendy's Restaurants "Where's the Beef?" also comes to mind. I'm sure that one is copyrighted and I would use it for another restaurant at my peril.

I'm sure there is a "Goon Show" version of this.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:
"Natter Club." That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

Hey Koz, unless you have actually acquired the "rights" by means of the above - perhaps we could ask Buanzo to rename "The Lounge" section of the forum to "Natter Club"?

Later on the radio news I heard that they had been using cement dust (among other stuff) to seed your LA clouds - and that some had coagulated into a lump of cement and crashed into some unfortunate's house ....

WC

<<<they had been using cement dust >>>

Saw that in "The Inquirer" did you?

California, Land of Fruits and Nuts®.

Koz