You know those annoying car alarms that cycle through 6 different sirens? Wouldn’t it be great or at the very least annoying to have that very sound as your cell phone ring tone?
Now you can! I present it here as an optimized mp3 file:
It was 10pm in South San Diego, the temperature was still a steamy 90 degrees. It was memorial weekend, so I had some time to fire up the studio and check out some Podsafe music I had put on CD.
What is going on with the show? Podcasting takes passion, and lately I really don’t have a lot. I can’t take that out on you the listener, that wouldn’t be fair. With all of the life changes I have to deal with lately, there just isn’t time to plan a show. I what to keep the blood flowing. At least there are a number of you who continue to follow the show. So for now I will keep the show alive with occasional offerings of music and information. Sometimes I will try out new concepts. One day soon, I will emerge again! Until then, stay cool, stay real, be good and thanks for listening!
TS
Music by:
ALBERT_COLLINS-HOOKED_ON_YOU.MP3
BACKSLIDER-THEN_YOU_CAME_ALONG.MP3
DONT_HARASS_BETTY-SO_BLUE.MP3
HEARTBREAK_CLUB-SHE_TALKED_TO_ME.MP3
PERCY_STROTHER-POOR_BOY.MP3
ROSCOE_CHENIER-FUNNY_HOW_TIME_SLIPS.MP3
ROSCOE_CHENIER-SECRET_OF_LOVE.MP3
STINGRAY-BLACKBIRD.MP3
THE_FUMP-SUDDEN_DEATH_-_GETTING_OLD_SUCKS.MP3
THE_GAS_HOUSE_GORILLAS-FIND_A_LITTLE_BOOGIE.MP3
TUNEBONE-OAP_IEN_DE_NEK.MP3
WANG_DANG_DOODLE-BOOMERS_BOOGIE.MP3
Courtesy of the Podcast Music Network
Here is a movie that just came out. A limited release, so finding a theater will not be easy. None the less it will be worth it.
Some people say I have too much time on my hands. I say, I take advantage of the little piece of time I was given. Below is a video I made this weekend, just in time for the Fourth of July. I used a converted web cam that I got for $6 from Fry’s (I believe thier was also a $6 rebate as well, so the camera cost was zip. I removed the outer shell as I did not need that anymore. I carefully dug out the very tiny lens that was pressure inserted into the plastic holder. Mounted ahead of the lens, which required the lens removal, was a microthin, tiny sheet of glass that bocked the IR light from the CMOS sensor. I mounted the hacked camera circuit and sensor in a small black Project box I purchased at Radio Shack. In from of the web cam lens I mounted via the project box itself, a 37mm ND (Neutral Density) filter set. Yes a whole set! ND2 + ND4 + ND8!! Pardon the weirdness, I could not resist. 
This show starts off with the music, a few minutes of chatter explaining the Podcast Chronicles workflow and techniques, as the evening rolls on the monologs pick up. It isn’t so much what I say, as how what I say makes you think. I don’t pretend to have the answers, only the answers I use in the guidence of my own life. Much like an indian story teller, I put these experiences out for others to examine and apply to their own lives as they may see fit. The theme of the show revolves around social issues and dealing with our ambitions and fears. To that effort I ask that you listen late in the evening, after 10pm if you can, when your mind begins to quiet… and turn out the lights and turn on the show.
1 - The Show Is Over Everywhere - BENJI COSSA.
2 - Creative Energy with Guitar by Wayne Armond
3 - Here Come The Comets - Away With The Fairys
4 - Harmonica - KICKSTART
5 - Robert Lund - Jail - The FuMP
6 - Save You - Toys in Trouble
7 - Motherless Child - Long Way From Home - OCT 2007 - Lovespirals
8 - Figurine - Phil Aiken
9 - Treat Me Right - Scotty Meyer Band
10 - Sudden Death - Pillagers - The FuMP
11 - So What Do You Think - The Window Shoppers
12 - Patiently Waiting - OVATRONICS
13 - Imagine - Wilson Davalos
Please do what you can to support the artists, purchase some of their music or at least tell all your friends. Since this show is not promoted in the usual manor, I am asking your help in passing the word, tell your friends about this podcast and help them become Podcast listeners if they are not already.
AllNiteDJ
I talk for a short piece on the GigaVox Audio Lite service from Gigavox. Followed by about 15 minutes of tunes from the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, if you need show notes you are too young!
Since this is a new direction for the show. I thought I would decribe what has changed. I have another podcast, the “Loose Ends Show” that I do with my wife. It is on a hiatis while we deal with some “life” issues. We do the Loose Ends Show in studio “A” a completely digital collection of Mixers. compressors and enhancers, plus two floating studio mics and an Edirol recorder. The Podcast Chronicles is in studio “B” (the garage). The equipment is a ressurected DJ rig, Stanton Mixer, Shure dynamic stage mike, Denon 4000 two-deck CD player, microphone preamp and microphone compressor set to max. A rebuilt ThinkPad T43 with a Creative Labs PC card for the audio functions. Quite different from studio “A”. CD deck #1 has all the intros and effects, anything that may be used from show to show. Deck #2 contains a CD that is custom made for the show. It has all of the podsafe music converted back to wave format and while using Nero to burn the CD 25% RMS normalization is applied along with stereo seperation. This will keep all the tracks at the same relitive volume with the least amount of work.
The entire show is performed live. I work from a show plan that details the show sequencing. Some of the patter is scripted and some is ad libed. Once the show is recorded, I upload to my mastering PC. Any cleanup is performed (flubs, like bumping the mike), and the show is saved again as a wave file. It is then run through the “Levelator” in order to provide a standard output level.
The resulting file is renamed with my standard naming convention and it is dropped into WinLame to create the mp3 file. WinLame settings: 128Kbps, 16bit, stereo, constant bitrate, lowpass at 15,500Hz.
ID3 tags and album art is added with iTunes. WHEW!
Pod Lickers-Sad pensive world
Chris Hardy- Head mechanic
also LINK
HatHead-Samba carnaval groove mix
HatHead-Dance of the wolf
HatHead-Roll and go
By the Wayside-Do you even notice
Buddahead-When i fall
Buddahead-Holding me back
Bob Rowe-Stormy weather
Cretin 66-Head blown off
Comeg-The world inside her head
Ben Base-I smoke herbs
Doug Macleod-The sun shine down my way
Now its overhead-Wonderful scar
Lejeune - Replaced by robots
Headlights-Tokyo
Peer Labowszki and Lenny Cortez-Burn down
That’s this months show! Will we do music again next time? Who knows! Podcast Chronicles is an anarchist media event, a land of do as you please, a resource of fine independant music and timely information and arrogant opinion.
Until next time, stay real… because there is a lot stuff out there that isn’t…
TURN ANY MICROPHONE INTO A USB MICROPHONE!
The lightSnake was a way to make any guitar a USB gutar, now the people who developed the LightSnake have made an XLR to USB cable that literaly turns any XLR microphone into a USB microphone. As soon as I get one I will let you know all about it!
Check out the following links for more information:
Info at: SoundTech.
Listen to information on the LightSnake
Let’s talk about the future of community and how well Podcasting plays into that. Web 2.0 creating communities, how will that work, at work? I will chronicle that process, and many others as I roll out my latest podcast! In the spirit of Web 2.o I welcome your participation, feedback and help. Please come back to this site regularly as it is an extension of the show.
Tom
Review of the Edirol R1 digital recorder.
This review was recorded several months ago for a friends podcast. Since that time I have continued to use the R1 and still contend that it is a great recorder value. I end the podcast with some additional commentary and thoughts. The Marantz, the MicroTrack and the Edirol are each good buys and comparable products. Price and features do vary, so whichever you choose, you will be very pleased.
Welcome to the Podcast Chronicles!
Podcast Chronicles is podcast about my adventure in the forest of podcasting. In this podcast I will talk about the origin of Podcastiong, the current state of podcasting and we will try to look into the future of podcasting as well.
But we will not remain topically centered just on Podcasting, we intend to broadly look at the experience of being a podcaster which will include vinettes of life in a home filled with technology. From GPS to digital photography, from audio to the social and political fallout of these new technologies.
Tom
San Diego Hotel Falls:
