Rethink on Round 2
Yesterday I posted a few thoughts on my initial reaction to the Round 2 tasks. (see http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/2348 ) After gathering your comments and putting some more time in on the ol' thought box I've changed my POV and see this as a way to separate the contestants as far as 'workability.' Meaning, the 10 obviously have the 'hostiness' that PRX is looking for, therefore who can be put to the test for a show as soon as possible? Learning curves be damned! Full speed ahead!
I'm now looking forward to the process and I hope the technical side of things can be made pretty even.
Thanks gang for helping me think this through..
Speechguy
Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week... She was going to make a pot for me.
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diggI was wondering if every entrant got to use a studio? One of the bloggers said that they did theirs at their home and it seems a little rough if they're in different sorts of sound environments as it does effect the final product.
The judges asked us if we had recording gear at home or if we'd want them to book us time in a local studio. I've done some recording and so know how to set levels well enough, and just thought it'd be easier to roll out of bed and get right to it, rather than to rise even earlier, take the scooter across town (on what proved to be a rainy day), and sit in some unfamiliar over air-conditioned box with a bunch of engineers staring at me like a monkey in a zoo. The audio quality of my home recording was okay, and maybe even contains a pleasing distant thunder roll or jangling cat collar-bell.
In part, too, I took my cue from the lo-fi music I love (M. Ward's "I'll be yr Bird" springs to mind, as well as Beat Happening and the entire GBV catalog). Fine recording quality will never redeem a bad song; and a good song can shine through no matter what it was recorded on.
If you'd've visited any of the public radio stations where I used to work, there wouldn't've been any monkeys. Just an underpaid "producer" type (like me) who wouldn't know a shure from a shoe. Finding enough engineers to warrant the plural is rarer than an iceberg in Texas. And if one happened to work there, he kept his appearances pretty rare.
Oh, and PS about the air conditioning, this is a true story. I filled in as a morning host at the local over the holidays and it was hotter than an arid Austin desert in the studio for three whole days. We were stripping down to tank tops, trying not to let the sweat drip onto the mics. Not an appealing image, but more in line with what those public radio stations are really like.
Just some tales from the trenches. Still, you were probably much better off in your own home. I think pristine-quality sound is overrated, too.
I went through a similar process and arrived at a similar conclusion (but you already knew that). Your post did provoke some interesting discussion among and from the semis (hereinafter called "trucks"). Way to go.
"Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week... She was going to make a pot for me."
She must have been all fired up about the commission.
Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week... She was going to make a pot for me.
is from Animal House, Otter said it trying to get the girls on a date from the girl's college...
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