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Dear Lazyweb: help a fellow audio geek and tell me where I can download a freeware (or inexpensive shareware) audio file editor for Windows XP that doesn’t suck as massively as Audacity. I need something to review the 24-bit audio files I’m recording while on vacation. I have SoundForge at home so I’m not looking [...]

Tracie and I are leaving for Japan early Thursday morning for a much-needed vacation. This time I’m not committing to blogging regularly, or even at all. On our last excursion, blogging started to feel more like a burden than a pleasure, so this time I’m not forcing myself to do it. I probably will put [...]

I mentioned awhile ago that I’ve been hand-soldering rather small SMT parts. I received my latest batch of PCBs from BatchPCB.com last week and populated the most interesting one over the weekend. It has two MSOP parts on it with leads on 0.5mm centers. Here’s one of the chips next to a drafting triangle; the [...]

It’s a question that comes up on virtually every gear-oriented mailing list: “should we have a sub-list for buying and selling stuff? Or a website or something?” Someone decided that there should just be one such site, so they put it here. At the very least it might be easier to wade through than eBay.

UPDATE: Everything listed here has been sold. This is probably about the worst time in recent history to sell gear. Not only are we in the post-Christmas, pre-NAMM lull, the economy is Bad and heading towards Worse. Nonetheless, I have some gear that I’d like to sell. To wit: Studio Electronics Omega 8 Very good [...]

Hmm, Sunday afternoon already. I could really use another weekend day. Last week was one of those stupid weeks dominated by stupid events. In retrospect I’m not sure why it was as tiring as it was, but several days ended with me feeling like I’d been busy all day and yet hadn’t really made any [...]

There’s a very amusing and informative post here [read the first post, scroll down to the third response] which compares and contrasts the Symbolic Sound Kyma DSP system, Cycling ’74′s Max/MSP, and Clavia’s Nord Modular synthesizers. I have quite a bit of experience with the latter two and have always been curious about the former. [...]

I’ve been using–as opposed to constructing–my modular synthesizer lately. I think I’ve had more cables plugged into it at once than at any other time in the past, so I grabbed a photo of it.

I kept waking up last night and thinking, “he did it. We did it.” What a relief. I’m feeling fairly proud of my country today, for the first time in years. Record numbers of us got up off of our collective ass and voted in this election. That in itself is something to be proud [...]

Let me state up front that I find this more amusing than anything else. One of my old cohorts at Cycling ’74, Gregory Taylor, brought this video to my attention: I don’t speak Spanish(?) so I can only guess at what’s being said, but it appears to be an excerpt from a Peruvian television show [...]