We would like to announce the birth of our newest addition:
Nico Maria Kastbauer
We had a succesful and happy home birth/ water birth with the help of Rachael Mcgraw and Aly Folin of Riversong Midwifery.
For those of you in the home audience keeping track:
Wednesday November 3rd, 12:14AM
7 pounds 2 ounces
19 3/4 inches
We look forward to sharing out experiences and seeing y'all soon!
Please visit NicoMaria
Be sure to visit her big sis too: ThoraRuth
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Hack the Cam
Wow,
I have been wanting a digital video camera for some time. I've been getting by with soundless low-quality movies on my digital camera for 3 years now, but have been waiting for flash based camcorders to hit the market fully, as I've not bee a fan of storage with moving parts since my experiences with the inconsistencies of ADAT audio tape recorders in the past.
I stumbled onto this forum awhile back and have been foloowing it for quite some time, although not a deep code monkey...I was able to implement some of the finer points of the modifications and have successfully gotten video off the CVS one-time-use "diposable" video camcorder. After soldering a few wires to the PCB for a USB interface, a little software implementation, I was off and running recording and downloading video to my home computer with no problem.
Many thanks to the CameraHacking Community for all the tech speak and dedication.
This comes just in time, as my family is poised to add a new member to our family soon...expect snippets of video goodness!
p.s.
an iPod earbud up to the microphone makes an awesome instant music video, and totally captures a synergistic moment for me, on the way home.
I have been wanting a digital video camera for some time. I've been getting by with soundless low-quality movies on my digital camera for 3 years now, but have been waiting for flash based camcorders to hit the market fully, as I've not bee a fan of storage with moving parts since my experiences with the inconsistencies of ADAT audio tape recorders in the past.
I stumbled onto this forum awhile back and have been foloowing it for quite some time, although not a deep code monkey...I was able to implement some of the finer points of the modifications and have successfully gotten video off the CVS one-time-use "diposable" video camcorder. After soldering a few wires to the PCB for a USB interface, a little software implementation, I was off and running recording and downloading video to my home computer with no problem.
Many thanks to the CameraHacking Community for all the tech speak and dedication.
This comes just in time, as my family is poised to add a new member to our family soon...expect snippets of video goodness!
p.s.
an iPod earbud up to the microphone makes an awesome instant music video, and totally captures a synergistic moment for me, on the way home.
Friday, September 09, 2005
How to record a Tractor without Really Trying
Recently found myself in the woods when I spotted the rare 1940's International Harvester Tractor making it self useful.
Millionaire Marv was operating the vintage beast in a most deft manner due to the fact that it has an accelerator pedal FOR EACH WHEEL.
Drive By/ Bucket Dump
It was almost like dancing the way he was able to guide it through it's tasks with the utmost gracefullness while my audio rig sat idly by soaking up every moment through it's synthetic ear-drum.
At the end of the session, I left wondering what it would take to realistically simulate JUST the sound aspects of this beauty...here's what I came up with:
1. Independant wheel traction sounds panned stereo wide that correspond to the movement/turning of the tractor.
2. The engine has a idle pitch that changes based on the acceleration, but there is also the sputtering of the muffler that could be seperated from the engine pitch and modeled and randomized to react differently under different situations. This would add a level of diversity to the sound of the engine that you wouldnt get in a typical loop.
Engine Loop
Acceleration Ramp Up
3. These was this loud high end fand belt wheezing on the right front side of the tractor that could be panned and acceleration pitched accordingly.
4. The bucket on the front end is hydraulic based and run off a compressor (i think?) which makes a hiss of sorts, along with various rattlings of the bucket at varios points that could be triggered intermittently when raising or lowering.
5. The exhaust stack at has this great metal flapper on top of it that bounces up and down when idling/ exhasting and makes a great noise that could be modeled and randomized to correspond with the rpm of the engine/ movement.
6. The chair that you sit on has a giant spring under it...which squaeks intermittently.
Am I overthinking this? ;)
Millionaire Marv was operating the vintage beast in a most deft manner due to the fact that it has an accelerator pedal FOR EACH WHEEL.
Drive By/ Bucket Dump
It was almost like dancing the way he was able to guide it through it's tasks with the utmost gracefullness while my audio rig sat idly by soaking up every moment through it's synthetic ear-drum.
At the end of the session, I left wondering what it would take to realistically simulate JUST the sound aspects of this beauty...here's what I came up with:
1. Independant wheel traction sounds panned stereo wide that correspond to the movement/turning of the tractor.
2. The engine has a idle pitch that changes based on the acceleration, but there is also the sputtering of the muffler that could be seperated from the engine pitch and modeled and randomized to react differently under different situations. This would add a level of diversity to the sound of the engine that you wouldnt get in a typical loop.
Engine Loop
Acceleration Ramp Up
3. These was this loud high end fand belt wheezing on the right front side of the tractor that could be panned and acceleration pitched accordingly.
4. The bucket on the front end is hydraulic based and run off a compressor (i think?) which makes a hiss of sorts, along with various rattlings of the bucket at varios points that could be triggered intermittently when raising or lowering.
5. The exhaust stack at has this great metal flapper on top of it that bounces up and down when idling/ exhasting and makes a great noise that could be modeled and randomized to correspond with the rpm of the engine/ movement.
6. The chair that you sit on has a giant spring under it...which squaeks intermittently.
Am I overthinking this? ;)
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