Drews Sound

Love the rhythmic clicks in this. And then the. brrmv, or however, you may put that into text. Sounds cool! it’s a Sandis 3.5 inch drive that uses USB-C. Incredibly fast for a mechanical drive!

Do you remember that scene, in Back To The Future, where he receives the shipment, of his first novel? This is kind of like that, with emphasis, on, kind of. 🙂 The originals, were burned from the home computer in 2004, had cool printed CD labels, and home made Jewl Case Inserts!

More Beauty Than Gold is my first, full length album, recorded in my home studio, or basement, whhen I was 18. 20 years ago. “My God, has it been that long?”

It was my first time with a full set of drum mics. First time having 12 songs, a concept/sound that all needed to be similar., and, looking back 20 years later, it’s amazing what you can learn about producing in 20 years time. No doubt I’ve got my wishlist for what I could have done differently, but hey, I was just a kid.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the stems for the record any more, so, my hope was to use an app like Moises, to cut everything a part, and at least, compress the vocals. But it did not sound right, and, as we for sure didn’t have Mastering over the internet, the album wasn’t originally mastered. Thanks to EMaster, this thing sounds better than it ever did, at least no vocals pop up 6 DB louder than everything else any more. lol.

20 years. Oh the memories. Thanks for listening.

Learned about this little device on friday, There are several versions. The pro will allow you to both transmit, and receive. Amazon could get me the pro, overnight by Saturday, so, I pulled the trigger.

What does it look like?

It’s small, easily fits into a pants pocket. On one end, we have a USB C port, if we put this port at the top, and we come down on the face of the device, we have one, round button on the face. This, is the power button. With the device still in this position, on the left side, we have, coming down from the top, a very small switch, This comes stock in the up position, which is transmit. If you flip this down, it will place the device in receive mode. Below this switch, there is a very small button. This is used to reset the device, so that it may pair with another Bluetooth headphone. On the bottom of the device, we have a very short 1 inch thin cable that terminates in an eighth inch mail plug. That is all of the physical buttons, switches, and plugs on the device.

Why do we need it?

When I get up in the morning, I always put my Airpods pro, second gen in my pocket, I always have them with me. What I don’t have with me, is a pair of wired earbuds. Maybe I have a set in my bakcpack, but I can almost guarantee you, they are wrapped up in about 3 USB cables, I can’t pull them out at a seconds notice. If I could, I always have the fear that the cable will get tangled, especially if I am standing at an ATM machine with my white cane. This device solves all that with pleasantry. If you have it paired with your airpods, you can, put your airpods in, turn on the device, they will connect, and then you can plug the dongle into the A T M and listen to all the spoken audio prompts.

The above, is just one use case that I feel is really unique, and, why anyone who is blind, may want this device with them at all times. You don’t have any tangled wires, but you do have a very clear listening experience. The delay is less than half a second with my Airpods.

Most Bluetooth speakers have an Aux port but this, is easier than that, as you don’t have to have a long cable, or leave the wired device on the ground or table by the speaker. The device source volume controls the volume to the Airpods, but speakers, may have there own volume that you can use. I will say that the device sets the Bluetooths volume level quite high on speakers, so start low on the source.

when having a device and receive mode, you are able to use it as a receiver for wired headphones to make them Bluetooth. It gets quite loud so watch it! Again, the source is going to be what controls the volume. When in receive mode and you turn the device on, you will hear several tones, letting you know that device is booted, and then two tones. Let you know if the device is in pairing mode. 

The range is quite good. transmission goes through walls, and doors. I can easily plug this into the line level output of my turntable, and listen to records on my JBL Boombox on my patio!

Pairing two sets of Headphones, or a throw together multi-room listening setup? is also a breeze. We of course have a small delay between speakers, that if you are using headphones with another person you of course wouldn’t notice.

All and all I am very impressed. For the price, I’d say it’s worth it. We are to get 20+ hours per charge. To grab one for yourself hit the below link.

Twelve South AirFly Pro Bluetooth… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1NRSRM3?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Man, on the old audio sites back in the day, did I ever post this? I was searching through some things last night, deffinitly, not expecting to find this recording. For One, what? My speaking voice sounded that nooby in 2008? lol… I’m glad I’ve, manned up. lol. For second, it is just halarious what I find to do with that microphone. If you haven’t heard this, it’s worth a listen.

coming up out of the alley past the wall of silence, and we hear the patio of Vine Street alive! with people!

it has been way too many long years of waiting! Vine had free food and tickets. The tickets sold out in less than an hour! We are super excited about the full reopening of the restaurant and brewery! 

it always amazes me how sided people that are watching a game all can have a reaction at the same time! These are some of the best small to medium crowd cheers I’ve heard and I’m glad I captured them.

Small

Medium, Expectant!

Large. Good Play!

So close? but notta

Another, so close? but no go

Will he make it? expectant! He made it! for the win!

another great update from the Blazie development team! This time offering new synthesizers and voices. Audio demo below. 

The Airpods Max, are truly the most immersive best sounding headphones, I’ve ever heard. Where they really seem to shine, is in the arena of 3D audio, and Binaural recordings. I have personally never heard playback more true to life from my Binaural recordings. Though this isn’t a text review of these cans, I did want to say that, and, that they do seem to boost the highs a bit. The bass, I don’t really think it’s boosted, it’s just present and really there, especially the sub bass. With that out of the way, lets listen to some examples.

Please understand that I suggest you listen back to the following audio on headphones, or earbuds, not speakers. If you have the Airpods pro, 1 or 2, they should work just fine. I’ve also played these back through the JBl Tune headphones and they represent 3D audio quite well. It truly is going to matter how well your headphones represent the sound stage. No headphones that we play this back over, will sound as good as the Max, and because the recordings were captured with the max and these cans boosts the highs, and naturally isn’t flatt freq response, this won’t sound super great played back again over them.

Captured with Airpods Max at full volume, into the Sound Pro’s Master Series In-Ear Microphones, into the Zoom H1 Essential recorder. Mics worn under the headphones with the Max noise canceling on.

We’ll start with movies. Apple has done an incredible job translating 5.1 dTS mixes to Binaural Stereo. It’s bar none, the best I’ve heard.

Twister Clip.

Pearl Harbor Clip.

Music. Lossless Apple Music examples, 2 channel stereo, not using Apples 3D DTS. I tried to pick several popular genre’s.

So, if you are impressed with that audio, you will be 5 or 10 times more impressed with the actual Airpods Max. They are truly out of this world amazing.

I just got the Roland Mike’s. I am pretty impressed with them. Check out the demo below to see which Mike’s win out in your opinion.  I do not have clips from the Sennheiser’s from out and about on this recording, but I’ve got plenty scattered all over my website here that you could find. 

so I’ve been reading about these for probably six years and never pulled the trigger because they all seem risky. Luckily, I guess it was my day for a win! Because this little guy really is worth the money. They’re pretty cheap just about 20 to 25 bucks off of Amazon. I butcher the name in the audio, so this radio is actually called:

LEFON Multifunction Digital FM Radio Media Speaker MP3 Music Player Support TF Card USB Drive with LED Screen Display and Setting Timing Shutdown Function (Red),

my thoughts and audio demo below 

if you wanna check this product out on Amazon and buy one for yourself, hit the link below:

LEFON Multifunction Digital FM… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CGGACIU?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share