Drews Sound

july 6th has come and gone, and I’m sorry that I’m just now, writing about this. I do understand however that not everyone is on the BTSpeak list, and conventions bring new owners of the BTSpeak. If you are one such person, congratulations on the purchase! I trust the BTSpeak will enrich your life as it does mine.

After the July 6th update, upon boot, I find that the BTSpeak doesn’t always have audio through the internal speakers. The first thing I kind of do at this point, is to overthink, and to freak out a bit. If you feel the BTSpeak go through the normal boot vibrate sequence, we may trust that it has booted. I can confirm this, by powering off the BTSpeak, without speech from the Perkins keyboard.

O Chord, S, S, p, y, enter.

Also, it is important to remember, that holding the power button, properly, shuts down the unit. I start thinking I am hard shutting down the device, when I think of it as a Windows computer, so, even if we resort to this, long press of power button, and the unit vibrates, then, makes the loud click, as power is cut from the unit at the appropriate time, this is perfectly safe.

I wrote Blazie Tech support about this issue today, and they are aware of the bug, and are working on a solution. This is great news, and I trust they will get the issue worked out in a timely manner as they often prove to do. The fix, for now to my understanding is to, eliminate RH Voice. Though I wasn’t using RH Voice, I uninstalled it from the TTS manager: O chord, s, s, s, s, m. From here you will find the option, Remove the RH Voice TTS Engine. Pressing Dot 8, enter, on this your unit will vibrate for 20 or so seconds, and you will be prompted that the uninstall was successful.

I have rebooted and shut down the unit several times, and things for me are working as normal.

Have you ever thought that fireworks sound like 80’s synth drums? I remember the first time I heard fireworks, and that’s what I thought, I think I even said, dad, those sound like drums! The best way I can show case this, is, removing silence with a second between hits, and add some compression. Listen to Binaural toms, snairs, and kicks from the sky!!

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!