96 degrees and no AC

Out of the blue comes this wicked hot day in the bay, and I mean seriously hot. Like a Texas hot, not a wussy San Francisco hot. We had to wrap up this weeks lab report recording and start the editing and mix down process. The issue with being in the studio is that you are surrounded by a ton of heat producing equipment. From computers, to monitors to amps and tubes and everything is like a little mini heater in the room. Mix that with a hot day and you are going to be in there for a long haul.

Maer dropped by around 11am and we knew it was going to be one of the days right off the bat, he had left his segment copy at the house. Luckily, Joni was home and hooked us up with a dupe of the copy. I plugged the U87 in and fuck if it didn’t freak out and start stuttering and popping again. This is like the 4^th time we had this happen. Chris has had enough at this point and we know this thing is just a fucking lemon. Bah, way too expensive to have a lemon on our hands, most sad.

We swapped out the U87 for the AT in the cabinet and dropped in Maer’s vocals. We then ripped the audio and mixed his segment down. From there I started downloading the uploaded segment that Seth put together and sadly my FTP client is brain-dead and downloaded it as text instead of a binary and that meant I had to re-download. Usually not an issue, but both Chris and I now have the worlds SLOWEST dsl so 70 megs takes an hour or so… *sigh*.

I decided to deal with that later and then I sat down to edit the news, at that point I kept getting DP to hang for a while and I was so frustrated and hot I said screw it and walked away for the day. Later that night I found out that one of the audio segments is corrupted so I had to do a little magic editing to make it work. Overall it worked fine and I think the show is pretty damn good. Oh, and I just got a 23” Apple HD Cinema Display. Hazah!