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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Audio production protip - if you're trying to figure out why your tune sounds really different on your phone and why it has some weird audio glitches, maybe turn off all the "enhancement" settings in the music player app that you were screwing around with a few weeks ago before you start trying to fix it in the editor.
The problem this has caused though, is that now I have to play it on every device I own to decide if I like how it's mixed ... and to try to do that without thinking that the fact that it's different to what I was used to isn't necessarily wrong or bad, because of course it's different.
I fired up the old Mac yesterday with the intention of re-exporting the highest quality copies possible of the old tracks to add to the album collection.
The first one I made that started the project off, Jimmy Beware, has always bugged me a bit because it feel a bit short of the intention of being a subversion of the source material and I've liked it less and less over the years - but it belongs on the album because it's the beginning.
"Fixing" it would have required re-sampling the source video, wiping the vocal tracks, and doing them over again from the start.
So I did. 
I am sniffly and headachey and I do not want.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal for me to get up off the couch now.


