Music

I had to bump the record level down to digitize lisagems' (who may be on LJ again; yay!) Claude Bolling Trio record. Either jazz has a wider dynamic volume range, or the guy who mastered the record was really good. Or some of both. I just got finished with Pierre Bensusan's "Spices", which I quite enjoyed. This has been a fun education. Looking at the album info for the "Spices" CD, I see that one song on the LP is not on the CD and vis versa.

The database of a former employer of another friend of mine who worked for AllMusic has been a great help to know where to expect song breaks when searching through the raw WAV files to split them up.

I should get to bed after this. I have a big day tomorrow.

ETA:

The Bolling record was cut on the "CBS DisComputer System." Curious about what that was, I dug this up on Google. Here's an interesting discussion of now-obsolete audio mastering hardware/software in the '80s, if that's your thing.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/cbs-discomputer-anyone-know-what-this-is-was.8543/

Walking

Not only have I adulted today, but I walked about five miles too. I had extra time between appointments at school so I walked to the WPA-built hillside amphitheater in Thornden Park. I stood on the snow-covered stage and looked out at the bowl of white-blanketed seats and enjoyed the view for a while. While in the present moment it felt lonely and abandoned, it also made me feel connected to a civilization at its best; socialist expenditure promoting the arts for the public.

Turntable Fun

Reading the results on Google when looking for ways to fix high-frequency distortion on a turntable kind of feels like reading through 8 different versions of a voodoo ritual and thereby trying to decide which gris-gris you want to use and which Loa you should be invoking. "Well, Papa Gedde can help with wow and flutter if you offer him food, but if the problem is with tracking force, you'll need to leave an offering at Marie Laveu's tomb and say a prayer to St. John."