[sdiy] modular meet/London & vids et al (was: open letter to Aaron Lanterman)

[Michael Zacherl.]

On May 7, 2010, at 15:12 , Paul Burns wrote:

> RE: [sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman
> 
> An interesting point that ... I am a computer engineer that also dabbles in
> pro video ... I recently went to London to video some footage of a modular
> meet... the audio is always going to an issue as there is a cacophony going
> on , and next time (Leeds, UK May 22) I will definitely run an XLR from a
> mixer into my camera ..., but using poor footage and even worse audio for
> anything is not the way forward... god forbid using a mobile phone ...
> 
> Oh, and the stability in my video is awful as I am getting used to a new
> camera brace ... a learning curve indeed ...not sure if it is going to get
> binned or not yet ...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utP9mb0yKLw

likewise!  I talked to Aaron recently about that and admittedly the effort for good quality clips appears to rise somewhat exponentially.
I can feel the pain trying hard to achieve more decent results: http://bluemole.com/synth-diy08/

BTW, I entirely missed that particular meeting happening - when/where was that?


    Michael.  :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Harry Bissell
> Sent: 07 May 2010 13:51
> To: Aaron Lanterman
> Cc: synth diy
> Subject: [sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman
> 
> :^)
> 
> Hi Aaron.
> 
> The student projects look cool... I hope that they will write reports that
> will be
> posted online somewhere. Call me "old school" or "luddite" but YouTube does
> not make
> it for me as a conduit for information. I'm often at computers that lack
> audio, some that
> can't keep up with video either. The images are often too fuzzy to get any
> sense of
> whats going on. I can see those "solderless slabs-o-trouble" on the bench
> but not much else. 
> 
> YouTube is not going to benefit these students when they are presenting
> their designs
> to the big boss, eh... maybe they should use PowerPoint :^)
> 
> (only kidding, I hate power point too. and BBDs.. did I forget solderless
> breadboards ?)
> 
> H^) harry (who puts the 'old' in 'old school')
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
> To: synth diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Thu, 06 May 2010 19:01:45 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [sdiy] BBD-based flanger & Buchla 291 bandpass filter (two more
> videos)
> 
> Two more student projects...
> 
> BBD-based flanger:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/user/abovenyquist#p/a/u/0/HgGNoLfsFCY
> 
> Buchla 291 bandpass filter:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiwAiyHx97M
> 
> - Aaron



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