Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Making plans for Nigel
Or at least I was until the nation voted. Filipo in, Nerdy-Nige out? New Zealand, what were you thinking! The next Clay Aiken was there right in front of you!
But then again, guess who forgot to vote. Find out, after the break.
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Or at least I was until the nation voted. Filipo in, Nerdy-Nige out? New Zealand, what were you thinking! The next Clay Aiken was there right in front of you!
But then again, guess who forgot to vote. Find out, after the break.
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Up Pompey!
Well,who would have thought it, eh, Portsmouth 1, Liverpool 0.
A far cry from my school days in Southsea when the local team were the object of much derision.
Back then, it was like the Billy Conolly sketch, where he remembers as a child thinking the name of his own hapless team was 'Partick Thistle Nil'. But luckily for the season-ticket holders at Fratton Park, times change.
I believe Partick are still crap, though.
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Well,who would have thought it, eh, Portsmouth 1, Liverpool 0.
A far cry from my school days in Southsea when the local team were the object of much derision.
Back then, it was like the Billy Conolly sketch, where he remembers as a child thinking the name of his own hapless team was 'Partick Thistle Nil'. But luckily for the season-ticket holders at Fratton Park, times change.
I believe Partick are still crap, though.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
The vinyl solution?
I've recently spent a frustrating hour or two trying to do the "convert your old vinyl to CD" thang. A while ago I bought a basic turntable with pre-amp from Dick Smith (warning, some assembly required!). It sounded great through my new stereo set up, so thought I'd try it through my PC. And, wouldn't you know it, things weren't as easy as they seemed.
For a start, I didn't have the right cable to connect the turntable's audio to the line-in of the PC. But that was easily fixed by picking up an RCA socket - 3.5mm plug from Mr Smith, right? Wrong. Unfortunately the cable from the turntable didn't quite reach to the plug, so off to DSE again. Now with the right-sized cables in hand, I hooked everything up, plopped a Comsat Angels 12" single on the platter, fired up Nero Wave-Editor, and suddenly nothing happened. Maybe I'd connected the turntable to the mic input instead of the line-in input? No. Maybe I'd forgotten to activate the turntable's pre-amp? Ummm, maybe. But it still didn't work. Maybe the line-in wasn't set up to record on the PC? Aha! But how does one go about doing that?
Well, after some farfing around with the audio settings in Windows and some more farfing around with Wave-Editor I finally got the whole of the song recorded. However I couldn't manage to get the line-in volume set at anything other than flat-out in the red zone, so the result actually sounds worse than the original. So looks like I've got some more work to do ...
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I've recently spent a frustrating hour or two trying to do the "convert your old vinyl to CD" thang. A while ago I bought a basic turntable with pre-amp from Dick Smith (warning, some assembly required!). It sounded great through my new stereo set up, so thought I'd try it through my PC. And, wouldn't you know it, things weren't as easy as they seemed.
For a start, I didn't have the right cable to connect the turntable's audio to the line-in of the PC. But that was easily fixed by picking up an RCA socket - 3.5mm plug from Mr Smith, right? Wrong. Unfortunately the cable from the turntable didn't quite reach to the plug, so off to DSE again. Now with the right-sized cables in hand, I hooked everything up, plopped a Comsat Angels 12" single on the platter, fired up Nero Wave-Editor, and suddenly nothing happened. Maybe I'd connected the turntable to the mic input instead of the line-in input? No. Maybe I'd forgotten to activate the turntable's pre-amp? Ummm, maybe. But it still didn't work. Maybe the line-in wasn't set up to record on the PC? Aha! But how does one go about doing that?
Well, after some farfing around with the audio settings in Windows and some more farfing around with Wave-Editor I finally got the whole of the song recorded. However I couldn't manage to get the line-in volume set at anything other than flat-out in the red zone, so the result actually sounds worse than the original. So looks like I've got some more work to do ...
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