Sorry guys… this weekend has seen the PMA Imaging Technology Show being held at Darling Harbour here in Sydney, so all of my time has been consumed by that (lots of ‘special’ episodes of Shutters Inc.)
However, the good news is that today (Monday) is the first of a 3 day trade show for the pro audio industry (along with video and lighting).
And my plan is to once again take along the hand held recorder and grab some interviews on the trade show floor, so hopefully, I’ll have a ‘special episode’ or 2 of Sine Language to release this week, too!
Stay tuned.

This week, we look at the parametric equalizer.

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Dear valued audio2u.com podcast listener,
If you know me at all, you would probably know that one thing I cherish in this world is consistency.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not averse to change if there’s a good reason for it!
What I hate is when things that SHOULD be consistent are not, because of laziness or sloppiness on the part of the creator.
What am I talking about here?
I’m talking about metadata in podcast mp3 files.
There are very few podcasts that I have come across where the metadata can be relied upon to remain consistent from one episode to the next.
Why is that important, you may well ask?
Well, the information contained in say, the ‘album’ field of the mp3 file will determine what ‘album’ the mp3 file appears to belong to on your mp3 player.
Likewise, the information contained in the ‘artist’ field will determine which artist the file appears under on the mp3 player.
So, if the content creator subtly changes the information in the ‘artist’ field from one episode to the next, then all those episodes of that podcast will not appear under the same ‘artist’ listing on your mp3 player.
No doubt, some of you have already been frustrated by this!
OK, you say. Bruce is anal about metadata. What of it?
Well, the reason for this post is to advise that I am making a change to the ‘album’ metadata for all 3 of my podcasts effective immediately.
Instead of all my podcasts belonging to the album ‘audio2u.com podcast’, the album name will now reflect the name of the podcast.
Hopefully, this will not be too disconcerting for you all.
It just means that all future episodes will not be listed under the same album (on your mp3 player, or in the WMP, iTunes, MediaMonkey database etc) as the episodes you currently have.
Thank you.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming…

This was meant to be a Sine Language week, but I just got snowed under with other tasks.
Apologies all.
There’s always next week…

Having totally missed the boat with regards getting photos of the rest of the studio relocation project, I thought I should at least grab a couple of snaps of Ritchie in action, wiring up my patchbays.
For those of you NOT in the professional audio industry, it might amaze you (or it may not) just how much cable is required to wire up even a modest little studio like mine.
As you can see, there is quite a pile of cable there on my desk… at a guess, about 80 metres (88 yards) of the stuff.
Ritchie has now taken that great bundle of spaghetti home with him, where he will finish off the soldering of all those cable ends to the patchbay.
I am SOOOOO glad I was able to pay someone else to do this for me!
If I had tried to do this, I probably would have become so frustrated by the process that it would have just languished, half-finished, forever and a day.
Ritchie reckons he’ll have the rest of it done by next week.
Schweeeeet!