OK, sorry for the delay in getting this post prepared.
Life just seems to get crazier and busier by the week!
A few people have written saying “I can’t find the details for the giveaway, where are they?”
My bad.
I received an e-mail a couple of weeks back from Jim Weishorn suggesting a couple of good ideas on how to handle the giveaway so that everyone gets a fair shot.
Jim pointed out that competitions like “first 10 correct entries blah blah blah” aren’t always the fairest approach, as some people don’t get to check their e-mail 10 times a day like some other folks do.
Good call, Jim.
So, where does that leave us?
Obviously, I need to receive an e-mail so that I know you’re still listening.
After all, some of the people I received e-mail from 3 years ago may no longer be subscribed, right?
So, a fresh e-mail is definitely in order.
And to vary it up, I’m going to say this:
Make sure the subject of your e-mail contains the number “100″ (without the quotes). That way, I can set up a mail filter based on the subject line.
And send me anything you want that’s related to Sine Language, music or audio in general.
It could be a funny story, it could be something sad, it could be a great concert experience you had, it could just be a new and interesting topic for a future episode of Sine Language.
Plus, let’s throw in one ‘general SL knowledge’ question just for fun.
Name Bruce’s current monitor speakers, or the speakers he had previously.
I will pick the 4 most interesting e-mails, plus one random correct answer to the general knowledge question as the winners.
The cutoff date for e-mails will be next Wednesday (5th November).
Just a reminder… you could win one of 5 copies of either Adobe Soundbooth CS4 (Win/Mac) or Adobe Audition 3 (Win only)!
Happy typing, and good luck!

Well, as you have probably guessed by now, no, there are no podcasts this week.
Last week seemed to disappear down a rabbit hole, as we made final plans for my party on Saturday night, combined with me preparing for today’s e-Seminar.
I am hoping (stress the “hoping”) to get episode 100 of Sine Languge recorded this week.
As for BTP and SI… that’s anybody’s guess.
I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks again for all the suggestions for birthday presents, too!

OK peeps, need your thoughts.
What does a 40 year old guy want for his birthday?
NOT audio gear (’cause anything along that line I’d buy through my company).
Budget? Up to about AU$500 (US$400).
Don’t e-mail me.
Put your ideas in the comments below.
It might help other folks come up with ideas, too!
Thanks y’all!

This post is now closed to further comments. Thanks to all those who made suggestions!

Again, no Shutters Inc or Building The Pod this week.

And next week, there’ll be NO podcasts at all, as Cath, Max and I are off to Western Australia for 8 days.
One of my cousins is getting married next Sunday.
We’ll be back in Sydney Monday night.
Looking forward to getting over there and seeing my Dad (whom I haven’t seen in 2 years) and my Nan (whom I haven’t seen in 3 years).
Will be “off-the-web” for most of that time, I would imagine.
So, if you have questions or comments, by all means, send ‘em through, but just understand that I may not get to answer them as quickly as I normally would!

This week, an answer for Bomar who thought he heard distortion in episode 98,
another mic comparison, this time between the R84 and my AKG C3000,
Jim Addie wrote in with detailed definitions of DC offset and wave asymmetry,
plus a reminder about a great thread on PSW about digital recording levels.

Also mentioned, the Shure SM81, and Rycote wind socks.

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As a podcaster, as well as a podcast listener, one of my pet hates is when podcasters are inconsistent (or ignorant, or just plain lazy) when it comes to metadata (the information included in the ID3 tag of an mp3 file.
So, I have to offer my sincerest apologies to Shutters Inc listeners for stuffing up the ID3 tags in ep 114.
I only discovered this by accident yesterday, when I happened to look in my library and NOT see metadata for ep 114.
I thought “What’s going on here?”
And upon looking, I found that I had uploaded ep 114 with the ID3 tag of ep 113.
That was just an oversight on my part.
So, sorry guys.
I’ve re-uploaded ep 114 with the correct ID3 tag for anyone who would like to manually download it (for the “comletists” amongst you).

Sorry gang.
Despite having some time to myself this weekend, I still didn’t get around to recording Building the pod.
And although Shelton and I HAD planned to record Shutters Inc this week, technical difficulties AGAIN conspired against us.
Grrrr.

This week, a ton of e-mail to answer from the last month or so,
including some reminiscing about the transition from analogue to digital within the radio industry through the late ’80′s and early ’90′s,
Ron Eastwood tried recording quasi-binaural on a boom box,
Jim Addie sent in a link to an interesting article on the merits, or lack thereof, of recording at higher sample rates and longer wordlengths (when I recorded this episode, I commented that I hadn’t read the entire article. I now have, and have the feeling that at some point in the past, I’ve been pointed to it, and have actually read it. Still, it was good to read it again!),
Greg Andreson (who is all “Bruced” out) wrote to tell me about his Zooms (the H2 and the H4!) and how much he likes them, and to comment on the wildly different standards of audio production that exist within the podcaster community,
and Pascal asked about sidechain compression.
One free VST plugin that I know of which does sidechain compression is Sidekick.
And finally, a bit of a chat about what is in store for episode 100.

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