Scratchfluidity

Leon opens a new pack of Pokemon cards, and finds a good one. Your humble producer plays with wacky vocal effects and beat-box plugins. Secrets are revealed.

Leon opens Pokemon cards along with friend and special guest Aksel! I only have two "decent" mics, but we had a conversation of three in this episode. I recorded my voice on the mic built into a dirt-cheap pair of headphones, and did my best to sync it into the mix. It was terrible. Besides its low, buzzy, noisy, quality, it caught everything, and this "bleed" sounded awful combined with the mix. I spent an inordinate time trying to "fix" all this, rigging a walkie-talkie like scheme where signal from the "good" mics would cause output from the bad mic to be suppressed and vice-versa. Along with a bunch of "plug ins" to suppress some of the noise and flesh out some of the tinniness of the bad mic itself, maybe it all kind of works. But if the audio sounds a bit processed or weird, you know why!

Leon got another suprise in the mail. This time it was a box of "rare" Pokemon from Grandma! Thank you Grandma!

Leon got a suprise in the mail. A tin containing several new packs of Pokemon cards from Danielle Feigerson! Thank you Danielle!

I seem to think it's the coolest thing that, with my very limited musical skills, I can use MIDI and synthesizer plugins to make what sounds like "real music". This is a "composition" derived from mixing a transforming a single arpegio, and adding in just a bit of pseudocello as harmony. It ends rather abruptly, though.

Leon's passion these days is Pokemon, and for a while we've been practicing our audio production skills by recording little 'podcasts' on the special days when he gets to open a new pack. Now that we have this, um, podcast, we figured we'd publish this little family event. Enjoy! As always, I had fun with the music. It's become my little vice.

I wanted to make an "episode", but the kid was very loudly playing Minecraft. So, I recorded the kid, and cut clips of his gaming exclamations into this (fake) interview. (The kid was just gaming; the questions I made up after the fact had nothing to do with what he was responding to.) Of course there's weird MIDI music. Anyway, it seems kind of fun! Credits: Episode cover photo by Artem Lysenko from Pexels

Nothing to write home about, but I guess it's audio! Links: Hello World!