Notices by Geoff Wozniak (geoffwozniak@mastodon.club), page 6

It's a NyQuil night.

@thomasfuchs Clearly we are in the year of 118 columns.

Welp, it's time for this day to be over.

@TheGibson Electro-Voice RE-20 might work. The "Frasier" look.

@TheGibson Actually, that's the SM58. The SM57 was for pretty much any instrument.

@TheGibson When I was in music production I was able to look at the ancient ribbon mic the studio had but I was not allowed to use it.

I can't remember mics but even a Shure SM57 can work for voice, although it's probably more for vocals that speech.

@TheGibson Sennhieser basically doesn't make a bad mic.

Still, that Neumann... love to have one. It even *looks* good.

@TheGibson I have not tried any USB mics yet.

Best advice: rent a mic if you can and try it out. You never know how it's going to respond to you voice until you try it.

I rented a good mic last year (can't remember the brand!) and I was not impressed.

@TheGibson You willing to go with XLR connectors? Willing to spend gobs of money?

Beyond expensive, but a Neumann U87 is a stellar voice mic. I used a version of it years ago. Amazing if you can get it. (Pretty much any other Neumann is good, and there are cheaper.)

I tried an AKG last year and was quite happy with it. Forget the model though.

I have not been impressed with Apex mics.

Rode is okay. I've heard good things about the CAD E-100S.

Sennheiser is always a good bet.

Time for some minicom.

The sites for Hamilton and Burlington's live election results totally fell over last night. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

@ink_slinger You may need new teammates if they aren't having that IPA.

@thomasfuchs npm install docker...

@TheGibson No.

@thomasfuchs @dosnostalgic @dheadshot Reversi!

@Modern_Industrial Not sure but I would guess high tech barrier. None of the people I talked to were terribly interested in setting up a website, nor knew much about it.

@Modern_Industrial In a word, groups. There are many groups they are part of that just don't communicate in any other way. But the pervailing attitude was "I don't want to be on this anymore."

This was without me saying anything about me not liking it ahead of time.

I think three people said to me about my leaving of Facebook about a year ago, "Geoff, I envy you."