![]() ![]() > Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen’s satisfaction, but he was just humoring him. “ ‘We’ve all worked to that track, so it must be right.’ But he said, ‘Sorry, I just can’t play to it.’ ” “I said, ‘No, that can’t be so, Larry,’ ” Eno recalled. In this case, however, Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off: it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. “ ‘All That You Don’t Leave Behind,’ or whatever it’s called.” Mullen was playing drums over a recording of the band and a click track-a computer-generated beat that was meant to keep all the overdubbed parts in synch. > “I was working with Larry Mullen, Jr., on one of the U2 albums,” Eno told me. Reminded me of this article, easily one of the top 20 I've ever read (Brian Eno, Francis Crick, Italo Calvino, roller coasters, trepanation, time, death, drumming) At 20ms, many musicians are going to have this definite sense that something is off, but they can still hang. > Almost no one is going to notice 5ms or below. Plus, real chromakey beats crappy Zoom/Webex background removal when I do just want to goof around with cool backgrounds and overlays. My DSLR doesn't (and wasn't meant to) run for hours as a video cam so I didn't bother with that.Īlso, using OBS and its virtual camera plugin means I can tweak and color correct the cam feed without having to dig into the OS webcam configuration. Eventually just got a Logitech C920 once they dropped back to non-scalper prices.Ī couple of clamp lights with parchment paper clipped over the end made more of a difference than buying a mirrorless camera would've (and they were way cheaper). For camera.I tried the phone thing and while it does look a lot nicer, the phone gets warm and has to run for an hour or two at a time. I was lucky enough to have an old Shure vocal mic and a cheapo XLR-USB interface sitting in a box of electronic stuff, so I typically put on my headphones and speak into the mic (on a desk stand). Just getting rid of the speakers makes a huge difference when folks refuse to mute while not speaking. Most people still have some earbuds around from when their phones still had headphone jacks. I'd say if you're dealing with difficult people who really don't want to do more than point at an icon on a screen and go, the most bang for the (effort) buck is to ask if they have a set of headphones. Still, any of them with laptop speakers/mic sound worse than any other of them with a halfway passable headset. It feels like Webex has tweaked theirs recently so it's not quite as bad for those people who insist on just talking at their laptops with no external mic or headphones. But you shouldn't be having calls with people next to you anyway!)Īfter having used both Webex and Zoom extensively for the past year, it seems that Zoom had much more aggressive echo cancellation up until recently. If you want a pair of wired headphones, I like these which are "open back" and therefore sound more natural + cool your ears better, although the open back also means they "leak" sound and are only suitable for working without people next to you. The one I linked is wired because wireless is evil and in particular, Bluetooth will silently degrade your audio quality. (You need a standalone mic since most headsets, even really nice ones, have really bad mics because most headset buyers don't care about or even know how good their mic sounds. If you want to hear a comparison, I got kind of obsessed with this problem at one point and took some comparison recordings here. To import a ‘Show’ that you have saved, make sure the file is loaded onto a microSD card or hard drive, connect this to your device, tap the icon in the top left corner of the home screen or tap the settings cog then ‘Show’ > ‘Import’, then select the ‘Show’ you want to import from the list.It's also really easy to have high quality audio! The author recommends a "podcasting" microphone, but a $35 standalone headset mic is almost as good and much easier to use. ![]() You can save and export as many ‘Show’ snapshots as you like, which is handy if you share your RØDECaster Pro II with other creators or if you create several different podcasts, livestreams or different types of content. This will take a snapshot of all your settings and save them as a file to your storage device, which can then be transferred to your computer. To do this, tap the icon in the top left corner of the home screen or tap the settings cog then ‘Show’, then tap ‘Export’. Saving and Exporting Settings as a 'Show'Īll of your settings, including your channel setup, mixer and SMART pad configuration, processing, effects, and device configuration, can be saved onto a microSD card or hard drive as a ‘Show'. ![]()
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