[Music] Addiction, Obsession and Me
Apr. 24th, 2009 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaisson(Why yes, I did just make an obscure Jesus Jones reference! Fitting, since music is pretty much still an addiction and an obsession for me... :p )
I'm starting this a little late for today, but I'm thinking this might be a fun thing to do in the background on the days I work from home. It will also keep me from being too distracted by other things when I should actually be working. ;)
What is this project, you ask? Another project, you say? Isn't he actually supposed to be doing some writing or something like that, when he's not actually working? *ahem* :p
Anyway, this project is something I've been wanting to do for years now, but never got around to it. What I've done is connect an old Walkman via a line-in to the back of my computer, and booted up the WavePad Sound Editor I have, so I can do a straight tape-to-PC mp3 of the radio tapes I made ages ago. A lot of these tapes are a good twenty-plus years old, and I figure getting them digitized before they disintegrate on me would probably be a good idea, especially since I really enjoyed listening to them back in the day (hell, a lot of them inspired me as well as my writing then and shaped who I am now).
I know this is an easy project for me to deal with because I don't actually need to listen to them while they're being recorded onto my hard drive. I did the same with the Flying Bohemian tapes a few years back (hell--I still need to do a bit of editing and mixing and post some songs! I completely forgot!!), and it they came out pretty decent for the most part.
Of course, listening to these tapes will most likely inspire me to write a RTS (or worse, extend on a Radio Radio chapter :p ), so you were warned ahead of time.
I'm starting this a little late for today, but I'm thinking this might be a fun thing to do in the background on the days I work from home. It will also keep me from being too distracted by other things when I should actually be working. ;)
What is this project, you ask? Another project, you say? Isn't he actually supposed to be doing some writing or something like that, when he's not actually working? *ahem* :p
Anyway, this project is something I've been wanting to do for years now, but never got around to it. What I've done is connect an old Walkman via a line-in to the back of my computer, and booted up the WavePad Sound Editor I have, so I can do a straight tape-to-PC mp3 of the radio tapes I made ages ago. A lot of these tapes are a good twenty-plus years old, and I figure getting them digitized before they disintegrate on me would probably be a good idea, especially since I really enjoyed listening to them back in the day (hell, a lot of them inspired me as well as my writing then and shaped who I am now).
I know this is an easy project for me to deal with because I don't actually need to listen to them while they're being recorded onto my hard drive. I did the same with the Flying Bohemian tapes a few years back (hell--I still need to do a bit of editing and mixing and post some songs! I completely forgot!!), and it they came out pretty decent for the most part.
Of course, listening to these tapes will most likely inspire me to write a RTS (or worse, extend on a Radio Radio chapter :p ), so you were warned ahead of time.
