Don't you hate...

Scarbo · Post by **Scarbo** » January 10th, 2021, 2:57 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2021, 2:37 pm
Me: (spends an hour looking up pronunciations of Czech and Hungarian words and names and writing down phonetic spellings for a history chapter.)

Me: (Sets up recording, gets mike just right, reads intro, adjusts mike, adjusts ipad with text, adjusts ipad holder for perfect angle.)

Me: (Takes a deep breath and reads three words of the first sentence.)

Neighbor: I SHALL BLOW ALL THE LEAVES!

Me: (Sighs, cusses, stops recorder, edits out cusses, saves file, goes off to do something else.)

Colleen

I commiserate! This is too real!

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » January 10th, 2021, 11:00 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2021, 2:37 pm
Me: (spends an hour looking up pronunciations of Czech and Hungarian words...

Colleen

So you can have készpénz or the Czech, huh?

Chris

ColleenMc · Post by **ColleenMc** » January 11th, 2021, 9:31 am

SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2021, 11:00 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2021, 2:37 pm
Me: (spends an hour looking up pronunciations of Czech and Hungarian words...

Colleen
So you can have készpénz or the Czech, huh?

Chris

I felt a whooosh go over my head...

ColleenMc · Post by **ColleenMc** » February 3rd, 2021, 10:38 am

I have a gremlin in Audacity. It seems like any time I record something longer than a few minutes, SOMEWHERE in the recording there will be a skip where a word or two dropped out - it's not a clipping or a noise reduction issue, it's a skip like a record skip, often with a little electronic noise at the skip spot. Almost like the sound got....smeared? It's no big deal, I just re-record that phrase and drop it in, but it seems to happen every time, but only ONCE per recording.

Colleen

Bookworm360 · Post by **Bookworm360** » February 3rd, 2021, 1:10 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑
January 10th, 2021, 2:37 pm
Me: (spends an hour looking up pronunciations of Czech and Hungarian words and names and writing down phonetic spellings for a history chapter.)

Me: (Sets up recording, gets mike just right, reads intro, adjusts mike, adjusts ipad with text, adjusts ipad holder for perfect angle.)

Me: (Takes a deep breath and reads three words of the first sentence.)

Neighbor: I SHALL BLOW ALL THE LEAVES!

Me: (Sighs, cusses, stops recorder, edits out cusses, saves file, goes off to do something else.)

Colleen

Hate to laugh, but that's one of the things that are hilarious—until it happens to you. Hope you get a quiet time soon Colleen!

Scarbo · Post by **Scarbo** » February 6th, 2021, 2:26 pm

...when the only place you can record in your tiny apartment shares a wall with your neighbor's laundry room, and she ALWAYS seems to know when you've just sat down to record, and starts running her machines?

How can one person have this much laundry to do??

Post by **annise** » February 6th, 2021, 4:02 pm

ColleenMc wrote: ↑
February 3rd, 2021, 10:38 am
I have a gremlin in Audacity. It seems like any time I record something longer than a few minutes, SOMEWHERE in the recording there will be a skip where a word or two dropped out - it's not a clipping or a noise reduction issue, it's a skip like a record skip, often with a little electronic noise at the skip spot. Almost like the sound got....smeared? It's no big deal, I just re-record that phrase and drop it in, but it seems to happen every time, but only ONCE per recording.

Colleen

it maybe be worth checking whether it's a resources error - something running in the background etc - Audacity is a resources hog. But if it is only once and you notice and reread it is probably not worth hunting for.
Anne

Post by **mightyfelix** » February 14th, 2021, 8:32 am

My wife hates it when I text, post, reply, etc as her on her accounts. It doesn't bother her recording, so I'm not sure why she gets so angry.

Post by **TriciaG** » February 14th, 2021, 9:45 am

mightyfelix wrote: ↑
February 14th, 2021, 8:32 am
My wife hates it when I text, post, reply, etc as her on her accounts. It doesn't bother her recording, so I'm not sure why she gets so angry.

Hi, Mr. Devorah!

Post by **mightyfelix** » February 14th, 2021, 9:46 am

mightyfelix wrote: ↑
February 14th, 2021, 8:32 am
My wife hates it when I text, post, reply, etc as her on her accounts. It doesn't bother her recording, so I'm not sure why she gets so angry.

Post by **linny** » February 14th, 2021, 9:51 am

mightyfelix wrote: ↑
February 14th, 2021, 9:46 am

Maybe it's time to change your password.

Post by **mightyfelix** » February 14th, 2021, 9:54 am

At least he made it clear he was him and not me. The worst is when he posts (on facebook, or sends a text or something) from my account and just says something completely nonsensical so it looks like I said it.

ColleenMc · Post by **ColleenMc** » February 14th, 2021, 10:09 am

I briefly unfriended my mom on Facebook because my dad (who i was not FB friends with) happened to see her FB open and see something I had posted. (Let us just say that the Venn diagram of our respective worldviews was two separate circles for the most part). He made a snotty response (which is why I never friended him in the first place). My mom and I didn't put together what had happened til she said something about never seeing my posts anymore and I told her I'd unfriended her for being a jerk.

Yeah, good times.

Anyway, at least your hubs appears to do it in a goofy teasing way, so there's that.

Colleen

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » February 14th, 2021, 10:14 am

I only know of one pair of spouses who volunteer for LV. Are there more?

Post by **mightyfelix** » February 14th, 2021, 11:07 am

KevinS wrote: ↑
February 14th, 2021, 10:14 am
I only know of one pair of spouses who volunteer for LV. Are there more?

Not that I know of. To be clear, my husband doesn't volunteer here. I just left him unaccompanied around my computer.