This isn't about playing your music in the background while trying to seduce your chosen human or preferred alternative species but rather about critiquing your work to make it better.
Some say they hate listening to themselves and I can't say that it's my first choice of entertainment either but it's part of the discipline. If you don't review your work, how would you expect it to get better.
The easiest way to record your online shows is via the Archive function in Nicecast as, once set, it will record automatically every time you start an audio stream. And because it's automatic, you will lose the intimidation of the Recording Effect very quickly. The Recording Effect is how things will suddenly stiffen when you click the record button to lay something down. With the Archive function, you don't click anything you wouldn't have clicked anyway to get the show started.
Doing this is going to eat up some disk space as stereo audio recorded at 44.1K in 16 or 24 bits will require about 10 megabytes per minute or the best part of a gigabyte for a show. Unless you're meticulous in cleaning up, expect to find at least thirty or forty gigabytes of old shows in your Archive folder pretty much any time you look at it. If you improvise a lot, keeping those shows for a while can be quite useful.
Note: For DVD recording, 44K (i.e. CD quality) is not sufficient and you must provide 48K. Most sound converter utilities can perform that type of re-sampling quite easily.
I write about this periodically as I still hear people saying they don't do it. For my immediate purpose, it applies to the show last Friday night. I have since reviewed it and some things are very clear:
It's important to review these things as I will be doing my first gig ever in Avination this Saturday and you can fluff a gig sometimes but not a debut. zaphod is pumping it up all over the place so I would hate like hell to let him down just as I hate it if a gig doesn't go well in playing for Cat. Conversely, when a gig goes as it did Friday night then I'm buzzing for days.
So, yah, I do take my own advice. Hopefully you will find it useful as well.
Some say they hate listening to themselves and I can't say that it's my first choice of entertainment either but it's part of the discipline. If you don't review your work, how would you expect it to get better.
The easiest way to record your online shows is via the Archive function in Nicecast as, once set, it will record automatically every time you start an audio stream. And because it's automatic, you will lose the intimidation of the Recording Effect very quickly. The Recording Effect is how things will suddenly stiffen when you click the record button to lay something down. With the Archive function, you don't click anything you wouldn't have clicked anyway to get the show started.
Doing this is going to eat up some disk space as stereo audio recorded at 44.1K in 16 or 24 bits will require about 10 megabytes per minute or the best part of a gigabyte for a show. Unless you're meticulous in cleaning up, expect to find at least thirty or forty gigabytes of old shows in your Archive folder pretty much any time you look at it. If you improvise a lot, keeping those shows for a while can be quite useful.
Note: For DVD recording, 44K (i.e. CD quality) is not sufficient and you must provide 48K. Most sound converter utilities can perform that type of re-sampling quite easily.
I write about this periodically as I still hear people saying they don't do it. For my immediate purpose, it applies to the show last Friday night. I have since reviewed it and some things are very clear:
- I jack around way, way too long between songs. Being all charming and engaging is all very well but the show is about music and not about one's scintillating conversation.
- The reverb on the vocal mike is way too high and it makes lyrics difficult to understand.
- The shrillness of the guitar lead is still not cured as there is way too much treble to it.
- The increase to the volume of the back tracks makes the guitar lead flow a whole LOT more freely.
It's important to review these things as I will be doing my first gig ever in Avination this Saturday and you can fluff a gig sometimes but not a debut. zaphod is pumping it up all over the place so I would hate like hell to let him down just as I hate it if a gig doesn't go well in playing for Cat. Conversely, when a gig goes as it did Friday night then I'm buzzing for days.
So, yah, I do take my own advice. Hopefully you will find it useful as well.
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