David Thomas

I don’t have any mics that can get that close without masking. I agree in an ideal world that’s better though

I find AutoAlign Post very good for tidying up those sort of phase issues. Just give it a good reference and it’s amazing

Hi there! I have tried many things to get the capsules close together over the years but In the end pragmatism has won (Hard to get coincidence without blocking the main mics). I’ve just dropped it into the session and it sounds very good to me. 90 deg XLRs would help get closer I think

A cluster of 7mics set up in a 5.0.4 array in my kitchen

Experimenting with getting some height into a sound effect that needs to sound large. This is effectively a 5.0.4 setup (double MS + 4 monos for height). No guarantees it’ll sound any good but might as well give it a go.

Looks good to me! Coming to it fresh and not knowing what you do it laid it out very clearly. I wonder if sound supervision should come first, above dialogue mixing, to show seniority in the team?

He’s responsible for covering up pollution across the country which has killed a child and put many more in hospital for his own financial and career gain. Signed.

Pretty sure my dad wrote this

The tape report looks like it’s from the original tape- TLN means T(Mono 10” reel 15ips) LN (originated in London)
YLN means mono 7.5 ips London (if memory serves from 30 yrs ago as a Studio Manager) Suggests this might be a first generation transfer and tape report went back in wrong box??

Fantastic

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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

I have a memory that he was there but didn’t want to be in it for some reason

I look quite young in that one! A lovely pic of all of us

Ha yes. They’re certainly a handful for the first few years. Meg was very much a full working strain collie so we’re looking for something a bit more mellow this time. Floppy ears are genetic marker for a more laid back collie apparently. We’ll see!

Back of a RME UFX+ interface with Ferrofish Pulse 16DX with loads of jacks, XLR and MADI cables coming out of them

Cabling for Dolby Atmos gets gnarly pretty quickly. Tried to start it when I was tired last night and it didn’t go well. Fresh start this morning though.

A short haired Border Collie with a red collar standing on a grassy slope with a ball in its mouth. She is black and white with speckled legs and that typical collie slightly obsessed look in her eyes.

We lost our lovely Meg fairly suddenly a month ago after nearly 13 years.
We all decided we can’t bear to be without a dog so we’re going to look at some puppies tomorrow.
Feels weird to be doing it so soon but Spring does seem a good time to start training a Border Collie. Big job ahead.

Love that Maceo has a picture of Trugoy on his T-shirt. Great start to the day

A photo of a truck with the word 'Rorisons' on the side, which sounds a little bit like how Scooby Doo would say "Morrisons"

When Scooby Doo is asked to name his favorite supermarket:

Didn’t mean to spoil your quiet moment. Sorry!
I listen to BB in that way often. A nice potter around doing chores with a gentle conversation going on at the same time

I actually thought Gabor Mate was infuriating, just going through the motions and not really engaging deeply with the ideas BB was trying to bring up. May have just been in a strange mood myself though!

A stage with musicians and a man at a lectern revealing the winner of a BBC Audio drama award. The background image is purple with the name of the finalists on it. Aldrich Kemp is the only one that’s visible.

This photo makes it look as if we won Best Series or Serial at the BBC Audio Drama awards with “Aldrich Kemp and the Rose of Pamir”
We didn’t win, but we were finalists. So that’s nice.

Thanks. It’s going to be a while 💰💰 but a fun journey.

A couple of workbenches with a wooden frame sitting between. There are a pair of smallish black loudspeakers sitting, closely fitted within in the pine surrounds.

I’m upgrading the studio to Dolby Atmos over the next few weeks. I’m spending Sunday making the frames for the front ceiling speakers. (These speakers are PMC wafers). Woodwork is very much my happy place after a week running around and staring at screens.

Miracle On St David’s Day All you need to know about this poem is that it is a true story. It happened in the ’70s, and it took me years to find a way to write the poem. ‘They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss o…

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus.

“I am reading poetry to the insane.”

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I wish we vilified "absentee fathers" instead of "single mothers" because how is the parent who stayed the problem? anon_opin GOLD from 19th August 2023

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Can’t share my pic as it was taken in an off guard moment in my house a couple of weeks ago, but it’s that monologue woman from Lovecraft investigations. Very happy with that outcome.

What Ted Sarandos did not tell the listeners to the Today programme just now about the Britishness of Netflix shows is that eg Adolescence came from talent discovered and nurtured and funded by British public-service broadcasters, not just found lying on the ground by US streamers.

I’m going to have a stab in the dark. Brewers’ Arms?

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Really sorry to hear about this. It’s a very tough business, particularly at the moment. Sending you positive thoughts from UK land.

Or the other side of this… I once opened an office door in Broadcasting House and IC was behind it. I said “Ivor Cutler! “ He looked at me bemused and said “how do you know who I am?”