⛰️🌲🪴 Randy Walters 🪴🌲⛰️“I suppose you’re all wondering why I asked you here this evening …”
This isn’t just another picture of Lola in the studio …
it’s a step toward making my #DolbyAtmos system sound the way it’s really meant to.
Right now, I’m testing a new pair of speaker stands to see if they’re stable enough to do what I want to do with them. They are! Now I need two more pairs.
Just to be clear, this is the ^rear^ of the studio – it was a lot easier to access the speakers for a stand test than to start with the front.
I’ve raised the height channels so they’re closer to the ceiling, instead of sitting on top of the surround speakers …
but this is only step one. They’re still bouncing the audio off the ceiling – which is one of the modes they were designed for …
but what I need to do now is rotate them 90° so the backs are vertical, and the speakers are angled down at the center of the room, and firing directly at me. That’s the alternate mode, and the speakers have a crossover switch so that the EQ curves are proper for each one.
I think I know how to do it, but I’m still working on the final design. I’ll keep you posted. I live in an apartment, so I can’t just drill into the ceiling to mount them – hence the stands.
Lola is actually lying on one of my synthesizers … I have to negotiate with her if I want to use it.
#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon #notcaturday #studio #surround #Atmos
I removed a bin from a shelf to get a lens …
I turned around for a second or two, and heard a *whump* behind me.
I turned back, and there she was.
I asked her to wait while I grabbed my iPhone for a pic. It’s a little blurry, but you get the idea. She had to jump from about three feet away, which was a pretty tricky maneuver!
controlfreakI heard some protest chants out in the paddock. Turns out it was my Chief Culture Jammer Doom Kitty.
Doom Kitty is not angry but definitely disappointed at the things in the feed getting all the ephemeral oxygen. She would love it if you took a moment to read and boost the above top post in this thread and amplify some good connections for creative resistence and support independent artists doing a thing.
And of course more cats.
Come on fedi, flood the feed until we get at least one clout VIP accidentally boosting an independent artist.
#cats #catsofmastodon #fedicats #notCaturday #blackcats #voidcats
Doom Kitty is not angry but definitely disappointed at the things in the feed getting all the ephemeral oxygen. She would love it if you took a moment to read and boost the above top post in this thread and amplify some good connections for creative resistence and support independent artists doing a thing.
And of course more cats.
Come on fedi, flood the feed until we get at least one clout VIP accidentally boosting an independent artist.
#cats #catsofmastodon #fedicats #notCaturday #blackcats #voidcats
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Lola loves to hide in her collapsable tunnel,
but she likes to keep an eye on what’s going on.
She also likes warming her ears in the sun.
Lola Falafel has discovered a new trick, and I swear she's getting endless amusement from tormenting me with it.
I spend a *lot* of time on the Mirra chair in front of the studio computer, but I inevitably need to get up for one thing or another … tea, a snack, my phone – for a quick photo like this one –
and that’s when Lola makes her move, and appropriates the empty chair. She *knows* I don’t have the stomach to oust her from it (just look at that smirk)
so I get a little stool from the bedroom to hunch at the desk with, and wheel her chair out of the way.
Once I’ve been sitting again for a few minutes, she loses interest and goes looking for a sunny spot to lie down. This happens two or three times a day.
I’m convinced she knows exactly what she’s doing – she’s very fast. I don’t even need to leave the room to lose my seat.
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