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I don’t have much to say this week, so it’s all about the links.

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Photo of a plaque on a blue wall with square, gray paving stones below. The text engraved on the plaque is: "City of New York Department of Plant and Structures, Transmitter House for Radio Station WNYC, F.H. La Guardia - Mayor, F.J.H. Kracke - Commissioner, 1936, Constructed by Works Progress Administration.
Plaque at the old WNYC Transmitter House – Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

NYC Congestion Pricing Data is being published by the MTA. Sadly, there have been many reports of government data becoming unacceptable over the last couple weeks. So, it’s nice to see a new dataset available. Go forth and visualize!

We took a trip to Greenpoint on Saturday. I say “a trip” because it involved a ride on the G train (running in two parts this weekend, even more exciting!), which makes it feel farther away than it really is. We took a walk around WNYC Transmitter Park. The old, WPA-constructed transmitter house is still there, but there are no vestiges of the old towers.

It was a successful trip, we returned with a very affordable ($6!) Bob James/David Sanborn record I’d been looking for (courtesy of Captured Record Shop), a Bodega Kitties mystery box (from myplasticheart), and an apple fritter the size of my head (from Moe’s Doughs).

After a couple weeks off, our regular jam session was back on. None of us have been practicing, but despite the rust, we didn’t sound too bad. It did serve as a reminder to try to pick up that bass a few times during the week though.

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Photo of the band for Marky Ramone's 2024 Holiday Blitzkrieg in front of a rehearsal stage. From left to right: Tommy Victor, Marky Ramone, Craig Setari, Pela SCB.
2024 Holiday Blitzkrieg lineup. Photo credit: @markyramoneofficial on Instagram.

Our Japan trip concluded with my longest Thursday ever, about 32 hours. While there were a couple naps involved, I managed to stay up for Marky Ramone’s Holiday Blitzkrieg at the Gramercy Theatre, and a night cap. If it wasn’t for the show, I would have crashed by 5:30 PM.

The Marky Ramone show was a blast. They played pretty much non-stop for over an hour and a half. That’s a lot of songs when most of them are in the sub two minute range. It was great to see a lot of mature fans in the audience. By that, I mean (well) over forty, which includes me. Keep on rocking folks. And, thanks to Kenny for the ticket!

Now I’m preparing myself for what awaits at work after three weeks out of the office. Should be fun!

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We recorded our jam again this week since last week’s didn’t take advantage of the our multi-client Jamulus setup to separate our vocal and instrument tracks. I think it sounds better, although, one might be hard pressed to tell the difference unless they are doing the mixing.

Speaking of mixing, I think I need some guidance. This week, I bumped up the bass per request (hopefully not too much), but I’m at a loss on what to do with the vocals. I’m going to ship one of the songs off to a friend with a degree in audio engineering and a ton of experience. After he finishes laughing at my attempts to mix this, perhaps he can give some direction.

Unfortunately, there is more noise in this week’s recording. I think it’s coming from network delays. I’d like to verify that this is the case to understand if there is anything we can do to minimize it.

Here’s a taste of the session. I only flubbed a couple times. FYI, you can also check out the remix of this same track. It’s much better!

Look Sharp! (Joe Jackson cover) recorded from a Jamulus session on 22 Nov, 2024.

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