Hello? Is This Thing On?

As the world's least consistent blogger, I'm embarking on a new experiment. Rather than wracking my brain trying to think up topics that might be of interest to you (and losing the battle most days), I'm going to try to put something on here every day, be it ever so small. Hopefully the discipline will make me write better stuff for you, but I'm making no guarantees. Anyway, here we go.

The reason I've been out of the pocket so much in recent months is housing. Not only have my wife and I recently bought a new house and sold our old one (along with all the accompanying packing, moving, unpacking, reorganizing, cleaning, painting, fixing, etc.), but we've also been helping her parents sell their house and finish moving to their new location as well. So it's been a bit crazy around here.

Now that all the real estate has been handled, I'm turning my attention to getting my studio set up again. One of the nicest parts about the new house is a terrific room in the basement (can you say, "dirt block sound!"?) that is now my workspace/multimedia studio. So I'm in the process of getting it set up to handle all the fun stuff that I've typically done in other people's studios in the past.

One of the first things I did was get some working furniture. I needed a workspace with plenty of horizontal surface, some storage, etc. So I started haunting Craig's List, and sure enough, I soon got hold of a great Hon office workstation. It's the whole enchilada, baby: cloth panel steel walls, desk with return, peninsula, overhead bins, task lights. Very nice for spreading out. By the way, I had to buy two of them, so I have an extra one. If you're interested in a great workstation for cheap ($400 or so), and you're in the DC metro area (northern VA), let me know. Here's a pic for the curious--you have to look past all the boxes and disorganized gear:


Anyway, I got the workstation in, and started unpacking computers and equipment to get at least some minimal voice recording capability set up. That's where my trouble began. Why can't things work the way they did before you packed them in the boxes? Well, that's another story, so I'll tell some of it tomorrow. Meanwhile, anybody know a good source for inexpensive bass traps?