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<p class=MsoNormal>Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music
in the room above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a
bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in
one of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the
cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape,
but since I couldn’t find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise
reduction that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had
remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had
the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer. The old
computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory – it had
linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was something like
RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I’m not sure. In searching thru the
applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called ‘Audacity’,
which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the
computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was
really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could
put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive).
Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here is the link:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E">http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>(you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems
like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the
people on this list about how you think it sounds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-Mike Mazarick<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PS – Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a
bebop jazz player? I can’t remember if he played sax or
guitar…. I was surprised he stopped by and said “Hello”.
I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long
time ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
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