25 November, 2008 (16:21) | Stuff, Technology

Well the device I need to hookup the microphone to the computer arrived. It is a Behringer 802 8-Input Mixer board. Now an 8 input mixer may seem a bit over kill to hook up one powered mic to the computer. I could have just gotten a phantom power supply and hooked it [...]
Tags: Audio, Microphone, mixer, Music
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23 November, 2008 (15:58) | Stuff, Technology

One of the other things that showed up in the mail yesterday was this. An MXL 990 Condenser Microphone
, the funny looking thing on the right is a Shockmount. A Shockmount is a way to isolate any movement from the mic and creating unwanted noise. I haven’t been able to test it yet, as I [...]
Tags: Audio, Microphone, Music
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11 November, 2008 (16:09) | Music, Previews

I stayed up past my bedtime last night because, one of my favorite female vocalist, Dido, was on Leno last night. She did an acoustical version of her new single Don’t Believe in Love from her album that is coming out November 18th, Safe Trip Home. While the acoustical set was nice I think [...]
Tags: Dido, Jay Leno, Music
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15 October, 2008 (17:45) | Music

Well it seems that Wednesdays are turning into music day here at TheGeekReivew so today I give you Ganymede and their latest album Operation Ganymede. Ganymede is Disco/SynthPop duo of Patrick Runkel, and David Friede. The album Operation Ganymede with it’s reto feel tales the story of a SciFi history that never was. It is [...]
Tags: disco, Music, SynthPop
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14 October, 2008 (09:00) | Computers

While we’re waiting for Apple news conference to start so we call all see what new laptops are coming out in time for Christmas. We can take a look at very cool Mac mini mod by Sandy Winkelman. Sandy took and old Philco console radio and replaced the guts with a Mac mini with EyeTv [...]
Tags: Computers, Mac, Mods, Music, Radio, Steampunk
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8 October, 2008 (17:35) | Music

Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew are the origanl hip-hop Pirates (myspace page, official site.) And, yes it is exactly what it sounds like, a mix of pirate stereotypes and gangster rap. With song title like, Yo Ho Ho, Flintlock Glock, and Chests o’ Plenty (and we’re not talking treasure chests here.) Their new [...]
Tags: hiphop, Music, pirates
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6 October, 2008 (17:34) | Music, Technology

As of October 9th Wal-Mart will be shutting down it DRM servers. So if have bought any tracks from them you better burn them to audio CD soon because without the server you will not be be able to transfer your songs to any other computers or access your songs after upgrading or reinstalling your [...]
Tags: drm, Music
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