I need to check this off-site so I'm posting it here so I can go click it somewhere else. I can't tell how the fans sound because I am constantly surrounded by it and can't tell if there's "more" noise. If you listen to it and have thoughts, I dunno I guess email me.
I think the microphones here are at least the same volume. I also remember one of the reasons I ordered the Yeti Blue instead of the GX was because the GX cut out everything under 60hz. So now I think I need a low pass filter to do the same thing on the Blue. I'll just make a notch filter that matches the GX capabilities. That should allow me to switch between them with no change to the sound of the GX at all.
* Note, the "Static" on the little display I'm using for my OBS monitor I think is due to the DP to HDMI converter dingus going into the 30 foot HDMI cable to that monitor. I don't care it since it's all very temporary.
One more final sanity test and I think I'm good. Just today Natalie grabbed a Logitech Yeti Blue from Staples for $65. I had ordered one a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work, and then they got hard to find and I figured out they look like they're discontinuing them and so the natural scramble is underway.
I wound up caving and just buying the replacement model but even though i'd never heard sound through the "old" one I knew I liked it better. Gain control is a knob, not an infinite scroll wheel. Monitor headphone output, much sturdier.
Money wasn't a concern in my original decision. I looked at the specs for these two side by side and the old model was better on paper and I saw the price dumping so I really just wanted it for its features. I'm glad I wasn't crazy and the first one really wouldn't have worked!
Just a couple tests of audio quality using the newer Logitech webcam, which I'm also testing as my wider over the shoulder webcam.
This game audio is from the HDMI capture. I should be able to increase that with the monitor volume control. For my own notes I think it's set around 35 and probably should be around 60 maybe. But I'm thinking just turning up the speakers a bit and using the main ambient mic for game sound is probably best since that will let me hear it without having an earbud in or something.
I'm pretty irritated with Logitech. I bought a Yeti Blue that evidently just went on sale. It was all super coincidental, I think they're probably discontinuing that in favor of the Yeti GX or something and I wanted the old "Yeti Blue Pro" or somesuch. The one I bought was bum, I don't think it was fully unused, we sent it back and just went to Walmart and bought the GX. That was kind-of working earlier and now it's not, I'm annoyed and I don't want to keep messing with it.
And more annoyed because when Natalie went to Staples 10 minutes after I bought the GX to mail the original Yeti Blue back and they had one sitting on their clearance shelf.
As has become tradition. Tonight we ate soft pretzels and watched Worcester lose to Trois Rivieres. On Valentines we try to do Hockey, on our anniversary usually we'll go the drive-in or Funspot, depending. Tonight was great. The (I think "teen", Natalie guessed 22) kid next to us is going to make someone a real fun friend to drink with one day in fancy restaurants. Natalie not withstanding, that "one" friend always draws me. I think I sometimes have been "that friend". She was getting so mad we were dying.
Fun fact, this is the first year in the last 18 years of my job that I'll be able to do something on Natalie's birthday or our anniversary weekends. For several years I had to leave our anniversary weekend at the New England Shake-up in Sturbridge to go to Waltham and do monthly Colo Maintenance from 11pm to 4am Saturday morning crawling in bed at the hotel around 5:30-6 and waking up Natalie. The (often First and-) Second Friday after the Second Tuesday of the month is a cruel bitch with no regard for my stupid holidays.
I'm wondering if I shouldn't have a bench power supply for this, but I have a couple of USRobotics modems and the power supplies are way different, like I think one is 19V something. I guess I just have to try them both on the smaller one and hope for the best? Neither one has any external indicator of what voltage they want even though the courier has a full printed summary of all the AT commands and detailed DIP switch settings. All of which is helpful, but how the fuck many Juice do you want coming in this hole right here? Center positive, presumably?
*This was an email that I was writing, and just stopped and basically pasted in here and embedded videos in, so it's not super well formatted or anything.
This was probably the best explanation of core memory that actually made me understand it.
This is how you do it, Journalists. An excellent summation of why I'm going largely Tools Down.
I bet there are renewable energy companies that need a guy to go in and run their printers and file server for half what I make now. I'll be happy to get paid rebuilding from this all someday.
I made a quick tour video for an audience of about four. Here's a brief look at the basic stuff in my office, much of which I will do better quality videos about soon. Maybe like a monthly VAST/SPACE meeting? I dunno.
Enjoy the 1992 aesthetic. Pretend it's a VHS-C tape or something you found at Goodwill.
Update: I didn't notice the screensaver during the whole desk part until uploading just now and it's my favorite thing ever.
