Welcome to my real home, not to be confused with
upstairs which is just for
show. I've finally started up my "radio' stream again! The
theory is you can click on the “play” button (triangle in a
circle) and listen to “HarvHat Radio”. Just me and guitar,
well, and a drum machine or more on occasion. It's bound to
put you to sleep if you listen for too long 😆
If you want to open it in a media player here's the link you
can feed your: http://tunes.buskers.org:8033/harvhat.mp3
New Electric Guitar
This time an electric (a *new* Danelectro baritone guitar)
which I actually got late last year. I'm streaming online with
it, usually
on vimm.tv
(for now at least). Here's a sample, which includes assistance
with the “muffled cat” sound from my cat “Lefty”, who seems to
like my new guitar too!
Lap Cat Doodle
[edit: video switched from youtube to lbry]
“Retro” means not bluetooth, old school style,
with a 1/4 inch stereo plug! (Plugs into my new mic preamp
for monitoring.) The micophone is a budget condenser (MXL V63M)
but on first inspection seems like it might do the job just fine. I also got some inexpensive speaker monitors. [edit note: yea I wrote this in September and promptly forgot to actually upload it to the website.]
I bought a new f-hole acoustic guitar, a basic model Washburn
with a single pickup. Is actually every similar to my old Gretch
except not all worn out and has a pickup. Hopefully it will work
well enough for playing on the streets again. I also got me an
Infinity Looper pedal, though probably wont be taking that to the
streets as it needs to be plugged in. I should start recording my
OWN stuff soon, in the mean time I posted
another video
to You Tube, no Chinese music this time, instead I'm jamming
over Robin Grey's instrumental “Every Waking Hour”
(not using the new guitar, this is from before.)
I'm now live streaming from time to time (other peoples music
usually, maybe gaming once in awhile)
at www.vimm.tv/@harvhat
perhaps a couple times a week, though it's typically in the
middle of the night. There's still a lot to do, like work on a
actual schedule and learn some material, and such! I’m not playing
my own stuff (yet) just “jamming” along with various pop musics,
often music from China. I might also start streaming
on www.twitch.tv/harvhat
too -- duel streaming! (well, once or if I get that set up.)
In the 15 plus years I've been trying to do this, (for certain
definitions of trying) upstream residential bandwidth has barely
increased, at least not in my neck of the woods. Hopefully we'll
be up at a 5mbs uplink this summer here and I can start streaming
more things.
Obviously what has also happened is YouTube and Twitch have
taking over video streaming. What I plan to so is set up a vps to
relay streams I feed to it to other endpoints, so I can stream to
several of these providers at once whoich only taking up one
stream's uplink bandwidth. Hopefully I will be able to streams to
some of the smaller providors at the same time, such as DLive.
Oh it's been over four years, but real soon now I will
make more music available here. I plan to occasionally stream live
which I will then archive into ‘podcasts’. Also I will be
adding some songs to the juke box. I just
have to finish the scripts that will make it almost automatic
*grin*. Check the Listen page for
the current online status, which is ‘offline’,
becuase if it wasn't I'd remove this message ;-)
I have succeeded in upgrading my computer so now I'm only about
one (well maybe 1 1/2) generations behind the Jones. I have
completed my transition to the ogg vorbis format for my internal
compressed audio files although I'll still
be webcasting in that yucky em-pee-3 format for alittle
while longer. Oh and I've started playing live on the
internet again, though just occasionally and at random
times... soon I'll organize that better, but while you're
waiting for me to get my act together I have one song you
can download here and listen
too... you'll need ogg vorbis... or maybe i already said
that.
Also I have
some pictures of the old
place for ya'all. As you will see, not only is my computer and
it's software under constant re-contruction, so is the
studio itself!