u/slavatejasu

Any recommendations on a mic for recording outdoors?

I'm trying to record a few songs near the ocean for a short concept album with folk songs about the ocean. I'm planning to do a few solo vocals, a few with a guitar and vocals, a few with me and two or three homies doing vocals and maybe a guitar and a melodica played on the lap and some light percussion (small hand drum). I'm also pretty broke so my budget for an appopriate mic is $100 or less, including if I need extra mics for the instruments or other vocalists, and probably but I think not exclusively including the windscreen. I'd love to use a sm57 but it's way too expensive.

Any suggestions on anything more budget friendly? I don't need it to sound clean record quality, I just need it/them to pick everything up. On hand, I have an old Chinese Neewer USB podcast mic I used to use when I was a journalist. I also have some audio editing skills from my journo days, so I could potentially put that to use to bring down jarring loud sounds? Anything that could help me pair that with anything else to get the instruments and vocals would be killer. Doubly so anything that could help me get a vintage sound a la A.L. Lloyd or Alan Lomax without dropping 500 bucks on a vintage RCA Ribbon mic. Would really appreciate the help in making me make some music!!

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u/slavatejasu — 20 hours ago

Anyone ever deal with leakage into the front footwell of a 1st Gen (2008)?

I was detailing my mom's car and I pulled up the carpet to find the insulation completely soaked and the footwell with standing water in it. It's been a few days since it rained so I can't find a clear watermark path as to where it's leaking from. Passenger side was far worse than the driver side but driver side was also somewhat damp. Where could I start checking?

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u/slavatejasu — 3 days ago

Are there any good anthologies of Old English music? I'm in particular trying to dig up either a poem or a song about the seas or the shore, fishing, sailing, etc.

I am also very open to songs about meadows or forests. I'm trying to record some and would love any resources if there are any even!!

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u/slavatejasu — 7 days ago

I created a Google Doc to be shared with two other people. I created the link with "Anyone has access" status set to commenter and copied it. I closed the share box and immediately an anonymous viewer shows up before I even shared the link. I reloaded about 15 seconds later, that anonymous user disappeared 5 seconds after the reload and another showed up for about 3-5 minutes.

I do not have any Google Drive pages open in any other tabs, or any other devices, including a quadruple check on my phone. I had not shared the link with anyone who could have opened it by this point. I did not accidentally share the document with anyone else, I'm the only one listed under shared users.

Is this just a weird caching issue causing Docs to think that my current and/or previous session in the same tab was another user? Or should I be concerned?

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u/slavatejasu — 10 days ago
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Hello! I'm trying to carve a staff for my best friend's wedding gift. Any chance anyone has a non rotted branch in their yard that might fit this criteria, or knows where I can look around for one? Don't care much about what type of wood. Ideally need it to be 5 or more feet long. Really appreciate any help or advice!

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u/slavatejasu — 13 days ago