Mon - Jan 10, 2011 : 05:10 pm
excited
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Great start to 2011!
AudioGuru
So, Advanced Budget Studios took a bit of a break during the holidays, and with that came the usual curiosity as to how the new year would be.
Well, I'd have to say that 2011 is looking great. We started off the year recording a wonderful new artist named Taylor Miller. He'll have a website up soon, and his music sounds fabulous! ...
Miscellaneous / Music
Thu - Jan 06, 2011 : 12:11 pm
excited
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3836 total views
AnythingSlider is Awesome
PoeticIntensity
So, when I started the re-design of my studio website, I knew I would need sliders, but I didn't realize how many unconfigurable, and generally static sliders were out there. I must have gone through 5 iterations of sliders before I found one that matches my needs (and probably will be the go-to slider for any project I work on in the future)...
Programming
Thu - Jan 06, 2011 : 12:19 am
excited
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Taylor Miller Session
AudioGuru
Man... I'm kicking myself right now for not taking a photo of this amazing musician, but I was way too interested in the music I was hearing to worry about silly cameras.
Taylor Miller came in for a visit, and recorded 3 original songs tonight. They have yet some proper embellishment to receive, but the tracks we got tonight were primo.&nbs...
Music
Tue - Jan 04, 2011 : 12:43 pm
excited
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Website Re-design!
AudioGuru
About 2 months ago, a great musician, designer, and friend sent me a new design idea for AdvancedBudgetStudios.com. After getting various opinions, I decided to have a go at it. Also, with all the free time I had during the holidays, I thought it would be a good time to get crackin'.
So, without further ado, I present you the new and ...
Miscellaneous
Mon - Dec 13, 2010 : 02:08 pm
excited
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We're on the radio!
PoeticIntensity
Okay.. Not really the "radio", but a cool little Internet radio station picked up Herod the Fink (a band I'm in), and decided to feature us. They decided to play our song, "Desperate Husband's Chorus", and I think it's way cool.
The radio station is called "LDS Music Today" and can be found at http://www.ldsmu...
Herod The Fink / Personal
Sun - Dec 12, 2010 : 10:31 pm
excited
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Merry Christmas to A.B.S.!!
AudioGuru
Since we haven't been booking clients during November and December, we've had a few extra moments to really think about and research the needs of the studio. The success this little studio has had is very exciting, and only makes us want to hone our craft that much more.
Honing the craft is great, but pouring the success of the studio back ...
Audio Hardware / Babblings / Miscellaneous
Mon - Dec 06, 2010 : 12:22 pm
grateful
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Thoughts on HtF
PoeticIntensity
So, the Christmas season is officially here, and I'm feeling more Christmas Spirt than I ever have in my life - by a long shot.
I attribute this to two things... First and foremost, attitude, and making good choices. To me, Christmas is a spiritual season because it's filled with love, good will, charity, friends, and family. If...
Herod The Fink
Fri - Dec 03, 2010 : 06:45 pm
peaceful
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Holiday
ashley
Friday December 3, 2010
Today was filled with the usually chore, practicing for the Christmas Cantada, and puttting up the Christmas tree. Finally! me and my family put up our tree. We usually do it after Thanksgiving but we where a little late.
You know. The more the years go by the faster Christmas seems to come. I can remeber when I was a litt...
Fri - Dec 03, 2010 : 11:37 am
excited
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Scramjet X-96 Contest!
AudioGuru
Scramjet, a valued client of Advanced Budget Studios (and an amazing band, as well), has recently arrived in the top-ten list of a contest put on by X-96. Please support them by clicking here and voting for them and their awesome song, "Tread Softly".
Thanks, and thank you, Scramjet! You guys are awesome!
...
Miscellaneous
Tue - Nov 30, 2010 : 04:55 pm
grateful
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3843 total views
3 Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
It might be that I'm a techno-geek, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was "social media". People went from house to house and "labored exceedingly" all through the night to let it be known where Jesus was going to come the following day.
Also interesting are the activities of the people when the arrived t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 20, 2008 : 09:10 pm
tired
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Omni
PoeticIntensity
I thought I had to substitute teach the 15-16 year old class today, so I prepared it this morning, only to find out I didn't.
That's okay, because the gospel doctrine teacher we have is amazing, and I got to sit in his class!
Omni....
One of the best lines of this chapter is in verse 2. "I myself am a wicked man". I'm...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Aug 03, 2009 : 09:29 pm
exhausted
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3497 total views
Alma : 37
PoeticIntensity
Man... I'm tired... I've got to see what I can make out of chapter 37 because I told myself today I would read and write about it. So here goes.
The first thing that comes to mind is that the popular verse 6 seems to come out of thin-air. The verse before it talks about the plates of brass retaining their "brightness",...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Jul 29, 2007 : 01:13 pm
peaceful
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3520 total views
Transcoding subtitles
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to encode a movie I bought on Friday (Fearless), and I wanted to encode it in its native language, but have english subtitles. The command I ended up using was this:
transcode -a 0 -i Fearless.dump -M 2 -w 2200,250,100 -A -N 0x2000 -y xvid -o Fearless.avi -Z 854x480 -J extsub=2:0:0:0:0:100:255:2:3
The "a" takes care...
Thu - Oct 01, 2009 : 04:40 pm
okay
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It's All About The Ears.
AudioGuru
So, over at homerecording.com, we have quite a few discussions about, well, pretty much anything that has to do with recording audio. One of the dicussions we recently engaged in had to do with critiquing a member's song he was working on.
Of course, there were the usual suggestions on what this person should do, whether it be "bring ...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Sat - Apr 19, 2008 : 08:35 pm
lonely
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South of happienss
koyote Dreams
Well today my maw had this big Womens class about an hour away from here. So me and my family took her up there and we spent the few hours at the mall :-) We don't go to the mall to much cuz it's so far away! But I ain't t so sure I like it all that much, I ain't a people person my self. But it's ok some times. While I was there some very funny thi...
Fri - Apr 10, 2009 : 08:15 am
refreshed
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4460 total views
Alma : 21
PoeticIntensity
Confrontation and contention has always been an interesting thing for me. For one, I hate it and I don't know how to deal with it. I'm a passionate person in every sense of the word. The moment I feel like I'm being attacked, it's everything I have to do to keep my head level and my blood from boiling. Unfortunately, this ke...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Thu - Jun 17, 2010 : 12:17 pm
content
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3554 total views
3 Nephi : 1
PoeticIntensity
So, we're starting 3rd Nephi. This should prove to be interesting.
The first thing I noticed was, again, how quickly (and stupidly) people make up excuses for that which is obviously true.
I imagine that living during the time all these miracle were happening (and increasing), would be such a gift. The signs and miracles profesied b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sat - Sep 18, 2010 : 11:47 pm
happy
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Musical Marathon Madness
AudioGuru
"Is this week already over??" Wow... I guess it's Saturday night. Yup.
This week, the studio has been packed. Full house. Monday was the only day without sessions, and that was on purpose. Tuesday through Saturday was full, and that's the way we like it here at Advanced Budget Studios.
Yesterday and...
Audio / Babblings / Music
Fri - Dec 14, 2007 : 11:40 pm
grateful
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poetry one
kelly miller
Poetry by Kelly Miller
THis is dedicated to my son Shawn VanWagen who left on his mission in 2005 and that next week I started writing poetry. It has been a big part of my life since and has kept me very busy. Also, to President Hinckley and his challenge for the members to read the book of mormon. and to Bernice Hutchenson w...
Poetry
Sun - Dec 12, 2010 : 10:31 pm
excited
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Merry Christmas to A.B.S.!!
AudioGuru
Since we haven't been booking clients during November and December, we've had a few extra moments to really think about and research the needs of the studio. The success this little studio has had is very exciting, and only makes us want to hone our craft that much more.
Honing the craft is great, but pouring the success of the studio back ...
Audio Hardware / Babblings / Miscellaneous
Tue - Nov 03, 2015 : 12:10 am
annoyed
0.89 daily views
3428 total views
Thanks4giving 2
PoeticIntensity
So, today's entry is going to be a bit less, but I still was able to see God's hand in my life quite a bit.
I had a late studio session to tend to, but I had felt horrible all day long... I prayed that I would be able to have a great session, and it went really well. Everything that needed to happen, happened, and nothing too t...
Thanks4giving
Sat - Oct 04, 2014 : 05:30 pm
envigorated
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3745 total views
Sacred Sounds Acoustics...
AudioGuru
So, a few days ago, a friend of the studio called up and asked if I would help him out with a project. As he described the project, I grew more and more interested.
The project is called "Sacred Sounds: Cathedrals of Europe"
The gist of it, is that a group of researchers are going to be travelling around Europe studying th...
Miscellaneous
Tue - Feb 10, 2009 : 02:59 pm
excited
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5607 total views
Customize Your Blog!
PoeticIntensity
(announcement)
Tired of the same old colors? Try customizing the color scheme of your ILMJ blog! Here's how to do it:
First, make sure you go to your blog home page. If you're not sure how to get there, simply click on "Blog", and choose your blog. You will then be at the home page of your blog. From there, you will noti...
I Love My Journal
Sun - Apr 27, 2008 : 11:40 pm
spiritual
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5834 total views
Gratitude and Joy
PoeticIntensity
Today during gospel doctrine class, we got talking about gratitude, and there was an interesting question posed, which I hadn't considered. It was incredibly vague, but sometimes those are the best questions to ask. The question was simply,
"What do you think of gratitude?"
At first, I thought it was a horrible question, b...
Lds / Spiritual
Fri - May 13, 2016 : 01:30 am
grateful
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3246 total views
13-hour Studio Session
PoeticIntensity
Yup.. Today was awesome. I had a 13.5 hour session, and it was just amazing. The song creation process was a bit difficult at times, but little-by-little the song formed, and both me and my client (Jed Lefevre) were kind of dumbfounded at the end result. In the first hour, we had a piano track, and that was it.
At th...
Personal / Studio-journey
Wed - Mar 05, 2008 : 05:42 pm
content
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Is OCI8 in PHP encrypted?
PoeticIntensity
My job has me creating a website derived from data housed in an Oracle database.
It's getting to the point now where we're going to co-locate the server and press the big green button.
Well... My boss came in today asking about the connection between my postgresql database from which the website runs, and Oracle from which Postgres is populated...
Computers / Programming
Sun - Oct 07, 2007 : 08:15 pm
content
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Server Down! (Temporarily)
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... This will probably be a short entry, but I thought I'd write down what is the first hardware failure of my server!
I built this server 3 years ago, and it has been serving up everything that is served in my house (mythtv, web (this site), ftp, ssh, music, photos). Well...
Yesterday evening, we tried to fire up mythtv...
Computers / Linux
Fri - May 02, 2008 : 11:27 am
spiritual
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Gen. Conf. - Living Church - Eyring
PoeticIntensity
"God's people have not always been worthy of the marvelous experience we have shared today. The Apostles, after the Ascension of Christ, continued to exercise the keys He left with them. But because of disobedience and loss of faith by the members, the Apostles died without the keys being passed on to successors. We call that tragic episode &q...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Nov 01, 2007 : 10:58 am
happy
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The Best Jones Halloween Yet!
PoeticIntensity
What do you get when you mix a couple of black lights, a fog machine, a strobe light, a dark hallway, and a couple of demented minds with Halloween? I'll tell ya what you get:
A whole lot of scared teen-agers. WOOOO HOOO!!!
With the debut happening just last year, there hasn't been a whole lot of time for refinement, but all things cons...
Miscellaneous
Wed - May 16, 2007 : 10:50 pm
no mood
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What does "rich" really mean?
PoeticIntensity
I've been reading the scriptures a bit lately, and I came upon a verse which intrigued me. That verse quickly made me think of this one, and this one. Let's not forget this one - that's a good one, too - verse 33 being the focus.
Here's another really good one warning of the dangers of the previous entries, and further proving the point that at l...