Keir Studios: 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Patient Zero Interview

Recently I interviewed Patient Zero, enjoy.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Keir Studios Update July 20th, 2011 (Google Plus)

So in the latest episode of The Missing Dialogues (Episode 35 Listen Here), we used Google Plus's Huddle feature to record. While I have to say it's fairly easy to install in both Windows and Linux, the audio quality is actually not as good as Skype's. There was a bit of a drop out in the middle of the show that you can hear when Rofaxen is talking, and I (Loreandlaw) dropped out slightly as well. That might be due to either of our internet speeds at the time, and it does happen on Skype, but to me on Skype it isn't that harsh. But all in all, if it becomes necessary to use an alternative to Skype, I'm all for it. Also Google Plus has better security about what people can see. I've hidden who I follow, and who is following me, so the only way you know who I'm watching, is if I'm watching you, but you will only see yourself in the list of people I've put in a circle. You can find me on Google Plus here.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Keir Studios Update June 28th 2011

With the second episode of the new and improved Reality Bytes with Loreandlaw and Slothen I beleive we are hitting our stride, all things seem to be working out, and we have good stories. Of course we could always use assistance finding the worlds stranger tales, and interesting facts, so please do not hesitate to email us here.
If you missed the latest episode you can always find them on www.keirstudios.galaxy15radio.com.

Here at Keir Studios many exciting things are in the works, and if they all fall into place, this blog is the place to find out what is going on.

-Loreandlaw-

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Keir Studios Update June 18th 2011

And so the podcasts begin to grow once more. Keir Studios is proud to re-present Reality Bytes, now as a weekly show, as apposed to a daily one. Slothen and Loreandlaw will now present those strange and outrageous news stories you are used to, but hopefully more consistently now that it is weekly. Also Reality Bytes has new album art. Enjoy.

Reality Bytes

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Keir Studios Update June 11th 2011

We apologize for any degradation of quality in the latest episode of The Missing Dialogues. There appeared to be a smoke detector going bad, so if you here a beeping noise while listening to the show, that is what it is. You can find that episode here.

Moving on, the Keir Studios site now has all of Lore's Lectures, Reality Bytes, and Real Brewing's with Rofaxen posted. And the Keir Studio Site continues to be tweaked and refined, and will continue to be until I am completely satisfied. There are many categories to be explored on the page, so please browse through, and enjoy all the material we have brought you. Click Here

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Keir Studios Update June 2nd 2011

So the first True new episode is out for the Missing Dialogues(link here).I think it went well, and the audio quality is okay. If you listen carefully you might hear an audio ad in the background at some point in the show because one of the articles I was looking at had pop ups, and I apologize for that. Since Rofaxen is running his audio on Linux, "Lucid Puppy", he has a bit of feedback on his mic, so that is that humming noise that you can hear in the show, I tried to cut it out as much as I could, but if I really went through and took it all out, the quality drops significantly, and the conversation sounds strange. All in all it went better than I thought it would for the first new episode in a while, mostly due to the fact that Rofaxen can talk forever about any topic, sadly, I generally am fairly concise when it comes to most subjects. After we were done recording we did some planning on future shows, and generally are set for the next few weeks for topics, but we still welcome feedback, and if you happen to have a really good topic we may push back some of our planned ones for yours. You can email us here, and we thank you for tuning in.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Keir Studios Update May 30 2011

It does appear that I was finally able to get some things done. Though do to severe weather I lost my co-host this week, we should be back up to full speed this coming Wednesday for recording. Hence the super short episode of nothing. It's just there saying the Missing Dialogues is back.
That aside, I was able to work on the keirstudios.galaxy15radio.com site successfully and make it able to output an appropriate feed for feedburner to take and use to submit to iTunes. Several people have already downloaded, and subscribed, but I would still appreciate a subscription, or if you could be ever so kind, let your friends know about it's existence.
Now let me say a couple things about the shows that are coming out. Missing Dialogues should come out every week, after Wednesday when I get the editing done. On the other hand SIPR has no regular schedule and is put together when ever Slothen finds appropriate, and enough products for us to review, so it would be a definite good idea to subscribe to SIPR if you want the show as soon as it comes out, instead of coming back to the keirstudios page everyday, though if you did that, it would be nice too.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Keir Studios Update May 25 2011

Presenting the name of the new Podcast

The Missing Dialogues....

Yes, I know it's not a new name, or even show, but it fits with what I want to do. The format will be similar to the previous incarnation, but it will be more focused on what is currently happening in the world, as apposed to just picking a random topic. You should all get the first episode, in this new addition of the show, sometime later this week, perhaps as early as tonight, but until then, let me give you a taste of the shows opening music.

Royalty free music for professional licensing

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Update May 21, 2011

It's the end of the world.... well, it doesn't seem to be right this second, so how about an update? I have moved the Windows Machine into Keir Studios, and the Linux Box(previously known as the Keir Studios Computer), into the living room. I will be using a desktop computer, and a laptop to run the current set up for the latest Keir Studios Podcast. I was unsuccessful at getting the one machine to record both Mic and Skype at the same time, so I am using another machine to call in via Skype to record on another machine.
This latest podcast will involve myself, and Rofaxen discussing Ethics, Morals, and Behavior of humanity in relation to usually current events, though I'm sure we will stray into other categories on occasion. We have a name for it, though I'm not sure how happy I am with it at this time, and we have no album art as of yet. The plan was to work on it the last couple of weeks, but for the photo shoot that I had in mind, the weather just hasn't cooperated. There has been a test of the equipment, and a recording that shall never be aired since it was mostly dealing with getting Rofaxen's mic set up, and discussing Linux Distro's for over an hour. Please look forward to the Podcast to come out of Keir Studios next week. We will be recording Episode 1 on Wednesday, look for it shortly there after on http://keirstudios.galaxy15radio.com/. Feedback as always is welcome on here, and at the Keirstudios email address.

-Lore-

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Update May 15th 2011

So I've recently tried a round about way of installing windows 7 on to this hard drive in the Keir Studios machine. It installed just fine, it just wont boot because unlike Linux, Windows isn't patient enough for it to finally see the hard drive. To install Windows in the first place I had to physically unmount the hard drive in the Keir Studios machine, and put it in another computer, and install it there. And in that machine it booted just fine, so the install was successful. However, not very useful if it wont load/boot not matter what jury rigging I would do to the Keir Computer. I think I may just wind up using Linux Mint on this computer, and not be able to do to much with it, other than a media consuming machine. No matter what is going on, the new show should start by Wednesday the 25th of May 2011. There will be some practice time in the interim next week, but due to some scheduling changes, and my co-host being on vacation that week, it can't start until he gets back. All in all I'm rather happy that the Keir Computer is able to even run properly, and as a behind the scene kind of look, all the update posts have been written and posted from it.

-Loreandlaw-

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Keir Studios Update May 8th 2011

So I've gotten around to uninstalling Pulse Audio in Linux Mint 10, and just running straight ALSA. While my Blue Snowball Microphone still doesn't work, the webcam audio input is working. So it's not a USB mic issue necessarily, it possibly is the Blue Mic itself, at least in Linux, since it works fine in Windows. I even had a test call with Morpse to verify a consistent working audio output, and everything seems fine, I can even record reasonably well with the webcam mic into Audacity. Perhaps the blue mic and Linux where just not meant to be. Though I have been able to record short, perhaps a few seconds, of audio from the Blue Mic, but it will crash Audacity/audio, and I wont be able to record sound from it, even a few seconds, until I reboot the machine. So I am unsure what that is about.

On the upside, this system that I had nearly given up on as a full time working machine seems to have come through this process better and fully functional, if in a round about way. So as I see it, there may be a show happening from Keir Studios at latest the week of the 16th of May, earliest, this week. Wish me luck!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Keir Studios Update 5/01/11

I have tried several more installs of linux, including but not limited to Crunch Bang, Ubuntu 11.04 and 10.10, and now I'm trying Linux Mint 10. Lots of sound issues with every one of these linux distros. Perhaps because everyone is using Pulse Audio now. I may have to go into a distro and strip out Pulse and install ALSA or something. It's not just the USB mic I'm using, audio sometimes refuses to even start up when I turn the machine on. Mint has the best flash install of these distros so far, and is basically an easier version of Ubuntu for the most part. Also Skype is very laggy in the audio quality as well, there are some serious issues with the newest linux release of Skype... then again it always was a bit buggy, and call quality was less than stellar. I'm close to admitting defeat for this current computer, though I have gotten it to run, which is more than I originally thought was possible. This machine may have to be retired to another room for simply browsing the web. It's a decently powerful computer, for what I need, and I'm fairly upset that I can't get it to work as an audio studio machine. I do have 3 other working computers, but 2 of them may not be up to the task of audio work. The third machine has some sort of power issue, possibly due to something with the built in video card, which when taxed with too much work, such as HD video, or even flash video, will crash the system, most times causing the computer to restart. In my mind not acceptable for doing reliable recording, since it has crashed on me several times, and I have lost hours of work at a time repeatedly. I will give myself at least a couple of more weeks on the Keir Studios machine, but if I can not find a solution, I will have to fall back on the unreliable computer, and just hope it doesn't crash on me while I record or edit... though it will.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Keir Studios Update 4/24/11

Well, using the Keir Studios computer keeps looking more and more hopeless. At least with the equipment I have. I have tried several linux distros and none of them like my USB Blue microphone. I have had luck using a normal mic plugged into the audio jack, but I'd need a preamp to get the sound loud enough, and the quality is less than I'd like. As a bit of a last effort yesterday I tried installing Ubuntu Studio, but due to the fact that the Keir Studios computer doesn't see the DVD drive, I have to use the USB port to boot from, and install. I'm using Pendrive Linux to install the distros directly onto the USB stick, and that makes them bootable, but since it did not give me the option for Ubuntu Studio, it's not bootable. The issue with that is, I can't boot the version of the distro I need on this other computer to burn a bootable usb because the version the Keir Studios computer needs is an AMD version, and this other computer is an Intel computer. If I had perhaps a longer SATA cable I'd try to boot from the CD using the PCI Express SATA card that I installed, but if that worked, it would not make sense that the hard drive doesn't boot from that card. Perhaps I'll continue to distro hop until I find a compatible Linux distro to use, but on the upside, thanks to Morpse, I have the ability to install linux distros on the hard drive, but I still have to use a usb stick to have the /Boot folder to boot the computer with. So there has been some progress, but the sound driver issues still exist.

-Lore-

Monday, April 11, 2011

Keir Studios Update

Hello all. I know it's been a while, but I just wanted to update you about what is going on. I plan on using this site to blog about Keir Studios, not so much as putting out the podcasts. For that I'll be using http://keirstudios.galaxy15radio.com/ . But as an update as to what is going on, I'm currently in the process of getting a room set aside specifically for recording, editing, and publishing Keir Studios material. So far I've cleaned the room up, but I need to get the computer systems and audio set up properly before I go forward. While I have hosted many shows, and edited many more, I think flagship shows for Keir Studios are SIPR and the Missing Dialogues. With the help from Slothen, we have album art for SIPR, still nothing yet for Missing. I had planned on taking some time to create it here shortly, but I think getting the room in order is the first priority. Previously Missing was a group of us in a room talking about deep topics, and we shall continue to do that, but it will now have to rely more on skype because of many of my original guests have moved a decent distance away. Getting that set up in the new room might be a challenge as well, since the computer I'm currently going to have to use doesn't have a bootable hard drive, and I'll be using a live distro off of a USB stick. So I'll have to customize a linux distro to handle all that I want to do. Which isn't as hard as it might sound, but getting it set up properly might take some time. I had originally estimated that I'd be able to get all this done in three weeks time. I am currently in week 3, and I still have lots of stuff to do. But with luck I'll get everything up and running smoothly shortly. I look forward to starting up the Studios again, but I don't think I'll overwhelm myself with the quantity of shows/work like I did previously. I will probably focus on one to three shows in total.