We got snow yesterday and it did not fool around. Started around noon and was still going when I went to bed late after midnight. As much as I was hoping we'd have a brown Christmas it sure looks like winter out there now. It is after all meteorological winter as of a week ago last Friday and soon will be astronomical winter as well next week.
I don't have much snow clearing to do today, just the front walk. We have a plow service my landscaper who tends my yard during the non-winter months did a great job clearing my driveway and even salted the icy spots. The sun was out and the driveway is mostly clear. I'll do some tidying up in a bit after I procrastinate on the computer for a while longer
Got a Cloudlifter mic activator at a very good price this week. It did help boost the ribbon mic's sensitivity quite a lot and revealed a few things. First thing is the pre-amps in the Behringer are definitely not very quiet, not by a long shot. I sort of knew that already. Second is my house is unbelievably noisy. It picked up the heat knocking and pinging in I think every room in the house. It also picked up my mom's television down stairs out on the porch !! That blew my mind. Another thing it revealed is that the buzzing in the acoustic is not limited to just the open strings. What I thought was pre-amp distortion at first was actually the guitar. There may be a reason why the previous owner sold it to a pawn shop. I'd like to find a luthier who could tell me what it is and whether or not it would be worth fixing. It's my nephew's guitar. Obviously he isn't playing it very much if he lent it to me long term.
There's no way I'm going to build a real soundproof studio. I have neither the money nor the talent worthy of spending that kind of money for a vanity pursuit. I'm just going to use the tools I have to work on the playing and worry about the sound later if I ever get to the point where I think I have something worth putting in 'print' so to speak.
A little shoveling, go for a walk, change the humidifier filters, maybe a little football and wait for our game tomorrow night.