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Monat: Februar 2008

Reworked theme for KlangArt

After a slow but steady work I finally got it fixed: With the upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3, which brought some major changes (esp. tags-support), I rebuilt my whole theme from the scratch.Beckett WordPress ThemeA year ago I started with this theme Beckett as a graphical template and Magellan-10 WordPress Themethis other theme Magellan-10 as structural template, (both seems not to be maintained anymore), by joining them together to my needs.

So I made my first steps with CSS and PHP. I scripted and fiddled and designed and designed and scripted and fiddled a few (or much more) nights away till I finally got me this: WordPress theme KlangArt

At the end especially the css-sheet was a real pain in the ass to finetune or change something in the theme. With upgrading WordPress from 2.1 to 2.3 I had a good reason to rework the whole thing – and here it is.

I know there’s to much in the sidebars, to much different stuff in the pages and categories. But I don’t like the idea of having 73 different blogs for my interests. So I’m sure my site feels like my brain – everything’s pinched on a pin head and thrilled well…

(Edit: Damn Internet Explorer – why can’t it do like all the other browsers are doing. Hope, I’ll fix it shortly. Meanwhile, get Firefox…! :firefox: )

(Edit 2: Fixed – basically. I still can’t get the headings on the linkpage to work in IE 7. But is usable so far…)

(Edit 3: Fixed – complete. :whew: Now I feel as a IE-conqueror! And it feels good. But, hmm, was it worth the effort?)

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Zoom H2 – a real handy recorder

Zoom H2

Hell, what a blogger I am, posting in three month – nothing. But this I feel like sharing with you: 7 weeks ago I got me this nice little gadget. And I don’t regret it. Even if you have a Videocam in your rehearsal room, this is a must have!

You’ll get four built-in micros to record wave and mp3 on a SD-Card. You can have an angle of 90°, 120° or 360° (!). Afterwards you download the files via USB to your Computer. You can even record the four mics to two stereo files and process it with additional software (not included) to Dolby 5.1.

On the other hand, it is for purists. There is no multitrack recording nor any effects besides splitting of files. Just record what you hear. There is a chromatic tuner and a metronome built in.

Listen what it sounds like. It was just on a chair between us while playing, the mp3-file is 160 bps (I know, but I have to watch my webspace…):

 

Best you check out its official page on the Zoom-site for all its features:
http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/index.php

Here you get a neat 3d-view!

There are many excellent reviews in the net, just google. For my part, it’s worth the € 170.– and the 6 weeks of delivery time (it was out of stock short after release, oh no). Maybe it’s more expensive now, the list price was said to be about € 230.–. But believe me: If you work with Minidisc, Tape or nothing at all and don’t have a PC-Operator and a Laptop in your rehearsal room – you’ll never want to go back! Definitely six out of five stars…

Published inMusic