How to organize and backup a Sony Vegas project
Updated 6/29/2011 with notes about the “Remove from Project and Delete Files” command
As I prepare and edit a video in Sony Vegas Pro, I tend to get a bit disorganized, bringing in source pictures, video and animations from various places on my hard disk. I’m especially bad about saving pictures temporarily on my desktop.
Sometimes, I do a bazillion takes of voiceover audio, and end up with countless unused wave files in the project.
So, in order to eliminate those unused takes, and to consolidate the files into a single location, ready to be backed up, here’s what I do.More
Crazy Tone Thing 2: The Sequel
Well, part 2 of the tone video took waaaay longer than I anticipated! I spent a ridiculous amount of time editing, and animating illustrations of the tone circuit.
Here I present a tutorial on how to read cap values, an explanation of how the capacitance and resistance work together as an RC filter in the tone circuit, and some audio examples to help in selecting a useful cap value for a tone circuit. More
Crazy Tone Thing
After much deliberation, experimentation, determination, and the inevitable procrastination and distraction… I’ve finally completed this comparison of tone capacitor material types and capacitance values. In part 1, I’ll evaluate a bunch of different dialectric material types to see how they change the character of the sound. In part 2, I’ll cover how different capacitance values affect the range and usefulness of the tone pot.
First, I built this Tone Thing 🙂 It’s a piece of cardboard on which I mounted 7 different capacitor material types, and 7 Orange Drops of different capacitance values, and one Bourns 500k audio taper pot. This is connected up with alligator clips to my Epiphone Riviera P93, in parallel with the signal at the output jack (the same place as the master tone in a regular guitar circuit).
Wood Amp Cabinets
Some day I’d like to build an all-wood enclosure for my amp. These beautiful cabinets from Matchless, Fuchs, and Mesa/Boogie are really inspiring. Check out the nicely figured hardwoods and dovetailed joinery. Those Matchless speaker grills are really cool too.
These amps are not standard production models, but can be built custom at Mesa/Boogie (and possibly at Matchless too?)
The Fuchs Overdrive Supreme is a 10th anniversary limited model, with only 10 being made.
Building an Acoustic Guitar, part 3
Marc at The Wood Whisperer has posted the final part in the video series Birth of a Guitar, documenting Rick Urschel’s classical guitar project. If you’ve been watching, part 2 ended on a cliffhanger, Rick having mistakenly glued on the fretboard before tapering it. Disaster! This video starts with Ricks laborious fix with Japanese saw, chisel, scraper and sandpaper. Then Rick goes on to shaping the neck with a spokeshave, installing fret wire, and positioning the bridge. The finish starts with pore-filling with pumice, then applying 5 coats of shellac and 5 coats of satin polyurethane. Finally, Rick installs the nut, tuning machines, and uses a fancy vacuum press to glue down the bridge – how cool is that!? You can also see Rick’s homemade walnut guitar stand.
The final result is beautiful, and a testament to Rick’s persistence, patience and determination! This really makes me appreciate how much effort goes into building a handmade guitar. Even after all that effort, there’s some kind of “rogue” harmonic thing going on with the open G string that he was unable to figure out. If you have any ideas, contact him!
Take a look: