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Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: chrisatpsu on March 30, 2012,
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4,640 channels
15 songs (about 50min)
7months to sequence from scratch...
can it be done?
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Of course....25 hours a day 8 days a week.
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How much free time are you willing to devote (20 hours a week? 90?)? How many channels repeat things being done elsewhere?
For my 80-channel sequences, first pass on a two-minute song is usually about three or four hours. When I get brain freeze I walk away. I’ll come back a couple of days later and fiddle with it for another hour or so and it’s probably very close to being finished, though, they’re one of those things that you can tinker with and tinker with.
Three-minute, 20-second song, 4640 channels? Wild guess: 12 hours? 16 hours? Maybe even 24 hours?
I'm thinking you'll be happy with four songs rather than 15.
\dmc
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Better quit yappin and get tappin on those songs.
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i feel like Rodney Dangerfield with the respect I get! ;D
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Doesn't matter after dec 21 2012 anyway! <md..
RJ
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i feel like Rodney Dangerfield with the respect I get! ;D
Change your avatar pic to a picture of the Incredible Hulk.
Then we will all fear you. 8)
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Talk to Sielbear about his video sequencing method. You can abstract away channels and just think of your house as a stage. Of course you'll need an LSP license and some tools ( I can help there) but with that setup I think you could double your song count. :)
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Lots of songs would be nice, but I find that a total 15 minute show that repeats works well. Beyond that people are ready to move on and if you are getting lots of traffic you will want them to move on. You could however have 2 or 3 different 15 minute shows and play them on different days of the week. So my advice is to get a good 15 minute show first and then see where things stand. I have lots of songs I would love to sequence, but never seem to have enough time and finally no motivation to add them since everyone likes what is already done. Adding more is usually for your own personal satisfaction and not for that of your audience. IMHO.
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Heh... My neighbors always want more songs.
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Heh... My neighbors always want more songs.
That's because they are using you as a commercial free radio station. They are not watching the lights all the time. My neighbors tell me the same thing. They would be happy if you just let media player play a big Christmas playlist all day. LOL. Maybe I should try that.
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That might be crossing the boundaries with local radio stations....not sure.
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Heh... My neighbors always want more songs.
That's because they are using you as a commercial free radio station. They are not watching the lights all the time. My neighbors tell me the same thing. They would be happy if you just let media player play a big Christmas playlist all day. LOL. Maybe I should try that.
I do that until showtime!
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I would be careful doing that.
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Heh... My neighbors always want more songs.
That's because they are using you as a commercial free radio station. They are not watching the lights all the time. My neighbors tell me the same thing. They would be happy if you just let media player play a big Christmas playlist all day. LOL. Maybe I should try that.
nope, the transmitter I purchased from another member can't broadcast on the few available frequencies in my area. It's only speakers.
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well honestly, you CAN use these transmitters to broadcast music in your house... if your neighbors pick it up and dont mind, it's not a big deal. for example, i broadcast music with my transmitter, but in the off season, i just use the rubber ducky antenna that came with it.
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I'll have to try it in the house. Outside, the interference is so bad I can't even listen in my own yard
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well honestly, you CAN use these transmitters to broadcast music in your house... if your neighbors pick it up and dont mind, it's not a big deal. for example, i broadcast music with my transmitter, but in the off season, i just use the rubber ducky antenna that came with it.
The poblem is that if your neighbors can pick it up it is a problem from a legal standpoint and then there is the issue of intent. If you have a light show syncronized to music and a transmitter transmitting that music then the intent is that the transmitter is being used to broadcast to others. This is not an issue during the show because it can be considered personal use for the display but if he continues to broadcast the music aftr the show is over, then he becomes an unlicensed radio station. For the most part that may also not be much of an issue but if he is broadcasting a good distance (as some here do) and one jerk picks it up and decides to complain .....
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For the most part that may also not be much of an issue but if he is broadcasting a good distance (as some here do) and one jerk picks it up and decides to complain .....
Just had to mention, not everyone who complains is a jerk. The rules for interference are there for a reason, so everyone can not step on each other over a limited resource (frequency allocation). No question some who complain are jerks, but some are not. I think the default should be that the fact one complains, doesn't by itself make them a jerk!
Back to your regularly scheduled program.
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Doesn't matter after dec 21 2012 anyway! <md..
RJ
lol I don't think anyone picked up on this one RJ. I was waiting for someone to say it though.. :)
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Saw it, recognized it, :), and decided not to comment (at that time).
Doesn't matter after dec 21 2012 anyway! <md..
RJ
lol I don't think anyone picked up on this one RJ. I was waiting for someone to say it though.. :)
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this past year, and even currently. i play music using my computer that broadcasts through the transmitter that i can pickup on a radio in the kitchen, or bedrooms via a radio. this would actually be safer since i'm using the transmitter for it's intended purpose. to broadcast locally to avoid running wires.
Now, for a side note, i do have a ground plane antenna that i use with the transmitter for shows, but I try to contain it's broadcast abilities so i don't become a radio station for the whole city.
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Saw it, recognized it, :), and decided not to comment (at that time).
+1
\dmc
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So you can still run your show.... http://www.atlassurvivalshelters.com/aboutus/nbc/backyard/
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So you can still run your show.... http://www.atlassurvivalshelters.com/aboutus/nbc/backyard/
if they had more of those, that would solve the housing market with affordable homes...
where's rick with his puns? ;D
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For sequencing, when setting up for halloween last year I had NO halloween songs sequenced 2 weeks before the 31st....
I bought songs from the net sequenced for LOR and imported them into LSP. It didn't matter that I had those exact channels and equipment or not. I used their channel cues to point to where I needed to make changes to my light setup. All-in-all it worked pretty well. I got 10 songs done in the time it would usually take to do 3-5.
I wish I had your radio setup, though. I should have put more cash into the transmitter than I did.
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Saw it, recognized it, :), and decided not to comment (at that time).
+1
\dmc
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R,
Tony "C"