audio feedback

I am not a user of fine sound equipment like manley microphones, but I did recently read this article from Mental Floss about audio feedback, and I think that's pretty interesting. You have to think of sound as a wave. If your microphone gets in the wrong location (in front of the speaker instead of behind the speaker), the sound will become an infinite wave - sound comes out of the speaker, gets picked up by the mic, and gets amplified by the speaker. I don't know music but that appeals to my inner physicist!

drums

I have a friend who has a three-year-old son. He is an awesome little boy, but he can sure make noise! He loves banging things - pots and pans, especially, but also his toys, his shoes, anything at all. Pretty soon his parents are going to have to buy him a set of puresound drums & percussion at guitar center just so that he will have something he can hit without accidentally damaging the furniture, and *maybe* not making such a cacophony!

music

I had a friend growing up who desperately wanted to play the bari sax in our junior high and high school bands. This was around the time that President Clinton played his sax on late-night television, and the saxophone was considered a "cool" instrument. Personally, I wanted to play the flute, but I had some orthodontic work done around the same time that prevented me from playing the flute. I'm pretty sure my friend never learned to play the sax, either. But it was a fun time when anything was possible!