Mon, 26 Jun 2006
THE CHURCH OF SPONTANEOUS JOY
Saw these guys play at Glitch Bar and Cinema on Saturday night, was a great show. I'd checked out some of the mp3s from their site before heading off and suprised to find them playing live a much more refined, smoother sound than the acid techno on their site, with atmospheric spoken word, and ultra smooth echo laden trumpet sounding clearly though the Minirig Sound System. Very impressive, and went down a treat on a cold Melbourne night in away from the cold.
After the intermission the performance filled out from the elctronic backing to a full live band with the addition of guitar, bass, drums and violin to head of in a sort of stoner dub Tijuana Brass direction that was also great fun.. they shoulda played longer.. all in all a good night out on a cold melbourne night.
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Dick Smith Electronics USB 2.0 External Sound Card
Got this on special for just under $20, for use with Skype.Worked first go with Linux 2.6.15, ALSA drivers - from dmesg:
usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 input: C-Media USB Headphone Set as /class/input/input4 input: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Headphone Set ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-4 usb 2-4: USB disconnect, address 3
it identifies as a C-Media headhone set - but works perfectly. Sounds OK, but noiser than the uca202.
Looking inside the PC board identifies it as a Gamtec MB-102 which it presumably is a rebadged version.
Has a bright blue/purple LED that flashes when the audio is active.
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