Rabbit Hole

So I went down a rabbit hole. I'm gonna tell you about it this time on Wife's Thoughts the. Following program Studios Production. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to Wife's Thoughts. I'm your humbled host. I'm so glad you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today before we get underway with the program. If you like what you hear, won't you leave us a positive rating and review on your favorite podcast provider or at Weis's Thoughts dot com or Purplepitstudios dot com. Appreciate that very much, And if you want to follow me on x it's at Terry Weiss. And I am also on the Instagram at Weiss Productions. I think that's sound think around Instagram. Await, I hope we are. So what are we going to talk about this time on the program? I went down a rabbit hole and oh my gosh, was at a journey. So let's gather around the virtual campfire, get the favorite beverage of your choice, pull up a comfortable seat, and let's talk about it. Hey, everybody, welcome to the program. Welcome to Wiste's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss and again, so glad you're here today. Appreciate each and every one of you, and now welcome to summer. Huh, summer twenty twenty five. Are you enjoying your summer thus far? Is it everything that you hope? More and more? I hope. So. So while we're gonna talk about, we're gonna get right into the program because I want to get right into this episode of the White Thoughts. I went down a rabbit hole the past almost two weeks. And you know, I'm gonna share with you. And some people will say, hey, Terry TMI man, too much information, but this is just me how I am. I like keeping it real with everybody. Okay, I have a little bit of a touch of the OCD. I'm not afraid to admit it, and I can get and for those of you that have OCD obsessive compulsive disorder tendencies, you know how it is. It's like a skipping record. You just got to do certain things. Now. It's not in my case where I gotta like wash my hands fifty times, I got to touch a doorknob five times. I've got to face a certain way or repeat a certain phrase. I mean, I know and have heard of some of individuals that have a really debilitating OCD. And believe me, folks, it's a mental health thing. You can't help it. What my touch of OCD is is when I get certain a certain thought in my brain. As far as like production wise, I got to do this. I've got to figure out why this doesn't work. I got to figure out why this has happened. I've got to figure out this process. And it has served. Me, Okay, I'd say a fifty to fifty shot over the course of my lifetime. However, it can get to a point where it gets I don't want to say debilitating, but it interferes with my normal process of life. And let me explain what I mean. The past week and a half, almost two weeks. As many of you know, I'm a voiceover artist, voiceover person, okay, artist, whatever you want to call it, voice actor. I've done numerous audiobooks, I've done numerous commercials and things of that nature. I've done numerous e learning for corporations. One corporation was a twelve billion dollar corporation. I did some E learning for them. Anyway, not to be braggadocious, just to give you a little bit of background for those of you don't know, so as being a person who is tuned to sound, Okay, tuned tuned into sound. And I also do music and I'm I'm always chasing tone on the guitar or the bass and what have you. I'm very attuned to sound. And for those of us out there listening, for those of you out there listening, and you know who you are, you're you're like some of you that are like me. We're tuned into sound. We can hear certain things and certain things like I can, like now I can spot an AI voice a mile away. I mean at first I was like, oh okay, it was pretty obvious, but they are getting better, but I can, I can hear the difference. So anyway, back back on track, Ary, I had a certain voiceover sound with a new microphone. I got that I was chasing and I use I do things. I compare it to others like, oh, I wanted I wanted to have this type of tone, this type of warmth, this type of clarity and definition, this type of mid range, push to bring it, to bring it to your ear, what have you. And I got on I got on that that that train, I got on that carousel, I should say that. And I went down the rabbit hole. And for a week and a half, two weeks, I mean, I was staying up late at night, I was spending five five six hours in the studio at a time every almost every day for certain number of days, where my my wife had to come and say, what in the hell are you doing up here? You know it's time to eat. You know I texted you an hour ago that dinner's ready. You know your your dinner's sitting in the microwave, probably cold, what have But I was just it's just one of those things. I gotta I gotta wait, I gotta record this one more time. I've got to tweak this compressor, tweak this equalizer. I've got to tweak this, you know setting. Oh well, maybe if I do this, maybe if I step back from the mic or you know, step into the mic. Or maybe off. And I just got caught in that rabbit hole until finally an engineering friend of mine helped me out and we had a little conference, we did a little video zoom meeting and brought some things to life and helped me out quite a bit. And it just it kind of pulled me back. You know. I mean it gets to the point where it almost raises my anxiety level and my stress level a little bit. Not in a oh my god, I have a panic attack way, but in a way that I'm just I am hyper focused like booms laser target. I've got to get this accomplished where some people are able to walk away a little bit and say, all right, you know what, I've done this for an hour, you know what, wash my hands with this for a little while and walk away. Because what happens, especially in audio engineering, is your ears. You can get what's called ear fatigue, just like you can get I fatigue if you read too much, or if you're squinting at something and trying to focus it and you don't, you know, or if you're too much screen time or what have you, or if you're out in the sun without sunglasses too. You can get I fatigue, okay, which you know it's not pleasant. I've had that too. You know, where you can kind of hardly focus on anything, but you can get ear fatigue. Ear fatigue is where everything kind of just sounds the same. You're not hearing a difference in this file over that file. You know, the difference in the trouble and the base and the mid range, your ears just become kind of just blase to the whole thing, okay, And so what happens is that you're kind of like spinning your wheels in the mud. You're not going anywhere, You're not making any progress. And that's what was happening to me. But instead of being a good steward of audio engineering and pulling back, pulling myself back and saying, Okay, you know what, I'm going to take a step back and you know, chill out for a couple hours, maybe, you know, the rest of the evening and hit it with fresh ears tomorrow. Now, I'm like, I'm going to do this, damn it, I'm gonna do it. And it's you. I had that happened too with computers, Like you know, I got to get this software done. I'm I'm gonna redo my whole computer. I'm gonna wipe it and redo it again, and you know, I'm up half the night doing that stuff. And you know, I guess it's I don't know, this is one of those things. But that's why this podcast kind of went by the wayside the past week or so for those because I've had some people reach out, hey, did you stop the White Thoughts podcast? Have you stopped you know some of the other No, I just I got torn down a rabbit hole between that and the projects I was working on for clients. The free time when I do the podcast and other things was taken over by this rabbit hole that, you know, because I was chasing tone, chasing audio tone and chasing mainly verbal tone. So that's why had happened, and that's where I was, so all is well, I'm okay. We're all good here, thank you. It's just one of those things, you know, you get in those modes, like you know, and you know it happens. You know. My adult ADHD doesn't help either, but hey, we deal with what we deal with, you know. And again, I don't mind sharing that with you. Some people say, yeah, you know, you gotta be careful what you share, but it's just part of who I am. It's my makeup. You know. We talk a lot on this podcast about my thoughts and I'm just sharing with you my world. Okay, It's just the way it is. But other than that, been enjoying the summer. You know, me and the Missus have been cleaning up our ponderosa. Here we got a good chunk of land and yours truly, unfortunately the last couple of years has been a lazy sloth and let it go. And on the fence line on the back quarter of the property, we had overgrowth of shrubbery and brushes and some trees, and my neighbor said, you know you're gonna take care of that at some point. You know, it was a polite conversation over an adult beverage one evening out in the back quarter of the property. But I said, yeah, yeah, we are. Said I've kind of just got sidetracked by other things, and you know, it's about balance. I guess if I can give any advice to anyone out there about your life on this episode of the White Thoughts podcast, it's about balance. You have to be in balance, and I got a little out of balance. However, However, on a more positive note too as well, this past week, I did six point thirty nine miles in four days walking. You know, I love to walk, and especially when the weather's nice. Even when it's not so nice, you know, I'll walk outside. If it gets down to even thirty degrees, I'll walk. But being at his. Summertime here in the north as eastern half of the United States of America from where the program cometh to you. It's been nice out. I've been doing a morning walk, in an evening walk, you know, almost two and a half miles or so a day in some instances, and it's been nice. You know. It's helping me trim down a little bit. And now that I've kind of got out of the rabbit hole, got off the audio carousel of tone chasing, and by the way, I did finally end up with the tone with a good help of an audio engineer friend of mine, and we got the tone for that new mic and everything. Because I use something called Universal Audio. For those of you who knows what that is, it's a whole system of interfaces for your computer and they're very high end and very expensive but worth it interfaces. I have a nice collection of mics and speakers and headphones and what have you. And what I like to do is when I get a new mic or get a new sound that I like, is I like to save that setup. It's almost like putting out your favorite outfit. If you want to go out to dinner at this restaurant and then getting your beach outfit out to go there. So that's what I did, and that's again the tone I was chasing the past week and a half or so, almost two weeks here over at the Purple Pit studio. But finally got the tone I like with that mike and a couple iterations of it for certain other aspects of doing the work that I do. So mission accomplished. Quite a few sleepless nights and frustrating days, but mission accomplished. And one of these days, this old soul hill here will learn how to do it with a more I guess even keel without, you know, locking myself in the room as it were, like an eccentric mad scientist, as my wife likes to call me, are an eccentric audio mad scientist. I'm like, oh whither take that as a compliment or a slam, But anyway, I digress. But other than that, we've been enjoying the summer. I had a great Fourth of July holiday. We went into town and had some nice chicken barbecue which was really nice, hung out with some folks down there. I was able to step away from the studio for a while to do that. That was a lot of fun. And you know, we. Just we welcome to new grand baby here in the past couple of weeks or so, to the to the family as well. So that makes number seven. I think we've got a we've got a baseball team or a soccer team. So we got seven grandkids. And we told our children, Me and the missus told our children, that's enough, please stop, that's enough. We're good. We're good. Now, We're all good. But you know, hey, kids are gonna do what they're gonna do, right So anyway, that's the extent. I just wanted to give you an update, let you know on this episode of the White Thoughts podcast what I was doing where I was. Some of you had reached out and with some mild concern because I'm I am pretty regular with this podcast a weekly. So now you know, now you're in the no no worries the wordsmith word of the episode. We kind of set out some feelers and some of you like it, some of you don't. I don't know if we're going to continue that particular thing or just kind of dedicate to more time on the topic of each podcast. I don't let me know if you want, if you'd like the wordsmith word of the episode. Just you know, drop me a line at Terry at weissthoughts dot com, or you can send me an email from the Purple Pitch Studios website and say, hey, I like the wordsmith word of the episode. I might even throw a pole up on X. If you want to follow me on X, it's at Terry Weiss wysee. Just make sure you spawn a him right, Okay, appreciate that and we'll see what happens. 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