So, the new panel is in, but it has to be inspected before he can add all the new circuits. He says the inspection should happen Monday, and then the new stuff can go in after that. Ah well…
Here’s Me Updating Fron My Phone
The electrician is here, working on the panel. He’s upgrading it from a 100 amp to a 200 amp panel, which should give me plenty of power. This, of course is why I’m updating from my phone.
Electrician Scheduled For Friday
So, the electrician is supposedly going to be here Friday to do the job. The job consists of upgrading the panel to a 200amp panel, and running nine new circuits in the garage for all my tools and lighting and other crap.
There will be dedicated circuits for the air cleaner, the lights, the dust collector and the air compressor. There will be a 110 and a 220 circuit on each side of the shop, and a 110 at the back.
I hope he actually shows up. My confidence in his reliability isn’t very high.
More Tools!
Finally, the drill press arrived, and I picked it up last Sunday. Then, thanks to a governmental policy that I don’t particularly agree with, we received our “rebate” check, and I spent that on an air compressor and a tabletop overarm pin router.
I ordered the pin router from grizzly.com on Teusday, and it arrived today (Wednesday). That’s some fast service, and perhaps a little luck that I live in the same state as one of their shipping centers. I’ll get some pics in the next day or two.
I also called a different electrician, and they’re going to come out Monday and give me an estimate on the work I need done. I gave up on the other guy. The sooner that work gets done, the sooner I can get to actual work on my guitars.
Check Your Computer Before You Give Up
One thing I learned today was that the funky powersaving things that computers can do these days, such as not running full speed unless it really needs to, do odd things with audio applications. Make sure you turn off those features so that your computer is always running full speed if you want to do audio on it, otherwise, your sequencer will report that it is more used than it really could be, and you’ll have a lot less processing power to use since the app won’t push it into full speed mode.
I’d come to the point where I thought the drivers for my Firestudio were complete crap because I couldn’t even play back a song at 512 samples of latency on a quad core computer without getting pops and clicks. Now, with that powersaving crap turned off, I can play back at 256 samples, if I want (192 is still a no go, however). The drivers still have some problems, but the thing is not as much a pile of doo as I had thought it was.
New Confusion
A new version of Confusion exists, an improvement, I think. You no longer have to go to the studio page to listen, either. See that player to the left? Yeah, that one. Click on Confusion, and it plays! Imagine that!
At the point where I’m happy with it enough to call it a finished product, the little arrows will take you to a page where you will be able to download it for free or buy it so I can spend more time working on new songs.