Snaps of Life

One reason I have always loved Mackie mixers can be seen from this video. Its a pity brand Y didn’t survived though as I also like it as much as Mackie. I personally never even trust brand B ever though.

note: any people who do enough live sound will be able to figure out what brands they are talking abt. Brand A is a giveaway though.

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Many times people ask me how can one minimise feedback in a live sound scenario. There is one thing which many people including me constantly overlook.

I was mixing at The A Cappella Festival organised by The A Cappella Society, and was wondering why was I getting so much feedback, and I finally found out what was causing the trouble.

See that red arrow in the picture? The monitor Speakers are pointing towards the partition, And the partition was reflecting the sounds from the monitors STRAIGHT into the performers mic, causing me significant loss of allowable gain/volume.

After moving away the partition, the system works far better.

So the tip is, speaker placement plays a large role in minimising feedback. Do not hesitate in taking remedial steps where possible.

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I was at The A Cappella Festival 2008 organised by The A Cappella Society. We had a guest team who came all the way from indonesia called Jamaica Cafe which charmed the crowd with the beautiful voice. Below is a short video on them produced by me.

Jamaica Cafe @ A Cappella Festival 2008

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Interesting Video on a photographers right(NOTE: in usa context).

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For now i’m rushing out school assignments, so any updates here will be minimal for a few weeks. Once i am free, I will write a little about my Imagine Cup Journey other than day 1

The reason for lack of updates in Paris was actually due to a packed schedule, and the internet not working when I wanted it to.

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We didn’t place top 3 sadly but well we were already top 6.On a lighter note, Singapore placed 1st in the embedded design Category (Clap clap clap clap clap). Congrats to team Trail Blazers from Nayang Polytechnic. I wonder where are the press? Its not easy to place first in such a international contest

Team Mama Gaia from Temasek Polytechnic was placed top 12 and that was also a commendable result considering the amount of opponents and they were up againsts were largely university students.

I would also like to congratulate all the teams in the photography category due to the fact that their work for the finals were all Top notch (ok except for 1 team which i didn’t particularly liked the work), and I would say everybody has been a winner. I especially liked the work of the 2 croatian teams.

Pictures of the whole journey would be here @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/25035085@N07/sets/72157606106641727 I would update if anyone else like Soon Bing posts up photos.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank everyone who has supported us on this journey.

Cheers

Xiang Ju

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Hi all!

Here are the final slides we used for submission for the finals. Results will be out tomorrow afternoon french time.

Thats all for now folks. I have many sightseeing pictures i want to show, but haven’t had time to process them. I will try to do some up asap when im still here. I will continue posting up lot more images when im back in sg.

Will post the result up here tmr also.

Cheers

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Yes it has ended. Will update later.

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We arrived in Paris Yesterday.

Picture speaks a thousand words so here goes

@ the Airport

Our Mentor from SP Leon chatting with the mentor of TP's software Design team

On the bus

The Concorde Aircraft which is now out of service

@ The Hotel

View from our hotel room on the 31st floor

To and fro from Paris City Hall

Lining up to enter city hall


Yang Lin(green jacket) from TP being teased by edwin(The grey jacket) from Microsoft USA


Denver From NYP


Internal of City Hall




Team TP for Software Design Category


Direction FAIL!





Team Singapore Dying from Jet Lag






External of City Hall

Thats All for now Competition starts in 3 hours. Will post more walk around photos when I’m free.

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Today, Soon Bing and I would be flying off to Paris, France to compete in the Imagine Cup Photography Category Finals together with our mentor Leon Chua. I would like to take this chance to thank everybody who have been supportive of us, especially our Lecturer, Mdm Choo who has been helping us all this while whenever we have met with problems and we wouldn’t be there if she did not suggest we enter in this category. I would also like to specially thank all my family members for rendering soooooooooo much help.

Don’t fret, we will do our best over there and make all of you, our valuable supporters proud. I don’t think we’ll do badly anyway, as the worse we can get is 6th place in the world(our target is first)

I will try to find time to update this blog over in Paris. So stay tune.

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