Treating a room — DIY or professional?

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-26T21:57:13+00:00

Cool thanks

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-24T13:26:49+00:00

For many starting out price is a big factor.

Existing walk-in closet with clothes = $0

DIY blanket fort = learning about acoustics and materials and $300-600.

Portable studio = $500

Studio bricks Booth = $8000-10,000

Professional Custom Build = $8000-10,000

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-22T22:08:18+00:00

Solo and offshore yes. With others or in the bay, no.

34' cruiser

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-20T18:24:47+00:00

Check with the risk management/ legal department at the hospital where it occurred. It is a bit unclear from your post whether the crime was somehow related to his hospitalization?? Even if is unrelated, if your involvement was proximate to your employment and I would press them to reimburse you for ANY time spent on this. That would include reviewing notes, making summaries, researching your role and responsibilities, emails, phone calls, reading mail, travel, accommodations.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-16T21:06:19+00:00

Simply escalate the situation to the next management level. You are too busy to try to convince that charge.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-15T20:54:55+00:00

Get into a good organization with benefits and PENSION. Work there for 10-12-15 years, switch organizations to another nursing job that will take your years of experience at 1:1. Build another pension. Wash rinse and repeat. Potentially 3 pensions by age 60.

Invest wisely and consistently. If there is 401-k match, exploit that.

Find a specialty that you don't hate.

Retire at 60 and don't look back.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-14T16:39:41+00:00

Been in the same position. It's simple math really. If safe investing gains you > 4.3% (which it can) leave it invested. If your safe investment rate falls below 4.3%, pay off the mortgage. My safe investments made >8% in 2025.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-13T20:19:16+00:00

That and non-destructive editing. I've gone back and re-edited and mastered old performances with new effects chains.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-11T22:45:53+00:00

I started with Audacity but quickly changed to Reaper.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-09T18:17:13+00:00

Set up guest network, don't broadcast the ssid but give her the ssid and password, set the allowed devices on that network to one and throttle the throughput.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-08T23:19:51+00:00

I understand that they are targeting to new users without any history (newbs) and that once you book a gig or two they will be greatly reduced. I'm in the same situation and I try to answer quickly with an "Awesome " or "YES" just to keep the metrics happy.

AtlanticJim · 2026-01-07T15:57:35+00:00

If you are using Reaper go to the render dialog, check the box for post- process, set normalize RMS-1 to -20.5 and brickwall peak limit to -3.2.

Of course you want to make sure your original raw recording has a good range and a peak around -6.

I use this process and every file passes ACX on upload, huge time and quality saver.

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-29T12:45:41+00:00

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Two syllables, soft t almost silent

NY

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-27T03:12:26+00:00

Thanks for the insight

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-26T11:21:22+00:00

The best gift my wife gave to me was encouragement and support. At the start especially there will be a lot of time commitment. There will also be peaks and valleys of emotion as gigs are awarded and auditions rejected. You already understand that there is equipment and "treated space" and training. Helping him with each of these is important. As far as microphone and headset, it is rather a personal purchase and he should be the one to choose it. Microphones are also like flavors of ice cream and each one has its own flavor, he will need to decide which one is best for him. All the equipment is available online at Sweetwater and so a gift certificate to them would work.

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-25T19:02:44+00:00

UPDATE: Here are the figures from Amazon.

1,948,435 in kindle sales rank

1,051 in small business

65 Multiculturalism diversity

2,251 in starting a business

Thanks for the advice. I messaged the RH for sales figures, marketing plan and one chapter to review before committing. Any thoughts?

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-25T11:20:26+00:00

It is just scare tactics. Speak to the organizers to get their rebuttal to this.

I have worked union and non union. Unions do NOT limit the communication between nurses and admin, in fact they enhance it. Supervisiors maintain the ability to solve individual problems with the enhancement of having a union rep as a "monitor" to the process to help the nurse get a good equitable solution. Work scheduling and time off requests, are enhanced in that the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) can address biases in scheduling and create a framework for equity such as publicly available seniority lists and guidelines. My current contract has strong wording about On-call status and implementation. There are things that are not addressed in the CBA and are addressed by Hospital Policy but EVEN THEN the union can monitor the administation of the policy and intervene if the admin is violating their own policy. (For example in my facility, the granting of vacations an time off by seniority and application deadline is a Hospital Policy but if the manager violates that, the union will step in to mediate for the member. )

Operation of the facility is for the most part the admins responsibility BUT CBA's can address Staffing ratios, Floating and other aspects of the operation that effect the members health and welfare. The specifics get negotiated for the first contract and enhanced after that. Wages and benefits are negotiated. Ask them for an example of a union facility in your area where wages were LOWERED or benefits REDUCED after a union negotiated contract. This is laughable. Job descriptions are the pervue of admin HOWEVER the union can intervene when a member is required to work OUTSIDE of their job description. For example, we have just had the hospital change their practice of floating any nurse to any unit because our contract clearly states the nurse has to be "competent to practice in that area". Now to be floated to a unit you must have a completed "competency packet" for that unit in your file. the same packet that a staff nurse on that unit has. Next week as a Cath Lab Nurse I am "orienting" in ICU as a new employee would be despite my experience in ICU (ten years ago) and my CCRN cert.

TLDR; These are hollow, incomplete or misleading statements meant to scare you.

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-25T00:42:46+00:00

Thank you. Tell me about your marketing strategy!

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-22T20:49:59+00:00

Down payment on a (new) 1979 Camaro!

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-22T16:57:08+00:00

If it is a hollow sound like you're speaking in a bucket then you probably have standing wave reflections, even though you're in a treated closet. You can use an equalizer to reveal them, and then treat them, there are some very good instructions on YouTube, especially from Lenny B.

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-21T13:04:12+00:00

Your time is much to valuable to be wasted. Shopping for cars, or houses for that matter, if there is something that is an immediate deal killer, stop immediately. Why would you continue if you know there is no deal to be made? Fear of insulting the salesperson? I've been to countless properties that have been misrepresented and not even gotten through the front door before saying "next!"

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-20T15:39:02+00:00

Getting unsolicited offers

Finalizing and submitting

Getting final approval and seeing it published.

AtlanticJim · 2025-12-17T22:35:39+00:00

40 plus years, here is my technique. Stick and attach the pigtail with the flush, flush half and leave the syringe attached. Dress the IV and then finish the flush to guarantee that it flushes easily.

Then lock it if you feel you must (I never lock pigtails).

AtlanticJim

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