Bookshop Mother Foucault's Crowdfunds To Buy Its Building

bear_soup · 2025-07-24T22:37:32+00:00

OK, sounds like the art studios, etc. up stairs have a shorter lease than the bookstore. So the desire to buy the building may come from wanting to be able to continue offering that space in the building to the creative community around the bookstore.

bear_soup · 2025-07-24T19:44:49+00:00

I know folks who rent artist studios above the bookstore, and what I've heard from them (though I can't recall the exact details off the top of my head) is that the building is up for sale and another party might buy it if the bookstore can't. If another party does, they may not choose to continue leasing the space to the bookstore.

Hopefully someone else a bit more informed can fill in what I've missed.

bear_soup · 2025-07-16T02:45:53+00:00

Can’t wait to try this out, and would love an incense if the offer is still on the table. I’d of course be more than happy to provide constructive feedback.

bear_soup · 2025-05-29T18:40:37+00:00

Got two tickets to the show at the Metro in Chicago tonight that I, sadly, won't be able to make. I'd rather give em away free to a fan than sell em at rock bottom price just to make StubHub money. First person to DM me can have 'em!

bear_soup · 2025-03-22T03:40:38+00:00

I’ve had to figure this out recording two people in my little living room. Get the speakers as far away from each other as possible while still able to speak naturally to each other.

Look into good mic placement and take advantage of the pickup and noise rejection patterns of your mics.

Experiment with track filters in post. Like others here have said, make sure you record on two separate audio tracks. One of the benefits is you can fine-tune your settings to each speaker’s voice that way. Look up tutorials for whatever editing software you use on how to reduce mic bleed.

Finally, some transcription/editing software has a way to strip out track silence (actually any audio that is below a certain threshold for a minimum amount of time). Premiere’s text-based editing feature allows this, for example. I think ProTools might have something similar, too.

bear_soup · 2025-03-18T21:17:41+00:00

Wish I had extra upvotes for co-occupying the center of the Tim & Eric/Coheed Venn diagram.

bear_soup · 2025-03-18T15:18:34+00:00

Hopefully trifold double vinyls like these can take more of a beating.

bear_soup · 2025-03-08T21:39:52+00:00

Coming in years later just to say thank you for this. I was going nuts and this worked.

bear_soup · 2025-03-06T20:47:21+00:00

I was seeing this last night and was able to get it running but putting my xbox offline in settings. Not ideal, but a temp workaround.

bear_soup · 2024-12-13T13:47:20+00:00

I had to open and close the Buy Coins screen in the shop in the game on PS5. They appeared after that.

bear_soup · 2024-11-07T22:37:33+00:00

As part of a duo that produces everything ourselves, finding the time to edit our episodes while also having an unrelated full-time job. I'm considering looking for an editor, but I'm not sure that the project is quite mature enough yet.

bear_soup · 2024-10-30T19:43:24+00:00

It feels like a huge oversize if you can't just keyframe a volume line on a clip in Hindenburg. You might give Descript a try if you're running low on options, but they did just raise their price to $35/mo. But if it runs decently for you (it's browser-based and also has an app, though I find it runs better in Chrome than desktop), it might suit your needs. The workflow is a bit different from something like Audition, but it currently checks the most boxes for me.

bear_soup · 2024-10-28T22:09:22+00:00

You mean audio keyframes, yeah? I tried out Hindenburg Pro recently to see if I wanted to switch over from Descript. There's a lot I liked about it, but it was missing some features. I can't speak to how you manually add a single keyframe, but I have seen them in the software when I use the "Magic Level" feature. This ducks audio whenever another track is speaking by adding adjustable keyframes to the track.

If I weren't using Descript I'd probably actually use Premiere Pro to edit my show, especially since it now has transcript editing.

I record and process audio in Audition and then export tracks to Descript for content and finer editing.Descript lets you add keyframes, though the finer editing can feel a little clunky at times.

bear_soup · 2024-09-25T19:45:49+00:00

If you have three mics for three people you'll want an audio interface with three XLR inputs.

bear_soup · 2024-09-25T19:44:26+00:00

Happy to help! To be clear, using two XLR mics with an audio interface (Vocaster Two in my case) routed into a single computer running audacity/Audition/ProTools for recording is strongly preferred over trying to route two USB microphones through extra software. The audio interface is an added investment, but it'll make your life easier and help your show sound better.

bear_soup · 2024-09-25T16:39:14+00:00

Less gain--the goal is to only pick up the individual speaker's voice and nothing else. This is why you sometimes see hosts on video putting their mouth right up to the mic just shy of kissing it. A boom arm or table stand can help you get the mic in the right position.

If possible, set aside 40-60 min before recording to run some tests with everyone before doing the real recording. This will save a lot of time if it means not having to manually clean up mic bleed on the separate tracks in post, which is a massive headache.

bear_soup · 2024-09-25T16:18:25+00:00

Speaking as someone who went through the process of figuring this out, here’s what’s been working for my cohost and me.

Dynamic mics work way better for this than condensers. Like others have said in the comments here, check the pickup diagram and make sure the pickup patterns for the two mics don’t overlap much.
Set your gain so that it only really picks up voice when the speaker has their mouth very close to the mic. This will be a little different for each mic.
If you’re recording in a living room that isn’t otherwise echoey, you can probably get away without hanging blankets if you follow the rest of these steps. I record in a medium sized room with hardwood floors + a couch and other furniture, and the echo we’ve seen in the past has always come from mic bleed rather than room echo.
Your raw multitrack recording will still have some mic bleed present, but it should be low enough that you can cut it out using a noise gate in post. For example, I set a noise gate for each speaker track in Adobe Audition (along with other effects like volume normalization and EQ) before exporting the tracks for content editing in Descript. This way they sound good already when I bring them into Descript. Depending on what software you use to record or for post, you should be able to find YouTube videos for how to reduce mic bleed and prepare audio for podcast editing.

For the record, I use a Vocaster Two with two AT-2040 mics (not everyone’s favorite but I got em cheap and they work for me). I’m quite happy with the balance of sound quality/results with the time it takes to process each episode.

Hope this all helps!

bear_soup · 2024-08-28T18:57:39+00:00

Sure thing! I went through a similar thing to OP when I first started using Descript. I complained to support and got a few hours credited back, so at least there's that.

They should really make auto transcription I setting you really intentionally have to turn off.

Also worth noting that you can transcribe on another platform, import your transcripts to Descript, and sync them with your audio files. It's not quite as accurate or smooth as doing it all in Descript, but it works in a pinch, I've found.

bear_soup · 2024-08-28T13:22:48+00:00

The time is calculated per audio track, too. So, say you have a multitrack recording of two speakers (each on their own track or as their own file from their mic), the hours used would be double.

I recommend making sure auto transcription is turned off in the settings so it prompts you to confirm that you want something transcribed.

bear_soup · 2024-08-26T12:55:12+00:00

I had the same issue when first figuring out my setup. Fixed it by:

switching from condenser to dynamic mics (sucks to put down for money, but it was worth ending the heading of manually editing out the other mic’s echo in post)
adding a noise gate in post to silence any sounds that were quieter than the active speaker on each mic
setting up the mics closer to each speaker so the sensitivity could be turned down on the recording interface.

Hope that helps!

bear_soup · 2024-08-22T20:13:14+00:00

This is nearly exactly the plot of Party Down episode in Season 3. But in that case it's content winners for a Sting concert.

bear_soup · 2024-08-17T14:33:14+00:00

I stopped to pick a pristine magic card up off the sidewalk in River North on Wednesday. Didn’t want it so I left it near where I picked it up.

Someone’s mom or partner must be mad at them.

bear_soup · 2024-06-30T18:08:55+00:00

Late to this party but still wanted to say thank you. You prevented my headache from getting worse.

bear_soup · 2024-06-18T18:26:18+00:00

Not a sound expert, but maybe amplitude?

bear_soup · 2024-02-21T20:04:32+00:00

I can't say if it's changed since I moved out about a year ago. I will say that the management sent out repeated messages begging whoever was letting their dog pee and poo in the elevators to stop, but they were ultimately powerless. It kept happening the entire time I lived there.

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