So, I’m selling my first acoustic guitar to make room for my new Taylor 514. We recorded If Only You Were Dead, I’d Be Happy on the Jolly Rogers album with this guitar back in 2004. It has served me well, but it is time to make room for my absolutely gorgeous Taylor 514CE.

Does HTML5 <audio> work in my browsers of choice? The answer is “yes” for Chrome, Firefox and the stock Android 3.2 browser. The browser in Cyanogen 7.0 sees the audio tag and knows to render a player widget but will not play my audio.

I bought a new digital recorder, the Zoom H4, to record dialogue and sound effects this weekend for the Hamilton 24 Hour Film Festival. I also rented an Audio Technica AT8015, which was recommended by the recording guy at Long & McQuade. I could write a whole entry about filming last night. Maybe I will later once our 5-minute film has screened in front of audiences.

I have wanted a digital recorder for quite some time, mostly to record my endless noodling on my guitars. I often jam to the sound of my own drum, having no one else to play with, and I come up with a lot of little ideas for parts of songs, but have had no way to capture them until now. I don’t take my guitar playing seriously; I’m playing in my bedroom with no band, after all. While playing, I am more involved in the feeling of making the notes come out of my hands and through my guitar, so I rarely have the clarity of mind to observe the sounds and compare them to all of the music that I’ve heard in my life; which, I think, is pretty much what your brain does when listening to music.