Gear/Business Update

New Hard Drive arrived this week. 1 tb internal. what a pain in the ass it is installing it into an iMac. They really don't want you in there. Whatever, I'm all set up and ready to go! Should be a great time. Ordered a weight bar too, need to lay off the hootch for a while. Getting too fat. Made Quimby a little snow palace, but it does not contain him, he can jump out of it, as he demonstrated last night when the kids were outside. It still looks awesome though. I'll turn it into an ice bar if I have to. Today would be a good day to shape it better, as at 2:22 pm it is 33 degrees (it was 3 degrees this morning). Planning on snow shoeing and making a fire in the woods somewhere on Saturday. Not sure where that will be yet. Maybe Cumberland. We will have to see.

I am going to start playing music as a DJ for people this summer. It pays well, and I would be good at it. I discovered this week that I need to upgrade- a lot .I need to upgrade my speakers at least, and then probably the mixer, and possibly buy some sort of interface that works with an external hard drive. funny how three hours of music isn't that many songs but if you don't have 10,000 to choose from, you are a sub par DJ. I may have a gig lined up already. I can't wait. If I could do that once a weekend, I would make more doing that than I make now working 40 hours a week, which blows my mind. I really need new speakers, probably powered ones. I need a nice mixer for everything, which is important. speaker stands, wireless micas, and probably a small but heavy duty tent for shade in the heat and of course to waterproof everything. The tent will probably be the most expensive part of it all. As it is right now, as long as the room wasn't huge, I do have enough equipment to do the job well.

The business is going well, except that I've been waiting for payment on the second half of a jingle package for over a month now. I have definitely learned what I need to do as far as payment goes next time. I also need some upgrades for the business as well. In order of importance:
higher quality vocal/guitar mic- I would love the AT4040, but I think it's too expensive, so I'm looking at the Rode NT1 which should do the trick. I've used them before and they do sound good. The other options the AT 2020, and I'm not sure about it, it looks cheap.
USB or Firewire audio interface. In a perfect world I would buy a Saffire Pro 24 DSP, or a M-Audio Profire 610, or even a 2626, but the cheapest of those options is around $300. If I could ever get paid for my last jingle I would buy it. In the meantime, I'm researching other interfaces, but I really don't want to spend money on something that I'm just going to replace in a few months anyway.
I need a new bass guitar, since I had my last one signed by Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman. It looks awesome, and it didn't even sound that good anyway. I found some good bass guitars that will do the trick for around $100, so that's nice.
I need a new desk as well. Mine is falling apart. It is 10 years old and was made of particle board.
I might as well get some new speaker stands, since I will need them anyway, those only run around $70. Come to think of it, I have a friend who would probably sell me most of what I've just mentioned. I'm gonna have to email him. The only other thing I will eventually need is padding for the walls once I get a house, but that's not even on the radar. I'll need a car, and a motorcycle first;)