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Miles Davis, the famous jazz trumpeter, once said “don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there”. That may be great advice for a musician learning to improvise, but it would not have gotten much traction with internet search engines.

When I write an article or blog post about gaffers tape or microphone cables I certainly hope that my writing is something that someone would actually like to read. Regardless, my true intended audience is something known as a robot or a spider. Internet search engines constantly send around these spiders to sample internet content and make notes of what links to what. This is the major source for data to determine what information you are offered when you enter a word or term in a search engine.

Since Miles was famous for playing a piece by completely ignoring what the composer had actually written, what he played would be completely invisible to an internet robot. At this point, robots are indexing text, not sounds, but you can be sure that someone, somewhere is working on a version of spider that can read music and index it for search engines. Its going to be an even tougher challenge to index Miles.

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My son and one of his friends have started podcasting. They record audio only to a digital camcorder and then transfer it to his computer for uploading. This works pretty well and I applaud him for coming up with a creative recording solution. Unfortunately, this creates huge file sizes which complicate editing and uploading.Most of what they do is in an interview or discussion format and this can make it pretty tough to get good audio quality just using the microhone from the camcorder.

I recently came across a solution that would allow him to record directly to his computer using a handheld mic and its a pretty neat device. The LightSnake USB intelligent microphone cable will allow you to plug a regular microphone (the kind that use standard XLR connectors) directly into a USB port. This means that you can use any type of microphone connected to the LightSnakes 10′ microphone cable without a mixer or any other sort of audio preamp. The circuitry for converting audio signals into USB is built right into the cable. It even has led’s in the cable that glow when the LightSnake is installed properly.

The Lightsnake is not cheap, at $70.00, but when you consider the price of a good mic preamp, a USB interface, and the hassles of cabling the packge,  the price seems reasonable. The “plug and play” simplicity is what really makes this a device worth considering, as converting audio to USB can get pretty complicated.

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