Dare to Dream?

Past few months were crazy! An 18 hours work pattern was addictive!

But I am so happy to be back to a normal routine. I finally broke a 3 week long jinx and at 7pm, was all set to hit the gym. Its been long since I last smelled myself sweating - and its was such a welcome change. The combination of Bryan Adams (being directly delivered to my ear drums) and abdominal crunches is awesome… you just cannot believe how much it can motivate you!

Just if I can somehow shift my work schedule -3 hours, I can continue this in realtime (one is not expected to hit the gym at 12 midnight!)

June’s target - get back to 32′ 34′ waist size!

For people like me, who have almost no technical knowledge of what elements compose a sound stream - specially today’s music, managing the equalizer to get just the right music is bit too much experimenting. All I want is my music to sound just right!

Admist all the preparation I’m doing for tomorrow, I managed to get hold of Tyronne (my new roomy, the earlier Sinhalese language maintainer at Red Hat, now working with the JBoss team) and asked him to explain me the equalizer settings & what frequency means what & how to best utilize it.

ATM, i’m listening to Salim Shahzada’a Aaja Nachle & the setting I did a few songs back is still rocking my ears! I’ve tried configuring xmms’s equalizer for pleasant vocals & the following setting is seemingly good for what I wanted

Following will help you to decide the best setting for you (what follows is not technical info but what I understood from what Tyronne told me - but the above setting is nice for lyrics heavy songs)

• 60 - Heavy Base
• 170 - Base
• 310 - Muddy Base
• 1K and 3K - Vocals
• 6K and 12K - Distortion
• 14K and 16K - Sharp highes

The above equalizer setting is sounding soo good that I’ve saved it as the default preset

Embrace by Anup

I’m not a Sitar fan but the way this album has been done, it just pulls you in! I ended up listening to all the songs of Embrace