User:HotshotGG

From Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

About Me

Personal life

I live 4 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts I am 21 year old male.

I am a college student working for a non-profit organization in their IT department. I am the process of going back to school to get my education in an IT related field preferrable Web Development. My focus right now is mostly on [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Technical_writing Technical Writing]/Communications and Web Development. My other area of interest as a hobby is in Sound Recording and Audio Engineering. I like hanging out HA learning something new and spreading knowledge. I also enjoy help maintaining the wiki, whenever I have spare time. I enjoy discussing technology, current events, politics, philosophy, music or anything in general. I play keyboard in my sparetime also as a hobby. Private Message me if you ever need anything. Additionally I know how to code at a beginner level in numerous programming languages.

Technical Skills

Programming Markup/Languages: HTML 4.0/XML, CSS3, Javascript, PHP 5, MySQL, C/C++.
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (Linux)
Software: Microsoft Word 2007, OpenOffice.org 3, Adobe Framemaker 8.0, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Emacs, Putty, Doxygen 2.0.

Note: I am not familiar with the Mac OS/X operating system, nor do I have any experience reading or working with the object-oriented programming languages of Java or C# (typical trend amongst sofware companies looking for programmers these days).

Technical Writing

Web Development

Hardware

My hardware specs:

  • Pentium III 600 Mhz
  • 128 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 video card
  • M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI soundcard.
  • Sennheiser PCX250 noise-cancelling (closed-cans)
  • Boston Acoustics 2.1 speakers with discrete subwoofer
  • Dual-boot Windows XP / Ubuntu.
  • Windows:
    • Cdex 1.70 with cdparanoia libraries for ripping.
    • fB2K v0.8.3 for listening.
    • Burrrn! for cd writing
    • Azureus/newsgroups for downloading.
  • Linux:
    • Rubyripper with cdparanoia libraries for ripping.
    • Amarok for listening.
    • k3B for cd writing.
    • Ktorrent/newsgroups for downloading
  • My encoding habbits:
    • Vorbis 1.1.3 libraries -q 7/8 for HD storage
    • FLAC 1.13 -C 3/6 level for archiving my CD's
    • Nero MPEG-4 LC-AAC -q 0.65 for Playstation 3 media
    • Lame MP3 3.98 -V 2 for compatability

Websites

Audio Websites:

  • Icecast Streaming links to open-source streaming stations on the net (MP3, HE-AAC, AAC, Vorbis streaming)
  • 1980s.fm a cool retro commercial site that brings you back to the 80's. (MP3, Vorbis streaming).
  • Pandora Account my account on pandora radio for (MP3 streaming)
  • [1] Lala Music] a cool social networking sites with free streaming full length trcks (MP3 streaming)
  • Musicbrainz Database essential for metadata and tagging your records
  • Amazon MP3 commercial website with DRM free single track's and full albums encoded @ 256 CBR or Lame -V 0 presets. All Track's are either $0.89 or $0.99 cents each.
  • ITunes Music popular Itunes music with DRM free track's and albums encoded at 128 kbps ITunes AAC encoder or "ITunes Plus" 256 kbps AAC. All track's are $0.99 cents each.

Lossless Audio Websites:

  • HD Dowloads a list of websites offering lossless audio downloads (pay or for free)

Musical Interests

My musical interests are:

  • Music
  • Classical
    • Use of classical music in diverse genres (indian and chinese classical)
    • Film Compositions/Scores (post contemporary and popular themes)
    • Pieces by famous classical composers of Classical Era and before (Bach, Tchaikovsky, etc).
  • Electronic
  • Ambient
    • IDM/Braindance
      • Squarpusher
      • Mu-Ziq
      • Venetian Snares
      • Mouse On Mars
    • Big Beat
      • FC Kahuna
      • The Chemical Brothers
      • The Crystal Method
      • Fatboy Slim
      • The Prodigy
      • The Propellerheads, etc.
    • Chiptunes
      • C64 SID
      • Amiga
      • Super NES
      • Sega Genesis
    • Netlabels
      • Kahvi Collective
      • 8-bit Peoples
    • Electroclash
      • Felix Da Housecat
      • Fischerspooner
      • The New Deal, etc
    • Electronic Dance Music
      • Full-on Psychedelic Trance/Goa Trance
        • Infected Mushroom
        • Astrix
        • Vibe Tribe
        • G.M.S
        • Ananda Shake
        • Sesto Sento
        • Visual Paradox
        • The Misted Muppet
        • Goa Gil, etc
        • Astral Projection
      • Progressive House
        • BT
        • Sasha
        • Way Out West
        • Hernan Cattaneo
        • James Zabiela
        • Bart Van Wissen
        • Luke Chable
        • Andy Moor
      • New Skool Breaks
        • Meat Katie
        • Plump DJ's
        • Dylan Rhymes
        • Koma and Bones
        • Elite Foce
        • Evil 9
        • Andy Page
        • Uberzone, etc
    • alternative/indie
    • 80's rock/pop
    • funk
    • jazz
    • blues
    • new wave
    • new age
    • hip hop, etc.

HA Questions

Questions that I will answer:

  • Ogg Vorbis technical questions (I am not a xiph zealot). I just like the project
  • Questions reguarding other codecs like AAC, lossless, etc.
  • Thought provoking R&D questions, provide insight, or ask questions
  • Information pertaining to CD ripping and audio hardware (including sound cards)
  • Questions related computer music applications and software (sequencers, hardware, etc)
  • General/technial questions reguarding CDex.
  • Music discussion forum related stuff or usage.
  • Other thought provoking topics (replaygain, dynamics range, mastering, etc)
  • Questions were I can help people.
  • Pokes at humorous topics.