Every Friday night from March through December, the Old Town Monrovia's Family Festival street fair and certified farmer's market happens. Six blocks of Myrtle Avenue are blocked off and are filled with craft booths, kiddie rides, live music, and food of all kinds. We are lucky enough to live within an easy walk of the fair, so we frequently spend our Friday evenings there.
This weekend, we let Riley try out some of the children's attractions. He went through the inflatable obstacle course and the big bouncy slide.
He had such a great time on both that he wanted to do everything else too--the pony rides, the petting zoo, and the train, primarily. I told him we'd save those for another weekend. He's already decided that he is going to ride the ponies and the train next time.
Chris's office is smack dab in the middle of the fair, so occasionally we give Riley a breather there before walking home. He loves to play with Daddy's small percussion instruments whenever he's there.
Sometimes Riley and I leave Chris behind at the office, but tonight he came home with us.
5 comments:
Are those brown rectangles on your office walls the sound baffles you installed, Chris? Are they helpful?
Monrovia seems to be a really nice community.
The brown rectangles are absorption panels, commonly called bass traps. Yeah, they've proven quite useful.
Quick explanation:
Mixing audio in small, rectangular rooms is problematic. Sound waves move and bounce around, canceling each other, reverberating badly, etc. Inaccurate mix compensations may be made.
These panels help remedy the problem. They minimize the more distracting, negative variables, namely early reflections (flutter echoes) and standing bass waves (boominess; indistinct, muddy low-end).
Practical result: With these panels, I'm able to mix tracks that better translate to a broader range of playbacks systems.
It is a nice community. Think of it as a smaller South Bend in the foothills.
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