Hum or noise in Rode NTG2 shotgun microphone.

This is to offer some insight into certain problems that you might encounter in recording audio with your videos.

I have a Tascam DR60DMkII recorder and preamp into which I've plugged a Rode NTG2 shotgun mic. I've been experiencing a slight hum or noise when I turn up the gain to gain to where I get a nice clear audio signal. I can dial down the gain and get ok voice quality but I like the crispness of the audio at the higher gain. I also find I can eliminate or reduce the noise in an audio editor quite a bit but who wants to mess with an unnecessary step in audio production?

Long story short, I found that it was the desktop computer itself some three-five feet from the microphone (with shielded cables I presume) that was the source of the noise. (To be fair, the interference could have been something that manifested itself in the audio recorder or in both the recorder and the mic.) This web article is a decent more comprehensive discussion of audio problems. In general, beware of nearby cell phones, monitors, fluorescent lights, speakers and other such sources of radio frequency interference (RFI).

Sound and audio connectors are not for the faint of heart I've found but, as one YouTuber observed, so so video can still work if you have good sound but not the other way around.

A+ for the Tascam, btw. The menus and controls can be a bit daunting if you're new to audio but once you practice a bit they're not a problem. It eats up batteries so you definitely want to use rechargeable batteries. I bought a LifeCharge external 16,800 mAh battery and that eliminated the batterys' running down during any one day of shooting. Tascam tech support is excellent, let it be said. Very decent folks.

Gays, Muslims, and feminists – keepin' it real.

In April 2017, Fillon, an Anglophile and practicing Catholic, could conceivably confront Marine Le Pen, the anti-Islamist leader of the National Front, in the second and conclusive round of the French presidential election. If so, the pundits will find that their old mental maps have been rendered useless in a conflict between two “conservative” candidates. That’s because the working-class vote, once claimed by the Left, has been abandoned by the French Socialists, who, like their counterparts in America, have run off in pursuit of an incoherent alliance of gay, Muslim, and feminist voters.

"French Twist. How Marine Le Pen quietly became the left-wing candidate in the French elections." By Fred Siegel, City Journal, 11/30/16.

Works for me.

Goodwhites pose as our moral superiors: so-o-o-o tolerant, open-minded, progressive, humane… But they are in fact, though, nasty pieces of work: vindictive, self-righteous, cruel, contemptuous of their fellow citizens.

"Moral Of The HAMILTON Hate Fest: These Goodwhites Are Nasty Pieces Of Work." By John Derbyshire, VDARE.com, 11/26/16.

Pearls of expression.

By refusing mass immigration, China is set to remain an economic backwater, just like Japan and S. Korea. Everyone knows that negrification and Islamization are the royal road to riches and domestic tranquillity. Oh well, let the fools remain mired in their ignorance then.

There will be some 3-4 billion sub-Saharan Africans by century’s end. China’s racial isolationism means they won’t be able to dip even a toe into that talent pool. Hah, their loss is our gain!

Comment by silviosilver on "Other People’s Nationalism: China." By John Derbyshire, The Unz Review, 11/20/16.

Zebra Killings.

Not only did the Zebra killings represent the greatest instance of racially-motivated killings in modern American history, but the number of victims was quite possibly greater than the combined total for all other such examples over nearly the last 100 years of our history. Based on that reality, the near-absolute media blackout has been quite remarkably Orwellian and deeply disturbing.^[1]

Ron Unz writes a thoughtful article on the Zebra killings but the main thrust of his article is the degree to which the American media practices – and has practiced – a pattern of deception. Famous cases that have been the subject of much media hysteria have proved to be exactly the opposite of how the media portrayed them. Plus, horrific crimes are deliberately downplayed by the MSM and vital information about those and lesser crimes are deliberately omitted by the MSM:

In fact, the evidence suggests that the overwhelming majority of all racially-motivated violent attacks in America each year are committed by blacks, usually against whites, though sometimes against Asians or Hispanics. But these attacks are almost always ignored by the media, while the newscasters and politicians seem almost desperate to shine a spotlight on any that occur in the opposite direction, even if they are almost nowhere to be found. Indeed, a few years ago I pointed out that for decades the statistical correlation across all our urban centers between the prevalence of blacks and the prevalence of serious crime has been among the highest found anywhere in the social sciences, strongly suggesting that marginal urban crime is essentially a black phenomenon. But individuals who form their view of the world primarily from our mainstream media would probably remain unaware of these important facts.^[2]

Unz's article is an excellent piece on the significance of the media's abdication.

Notes
^[1] "American Pravda: The KKK and Mass Racial Killings." By Ron Unz, The Unz Review, 9/19/16. (Omitted from Unz's examples cited is the horrific Channon Christian and Christian Newsom murders in Knoxville. Their murders are part and parcel of what he describes.)
^[2] Id.

The reigning leftist paradigm – worship of the outsider and the deviant.

The following is from an interesting article about the radical change in leftist ideology that took place in the late 1970s:

The more or less mythical hero of the left was no longer the proletarian but the marginal, the migrant, the foreigner, the dissident, or the rebel – even if he happened to be a religious fanatic that no leftist intellectual would have anything to do with. One recalls how Jean-Jacques Rousseau made fun of those who pretend to love the Tartars in order to avoid loving their neighbors.^[1]

Charles Dickens had another take on the propensity of wooly-headed people to love distant foreigners while neglecting their own family. Ours is not the only age afflicted with morons. The snowflakes and commie wannabes on campuses and riding their buses to the next Soros-financed rally probably consider themselves the most loving people EVer but entertain the most ridiculous caricatures of normal people and employ the tire iron and face mask to express their love.

Mr. Bricmont's observation is right on the money and he shines a bright light on Merkel's, Sarkozy's, Hollande's, Blair's, Cameron's, and Löfven's vicious elevation of the savage over their own people. This worship of the foreigner by the ruling elites is one of the most astonishing features of the declining Western world. Suddenly switching to a diet of potting soil is on a par with the madness of this new governing ideology.

As I write this the ReligionofPeace.com counter shows that there have been 29,747 victims of Muslim terror since 9/11. Only 253 to go till it's an even 30,000 and who doesn't have confidence that the lads will surpass that mark and soar to new heights. But it was Hillary's desire to ramp up Muslim immigration to the U.S. and any American Democrat politician worth his or her salt demands that the full mantle of constitutional protections and all possible welfare benefits be showered on these emissaries of a repulsive culture. Who hate us.

And, yes, some Republicans are just the same.

I have to admit that citing an article from Counterpunch is to venture into unfamiliar territory. When someone states an glaring truth, however, you gotta go with the honest commentator.

Notes
^[1] "Trump’s Victory: Arrogance Defeated." By Jean Bricmont, Counterpunch, 11/11/16.

Different breed of cat.

In virtue, the American oligarchy currently in control of the intellectual means of production bears no resemblance to the natural aristocracy, the object of Thomas Jefferson’s lauding reflections.^[1]

The media monopoly that distorts American society and government is a curse. That and the inordinate role that money plays in our politics cause gross distortions in public life. But, like vote fraud, don't expect the Republicans or ultra-leftist Democrat hysterics to effect reforms any time soon. Massive distortions of the political process are the cornerstone of 21st-century America.

However, who can use what bathroom, Steve Bannon's being a Big Blue Meanie, the patriarchy, our "rape culture," and equality for our pampered, infantile females will be page one news for the next decade. I'm concerned. I know you are too.

Notes
^[1] "A President Who Doesn’t Hate Those People Clinging to Guns & God." By Ilana Mercer, The Unz Review, 11/13/16.

I second that emotion.

And whatever one thinks of NED [National Endowment of Democracy] and its subsidiaries, it is time Americans took a hard look at the tax-exempt foundations, think tanks and public policy institutes operating in our capital city.

How many are like AEI [American Enterprise Institute], scheming to predetermine the outcome of presidential elections while enjoying tax exemptions and posturing as benign assemblages of disinterested scholars and seekers of truth?

How many of these tax-exempt think tanks are fronts and propaganda organs of transnational corporations that are sustained with tax-deductible dollars, until their “resident scholars” can move into government offices and do the work for which they have been paid handsomely in advance?

How many of these think tanks take foreign money to advance the interests of foreign regimes in America’s capital?

We talk about the “deep state” in Turkey and Egypt, the unseen regimes that exist beneath the public regime and rule the nation no matter the president or prime minister.

What about the “deep state” that rules us, of which we caught a glimpse at Sea Island?

"The Sea Island Neocon Conspiracy Against Trump." By Patrick J. Buchanan, VDARE.com, 3/10/15 (links omitted).

They bad.

Washington just hates it when the Russians dare do what the US has been doing since World War II: conduct gunboat diplomacy, however limited.

"The Russian Navy Is Back." By Eric Margolis, The Unz Review, 11/19/16.

IGST instant translation service.

The new and improved New York Times campaign to return to honest reporting has apparently been suffocated in the cradle:

At home, the hard-right Alternative for Germany party has scored a string of victories in state elections.^[1]

"Hard-right," of course, means simple common sense and patriotism. It's a term that will never be published within a 1,000 miles of the term "hard-left," unless the Times allows it to happen accidentally.

Amazing contributor #4,530,956.

The title of the Times piece is also illuminating, with its description of Angela Merkel as the last defender of the "liberal" West. (Obama was one too!) "Liberal" here signifies a vicious attack on the German people by importing over a million useless Muslims and Africans to indulge in rape, enjoy a life on ease on the public dole, and turn public streets into mosques, "refugee" centers into hell holes, and public swimming pools into latrines.

Liberalism!

"Liberalism" in the title also signifies using native German, AntiFa brown shirt thugs as a way of attacking Germans who express their fury at being dispossessed and and who demonstrate peacefully in the streets.

How else to explain the appointment of Anetta Kahane, the former Stasi informer, as the woman in charge of monitoring the internet for "xenophobic" comments? There's an appointment that virtually shouts out one's commitment to the key liberal right of free speech! (Kahane's views on open borders and "diversity" are the by-now-current mad views, and are yet another reason to understand that "liberalism" to Merkel and the New York Times means obliteration of whites. Sign me up!!)

Paying lip service to "democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity of each and every person regardless of their origin, skin color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or political views" is apparently sufficient to establish Merkel's "liberal" credentials. Smale and Erlangernov, ace New York Times reporters, have the political acumen of children. Blowing airy lefty bubbles and indulging in lefty intimidation do not amount to liberalism.

Notes
^[1] "Donald Trump’s Election Leaves Angela Merkel as the Liberal West’s Last Defender." By Alison Smale and Steven Erlangernov, New York Times. 12, 2016 (link omitted).

The Marxism-Leninists among us.

Contrary to media misrepresentations, many of the supposedly spontaneous, organic, anti-Trump protests we have witnessed in cities from coast to coast were in fact carefully planned and orchestrated, in advance, by a pro-Communist organization called the ANSWER Coalition, which draws its name from the acronym for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.” ANSWER was established in 2001 by Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center, a group staffed in large part by members of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.

"The Communists Behind the Anti-Trump Protests." By John Perazzo, Frontpage Mag, 11/11/16.

H/t: Gates of Vienna .

Diversity is our strength.

Art Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): "Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America."

"... Brown Berets, we're here today to show L.A., show the minority people here, the Anglo-Saxons, that we are here, the majority, we're here to stay. We do the work in this city, we take care of the spoiled brat children ... We're here in Westwood ... to show white Anglo-Saxon Protestant L.A., the few of you who remain, that we are the majority, and we claim this land as ours, it's always been ours, and we're still here, and none of the talk about deporting.

"If anyone's going to be deported, it's going to be you! ... Get out! We are the future. You're old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you - leave like beaten rats. You old white people, it is your duty to die. Right now, we're already controlling those elections, whether it's by violence or nonviolence. Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, information minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles.

"ABC Posted Election Results 11.2.1998 12 Hours in Advance – Were They Right?" By Devvy, NewsWithViews.com, 11/7/16.

H/t: Gates of Vienna.

In other words, pure propaganda.

Historically, the Los Angeles Times, where I worked twice, for instance, was a reporter-driven, bottom-up newspaper. Most editors wanted to know, every day, before the first morning meeting: “What are you hearing? What have you got?”

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times [sic] in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.^[1]

Notes
^[1] Michael Cieply, former New York Times entertainment industry reporter, quoted in At NYT, “Talented Reporters Scrambled to Match Stories with What Internally Was Often Called ‘The Narrative.'” By Steve Sailer, VDARE.com, 11/11/16.

Elite report card.

Elites on both sides of the Atlantic have overplayed their hands. While making grand gestures, they’ve failed to demonstrate the basic competence to generate economic growth. Instead, they’ve produced redistributive schemes that allow them to enrich themselves amid general stagnation.

Plus, those elites were enthusiastic about promoting massive, nation-destroying illegal immigration. An uncontrolled experiment on a global scale.

They mixed economic incompetence with treason.

"Trans-Atlantic Trump. In Europe and America, elites have overplayed their hands." By Fred Siegel, City Journal, 11/10/16.

Parsing the argot.

[HRC concession speech]: It [my campaign] was about the country we love and building an America that is hopeful, inclusive, and big-hearted.

Inclusive is code for altering the demographics of the country on a large scale with massive illegal immigration. Big-hearted is code for welfare for said immigrants.

"The funniest parts of Hillary's tragic concession speech." By Ed Straker, American Thinker, 11/10/16.

Pearls of expression.

Chris Plante is a witty and insightful radio talk show host on WMAL-AM in Washington.

Some gems from his show today (11/9):

Leftists "think that decent people are frightful and frightful people are decent."

Possibly an inexact quote but his point is clear. About the 40' mark.

A woman caller, referring to Hillary's loss, observed that "The shrill is gone."

Another fellow called up and thanked Plante for taking his "unprecedented phone call."

Adios, Obongo.

Seventy-two days until it's wheels up for Barack Hussein Obama. Thank God for the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

Politicians who misunderstimate the Constitution are as common as planet-destroying CO₂ but Obama is in a class peopled only by himself, FDR, Wilson, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (see here and here) who have had a positive contempt for it.

Thank God, too, for the electoral college and the worldwide web that has rendered the lying, hypocritical MSM irrelevant.

Hooray for Donald Trump and the American electorate that spared us four years of Hillary's shrill voice and ultra-leftist agenda.

With luck we'll now see Muslim subversives removed from positions of power or influence in the federal government, the republication of FBI and DHS training materials and operational manuals that are not fairy tales, and an end to the absurdity of the mantras of "religion of peace," "radical, jihadi Islamism," "multiculturalism," and "diversity is our strength." Insane hopes, I know.

Perhaps, too, we will see an end to the disgusting, uncritical worship of the foreigner that is determining the fate of all Western nations. Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice president had, for example, these words on the U.K. Brexit vote:

We have fallen into the trap of identity politics. If the driving force of the European construction is national, cultural or ethnic identity, then it will not survive.

It's exactly the opposite, of course. Brexit evidences a painfully tentative return to common sense on the part of the British. However, the most elementary common sense is mendaciously billed by a senior E.U. official as a threat to "Europe." In point of fact, it's the E.U. that's a threat to the native people of Europe and it's common sense that's a threat to the E.U.

Edited to correct number of remaining days.

The best analysis of the issues at stake in this presidential election.

I think Brexiteer's take on the issue involved in this election is superb and warrants highlighting till the election. Accordingly, I'm keeping this reminder of his analysis at the top of my blog until it's all over except the public executions.

If you haven't read his comment it is here.

Spawn of Satan.

Mr. Tuttle [in an article called “The Racist Moral Rot at the Heart of the Alt Right” in National Review] accuses the Alt Right of opposing the triumph of “liberal democracy” and “classical liberalism as such.” Yet, his only evidence for this is that the Alt Right dissents on race–not that it wants to institute theocracy, central planning, Oriental despotism, or anything else he believes is opposed to “liberal democracy.” Mr. Tuttle seems to think that anyone who rejects current racial orthodoxies–orthodoxies that have prevailed for only 50 years or so–becomes a sworn enemy of “classical liberalism,” the Constitution, and all things good and beautiful. It is as if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the supreme achievement of 2,500 years of Western Civilization, and that anyone who disagrees is barely human.

"The Intellectual Rot at the Heart of the Beltway Right." By Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, 4/9/16.

The destroyers of America.

Capitulation is in the air 4 days before the event. The reality that needs to be faced is that there is no unified idea of America any more. The demographic shift has killed it.

The greedy of all stripes want cheap labor and have flooded us with enough 3rd worlders to break our model.

So what can be done? We need a red/blue split however its done. The vast expanses of this country should not be ruled by screwballs in CA and New England and the ghetto rats and 3rd worlders who are their vehicles for expressing "democracy.

Our model was based on a European stock population. That's history other than in the deep red states and its disappearing there.

The worst of the lot here are the #nevertrumpers who hid behind "principles" and "conscience" to shield their shilling for cheap labor.

Ironically, what the destroyers of America will use to finish her off is the notion of "democracy" and fair play. They have been planning this for at least 50 years so no surprise that its going down almost without a glitch. Still a few wiildcards out there but time is running out.

Comment (paragraphs added) by johnwburns on "'Nothing Good Can Come Of This Election' ...And That's Good." By Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, 11/4/16 (republished at Zero Hedge).

Simple. Uncorrupt. Therefore, a mystery to Republicans.

And it's "populism" that's the problem.

It's pretty simple really. New law limits campaign contributions to $2,500 per year to living individuals linked to a valid SS # that can easily be crosschecked. Period. No Corps. Unions, Special interest groups, nothing. They can ask you to contribute to candidates who will advance their/your interests but they cannot receive or direct a dime. No soft money slush fund PACS.

If money is 'free speech' then everyone has an equal say, or not, as they choose. Iron-clad defense against any legal challenge. Candidates seeking support will have to come to citizens and make the broadest appeal for funds. Any candidate who cannot prove funds sources is in criminal violation of election law and fraud.

With limited funds to send a message to voters, they won't be able to waste money on mudslinging.

Mr.Soros would hate that.

Comment by shovelhead on "'Nothing Good Can Come Of This Election' ...And That's Good." By Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, 11/4/16 (republished at Zero Hedge).

God bless WikiLeaks: The real Democrat Party, Hillary, open borders.

WikiLeaks is laying bare the inner workings of Democrat politics in the U.S. Based on one revelation, Investor's Business Daily has this to say about the Democrat Party:

This is not your father's — or your mother's — Democratic Party, which once hewed sensibly to the middle of the political spectrum. No, the "progressive" Democratic Party has turned into a giant grievance-machine premised on welfare for all, higher taxes on the most-productive Americans based on class warfare, and an ongoing attempt to separate Americans by race, gender, class, income, religion and geography.

Read the memo. Theirs is a vision of a balkanized America of competing interests, which can only be managed by an all-controlling central government that distributes the benefits of citizenship.

* * * *

By the way, Soros has spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars on various open-border and immigrant projects. Is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton, behind the scenes, tells her millionaire Wall Street audiences that she's a proponent of "open borders"?^[1]

The memo referred to in the quoted passage is the "2007 Podesta memo, 'Strategic Outlook For The 2008 Elections,' . . . sent to progressive billionaire heavy-hitters George and Jonathan Soros, Peter and Jonathan Lewis, Herb and Marion Sandler, Steve Bing, John Sperling and Soros fund executive and political go-between Michael Vachon."^[2]

Other hacked emails show the connection between John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, and "billionaire hedge-fund manager and climate-change extremist Tom Steyer."^[3]

The cesspool that of American progressive politics. The idea that this is a constitutional republic that in any way represents the will of the sovereign American people is ludicrous. Rather, a tiny fraction of the population is working to advance diseased progressive schemes that have nothing to do with the interests of the people or of the nation that they ostensibly own.

Notes
^[1] "WikiLeaks Reveals How Billionaire 'Progressives' Run The Democratic Party." Investor's Business Daily editorial, 11/2/16.
^[2] Id.
^[3] Id.

Saudi Arabia's bitch.

Saudi King Fahd, 1993:

I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave.

"A Saudi Princess In Paris." By Hugh Fitzgerald, The Iconoclast, 11/3/16 (detailing outrageous Saudi "royalty" behavior in the West).

Commies and feminists.

The poisonous agenda of the far left and, to repeat myself, feminist lunatics:

The rally [against “racism and sexism” in the medieval town of Visby on Gotland, Sweden] ended with the participants chanting the slogan: “No racists in our streets!” . . . By “racists,” they were not referring to Muslim men who view European women as worthless infidel sluts. No. They were protesting against European women and men who object to having young Muslim men from brutal war zones forced upon local communities through a state-sponsored policy backed by the EU and applauded by the UN.

The parties that backed this demonstration against racism in Visby were the Marxists of the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet), Sweden’s “reformed” Communist party, as well as the Feminist Initiative. . . .^[1]

If a man holds a door for a woman it's proof of the "rape culture" that's the foundation of heteronormative, patriarchal hell. So what if your country overflows with foreign men who have nothing but contempt for you?

Fjordman's article is worth your time. Sweden is just the most extreme example of where traitorous leftists intend to take the nations that white people built.

We consider this normal.

Notes
^[1] "The Political Rape of Sweden." By Fjordman, Gates of Vienna, 10/31/16 (footnote references removed).

Whipped dogs.

Sweden has a disturbing number of unsolved murder cases, and one of the highest recorded rape rates in the world. . . . The natives are being replaced and abused. Gang rapes have become so common that they are hardly newsworthy anymore. Swedes have largely become a nation of whipped dogs. They have been shamed, harassed and indoctrinated to celebrate their own national destruction.

"The Political Rape of Sweden." By Fjordman, Gates of Vienna, 10/31/16 (footnote reference removed).