00:00
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
What happened to your voice?
I don't know.
I was about to say "super opening" but...
It was pointing up.
We're always having trouble with this connector here.
Yeah.
It's never too tight.
Yeah.
It's never tight enough.
Yeah.
We need to do something like a...
Like a coin or something?
Yeah.
To actually twist it?
Yeah.
But I feel like that's never something that users would adjust all the time because it
doesn't have a handle or nothing like that, right?
Yeah.
It's like a fixed thing, I feel like.
Yeah.
But I agree.
This is kind of unstable, right?
I get it.
I get it.
Yeah.
All right.
I feel like we've been wearing black tops.
True.
Consecutively.
True.
For the past several of our recordings or including YouTube and everything.
True.
We've been getting a lot of black, black, black on the screen here.
True.
True.
Yeah.
All right.
Maybe we should change something like bright orange sweat.
For the screen, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Or maybe put like a filter on something?
Was this ever red?
This mixer?
Oh.
Was this ever red?
I don't know.
Never noticed it?
Never noticed.
Never seen it.
When is red ever a good sign, right?
When is a red blinker ever a good indicator?
Never.
Is it charging maybe?
It doesn't run by battery.
I mean, it doesn't have an internal battery, nothing like that.
So maybe this is about to explode.
I agree.
Yeah.
I would think that's a possibility.
If light starts blinking, then you better run.
Better run for your life.
Like a 10 second blinker.
Yeah.
All right.
How was your day?
How was your week?
Ah, it was my week.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Feels like it was a long time ago.
I agree.
The day we last recorded this podcast.
I agree.
But it was exactly a week ago, I believe.
Yeah.
True.
What have you been up to?
I...
Anything good?
Yeah, I've been doing great.
03:02
You've been good?
Like healthy.
Like I went to the gym.
I remember it was like two days ago.
Have you upgraded your house in any way?
Oh, true.
Oh.
It's been like a month or so, right?
Yeah.
I bought a keyboard.
Okay.
Not like the PC keyboard, but the piano keyboard.
Yeah, the actual piano keyboard.
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you already have a keyboard?
Yeah.
Do you remember the one, the acoustic piano?
Yes.
The black one.
The huge one, right?
Yeah, huge one.
The upright piano that I had in my former house.
That was my friend's piano, actually.
Oh, okay.
I see.
And...
So you were borrowing it.
Yeah.
And so the piano, he or she, went back to my friend's house now.
Okay.
So I...
Oh, you gave it back.
Yeah.
So I need something that I can play with.
Mm-hmm.
And I was kind of trying to, you know, searching and finding the best keyboard for me like
that.
Right.
Like, you know, the partner to me.
Right.
And, you know, the keyboards are...
Especially the pianos are really expensive.
Oh, are they?
Yeah.
So I went to some fancy piano shops.
Oh.
Or like keyboard shops.
Uh-huh.
And trying to find like the acoustic one or like electric keyboards or like vintage things.
Hmm.
And finally, I bought the one.
You bought the one.
Yeah.
All right.
Tell me about it.
What's the difference between the acoustic one and the electronic one?
Yeah.
Electronic, acoustic, or...
That's an electric one.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
So it's more...
It's smaller, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Than compared to like the huge...
Acoustic, applied.
Standalone kind of thing.
It's more like on the desk kind of style.
Kind of.
But it's bigger than...
Yeah.
Okay.
It's bigger than the like the on desk thing.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
It's bigger than that.
And you need some like stand.
Okay.
So it's like something you can find on the stage, you know?
Like for example, like Bruno sing and play the piano at the same time, you can find the
keyboard, right?
Is it like one where Lala Land where the guy was playing with John Legend on stage?
Kind of.
Yeah.
That one.
That one?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The sound of the key?
Okay.
Okay.
And it's a bit different from the one you can find in Lala Land in that scene.
But basically that's the same thing.
You can change all the sounds like acoustic piano sounds to like...
It's got that wheel where you can change pitches like...
Yeah.
Okay.
06:00
All right.
Yeah.
That one.
All right.
Yeah.
The red one.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Like the classic one.
Is that connectable to GarageBand?
Yes.
Oh, nice.
Those kind of desktop dials you can connect.
So you can record through it or you can just play just as like usual instrument.
And how long ago was that?
No, it was just like three days.
Oh, three days?
Yeah.
So it's just brand new.
I just opened all the packages and yeah.
Well, how are you liking it so far?
So fun.
Is it fun?
So fun.
Like, you know, the keyboard touches are a bit different from the one I had before, the
acoustic piano.
Okay.
You know, it's different because it's electric and...
Right.
But still, it's good.
Still good enough.
And also, you can change the sound.
Sound.
So that's really fun.
Yeah.
And I love the sound of organ, like the pipe organ.
Ah.
You can...
And, you know, I feel like I'm a kind of rock star or something.
Yeah.
So there are elements that lack when you compare it to the classic acoustic version.
What would be some of those things?
I think that two or three.
One is touch.
Okay.
Like the key touch is a bit different.
Like the strength?
Yeah.
And the weight?
Ah.
And the touches are different.
Right.
But it's just different.
So if I get used to the current one, then I think it'll be okay.
I see.
And the current one still has, you know, good touch.
Okay.
So, okay.
And the second one is like that.
Like the sound, like the...
Shindo?
How do you say like the...
Vibrations.
Vibrations.
Yeah.
Because acoustic one is like, it's an acoustic instrument.
So it's like a voice.
I see.
It's like this, you know.
It's physical.
Yeah.
True.
It's physical one.
If you make a sound and you make sound and you make vibrations at the same time, it's
like a vibration of physical thing.
09:01
It's wave, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can physically feel the object vibrating and making its noise.
Yes.
Yes.
So if you sing in front of the acoustic piano and play like this, and you hear the sound
and of course you feel the like some kind of vibrations at the same time, like...
And that's something really cool.
Sure.
But now it's acoustic one.
So it's just a sound.
I see.
Sound from the speakers, you know.
So it's a bit, it's less physical.
It's like more like electric.
It's more like, you know, made sound.
No vibrations on the fingertips.
Yeah.
It's not like you play it and you've run, you've, oh, this is it.
You don't feel that.
I see.
So yeah.
But still.
And I forget the third one.
But yeah.
It has to be connected to the like electric, you know, those plugs.
So I see.
I see.
Sometimes, you know, you feel, oh, I need to play piano and you need to plug in, open
the, you know, push the button and set ups and then you need to, you can play finally.
So it doesn't have its own speaker.
Not now.
Oh, okay.
They sell those kind of things.
It's a different device.
It's not internal.
Like it doesn't have a speaker built into it.
Nothing like that.
No.
So when you have acoustic piano, you just open it and you play.
Boom.
Yeah.
Right.
Perfect sound.
But now you need to like, then, you know, it's kind of.
I see.
Yeah.
Different.
I see.
Yeah.
But now you can enjoy with your headphones, right?
Yes.
Isn't that a good thing?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Because, because you can really hear the small details, right?
In your, like.
True.
Like it's all, it's, it's focused, it's laser focused on like what you're playing.
I feel like that's, that's.
Yeah.
I feel like that's a good thing.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
One good thing is I can control the volume.
Like volume fader.
Right, right, right.
So for example, I love, you know, singing with the piano.
So when I play with acoustic piano, the piano was itself was really loud.
So I had to yell like, had to, you know.
To balance out.
Yeah.
Right.
But now I can adjust the volume so I can play hard, but still it sounds normal.
I see.
Like, like.
I see.
Good to my voice volume.
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So.
Do you have like a microphone in front of you that outputs your voice to the earphones?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Well, congratulations.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Keyboard.
Yeah.
New buddy.
I would say.
You're going to have a new, new musical experience, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I still don't have a chair actually.
You don't have a chair?
Yeah.
Standing in your chair.
Like a rock star, you know.
Well, that's cool.
No, I mean.
That's cool as always.
Yeah.
But it's, you need to sit down.
It's just like five minutes.
That's fine.
But you know.
Well, you could put your hand in your pocket like, like La La Land, right?
And do that little, right?
Yeah.
And dancers came in.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Right.
I can find the stars.
Look at Mia, right?
Yeah.
I love that scene.
Yeah.
I love that song, by the way.
Yeah, I do.
I do too.
Yeah.
Well, all right.
Congrats though.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening guys.
