{"id":24515,"date":"2014-03-25T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/1313\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2014-03-25T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T07:01:01","slug":"record-tests-dead-end-ideas-bs-lost-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24515","title":{"rendered":"Record tests, Dead-end ideas, BS, &#038; Lost direction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found myself with a bunch of failed creative odds &amp; ends\/record tests lying about. Decided to have some fun, &amp; slap them together into one pile of $%^!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hn35pT684ro?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found myself with a bunch of failed creative odds &amp; ends\/record tests lying about. Decided<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24515\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record tests, Dead-end ideas, BS, &#038; Lost direction.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/record-tests-dead-end-ideas-bs-l.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24682,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24682","url_meta":{"origin":24515,"position":0},"title":"As the experiments continue.","author":"Eric","date":"January 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"What started out as a couple of Mic\/Interface tests turned into this experimental collage of noises. 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