TruliVerse

Field recording without field recording…

On December 20th, I was standing by the roadside in Kiel, waiting for the XMas Ride 2025. I was already running late and started to panic a little that I might have missed it.

When I arrived at the street where the motorcycles would pass by, there were still people around — mostly families with their kids.

I quickly crossed the street, found a spot, and started setting everything up: tripod, microphone mount, microphones, the F3, and the action cam. I heard people saying, “They’re coming.”

I got excited, turned on the action cam, waved to the riders. Everything sounded great through the headphones. The motorcycles, the sound of their engines. It was worth coming here. This is going to be a great recording, I thought —
and then it was over. About six minutes.

I stopped the recording on the action cam. When I reached for the F3 to stop the recording there as well, I realized that I hadn’t recorded anything at all.

I packed everything up, frustrated.

Then I heard a child say, “There are more coming.” Great… I thought.

I didn’t set everything up again. And for the rest of the day, my mood wasn’t great.

New toys, but this damn everyday life

Last week, the Zoom F3, two Rode NT5s, and the DJI Osmo Action 4 arrived.
First impression: Nice!

Whenever I get new gear, I feel like a curious child.
I want to go outside right away, record, try it out — and then I realize:
no tripod, no mount for the action cam, nothing for the F3.
So I had to order a few more things — again.

When everything finally arrived, I eagerly put it all together.
Everything fits! Nice!
And then suddenly shopping, household chores, and everyday life get in the way.

There are no recordings yet.
But something has already formed in my head that I want to share.

How I almost got lost in the clutches of a website builder

I thought to myself, “Hey, a website builder like this is definitely the fastest way to get my site online.” Well, I couldn't have been more wrong... After just a few minutes, I realized that it was more of a struggle than a build: Text sizes are fixed, layouts jump around, and there's no real freedom.

In the end, the solution was clear: back to the basics with HTML and CSS – it had been a long time since I had worked with them, but I was able to get back into it. And lo and behold: a part of TruliVerse was created.

Sometimes the truly creative universe needs truly free code.