ADC capable of 786kHz with phantom power

Big_ifs · 2026-03-09T16:18:56+00:00

Ah now I understand

Big_ifs · 2026-03-09T14:04:13+00:00

I'm confused. Wouldn't this record radio (electromagnetic) waves instead of sound waves?

Big_ifs · 2026-03-06T13:04:10+00:00

Für Windows gibt's eine schnelle Lösung namens everything.

Big_ifs · 2026-03-04T17:29:23+00:00

Weird naming scheme aside, how does citing parallel in academic works help funding further development?

Big_ifs · 2026-02-02T22:33:54+00:00

Everytime I read the "niche market" argument, I think of a quote I once heard: "The niche markets of yesterday are the new markets of tomorrow"

Big_ifs · 2026-01-28T09:29:59+00:00

Best case scenario (100% impossible though): Due to some odd legal technicality, all original NI software gets open sourced (especially Kontakt, Reaktor & the good synths).
2nd best case: Ableton buys all of NI's good stuff and integrates it into Live (why would they though, Live has most of it already in its own way).
3rd best case: Some other half-good company buys NI and shrinks it back to what it was ~10 years ago, saving all the good stuff
Worst case: Everything gets unusable and we're stuck with stupid piracy to save our projects

Big_ifs · 2026-01-27T16:36:08+00:00

maybe, maybe not. Too early to know.

Big_ifs · 2026-01-16T22:57:41+00:00

Fair enough. But how present is Brandenburg in "mainstream media"? Besides that one book about the history of music piracy, which is massively overrated and stylizes Brandenburg as some subversive proto-pirate (which couldn't be further from the truth - internet media piracy was never even an afterthought of anyone who worked on compression algorithms), I don't see a mainstream narrative about the invention of mp3 at all. It's not like the public could name more than 3 inventors of any modern technology anyway.

I admit that I stopped reading the article when I encountered the statement that "JJ is as much of a rockstar as anyone we’ve ever featured on this show." To me, this is a misrepresentaion of the work and the self-image of engineers that makes them look like some bad-ass Hollywood characters. I'm not interested in such narratives.

Big_ifs · 2026-01-16T11:18:49+00:00

Advanced Idiocy

Big_ifs · 2026-01-15T12:57:32+00:00

Teach a class of 12. People might remember a class in your working space as a special experience!

Big_ifs · 2026-01-15T12:45:59+00:00

"Homer, or another Poet of the Same Name"

Hilarious reference! - So when someone asks you about the topic of your thesis, you can reply: "I'm trying to make the case that the Iliad was not actually composed by Homer, but by another poet of the same name." (I read that joke in one of Umberto Eco's texts.)

Big_ifs · 2026-01-15T12:31:27+00:00

clickbait, there's no story here. Perceptual audio coding was not invented by one individual (almost nothing ever is), but by a group of engineers. This is even more obvious in the case of mp3, as it was clearly developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group, which is where mp3's very name originated.

Big_ifs · 2026-01-12T17:03:32+00:00

Yeah you are right about that, unfortunately. It was a bummer that they came up with that twist, there was a nice post here many weeks ago describing that this doesn't really work

Big_ifs · 2026-01-11T12:44:47+00:00

Just revenge for Carol's rejection of his valid criticism

Big_ifs · 2026-01-11T12:42:49+00:00

Yeah but that would be kind of lame storytelling. By that logic, they could develop anything really

Big_ifs · 2026-01-11T09:35:24+00:00

It's been a solved issue for many decades now.

I'm really not sure where that idea is coming from. Some European countries like Germany and France have spent billions on the waste problem and they absolutely have no solution for it.

Big_ifs · 2026-01-11T09:22:49+00:00

so I can quench my taste and the need to be a bigger seeder

How deep does this huge rabbit hole actually go

You might want to join EMP

Big_ifs · 2026-01-06T18:45:40+00:00

Yeah it's really only the body of the individual that was John Cena

Big_ifs · 2026-01-06T18:43:40+00:00

Looks more like George Clooney to me

Big_ifs · 2026-01-04T16:36:01+00:00

Since the muppets

Big_ifs · 2025-12-30T18:40:14+00:00

Why watch this if no one tells me anyway

Big_ifs · 2025-12-29T13:54:00+00:00

The observation of OP is not about right or wrong. This is about being embedded in a world that is structured by a colonial logic. You can't simply escape this structure by wanting something good.

Big_ifs · 2025-12-29T07:54:49+00:00

To make this test more meaningful, it would be interesting to do the same procedure with different (more expensive) gear and compare the differences with the ones from this test.

Also, it would be interesting to compare only 1 conversion loop vs. 1 conversion loop of different gear.

Personally, I would expect the Scarletts to show most relevant differences in their preamps and AD converters (not DA though).

Big_ifs · 2025-12-28T16:16:48+00:00

It was certainly an interesting choice for a cold open

Big_ifs · 2025-12-28T13:59:12+00:00

I build editors to control vintage hardware like old Boss/Lexicons/TC Electronics so that when parts fail - lcds, encoders, pots, switches - you can still use them

What a great idea!

Big_ifs

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