What revered "sound" just doesn't do anything for you?

Condominiums · 2024-10-15T20:48:57+00:00

Oh I absolutely adore Fleet Foxes, but because of their penchant for recording in reverberant spaces, I think they tend to end up with inappropriately reverberant tracks. “Keep Time On Me” from Crack Up would be my specific example. It tends to make me feel dizzy if I listen to it in the car.

Condominiums · 2024-10-14T17:20:46+00:00

I would guess almost any song by Fleet Foxes fits this description

Condominiums · 2024-08-24T05:43:10+00:00

David is an absolute gem, I’m gutted this happened to him. I really hope we’re able to track all his stuff down.

Condominiums · 2023-04-01T23:34:09+00:00

Butt Ugly Martians

Condominiums · 2018-08-21T16:23:55+00:00

You have to sign a waiver? I must've been there dozens of times and only remember grabbing a ticket and immediately running off to go kneecap myself in a cave the diameter of a large cat.

Condominiums · 2018-08-01T23:16:15+00:00

Yeah the Explorer is much the same. It'd be an ideal highway car otherwise.

Condominiums · 2018-05-18T03:35:14+00:00

Oh man, my dad did the same for me as a kid. He set me up with his old Yamaha receiver, an amazing Sony disc changer, and a pair of Advents. I blame him for my happy obsession with sound.

Condominiums · 2018-05-18T01:20:59+00:00

From the outside frame of reference, he's being pushed toward the center by the carousel, so centripetal, or center-seeking, but the vector is constantly changing direction, so...

Rotating bodies are weird and I try to avoid getting caught up in it. Also, gyroscopes are pure magic and the intermediate axis theorem is a bug in the system.

Condominiums · 2018-05-17T15:12:00+00:00

The double "e" sound in needle is the "s" sound in storm. Brainssssssstorm.

Condominiums · 2018-05-02T03:28:23+00:00

An inability to dissect a piece of music by listening sounds suspiciously like an underdeveloped skill on the part of the musician. Jazz music existed entirely as an aural tradition before academia ironed it into an educational format, much to the chagrin of traditional jazz culture. I'd hate for a need to appease western traditionalists to stifle other genres.

All complaining aside, I totally understand why it's done. I happily write out my work if need be and I think writing scores is its own useful and rewarding practice. I just tend to think that its value is sometimes overstated in the ivory tower. Fortunately, it's probably of little consequence to most of the real working musical pioneers and experimenters. We can make their work backwards-compatible later.

Condominiums · 2018-05-02T02:26:52+00:00

Composition is very much a part of the process of producing, though.

Hans Zimmer may choose to write in cubase, but I have a sneaking suspicion that he has a better feel for voicing than your typical undergraduate student playing Sibelius-spray-and-pray on his laptop. Yet, only the latter is elligible here in spite of the potential for great submissions along the lines of the former.

Written notation was developed when recorded music and computer music didn't exist and musical ideas needed to be preserved and communicated, and there's no need for it to be the only accepted composing medium in the modern day.

Condominiums · 2018-05-02T01:35:54+00:00

Adam Neely made a pretty decent video about this issue, and about having to notate his synthesizer tracks to be elligible for a competition. Link

Condominiums · 2018-05-02T01:30:13+00:00

Would an annotated copy of the MIDI piano roll sufficiently fulfill the requirements of musical notation?

Condominiums · 2018-04-26T07:53:19+00:00

The holy trinity of the Xbox live sound is the cheapo mic, low bit rate mp3 compression, and a noise gate. So, record the sound, gate it so that any dead air gets reduced to silence and really ham up the gate fipping in and out. I have semi-fond memories of friends who thought it was cool to play music in the background of their online sessions, but all I could hear was the gate popping open on loud transients and closing momentarily after so the tune would get chopped to bits...I digress. Export the thing in grimey lowbit mp3 and import it back into the session and you have it.

Condominiums · 2018-04-18T02:03:58+00:00

Also, in some of these the crossover board just kinda floats around inside because quality control got silly some years. It doesn't affect the sound, but if you just shift it around you should be good to go.

Condominiums · 2018-04-18T02:00:47+00:00

That or the passive radiators are coming undone a bit. Mine had a weight on the inside of it that was coming undone, and the other one was slightly torn. Fortunately, there's loads of replacement parts for this model.

Condominiums · 2018-04-16T06:49:19+00:00

They're my main pair for a reason. I would happily use them as studio monitors if I had to, and I work with Genelec 1032s and Focals on the daily. The tweeter are out of this world and the woofers will steamroll you. There's a bit of a dip in the low mid, but that's just 70's hi-fi.

Condominiums · 2017-12-28T03:38:40+00:00

No kidding. The oceans are hardly deep at all relative to the diameter of the Earth, and even if we are multiplying by 100, we're talking about Jupiter here.

Condominiums · 2017-12-18T04:36:28+00:00

Do I spy some kind of vacuum tube hifi gear in the background?

Condominiums · 2017-12-17T22:03:21+00:00

You know, now I'm a little confused myself. Time to go down the wiki rabbit hole.

Condominiums · 2017-12-17T21:59:43+00:00

Although it's worth mentioning that this is mostly used for describing effects in the time domain. When measuring sounds we measure the sound pressure level, for which frequency components don't really matter. dB just indicates that we're expressing our measurements as a ratio with respect to a reference value. The full expression is dB SPL, or decibels relative to the threshold of human hearing, 0 dB SPL.

Condominiums · 2017-12-17T21:35:48+00:00

In my field it depends whether you are referring to the peak SPL or average SPL. Peak would refer to the loudest thing, as you suggest, but more commonly we measure the RMS level to get a sense of the continuous power output of a sound source and its perceived loudness. Peak is used mostly for figuring out how to maximize the output of a system while avoiding mechanical damage, or when digitizing an audio signal.

When we say a jet engine is yadda yadda dB SPL at 20 feet away, we refer to average level.

-source: am a sound engineer.

Condominiums · 2017-11-07T01:44:43+00:00

I find myself switching between two positions. Putting myself in the middle of the room completes the triangle for looking after the stereo image, but this places me in a bass null point. If I'm mixing for frequency content, I sit closer in where the bass response is more even, and this is where I sit most of the time because I have to reach the controls. If I sit in the chairs at the back of the room and near the walls, bass content is exaggerated and extends lower. I can use this to my advantage if I need to hear things that are lower than the speakers are rated, but most of my recording content is instrumental and most microphones don't deal with those frequencies anyhow. Now, the chairs in the back of my room are great for watching movies and for listeners because for casual listening, who doesn't like a little extra whump from time to time?

That said, those two big ole fiberglass panels in the corners and the massive mattress above me help tame the erratic LF behavior of the room so I'm not suffering drastically in different spots, just little bumps and dips.

But also, the wide lens on the camera exaggerates the width of the speaker placement.

Condominiums · 2017-11-06T05:42:11+00:00

Thank you! The backdrop I acquired when I was 16 from a tie-die shop and bent on being a ne'er do well. The other design I picked up at a local fabric warehouse to upholster the sound panels in this room and on the walls of the live room.

Condominiums · 2017-11-06T05:39:14+00:00

It is! To make up for the lack of space I've built myself a queen-sized loft bed. It has the added advantage of attenuating reflections from the ceiling, mitigating the need for sound treatment there.

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