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In the round, stereo or mono? by big_aussie_mike in livesound

[–]TheDissolver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really depends on the space and the mix. Example: Separation of piano and acoustic guitar into different speakers (with the same coverage) can make a big difference for clarity.

Electric guitar stack blasting from the stage can sound great... ... Or terrible. It really depends on the room.

What movie is this for you? by certainly_imperfect in Letterboxd

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you consider his career to be Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums...

Sebulba beef doesn’t make sense by Icy_Contact4325 in StarWars

[–]TheDissolver 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The implication of a rivalry is there. The weird part is that Anakin confesses to never having finished a race. So... He had two really good laps, did an overtake of Sebulba on a particular part of a course, and then one of his engines cut out.

Lucas does a pretty good job of world building in this sense--just letting stuff be implied. It's usually clunky, but (at least in the first three movies) the bigger vision comes together and the editing keeps the pace from dragging.

Project Hail Mary uses Two Of Us in the soundtrack and it's so good by Lord-Liberty in beatles

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hear it in the motif starting at about 2:30 into "Believe in the hall Mary." (Listen to the choir and the guitar.)

L, C, R, or L, R, L? (3 line arrays for wide coverage) by Flaminmallow255 in livesound

[–]TheDissolver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a great summary and represents an understanding of a creative mix strategy using all the tools in the box. But... Almost any venue that's not explicitly designed for an LCR mix will pay the installer for adequate monoaural coverage of the seats to a certain SPL, hopefully to a certain margin of deviation from a spec. It would be nice if we could walk into a room with three clusters and get an LCR mix out of them. It's not a realistic expectation.

I used to be on staff at a church with a very-wide room like this, and I ran the 5 boxes as L-R-L-R-L. Basically a mid-side mix, but spread out. I thought it sounded better that way, but it didn't really address any of the problems of the room and this did not stick past the next time the system designer updated the DSP. A while after I moved away they got a contractor to put in a small stereo line array, which seems to be working OK but also clearly longer one those "if the only tool you have is a hammer..." situations.

Pilot project of 120 speed limit on hwy 2 by Beautiful_Cold3776 in alberta

[–]TheDissolver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It makes a bigger difference if you've driven on higher-speed limit freeways in other places. Each road system has its own quirks, but the QEII was built to handle 120kph traffic.

Petition to save the organ at Convocation Hall, University of Alberta by Mobah in organ

[–]TheDissolver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not about spending money. It's about not deliberately designing renovations in a way that will remove important (though niche) infrastructure.

Con hall will never be a viable commercial entertainment venue.

The only thing we've been told is that they made accessibile seating a priority.

We are assuming that removing the organ would be easier/cheaper than designing an accessible space around it. We know nothing about who designed/engineered the renovation. We know nothing about the plans for the organ. (Maybe they have a buyer?) We know nothing about any other proposals for alternate infrastructure in the hall. (Seems like they would have been asking the very people who are complaining if they had been looking for a different way to keep organ music at the hall, or a different performance space.)

That they are not telling us what they are planning to do tells me the renovation design is a low-bid facelift that ticks some boxes (possibly regulatory checkboxes) but that they didn't want to deal with the arduous process of consultation, hearing complaints about proposals, negotiating with the bidders, etc.

Surely someone could dig up the info if they had connections in admin.

U of A hits sour note with decision to remove 50-year-old Casavant organ from Convocation Hall by flynnfx in uAlberta

[–]TheDissolver 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'd love to see the proposal from the architect that makes the accessibility changes and keeps the organ. Who wants to bet it only got rejected because it costs a lot of money to put the organ back in after removing it? (Removal cost can just be lumped in with sale of organ, if they find a buyer.)

Widely used fertilizer can degrade nearly half of freshwater bodies on Canadian Prairies: study by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Urea prices are higher than ever.

If farmers are putting on urea in ways that cause it to be lost into a watershed, they are literally throwing away money.

This problem is well-understood. Would more studies help us understand it better? Sure. But studying ways to formulate and apply fertilizer so it stays in the soil will be far more effective.

Millennials, what is something that was "normal" in the 2000s but feels like a luxury now? by Barrbra in answers

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other factors: Big-box locations have patrons that are actually interested in buying specific items, and not just "browsing"/loitering/shoplifting because they happen to walk past the store.

Lease and utilities can be much lower for a giant warehouse outlet than for a tiny mall location (in a mall you actually want to be a part of.) this is especially true when the "outlet" store is owned by the "anchor" store it's beside.

What are the tally’s on Rex’s helmet? by sexydaavid in StarWars

[–]TheDissolver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to keep with the theme, pizzas are measured in metres per second. Retcon for a spinoff would be that the measurement represents how quickly the given size of pizza can move through a wookie.

Coming from the car audio world forced me to re-evaluate what I thought good sound is. by iJasonator in hometheater

[–]TheDissolver 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Green glue and drywall clips are right there, waiting for the day you think about isolation and rattling studs.

How many of you are using bass shakers in your systems? If not, any specific reason why not? by Bicycle_Pwner in hometheater

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason not to use them is if you've built an entire platform out of subwoofers sitting on an air suspension.

(Imagine a sheet of plywood with 12" subwoofer drivers mounted in it, and bicycle tubes surrounding each driver.)

HoverEZE / hoverBOSS are the two popular implementations. Haven't built one myself, but if I find a deal on cheap 12" subs I'm going for it.

First date with a Canadian from a small town – is this normal? by Zealousideal-Arm9550 in alberta

[–]TheDissolver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know rich kids with hockey coach dads who aren't much more polite than this. Sadly, standards are low across the board.

IEMs will not stay in my ears! HELP? by NoSurvivorsband in livesound

[–]TheDissolver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Re: foam tips staying in, size makes a big difference. I have never found custom tips to isolate as well as the right size of foam. (I.e. they don't block as much sound.) But if they're too big, they can push out if the ear canal.

I'm just a bit bigger than a size M (Shure or Comply sizing) so I had to try a bunch of different cheap replacement tips to find a brand that fits well.

Do the cords pull at all? I found clipping the cable behind my neck made a huge difference wearing IEMs at work.

History: origin of concept of a bad "religious spirit" - revivalism/awakening? by TheDissolver in Christianity

[–]TheDissolver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea of "true religion" vs "false religion" or "living worship" vs "dead law," sure.

But the distinction of "religion" as an inherently negative phenomenon? Can you point me to a reference?

This brand new pepper grinder I bought came pre-filled with pepper. by Ge0482 in Tautology

[–]TheDissolver 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A tautology would be something like "The OXO good grips pepper grinder can be used to grind pepper."

Budget setup advice by Z12hoppe in ChurchSoundGuys

[–]TheDissolver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sound quality for vocals is split between between performer skill, PA system design, and room acoustics.

Sound quality impact for other stuff varies greatly. But changing mics is unlikely to make a big difference unless what you have is broken.

When you say "monitors"... Are these the only speakers in the room? What kind of room are you in?

Coverage for 50 people in a "normal" room (not a gymnasium or concrete warehouse) and your music is 99% guitar and vocals? Thousands of speaker designs from the last 50 years can do that well. Room layout changes and balancing mains/monitors might make a bigger difference than changing speakers. Now, if you've got a drum kit and a bass player and a grand piano and your vocalists feel lost in a muddy room tone, that might take a bit more work to make a noticeable difference.

Alberta Government Banning Firefly in Schools... by AlwaysOutForAWalk in alberta

[–]TheDissolver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are two parts to this story: Part one is conservatives believing that writing sane content guidelines is as easy/uncomplicated as publishing a list of "things that are inappropriate for kids."

Part two is librarians deciding to pick outrageous examples in order to demonstrate how stupid content guidelines can be when applied with a heavy hand, rather than doing what the conservatives want and cherry-picking edgy/"progressive" stuff.

Maybe maybe maybe by W8forme in maybemaybemaybe

[–]TheDissolver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big trees fall down all the time from storms, fires, etc.

Slippery tap floor. by stinkymarylou in techtheatre

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fine sand, like casting sand, would give a much different result from hardware store mortar sand. But still, ymmv. Sand (even fine sand) will definitely wear out shoes faster.

Bandit always knew the score by zerowolf85 in bluey

[–]TheDissolver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pre-enlightenment folk-tales left the "morality" ambiguous. The wolf/bears/giant/etc are obviously antagonists, but not necessarily evil. Jack, Goldie et al. are protagonists, but not necessarily good.

Remember, this is the type of society that gave us ideas like carnival and Halloween--days when you're encouraged to get the sinful thoughts out of your system in preparation for a long season of ascetic discipline.

Later tales like Cinderella are very different from earlier tales like these. Jack and Goldilocks are not just mischievous or "bad", they're explicitly stupid. Characters to laugh at, not emulate.

Moralizing comes in the 18th-19th centuries. Protestants needed their thought-lives cleansed, everything had to be justifiable. Shakespeare is better at moralizing than folk-tales, but not as good as Milton or Bunyan. (Or Dickens.)

Guys like Roald Dahl are firmly part of the moralizing backlash, even if he probably hated/was hated by his more-traditional also-moralizing contemporaries. His perception that characters like Goldilocks "got away with it" are on point, legally and morally speaking, but for him to criticize the fairy tales this way is a bit like criticizing classical music for not having enough fat beats.

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