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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    And another thing, why's my mix so quiet? I downloaded the trial version of Izotrope Argon, and I set the smusher to 800:1. It's supposed to sound like the new Megolithic record. I heard they used a smusher too. But mine's all quiet, and theirs is all awesome and LOUD with, like, distortion...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    You know, even if the change in air pressure were inaudible due to it being too low or high of a frequency, it would still reflect. Someone needs to submerge an omni in a balloon, pull it up and down in the water at a set oscillation rate, increase the amplitude, and speed it up. We'll hear...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    Chili, thanks for flushing out the unclear points. Let me try to make a rudimentary diagram for you. A sound wave I would diagram like this (with lines closer together indicating higher pressure, and lines farther apart indicating lower pressure): low high low high...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    Nu-uh! What would cause the container to crumble? The only thing exerting force on the walls of the container is liquid pressure. If you take a balloon and submerge it, and then you pull it further underwater, the deeper you go the higher the water pressure will be on the balloon. As the...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    I think this has a bearing on mixing and recording. If you have a true mono signal, and someone listens with in-ear headphones, you're experiencing almost no reflections. Since we as humans are always surrounded by sound reflections, our perception of a completely dry sound wave is affected...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    They're just cresting on top of one another. You get a sum of their energies. If one 5-footer was at it's trough, and the other 5-footer was at it's peak, you'd get a point of calm ocean.
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    miroslav, the room won't crumble so long as the material that makes it up is strong enough to handle the air pressure. We're not talking about a lot, just enough to produce a measurable amplitude of a wave. Think about liquid hydrogen. That stuff is under a lot of pressure, but somehow metal...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    Following your wave analogy, what if the whole surface of the ocean is moving at once up and down. The ball floating on the ocean will still bob, but there won't be any waves going to wherever they're heading. No waves = no chance for reflection. But now that I think about it, if you were in...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    That depends on what the room is made out of. All you need is an enclosed, airtight space. You're not putting a roof on it. The point of the question is to remove the localized sound source but still changes in air pressure. How would one do that? He or she would change the air pressure in...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    Distortion is just variance, not necessarily unwanted change. But that's beside the point. The spherical room is a better example, I think (actually, any non-spherical room probably wouldn't work the way I thought). Think about a sound source in the middle of the sphere. If it makes a sound...
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    Do room reflections come only from a localized source?

    I can't think of where else to post this, but as I was trying to get info out of noisewreck in the thread about dynamics, my example of a room with a speaker in one wall got me thinking: Imagine a room that is airtight and where all six walls (including the ceiling and floor) are one piece. By...
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    Probably a silly dynamics question

    noisewreck, I think I've got it figured out where I'm not understanding your point. You are right that the sample only measures the difference in voltage from zero. In that sense, it is a measure of the DC 'offset'. But when you defined DC offset, you were referring to it as a "pivot point"...
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    Probably a silly dynamics question

    I understand that if you have a speaker cone that is exerted forward it's not going to translate to a sound pressure level in a room. But that's because the speaker is in a box that is likely not airtight. The net air pressure in the room is the same whether the speaker is exerted or not. If...
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    Probably a silly dynamics question

    I see, you're right about amplitude. But the DC offset being sampled is merely an electrical signal that functionally represents a relative sound pressure level, right? That is, when the sound being recorded is captured, it is the SPL that is inducted and then sent as an electrical signal of...
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    Probably a silly dynamics question

    Technically speaking, I think a single sample will convey amplitude. A single sample is a pure, instant recording of sound pressure level, right?
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    MTR or DAW ?

    A very long-winded (er...typed?) reply: MrSounds, what instruments do you or those you plan to record play? What instruments do you have readily at your disposal? I ask because you mention a lot of features on the MTR that are today's hot items, but that probably won't do a lot of good...
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    Yeah, the music scene is kind or, well, eh. At least you have E.M. Shorts. Are you originally...

    Yeah, the music scene is kind or, well, eh. At least you have E.M. Shorts. Are you originally from there, or did you move to the city? My dad grew up about 30 miles away from Wichita.
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    recording drums

    What kind of music do you plan to record? Depending on the needs of the project, you can get a beautiful kit sound with very few mics (3, 2 if you're lucky, or even 1 if mono will work and you've got a good room). That might help with the budget issue.
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    Is this possible?

    If you're going to transfer the Portastudio files to the computer later and then mix on the laptop, you can just run both machines at the same time. Because you don't have to worry about tape speeds and syncing reels, your only task then is to line up the recorded tracks in your DAW. A good...
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    What's the typical voulume to mix/master to?

    Do the answers above apply if you're tracking in 16-bit, or should you push the tracking levels a bit more? It's my understanding that 16-bit was designed to really give the educated user all the headroom he or she would ever need, but we've moved into a 24- to 32- bit tracking world (in the...
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