That wretched Bob Katz

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Garry Sharp

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Well, last week Amazon finally condescended to allow me to read his Mastering Audio book. After a three month wait. And I wish they hadn't because it's ruined my life.:)

Sitting in the pub with my mates and I'm thinking about the reasons why one voice from the neighbouring group of people cuts through the ambient noise so much. Wondering about the bass response from the background music speakers. When I'm supposed to be talking about football.

Walk into a room for a business meeting and click my fingers to hear the reverb. Worst of all cycling home from work I passed an idling bus and wondered what the fundamental frequency of the diesel ignition cycle is (I guessed around 60 Hz)

I fondly the remember the days when music was chord progressions, melody and lyrics.

Good book though.....:cool:
 
i hear ya....pun intended

i got hit by the flu a week ago and didnt go to the doctor...until i started building fluid behind my right ear....it drove me crazy not to be able to hear the slightest sound that i could with my left. how did i check to see if the hearing was comming back in my right ear? i sat in the doctor's office and kept saying "check check, one twooooo one twoooo, check check" i figured i could hear better if i flipped upside down and hung my head off the side of the exam table and said "check check, one twooooo one twoooo, check check" thats when the doctor walked in and had the best laugh.....the room acoustics sounded pretty good in there. reverb was tight but with a small amount of space...great for an acoustic duo recording.
 
reminds me of living in Boston (with all the music students there), and sitting in the subway listening to people singing and harmonizing with the hum of the electric lights and subway car noise. Then improvising off the polyrhthmic rhythm of a can being kicked across the station floor. ...the audio freaks loving the natural "verb"!
 
Oh jeez, I'm glad someone else came out of the closet. I woke up this morning and am putting on my skivees, I'm listening to the reverberation bouncing of the walls and furniture from the sound of my leg slipping through the cotton material.

It gets weirder, I can now hear compression, on everything. I can hear the differences between the drum and bass compression and the acoustic guitar compression as well as the vocal compression.

When I get to the point of knowing the sound of various preamp mic combinations and being able to identify the models of compressors I am going into therapy. Although, I can recognize the LA2A on most any vocal. Maybe its time to call the shrink...
 
Last time I had a hearing check, you know, sitting in the "anechoic" chamber I was trying to determine the frequency of "brain noise" I was hearing. I was thinking "this is really crazy" then the doc asked me to quit hitting the button. The test hadn't started yet :D :D :D Gotta find a hobby. Damn, this is my hobby. I'm screwed.

DD
 
i guess it makes us better but to the untrained ear....we're weird
 
God, even with my impaired hearing, after tracking for a year in my basement studio, I can hear the cat walking above me, my watch ticking, every creak of a timber in my old house. I feel your pain.-Richie
 
Yep, The whole process is a curse. I am just now getting to the point where I can actually listen to the music instead of how it was done and what was done with it. I was cursed for years. LOL


Malcolm
 
one thing is that you can see that no one know how to use 6.1 channel correctly.
Listening to TV commercials, i find the most obvious surround settings and listen to what comes out of each speaker. The quality of compression is horrible, and the oddest sounds come out of the surr back speakers. could be a 35 sec commercial and everything will be frt speaker except one small sound that comes out back.

football games are a good way to see obviously how commentators and the crowd switch back and forth bewteen compressed and non-compressed, and those silly effects like when the scores come up from other games, those are the loudest things to come thru your back speakers.

when they say the crowd is getting louder it actually seems that someone is turning up the volume on the "crowd speaker"
 
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