[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Tue Apr 13 17:17:56 EDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
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>> After having been properly smacked upside the head enough times, 
>> nowadays I get very impatient and annoyed with any kind of "secret 
>> sauce" nonsense, black boxes, and other types of voodoo that Richard 
>> Feynman called "Cargo Cult Science".
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> I've come to call it "guitar-player-speak." :-)
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I always found it amusing when Steve Albini (a guitar player, by the way, as well as an engineer) who spent many pages blasting "producers"  who used terms like "warm" and "punchy", instead of describing things in mathematical terms.

-ken


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