[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db
Ken Restivo
ken at restivo.org
Tue Apr 13 17:29:19 EDT 2010
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 21:41:18 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > It's all ones and zeroes. Given the same inputs, the same output should be
> > obtained. Acoustics is physics. And if I can't measure it, it doesn't
> > exist.
>
> Hehe, but don't fool yourself. Acoustics is waves in 3D around objects of
> arbitrary complexity. That gets very complicated very fast...
>
Yes, it's in the realm of chaos theory, and probably more akin to meteorology than say automobile mechanics.
That all said, I'm not a fundamentalist materialist either (my friend pretty much is), but I find being able to think like one useful in many areas-- like evaulating whether something is real or B.S.
-ken
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