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

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
>> 
>>> 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".
>> I've come to call it "guitar-player-speak." :-)
> 
> 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.

"Warm" and "punchy" tells you something the mathematics can't tell you.
They give you the emotional response to the music. Which is something I
think is much more important than the mathematics!

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David
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