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

Roger gurusonic at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 03:48:32 EDT 2010


david wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
It goes both ways of course. Sometimes I wish for more maths where I 
work as monitor engineer for live shows. I often get "Give me more mids" 
but no idea if they mean 200Hz or 1200!

Roger


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