14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
5:48 a.m.
david wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
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
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Gabriel
M. Beddingfield
wrote:
"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!
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
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.
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." :-)