Prime Mover and Shaker

I don't always eat Oreos, but when I do THERE ARE NONE f***ing LEFT FOR YOU!!!

 

 

:P

It's always a blast.

 

Having said that, this is probably the first year I wont make it since 2006; just not in the financial cards given my other commitments.

Oh, hey, I seldom venture outside of SOCN, but thanks!!!!!!!

If you have the ability/interest to listen to imperfect demos, I have a helthy collection of my own stuff.

 

I sing and play everything on these demos (unless otherwise noted), but everything (minus the bass) is simply meant to be notional. Some day I'll go into a real studio and record with studio musicians/vocalists.

 

I dig the compositions; I think there are some good songs here.

 

:)

 

 

http://www.jaypsi.com/Demos.html

 

I also have a recording project underway with some guys in Seattle. We should have an album ready in the first halfof 2014. Nothing to share on that end just yet, though.

I'm sure most of the cute girls in the front row have a good set of knee pads to get those seats.

 

Hey now - I'm good friends with a couple of those girls. I can't speak for all of the front row women, but my friends surely did not do anything like that to score those seats!

Baker then Tennant..... and I only picked McGann because I had to pick one, and he simply wasn't in the role long enough to really compare.

I'd take both. ;)

Prime Mover - oh yeah!!!!

 

Turn the Page would be much appreciated as well.

 

Hell, I love the whole album!

I'm trying not to think about some of the things lost.

 

All of our Interstellar Hegemony stuff is gone. It was nerdy, but cool.

 

Shit.

 

 

 

The Joe's Mecahnic thread!

Thanks, guys! :)

Love me some Anthrax. THIS is a great cover!!!!!!

He hammed it up a couple times when I saw him, mocking surprise that his bass seemed to be playing itself.

Spirit of the Radio.

Neil!

 

How do I turn off sigs?

 

Click your name in the upper right. A dropdown menu appears. Then, My Settings --> Ignore Preferences. Then, find the checkbox for Ignore all signatures when reading topics.

 

Thanks!

How do I turn off sigs?

OK, looks like you know about the slow loads. Other than that, from what I can see, it seems to be working OK for me.

 

Hey, that kind of rhymed.

 

 

Not top 10, but just barely misses it, I think.

 

It's not that CA is bad, it's just that the competition is that good.

 

 

Damn.

 

 

QUOTE (Prime Mover and Shaker @ May 1 2012, 04:00 PM)

I ended up with Section B row U.  Not too bad.

I ended up with Section B row U. Not too bad.

 

 

It's all about something called dynamic range.

 

Some parts of an instrument's total sound are much quieter than others. This is very important, and most casual listeners don't know (or particularly care) about this detail. And that is perfectly OK.

 

Here's the thing to remember: an instrument sounds the way it does for many reasons, but one of them has to do with the volume relationship between the quiet and loud portions of the total sound. Your brain takes all of this information and turns it into what you interpret as one instrument.

 

If there wasn't this mixture of different volumes, the instrument would sound very different (and, to many opinions, not as good). This is one of the reasons that cheap keyboards with settings like "flute" don't mimic the intended instruments very well - they haven't captured all of the quiet and louder components that make up a flute sound.

 

 

OK, that might all sound academic, but here's how it applies to our discussion (I'm going to oversimplify a few things here; audiophiles please don't beat on me):

 

The technology at work here has a maximum volume during recording. If you keep turning everything up, the loudest sounds reach this limit, but the softer sounds can still increase. This means that the difference between the loudest and quietest sounds is now smaller (this difference is "dynamic range").

 

By making the dynamic range (the difference in sound volumes) smaller, you are changing the way the instrument is interpreted by the brain. Some folks are more sensitive to this than others.

 

Also, your brain doesn't want to have too many of these components of the instrument at the same volume. Remember that there is a limit to how loud things can be as they are recorded. If the recording level is too high, then several of the instrument's sounds components are now at the same level. It's rather like being screamed at by many voices all at once.

 

 

 

An example:

 

 

Let's suppose a natural flute sound is composed of sounds A, B, C, D, E, and F.

 

A has a natural volume of 10.

B has a natural volume of 8.

C has a natural volume of 7.

D has a natural volume of 4.

E has a natural volume of 2.

F has a natural volume of 1.

 

You record the flute with technology that can handle a volume up to 12.

 

Playing back, you hear a natural sounding flute.

 

Now record it by turning all of the volumes up by 5. But remember, 12 is the limit of the recording device.

 

A is recorded at 12.

B is recorded at 12.

C is recorded at 12.

D is recorded at 9.

E is recorded at 7.

F is recorded at 6.

 

This has the advantage of being "louder", so that if you put this track on a party mix CD, it won't sound "weak" compared to the other tracks.

 

However, notice that A, B, and C are now all at the same volume, which is not the case with the original flute. Depending on how sensitive your ears are, you may pick up on that difference, and it may "tire" your ears after a while.

 

Turning the recording volume up further only makes this problem worse.

 

The samples you see above of Prime Mover are akin to the flute being recorded with no added volume.

 

The "brick wall" waveforms are akin to the example where things are turned up by 5. Well, maybe more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, guys.

 

 

It's the big 4-0 today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIGERS!!!!! YEAH!