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

From: Roger <gurusonic@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 14 2010 - 10:48:32 EEST

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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