There is nothing inherently better about the way vinyl sounds. It's down to the mastering. A lot of modern music has the life pummelled out of it during mastering due to the so-called "loudness wars" - my album has to sound louder than yours. CDs would sound much better than they do if the music industry were willing to take advantage of their vastly superior dynamic range.
When a track destined for vinyl is mastered, there are compression and equalization limitations due to the mechanical transducer used to reproduce that music - you just cannot squash the mix and pump up the bass as many people do with CD mastering. If you tried pressing a record with many modern CD master recordings, the stylus would jump out of the groove.
Whenever I help out a friend with some networking job I explain why I won't drill holes in their place, loan them my 18" drill bit and ask them to line somebody up to drill the holes. I do not want to be responsible for burning down a building or piercing a water pipe.
I set up a new email alias for every org I deal with online so I know exactly who is responsible for the spam I receive. Aliases always identify the organization, e.g., aolsuckage@mydomain.com for my AIM account. Easy to delete an alias, no disruption of my legit addresses. I receive a minimal amount of spam and, based on the to: address I know exactly who I won't do business with in the future.
As soon as I heard about the comments made by Imus, I told my friends he would be suspended or shitcanned and that his defenders would compare his remarks to hip-hop lyrics and blame the liberals for his troubles. As a 65 year old white guy, you don't get to appropriate the language of hip-hop. Throwing some hip-hop slang into your sentences does not make you sound hip and edgy, it just makes you sound like a jackass.
Bizarrely, Imus seems to have been expressing admiration for the Rugers team. Listen to a recording of what he said - it doesn't sound like he's trying to insult or show contempt.
This separation makes it pretty hard to compare: you have to drill all the way down into the regular systems from the top, and configure. To compare you have to back all the way out, and drill in again into the N systems. I'm sure the difficulty in comparing the prices is just an accident, of course. I did this a few times, trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, because the systems without Windows kept coming out more expensive. Eventually I stopped trying to remember, and carefully wrote out an exact configuration, one that was simple, and that I knew was available in both places.
Notwithstanding the point this person is trying to make about the Windows tax:
He sure had a lot of trouble comparing prices at the Dell site. You'd think he'd be clueful enough to open 2 browser tabs and use them to navigate to the 2 sections of the site. Might it be a bit easier to flip between browser tabs than to write down configs on a piece of paper? Jesus, if you can't figure that out...
What does any of that have to do with the sound quality of iPods? If you know so much about audio, why not respond to my speculation that the problem may be caused by an impedance mismatch?
All you've proven so far is that you know how to drop names. Do you own a Neve, SSL or API desk? The gear I use is installed in my house. I don't work at a recording studio that's funded by someone else,
Soundcraft isn't 6 figures, but it is by no means crap. They have made some very nice-sounding studio desks, and the Series 5 live desk (not owned by me) that I've used to mix some local festivals is superb.
I buy the best I can afford and, for recording, supplement the desk with outboard microphone preamps. You're an expensive gear name-dropper, so you've probably heard of Millennia Media, Demeter, Focusrite... Not having the budget for a 6-figure mixing desk hasn't prevented me from doing good work. If you were in Canada you might have even heard some of the music I've worked on.
As for Genelec and KRK, I find them to be fatiguing.
I was a bit hasty in my initial post on this thread. The subject should have said "Headphones impedance mismatch?"
I mostly use my 4G iPod connected to a Soundcraft mixing desk, which is connected to a set of Tannoy midfield studio monitors, each of which is powered by a separate beefy power amplifier running in bridged mono mode.
I've compared an.aiff file played back through my computer's rackmounted audio interface (made by MOTU, for those who care, and also connected to the Soundcraft desk) and the same track played back from the iPod. I don't hear a significant difference in bass response. The people who complain about bass must be using 'phones with impedance that doesn't agree with the iPod's headphone jack.
Gave my parents an iMac, installed Timbuktu (remote control software) on it, and now I don't have to drive across town to help them with it. Their Windows-using friends are envious because they've never been hosed by a virus or worm.
No. In Canada, it is legal to make physical copies of copyrighted music files. Amendments to the Copyright Act legalized private copying of music onto recording media, e.g., CDRs. This new proposal would create the same legal waiver for sharing digital files.
The Copyright Board of Canada is a quasi-judicial body, legally it's one level below the Supreme Court. This board has ruled, in very explicit language, that the tax on blank media is payment enough for the music copyright holders and that copying a CD in Canada for private use is no longer copyright infringement.
In a nutshell, the CBOC has said to the copyright holders, "You can't have it both ways. You asked for a tax on blank media, now you have one. You no longer have the right to sue anyone for making physical copies of your stuff."
If these ISP taxes should come to pass, I have no doubt that the CBOC will then rule that all forms of music file sharing are no longer copyright infringement.
I've had 1GB of RAM in my PowerBook G3 for a couple years. Typically I have 12-14 applications running (over 50 processes when you include system and background stuff). If I had 512MB of RAM there would be a fair bit of paging happening. Notebook drives are usually significantly slower than desktop drives which makes paging even slower. IMO lots of RAM is just as important in a notebook as it is in a desktop.
TCO. That's what the REAL bottom line is. The Macs will cost less because of the lower IT staffing requirements. Unfortunately, that's the same reason many school IT administrators will go with Windows. Less staff = a smaller fiefdom for the managers.
It's overuse and misuse. I have a copy of Auto-Tune 3 (yes, a REAL bought and paid for copy) but you'd never know it from listening to the music I record.
Here's a real-life scenario: I'm recording a singer who is pretty good but there's one note that they can't quite hit today. We could scrap the session and do it again later - even good singers have trouble hitting all the notes all of the time - but that will cost the client hundreds of $$$. Alternatively I can fix the one note that's not quite there. I wouldn't try to correct every little shaky bit of intonation in the entire song, just the one that's really sour. What would you do?
Or how about this? Got a great bass player laying it down. Good tone, good part, one note played near the end of the neck is a bit off because the intonation of the instrument needs adjusting. Would you fix the note with Auto-Tune or scrap the session ($$$) and ask the bass player to get the intonation fixed? I'd do the expedient thing - fix the note AND ask the bass player to get some work done on the instrument before the next session.
What drives me crazy is the obvious warbling and perfectly pitched effect you hear on all of the modern pop and Nashville country CDs. Nobody can sing like that, it sounds like a machine. That's misuse of what can be a very subtle and powerful tool.
I ordered the last OS9 booting G4 because I need a new computer now, not next week or next month. I need OS9 booting for QuarkXPress and for OS9 multitrack audio applications that I use.
If a rumour about new computers is putting you off buying you probably don't need a new computer anyway. If you make money with it who cares what's in the pipeline? If you need a new machine and it's going to make you money you buy it.
I'll worry about buying a Mac with a 970 processor when it's actually shipping and the software I use has been rewritten to take advantage of 64 bit processors.
The PowerBook 5300 (guts of LEGOmac) was a POS
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The 5300 was the worst PowerBook ever.
The fabled battery fires weren't the real problem with these things - the flaming batteries never actually made it into the hands of customers. However, the problems were endless - screen bezel plastics separating, crappy screen hinges. Poorly designed power adapter port (which, when it broke, necessitated a logic board replacement). No level 2 cache (which, speed-wise, crippled the 603 processor). No built-in ethernet or modem even though the previous models of PowerBook had both... I had a PowerBook 5300 that went through a half dozen warranty repairs. I've read that Apple extended the warranty on the 5300 to avoid class-action lawsuits.
For a while there was also a 5300 trade-in offer, this got a lot of the things out of circulation so Apple wouldn't have to keep losing money fixing them. I got $1000 CAD off a 2000 model PowerBook G3 by sending my PB 5300 back to Apple. They didn't even have to work to qualify for the offer.
The Financial Post is the financial news section of The National Post (Canada). This is a paper that has gushed red ink since the day it was founded, it has never made a profit.
The National Post's owner, CanWest Global, also owns television networks in Canada and New Zealand, most of the daily papers in Canada, and the Canada.com "portal". CanWest bought the Post in one of those ill-considered "convergence" plays and is rumoured to be pulling the plug if things don't turn around soon.
The Northwest Passage is not, as the article says, "above Canada". The "tangle of islands about 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle" - those islands are all Canadian territory. The Northwest Passage passes through Canadian inland waters. Google for Northwest Passage and have a look for yourself.
The USA usually respects the sovereign territory of its allies. Think the Canadian government might have something to say about commercial shipping polluting one of the last (semi) pristine environments left on the planet?
I've gotten sick of replying to people who think I've sent them a worm. I've drafted the following and use it as a quick copy-paste solution to this annoyance.
Note that I use the term virus in my form letter as most if not all of these people don't know the difference between a virus and a worm.
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Did you receive a virus-infected email which appeared to have come from me? If so, the return address of the email you received was spoofed (meaning the email didn't really come from me).
One of the "features" of many of these viruses is that they use fake reply-to information so you can't easily figure out who has sent you a virus-infected email.
I assure you that none of my computers are infected with anything. I haven't sent you any viruses. These types of viruses are spread by certain email clients running on Windows computers. I use neither Windows computers nor the email clients which are susceptible to such skullduggery.
If you did receive an email with a virus attached which appeared to come from me I suggest you inspect the long (full) header of the email to find out who really sent it to you. If you have a technical support department please contact one of your support people and have them explain the difference between short headers and long headers.
I live a couple kilometres from Signal Hill in St. John's Newfoundland (that's where Marconi is said to have received the transmission).
Interesting aside: Marconi was for all intents and purposes kicked out (asked to leave and threatened with lawsuits if he didn't) of Newfoundland, which was then not part of Canada. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company had a Government-mandated monopoly on telecommunications. Much of the transatlantic telegraph cable traffic was at the time routed through Newfoundland, it being the closest point in North America to Europe. Marconi subsequently relocated to Glace Bay Nova Scotia at the invitation of the Canadian Government.
That's $30 CANADIAN a month, which is, uh, around $3 US at the current exchange rates.
People in any of the larger centres in Newfoundland can also choose DSL from the phone company. This has forced the cable company to give away DOCSIS cable modems for $200 CDN.
What high-end TTs use direct drive? Only ones I know of are DJ TTs, which have to spin up as fast as possible. Most high-end TTs are belt driven to isolate the motor rumble from the platter.
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There is nothing inherently better about the way vinyl sounds. It's down to the mastering. A lot of modern music has the life pummelled out of it during mastering due to the so-called "loudness wars" - my album has to sound louder than yours. CDs would sound much better than they do if the music industry were willing to take advantage of their vastly superior dynamic range.
When a track destined for vinyl is mastered, there are compression and equalization limitations due to the mechanical transducer used to reproduce that music - you just cannot squash the mix and pump up the bass as many people do with CD mastering. If you tried pressing a record with many modern CD master recordings, the stylus would jump out of the groove.
Whenever I help out a friend with some networking job I explain why I won't drill holes in their place, loan them my 18" drill bit and ask them to line somebody up to drill the holes. I do not want to be responsible for burning down a building or piercing a water pipe.
I set up a new email alias for every org I deal with online so I know exactly who is responsible for the spam I receive. Aliases always identify the organization, e.g., aolsuckage@mydomain.com for my AIM account. Easy to delete an alias, no disruption of my legit addresses. I receive a minimal amount of spam and, based on the to: address I know exactly who I won't do business with in the future.
As soon as I heard about the comments made by Imus, I told my friends he would be suspended or shitcanned and that his defenders would compare his remarks to hip-hop lyrics and blame the liberals for his troubles. As a 65 year old white guy, you don't get to appropriate the language of hip-hop. Throwing some hip-hop slang into your sentences does not make you sound hip and edgy, it just makes you sound like a jackass.
Bizarrely, Imus seems to have been expressing admiration for the Rugers team. Listen to a recording of what he said - it doesn't sound like he's trying to insult or show contempt.
Notwithstanding the point this person is trying to make about the Windows tax:
He sure had a lot of trouble comparing prices at the Dell site. You'd think he'd be clueful enough to open 2 browser tabs and use them to navigate to the 2 sections of the site. Might it be a bit easier to flip between browser tabs than to write down configs on a piece of paper? Jesus, if you can't figure that out...
All you've proven so far is that you know how to drop names. Do you own a Neve, SSL or API desk? The gear I use is installed in my house. I don't work at a recording studio that's funded by someone else,
Soundcraft isn't 6 figures, but it is by no means crap. They have made some very nice-sounding studio desks, and the Series 5 live desk (not owned by me) that I've used to mix some local festivals is superb.
I buy the best I can afford and, for recording, supplement the desk with outboard microphone preamps. You're an expensive gear name-dropper, so you've probably heard of Millennia Media, Demeter, Focusrite... Not having the budget for a 6-figure mixing desk hasn't prevented me from doing good work. If you were in Canada you might have even heard some of the music I've worked on.
As for Genelec and KRK, I find them to be fatiguing.
I was a bit hasty in my initial post on this thread. The subject should have said "Headphones impedance mismatch?"
I've compared an .aiff file played back through my computer's rackmounted audio interface (made by MOTU, for those who care, and also connected to the Soundcraft desk) and the same track played back from the iPod. I don't hear a significant difference in bass response. The people who complain about bass must be using 'phones with impedance that doesn't agree with the iPod's headphone jack.
Gave my parents an iMac, installed Timbuktu (remote control software) on it, and now I don't have to drive across town to help them with it. Their Windows-using friends are envious because they've never been hosed by a virus or worm.
No. In Canada, it is legal to make physical copies of copyrighted music files. Amendments to the Copyright Act legalized private copying of music onto recording media, e.g., CDRs. This new proposal would create the same legal waiver for sharing digital files.
The Copyright Board of Canada is a quasi-judicial body, legally it's one level below the Supreme Court. This board has ruled, in very explicit language, that the tax on blank media is payment enough for the music copyright holders and that copying a CD in Canada for private use is no longer copyright infringement.
In a nutshell, the CBOC has said to the copyright holders, "You can't have it both ways. You asked for a tax on blank media, now you have one. You no longer have the right to sue anyone for making physical copies of your stuff."
If these ISP taxes should come to pass, I have no doubt that the CBOC will then rule that all forms of music file sharing are no longer copyright infringement.
Well, in one part of Canada, anyway. On the island of Newfoundland, which didn't become a province of Canada until 1949, it's called bonfire night.
I've had 1GB of RAM in my PowerBook G3 for a couple years. Typically I have 12-14 applications running (over 50 processes when you include system and background stuff). If I had 512MB of RAM there would be a fair bit of paging happening. Notebook drives are usually significantly slower than desktop drives which makes paging even slower. IMO lots of RAM is just as important in a notebook as it is in a desktop.
Top:
Processes: 53 total, 2 running, 51 sleeping... 231 threads 00:48:50
Load Avg: 1.24, 1.26, 1.16 CPU usage: 15.1% user, 19.3% sys, 65.5% idle
SharedLibs: num = 54, resident = 20.1M code, 1.79M data, 5.77M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 6330, resident = 188M + 11.8M private, 139M shared
PhysMem: 64.3M wired, 124M active, 629M inactive, 818M used, 206M free
VM: 3.44G + 37.9M 10787(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
TCO. That's what the REAL bottom line is. The Macs will cost less because of the lower IT staffing requirements. Unfortunately, that's the same reason many school IT administrators will go with Windows. Less staff = a smaller fiefdom for the managers.
It's overuse and misuse. I have a copy of Auto-Tune 3 (yes, a REAL bought and paid for copy) but you'd never know it from listening to the music I record.
Here's a real-life scenario: I'm recording a singer who is pretty good but there's one note that they can't quite hit today. We could scrap the session and do it again later - even good singers have trouble hitting all the notes all of the time - but that will cost the client hundreds of $$$. Alternatively I can fix the one note that's not quite there. I wouldn't try to correct every little shaky bit of intonation in the entire song, just the one that's really sour. What would you do?
Or how about this? Got a great bass player laying it down. Good tone, good part, one note played near the end of the neck is a bit off because the intonation of the instrument needs adjusting. Would you fix the note with Auto-Tune or scrap the session ($$$) and ask the bass player to get the intonation fixed? I'd do the expedient thing - fix the note AND ask the bass player to get some work done on the instrument before the next session.
What drives me crazy is the obvious warbling and perfectly pitched effect you hear on all of the modern pop and Nashville country CDs. Nobody can sing like that, it sounds like a machine. That's misuse of what can be a very subtle and powerful tool.
I ordered the last OS9 booting G4 because I need a new computer now, not next week or next month. I need OS9 booting for QuarkXPress and for OS9 multitrack audio applications that I use.
If a rumour about new computers is putting you off buying you probably don't need a new computer anyway. If you make money with it who cares what's in the pipeline? If you need a new machine and it's going to make you money you buy it.
I'll worry about buying a Mac with a 970 processor when it's actually shipping and the software I use has been rewritten to take advantage of 64 bit processors.
The 5300 was the worst PowerBook ever.
The fabled battery fires weren't the real problem with these things - the flaming batteries never actually made it into the hands of customers. However, the problems were endless - screen bezel plastics separating, crappy screen hinges. Poorly designed power adapter port (which, when it broke, necessitated a logic board replacement). No level 2 cache (which, speed-wise, crippled the 603 processor). No built-in ethernet or modem even though the previous models of PowerBook had both... I had a PowerBook 5300 that went through a half dozen warranty repairs. I've read that Apple extended the warranty on the 5300 to avoid class-action lawsuits.
For a while there was also a 5300 trade-in offer, this got a lot of the things out of circulation so Apple wouldn't have to keep losing money fixing them. I got $1000 CAD off a 2000 model PowerBook G3 by sending my PB 5300 back to Apple. They didn't even have to work to qualify for the offer.
The Financial Post is the financial news section of The National Post (Canada). This is a paper that has gushed red ink since the day it was founded, it has never made a profit.
The National Post's owner, CanWest Global, also owns television networks in Canada and New Zealand, most of the daily papers in Canada, and the Canada.com "portal". CanWest bought the Post in one of those ill-considered "convergence" plays and is rumoured to be pulling the plug if things don't turn around soon.
The Northwest Passage is not, as the article says, "above Canada". The "tangle of islands about 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle" - those islands are all Canadian territory. The Northwest Passage passes through Canadian inland waters. Google for Northwest Passage and have a look for yourself. The USA usually respects the sovereign territory of its allies. Think the Canadian government might have something to say about commercial shipping polluting one of the last (semi) pristine environments left on the planet?
I've gotten sick of replying to people who think I've sent them a worm. I've drafted the following and use it as a quick copy-paste solution to this annoyance.
Note that I use the term virus in my form letter as most if not all of these people don't know the difference between a virus and a worm.
---------
Did you receive a virus-infected email which appeared to have come from me? If so, the return address of the email you received was spoofed (meaning the email didn't really come from me).
One of the "features" of many of these viruses is that they use fake reply-to information so you can't easily figure out who has sent you a virus-infected email.
I assure you that none of my computers are infected with anything. I haven't sent you any viruses. These types of viruses are spread by certain email clients running on Windows computers. I use neither Windows computers nor the email clients which are susceptible to such skullduggery.
If you did receive an email with a virus attached which appeared to come from me I suggest you inspect the long (full) header of the email to find out who really sent it to you. If you have a technical support department please contact one of your support people and have them explain the difference between short headers and long headers.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,
I live a couple kilometres from Signal Hill in St. John's Newfoundland (that's where Marconi is said to have received the transmission).
Interesting aside: Marconi was for all intents and purposes kicked out (asked to leave and threatened with lawsuits if he didn't) of Newfoundland, which was then not part of Canada. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company had a Government-mandated monopoly on telecommunications. Much of the transatlantic telegraph cable traffic was at the time routed through Newfoundland, it being the closest point in North America to Europe. Marconi subsequently relocated to Glace Bay Nova Scotia at the invitation of the Canadian Government.
Don't take yourself so seriously, tool. It was a joke. No sense of humour at all. You must be from Ontario.
That's $30 CANADIAN a month, which is, uh, around $3 US at the current exchange rates.
People in any of the larger centres in Newfoundland can also choose DSL from the phone company. This has forced the cable company to give away DOCSIS cable modems for $200 CDN.
Ain't communism wonderful?
What high-end TTs use direct drive? Only ones I know of are DJ TTs, which have to spin up as fast as possible. Most high-end TTs are belt driven to isolate the motor rumble from the platter.