First of all, your ear can tune the room out. So what you record through a mic can sound VERY different from what you're actually hearing. Mics tend to "flatten" everything. So, it'd be nice to hear more of what I'm hearing, and less of the room. You basically have to *deaden the room* to hear the things that you're hearing be faithfully reproduced through a mic, which was the ENTIRE point of my post.
As for moving to a different room, it's just not always feasible. Firstly, moving a drum set into a room adjacent to a roommate simply isn't polite. Secondly, moving a drum set, along with my entire rig (eight different microphones, my mixer, computer, effects boxes, etc.) just... too much lugging. If I had tons of money, I'd get a nice room and get it treated, but it was an investment just to get recording equipment. Me != rich.
The problem with doing that in small rooms is that it kills the high frequency waves and doesn't do anything about the lows... the room is a little less alive, which makes it easier to control in the mixer and software, but it can make the room even more boomy unless you take care of the bass with corner bass traps or something.
What would REALLY be neat is if they could make microphones that weren't affected by room dimensions, walls, etc. Doing home recordings can be a giant pain, especially when recording drums... the room contributes so much to the sound, and since most home musicians can't afford gigantic rooms, you wind up recording in a tiny room which, for those of you that know acoustics, makes things very boomy and difficult to control. Then we have to go and spend hundreds of dollars on bass traps for the room corners, which still don't fix the problem, they just make it less noticable... sigh.
You know, millions of dollars and thousands of lives could be saved if you Okies just, you know, moved somewhere that wasn't right in the middle of tornado alley...
Go to hot topic sometime and look at their prices. Believe me, goths and punks have no qualms about spending their parents' money on overpriced crap to fit in with their friends... er.. I mean, stand out from everybody else.
Yeah but Britney might not have wanted to be involved in your project. What if she thinks it's offensive/sucks? Do you have a right to use her voice on something she doesn't want to be a part of from an artistic standpoint or otherwise? I would argue no.
I think that when you are taking recorded audio directly from another source, and you are incorporating it into your own work, you should realize that you are stealing.
Like, how retarded ARE you to not figure that out?
Once the copyright expires, you can do what you want with it. Isn't that the way derivative works work?
Samples ARE protected by copyright. In this case it doesn't fall into parody or critique, so why are you asking one of the silliest questions I've ever read in my life?
Google yields answers in abundance, you don't need to ask slashdot readers for every silly little thing.::takes a happy pill::
The word "cracker" is like the word "nigger" in some contexts. "Hacker" is a much less offensive word, in all contexts, except to Richard Stallman, who can suck his thumb and cry into his bankie for all I care.
Your definition of hacker is the one from 15 years ago. Hacker == cracker nowadays. And please don't bother arguing or bitching about it, go read a newspaper and you'll see that I'm right, it's probably even in the AP style guide.
There's this thing, I don't know if you've heard of it... it's called soap... you use it to wash your hands... they have it in public restrooms everywhere...
So quit your bitching and only listen to CD's that you can afford, or go find musicians giving their music away. It's not hard, go to any bar in the nearest city on any given night, sheesh.
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I can only imagine this would be useful for talk radio... I mean... what would be the point of using this for a top 40 station?
First of all, your ear can tune the room out. So what you record through a mic can sound VERY different from what you're actually hearing. Mics tend to "flatten" everything. So, it'd be nice to hear more of what I'm hearing, and less of the room. You basically have to *deaden the room* to hear the things that you're hearing be faithfully reproduced through a mic, which was the ENTIRE point of my post.
As for moving to a different room, it's just not always feasible. Firstly, moving a drum set into a room adjacent to a roommate simply isn't polite. Secondly, moving a drum set, along with my entire rig (eight different microphones, my mixer, computer, effects boxes, etc.) just... too much lugging. If I had tons of money, I'd get a nice room and get it treated, but it was an investment just to get recording equipment. Me != rich.
The problem with doing that in small rooms is that it kills the high frequency waves and doesn't do anything about the lows... the room is a little less alive, which makes it easier to control in the mixer and software, but it can make the room even more boomy unless you take care of the bass with corner bass traps or something.
What would REALLY be neat is if they could make microphones that weren't affected by room dimensions, walls, etc. Doing home recordings can be a giant pain, especially when recording drums... the room contributes so much to the sound, and since most home musicians can't afford gigantic rooms, you wind up recording in a tiny room which, for those of you that know acoustics, makes things very boomy and difficult to control. Then we have to go and spend hundreds of dollars on bass traps for the room corners, which still don't fix the problem, they just make it less noticable... sigh.
How many people died in that ice storm?
How many people died in those tornado incidents?
What the hell was your point?
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. I can't even remember the last time we had a serious natural disaster here.
You know, millions of dollars and thousands of lives could be saved if you Okies just, you know, moved somewhere that wasn't right in the middle of tornado alley...
:-)
Just a thought.
oh come on, flamebait? someone was obviously offended. stop crying through your mascara and get over it, jeez
Go to hot topic sometime and look at their prices. Believe me, goths and punks have no qualms about spending their parents' money on overpriced crap to fit in with their friends... er.. I mean, stand out from everybody else.
Yeah but Britney might not have wanted to be involved in your project. What if she thinks it's offensive/sucks? Do you have a right to use her voice on something she doesn't want to be a part of from an artistic standpoint or otherwise? I would argue no.
I think that when you are taking recorded audio directly from another source, and you are incorporating it into your own work, you should realize that you are stealing.
Like, how retarded ARE you to not figure that out?
It's not YOUR audio, it's someone else's.
DUH.
Once the copyright expires, you can do what you want with it. Isn't that the way derivative works work?
::takes a happy pill::
Samples ARE protected by copyright. In this case it doesn't fall into parody or critique, so why are you asking one of the silliest questions I've ever read in my life?
Google yields answers in abundance, you don't need to ask slashdot readers for every silly little thing.
OK I'm better now.
The word "cracker" is like the word "nigger" in some contexts. "Hacker" is a much less offensive word, in all contexts, except to Richard Stallman, who can suck his thumb and cry into his bankie for all I care.
HACKER has passed into common parlance with the negative connotation. It's not just the newspapers, it's EVERYBODY.
Every time I read a newspaper on any topic I know something about, I find more errors than facts.
Pure exaggeration.
Your definition of hacker is the one from 15 years ago. Hacker == cracker nowadays. And please don't bother arguing or bitching about it, go read a newspaper and you'll see that I'm right, it's probably even in the AP style guide.
They say injunction.
I say injection.
That's all we need, is some fifteen-year-old DDoS-ing the Hubble.
I don't know if you're ever heard of inflation. As currency loses its value, you're forced to charge more to get the same level of income.
So your dig at the post office is *ahem* without merit *ahem*.
Some people can afford a Porsche, and some can't. Does that mean Porsche should lower prices? Noooooooooooo.
Because you can get other cars, elsewhere, for less.
You can get other music, elsewhere, for less.
There's this thing, I don't know if you've heard of it... it's called soap... you use it to wash your hands... they have it in public restrooms everywhere...
"Aww the keys are stuck... and it's not soda!"
So quit your bitching and only listen to CD's that you can afford, or go find musicians giving their music away. It's not hard, go to any bar in the nearest city on any given night, sheesh.
Wrist-phone nothing, when are the wrist-claws coming??!
OK, so I'm a little excited that X-men 2 is coming out tonight...
Come on now, "spouse"? Slashdotters can't even get dates, how the hell are we supposed to get married??
This statement is also known as "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."