Yes, music has to be compressed to go on vinyl. . .
Well, not exactly. The bass is lowered so that the stylus excursion isn't as violent, and the treble is boosted. Then the pre-amp applies the RIAA equalization curves that boost the bass back up and bring the treble back down. When you bring the treble back down you bring the higher frequency noise down with it.
That's not really the same as dynamic range compression.
Although it's true that vinyl doesn't offer unlimited dynamic range (about 80 dB, as opposed to about 96 dB for CDs), it's enough for a lot of stuff, and it doesn't matter that the CD has more range if the master is so compressed that the needles on the meter just hover around a single point.
In some cases promotional copies of 45s were EQ'ed and compressed for AM radio in a way that the 45 you bought in the store wasn't.
In the later '70s and '80s promo 45s had a mono side for AM play and a non-screwed with as much stereo side for FM--same song on both sides, no "flip side" to de-rail the marketing efforts with a different song on the air from the one the label was pushing at that moment.
I poured a lot of money into jukeboxes back in the day playing flip sides. I used to be able to program a jukebox almost as well as my air show.
Hey, you kids! Get off of my lawn! There's a cloud I need to be yelling at!
That he saved some old recordings doesn't make him a pioneer of media preservationism...
Actually it was more his desire to be able to record his shows, first radio on audio tape, and later his television shows on videotape, instead of having to do them live that got him the pioneer status. That, and putting the cost of several average homes into Ampex in the early days.
WGN was on cable down here by the early '80s, so I remember those morning movies. The change of format may have been due to Ted Turner buying up the MGM library.
As for his singing, it was the epitome of being mellow but never bland, and perhaps only Dean Martin had him beat at being relaxed in a supremely self-confident way.
The last sentence says "But one technology site notes the study was conducted in Britain, which could have an impact on its conclusions.", which makes it sound as though conducting studies in Britain, rather than elsewhere, is much more likely to skew results somehow, but the actual article on said technology site merely points out that the results obtained are the results you get with the conditions one finds in Britain, and that conducting the study in other countries with differing transportation systems, population densities, topographical and climatological features, et cetera, might produce differing results.
As for shopping locally or online, I go where I can find what I want (or, more likely, what I'm willing to settle for) at a price I can stomach and obtain this most quickly and conveniently. Sometimes that's local, sometimes not. Usually it's neither and I have to make do without.
They used various ways to come up with stuff that was "sorta like" petroleum because they were having to manage without petroleum. The way they managed without petroleum was to come up with ways to make stuff that was "sorta like" petroleum. So, as I said, the German military *does* have some past experience in having to manage without petroleum. This was because of Germany being without petroleum.
When petroleum becomes expensive, stuff will stop being made universally out of plastics. So, you'll start seeing various alloys of magnesium, titanium, aluminum and steel being used again where there's a cheap plastic injection molded part now.
Methinks getting magnesium, titanium, aluminum and steel out of the ground and processed might involve using a bit of that expensive petroleum, so if we wind up spending money to get oil out of the ground to burn to get metals out of the ground to use as replacements for petroleum-based materials, it might actually be cheaper (but still expensive) to use that oil to make the petroleum based materials instead of burning it to dig up the replacements.
Of course it's because Bush Junior was embarrassed by Bush Senior not having the balls to carry through on the invasion of Iraq that he performed in 1991.
I think by now most anyone could figure out that *not* invading Iraq was one of Bush the Elder's smarter moves .
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Are you complaining about the use of the word "gotten" instead of the different word "got", or is there an alternate spelling for "gotten" of which I am unaware?
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Yes, music has to be compressed to go on vinyl. . .
Well, not exactly. The bass is lowered so that the stylus excursion isn't as violent, and the treble is boosted. Then the pre-amp applies the RIAA equalization curves that boost the bass back up and bring the treble back down. When you bring the treble back down you bring the higher frequency noise down with it.
That's not really the same as dynamic range compression.
Although it's true that vinyl doesn't offer unlimited dynamic range (about 80 dB, as opposed to about 96 dB for CDs), it's enough for a lot of stuff, and it doesn't matter that the CD has more range if the master is so compressed that the needles on the meter just hover around a single point.
In some cases promotional copies of 45s were EQ'ed and compressed for AM radio in a way that the 45 you bought in the store wasn't.
In the later '70s and '80s promo 45s had a mono side for AM play and a non-screwed with as much stereo side for FM--same song on both sides, no "flip side" to de-rail the marketing efforts with a different song on the air from the one the label was pushing at that moment.
I poured a lot of money into jukeboxes back in the day playing flip sides. I used to be able to program a jukebox almost as well as my air show.
Hey, you kids! Get off of my lawn! There's a cloud I need to be yelling at!
That he saved some old recordings doesn't make him a pioneer of media preservationism...
Actually it was more his desire to be able to record his shows, first radio on audio tape, and later his television shows on videotape, instead of having to do them live that got him the pioneer status. That, and putting the cost of several average homes into Ampex in the early days.
WGN was on cable down here by the early '80s, so I remember those morning movies. The change of format may have been due to Ted Turner buying up the MGM library.
As for his singing, it was the epitome of being mellow but never bland, and perhaps only Dean Martin had him beat at being relaxed in a supremely self-confident way.
The opponents of this measure are some very smart and creative people. What are they proposing as an alternative to income taxes?
Devil take the hindmost?
The last sentence says "But one technology site notes the study was conducted in Britain, which could have an impact on its conclusions.", which makes it sound as though conducting studies in Britain, rather than elsewhere, is much more likely to skew results somehow, but the actual article on said technology site merely points out that the results obtained are the results you get with the conditions one finds in Britain, and that conducting the study in other countries with differing transportation systems, population densities, topographical and climatological features, et cetera, might produce differing results.
As for shopping locally or online, I go where I can find what I want (or, more likely, what I'm willing to settle for) at a price I can stomach and obtain this most quickly and conveniently. Sometimes that's local, sometimes not. Usually it's neither and I have to make do without.
Well, I remember hearing about the first ones being used as lock picks.
At least one of those cavities will not interfere with the ability to speak clearly.
Unless that's the sort of thing that gets him really excited.
Did you ever tried to change your fingerprints?
I'm reasonably certain that some guy named "did you ever" did not try to change my fingerprints.
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Isn't that the stuff that lets you claim that the only reason you drink all those gin and tonics is to stave off malaria?
They used various ways to come up with stuff that was "sorta like" petroleum because they were having to manage without petroleum. The way they managed without petroleum was to come up with ways to make stuff that was "sorta like" petroleum. So, as I said, the German military *does* have some past experience in having to manage without petroleum. This was because of Germany being without petroleum.
Sheesh.
But when a plastic gear splits and can't be replaced, turning a several hundred dollar machine into a doorstop, peak oil can't happen soon enough.
Amen, brother.
When petroleum becomes expensive, stuff will stop being made universally out of plastics. So, you'll start seeing various alloys of magnesium, titanium, aluminum and steel being used again where there's a cheap plastic injection molded part now.
Methinks getting magnesium, titanium, aluminum and steel out of the ground and processed might involve using a bit of that expensive petroleum, so if we wind up spending money to get oil out of the ground to burn to get metals out of the ground to use as replacements for petroleum-based materials, it might actually be cheaper (but still expensive) to use that oil to make the petroleum based materials instead of burning it to dig up the replacements.
Of course it's because Bush Junior was embarrassed by Bush Senior not having the balls to carry through on the invasion of Iraq that he performed in 1991.
I think by now most anyone could figure out that *not* invading Iraq was one of Bush the Elder's smarter moves .
Well, the German military does have some past experience in having to manage without petroleum. : - )
Are you comparing them on the basis of dangerousness or entertainment value?
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He's a reservist. It probably wasn't a case of asking to go as much as being told to go.
If only they'd scheduled it 2 years sooner.
Are you complaining about the use of the word "gotten" instead of the different word "got", or is there an alternate spelling for "gotten" of which I am unaware?
I'd like to see him get caught doing it in Texas where far less questions are asked after you shoot him.
Even in Texas it's far fewer questions.
What about how he feels about typos? Does anyone care about that?
It's just as well that I'm out of mod points at the moment as there is no "+1, sublime" option.
Oh, come on. Who's going to grant a panda a concealed-carry permit?
But is spelled differently than butt.
When things differ, they differ from one another.
It's what pimips do, of course!
But they tend not to pronounce the "g" on the end.