...so i cant imagine the wiring being any good. check that everything is properly grounded. go to radioshack and buy yourself one of those miltimeter\electriction tool sets that have the modified plugs you stick into the walls, usually they have little LED's that let you know if the socket is even grounded at all. its also important to make sure that your audio equipment does NOT share a common ground with everything else in your house. this would call for a wirering overhaul. most of the studios i have worked in have two different sets of color coded wall outlets, one for audio gear only, another for everything else.
although this point may be redundent, try to use balanced cables wherever possible. and try and get the best quality imaginable for the cables that MUST be unbalanced (e.g. guitar outs to the amp.)
as for the lights, i think in a studio situation you would have to eliminate all possible sources of noise, whatever the cost. the point of this studio is to get the best possible sound. period.
also, are you running any audio wires under rugs or against walls or something? this can be bad since your electricity wiring is right behind the walls\floors. NEVER have ANY audio cables next to or within a few feet of electrical wiring. i have seen people wrap up their amp\head electrical wireing along with their D.I. box\mic cables and wonder why they keep blowing out their cabinets.
well basically what i want to say is to kind of to agree with Hackwang's comment that "The best way to avoid RF interference is not to remove all RF sources, but to design the electronic circuits correctly." i both agree and disagree with that statement, basically if your getting RFI so bad that you cant even play, i think the lighting is the least of your worries, the wireing is ultimatly the culprate, because if wasent the lamps making the noise it would have been somthing else at a later date. however if you fix the wiring, put in multiple grounds, dedicated audio circuts AND get rid of all noise makers, RFI or acoustical, then you will definetly be on your way to a better sound.
then we would have to talk about mics, pre-amps, and the acheivement of total acoustic isolation...
whats funny is that most of the people who mention how its all grind and theres no content also in the same breath admit that they played the game for all of 3 seconds on the beta... i for one, am no fanboy. but when it comes to quality, let me put it this way... this is the first game i have actually PAID for in a very, very, very long time. (arctic, radium, deviance, whatever...)
the thing i like the most in this game is that you gain experience as you quest, AND you dont lose it from dying...
except for out of pure want, i was never put in a situation where i NEEDED to sit around and level up by fighting 100 undead imps in a row. i guess what im trying to say is that you can keep yourself occupied by doing quests and fighting the minimum amount monsters needed to do a quest you will level up pretty fast. the storyline is immersing so it dosent FEEL like grind, your just going along for the ride.
yeah jail time will definetly work as a deterrant, just like it did with that whole War On Drugs. I mean c'mon, who does drugs anymore...
and unfortunetly, like drugs, spam isent going anywhere for a while. we have witnessed "spam" throught history, before 8086 came about, we used to call it "unsolicited advertiesments."
do i attempt to suggest i have a solution to spam, no.
but i DO attempt to suggest more people in jail IS NOT the answer.
imagine the uproar.. March 25, 1932. OHIO passes countrys first anti-traveling-salesman law...
well i used to use aol many, many, moons ago when i dident really know any better. sooner or later when i started seeing pop-up ads appear *before* windows explorer had shown me my icons is when i really went gung-ho from a typical aol'er point of veiw.. i'd have to say that i am much, much, more on top of the tech/geek issues then i was before, but at a cost that no typical aol'er can stand.
for instance the cost of letting go (i.e. wasting time learning new standards) is enough to keep aol'ers there. my girlfreind is a very smart intelligent person, decent at coding html, good with computers, cars, you name it.. but for the life of me i will never ever ever get her to not use aol (we have actually gotten into arguments because she felt my insistance that she use firefox was disrespectful to her personal wants) even after years of plublicity of the perils of windows security, my girlfreind still refuses to deal with learning to use a decent firewall/spyware killer/cache cleaner as well. with most people, i assume, they would rather spend the money on aol and norton then spend the time to learn how to configure a router, forward some ports, set up some firewall rules, manage their admin logs, yadda yadda yadda. its very simply to understand why this is so , i assume, the time it would take to do everything i needed to do become adept to the situation is worth more to people then the $24.95 a month for aol and $69.95 a year for norton internet security. its 101 economics.
so on the bigger issue of why 20 million people still use aol, i feel its a combination of
1) people who just dont know any better (like me in times past) 2) people who just dont care (like my girlfreind now) 3) people who know and dont care enough because their $369.35 a year is worth less then the oppertunity cost incured while reading "A+ for dummies" 4) and people who just cant get detached from their aol email address (i dont have aol installed on my comp but i do check my @aol.com every now and then even though i use gmail primarily)
now dont get me wrong, i am neither here nor there on this issue. considering im a relative/. newb (i havent been here nearly as long as the people who have been here before me.. ahhm...)
anyways, "good ol' days" aside, how can we get past the fact that a "non-reg alternative" was clearly posted next to the reg required link?
is there another problem at hand here or am i just to darn stupid to see the obvious peril and turmoil this *gasp* RR-linkaged is causing in the more-hardcore-/.er-then-thou crowd?
i can see if every link on the homepage was RR, is this the way it seems..?
dammmit i give up, the EU is right. my fellow americans, come with me, back to the old world, back to europe, were we shall all be slaves to the feable excusses of democracy they have waiting for us, come with me to the great land of endless joy via harsh censureship, and harsher punishments for non compliance. come with me, all of you, you must relinquish your "freedom" for the queens bum! and with it utopia shall be had, with our enlightened salvatation we shall live forever in the land of castles and princesses and legal marijuana if you happen to settle in holland...
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...so i cant imagine the wiring being any good. check that everything is properly grounded. go to radioshack and buy yourself one of those miltimeter\electriction tool sets that have the modified plugs you stick into the walls, usually they have little LED's that let you know if the socket is even grounded at all. its also important to make sure that your audio equipment does NOT share a common ground with everything else in your house. this would call for a wirering overhaul. most of the studios i have worked in have two different sets of color coded wall outlets, one for audio gear only, another for everything else.
although this point may be redundent, try to use balanced cables wherever possible. and try and get the best quality imaginable for the cables that MUST be unbalanced (e.g. guitar outs to the amp.)
as for the lights, i think in a studio situation you would have to eliminate all possible sources of noise, whatever the cost. the point of this studio is to get the best possible sound. period.
also, are you running any audio wires under rugs or against walls or something? this can be bad since your electricity wiring is right behind the walls\floors. NEVER have ANY audio cables next to or within a few feet of electrical wiring. i have seen people wrap up their amp\head electrical wireing along with their D.I. box\mic cables and wonder why they keep blowing out their cabinets.
well basically what i want to say is to kind of to agree with Hackwang's comment that "The best way to avoid RF interference is not to remove all RF sources, but to design the electronic circuits correctly." i both agree and disagree with that statement, basically if your getting RFI so bad that you cant even play, i think the lighting is the least of your worries, the wireing is ultimatly the culprate, because if wasent the lamps making the noise it would have been somthing else at a later date. however if you fix the wiring, put in multiple grounds, dedicated audio circuts AND get rid of all noise makers, RFI or acoustical, then you will definetly be on your way to a better sound.
then we would have to talk about mics, pre-amps, and the acheivement of total acoustic isolation...
whats funny is that most of the people who mention how its all grind and theres no content also in the same breath admit that they played the game for all of 3 seconds on the beta... i for one, am no fanboy. but when it comes to quality, let me put it this way... this is the first game i have actually PAID for in a very, very, very long time. (arctic, radium, deviance, whatever...)
the thing i like the most in this game is that you gain experience as you quest, AND you dont lose it from dying...
except for out of pure want, i was never put in a situation where i NEEDED to sit around and level up by fighting 100 undead imps in a row. i guess what im trying to say is that you can keep yourself occupied by doing quests and fighting the minimum amount monsters needed to do a quest you will level up pretty fast. the storyline is immersing so it dosent FEEL like grind, your just going along for the ride.
problems? yes... lag, server issues, gahhh...
yeah jail time will definetly work as a deterrant, just like it did with that whole War On Drugs. I mean c'mon, who does drugs anymore...
and unfortunetly, like drugs, spam isent going anywhere for a while. we have witnessed "spam" throught history, before 8086 came about, we used to call it "unsolicited advertiesments."
do i attempt to suggest i have a solution to spam, no.
but i DO attempt to suggest more people in jail IS NOT the answer.
imagine the uproar.. March 25, 1932. OHIO passes countrys first anti-traveling-salesman law...
how is this significant? not trolling... rather im encouraging the flow of meaningful conversation :)
IM NOT A GEEK! i'm a level 12 paladin.
...technology allow for something like this
well i used to use aol many, many, moons ago when i dident really know any better. sooner or later when i started seeing pop-up ads appear *before* windows explorer had shown me my icons is when i really went gung-ho from a typical aol'er point of veiw.. i'd have to say that i am much, much, more on top of the tech/geek issues then i was before, but at a cost that no typical aol'er can stand.
for instance the cost of letting go (i.e. wasting time learning new standards) is enough to keep aol'ers there. my girlfreind is a very smart intelligent person, decent at coding html, good with computers, cars, you name it.. but for the life of me i will never ever ever get her to not use aol (we have actually gotten into arguments because she felt my insistance that she use firefox was disrespectful to her personal wants) even after years of plublicity of the perils of windows security, my girlfreind still refuses to deal with learning to use a decent firewall/spyware killer/cache cleaner as well. with most people, i assume, they would rather spend the money on aol and norton then spend the time to learn how to configure a router, forward some ports, set up some firewall rules, manage their admin logs, yadda yadda yadda. its very simply to understand why this is so , i assume, the time it would take to do everything i needed to do become adept to the situation is worth more to people then the $24.95 a month for aol and $69.95 a year for norton internet security. its 101 economics.
so on the bigger issue of why 20 million people still use aol, i feel its a combination of
1) people who just dont know any better (like me in times past)
2) people who just dont care (like my girlfreind now)
3) people who know and dont care enough because their $369.35 a year is worth less then the oppertunity cost incured while reading "A+ for dummies"
4) and people who just cant get detached from their aol email address (i dont have aol installed on my comp but i do check my @aol.com every now and then even though i use gmail primarily)
now dont get me wrong, i am neither here nor there on this issue. considering im a relative /. newb (i havent been here nearly as long as the people who have been here before me.. ahhm...)
anyways, "good ol' days" aside, how can we get past the fact that a "non-reg alternative" was clearly posted next to the reg required link?
is there another problem at hand here or am i just to darn stupid to see the obvious peril and turmoil this *gasp* RR-linkaged is causing in the more-hardcore-/.er-then-thou crowd?
i can see if every link on the homepage was RR, is this the way it seems..?
dammmit i give up, the EU is right. my fellow americans, come with me, back to the old world, back to europe, were we shall all be slaves to the feable excusses of democracy they have waiting for us, come with me to the great land of endless joy via harsh censureship, and harsher punishments for non compliance. come with me, all of you, you must relinquish your "freedom" for the queens bum! and with it utopia shall be had, with our enlightened salvatation we shall live forever in the land of castles and princesses and legal marijuana if you happen to settle in holland...