It didn't go over my head. I even said you were making a joke. Get over yourself. I simply wanted to make sure that people for whom the joke DID go over, didn't end up thinking that Baroque music is really more complex than Classical or later music just because some guy who sounded smart said so. And the "the older generation always thinks the new generation's music is crap" idea is pretty cliched, so not the greatest basis for a joke.
I wasn't trying to be all-inclusive...just give examples,so I didn't word that well.
You're right, there are many types of distortion.
I've just never heard the term 'distortion' applied to any kind of intentional (or non-intentional for that matter) alteration of an *acoustic* instrument to change its timbre, pitch or volume. Distortion, to me, means changes induced in the sound by electronics or the reproduction system.
For the benefit of other readers, I'll point out that clipping changes the harmonics by adding more high frequencies, due to chopping off of the naturally more rounded waveforms while a trombone mute reduces all frequencies, but the low frequencies more than the high frequencies.
I'm sure you intended to make a joke, but Bach's music is not harmonically more complex than Mozart's and certainly not as harmonically complex as later composers. It often employs great counterpoint, but Mozart did at times too (viz. Symphony #41 finale). And then there's rhythmic complexity - don't get me wrong: Bach is one of my favorites, but Baroque ornamentation which is what I think you're getting at, is only one kind of complexity.
A trombonist using a mute (not that common BTW - trumpets are more often muted) is doing so not to create distortion, but to change the relative amounts of harmonics in the sound, changing it's timbre and volume. 'Distortion' generally means clipping, or in the 'old days' wow and flutter, etc. caused by mechanical artifacts in record and tape players. Acoustic instruments like the trombone don't do any of that, and putting a mute in the bell doesn't either.
I've purchased hangers suitable for hanging coats to be worn by babies at Babies 'R Us, but if you're asking where they were manufactured, well, I'd guess China.
But if you're cruising down the road in a straight line and at constant speed (i.e. not accelerating) then you suddenly turn the steering wheel, you've just accelerated. Not in the everyday-language sense of accelerate, but in the physics definition of accelerate. And that's what magnets due to (already) moving charged particles. But you knew that.
Right, instead of practicing with one, it is used during recording of the performance. The same thing in a different context sometimes has a different name.
Scientology has a Flash ad for their "video channel" on this page about neuroengineering, when they are intensely opposed/mistrustful of psychiatry (another brain-altering profession). Ha.
.."is TMSC [sic] hurting for business due to the economic downturn, and is willing to make them dirt cheap, just to keep the factories running...?"
It's probably mainly that, in part,and the fact that Atom chips are too cheap to justify Intel fabs producing them. TSMC is a customer of the company I work for and I've heard they're way down, production-wise.
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Maybe strange grammar your article includes.
Nah, then they'd have to release it in 2011 and they don't wanna wait that long.
It didn't go over my head. I even said you were making a joke. Get over yourself. I simply wanted to make sure that people for whom the joke DID go over, didn't end up thinking that Baroque music is really more complex than Classical or later music just because some guy who sounded smart said so. And the "the older generation always thinks the new generation's music is crap" idea is pretty cliched, so not the greatest basis for a joke.
I wasn't trying to be all-inclusive...just give examples,so I didn't word that well. You're right, there are many types of distortion. I've just never heard the term 'distortion' applied to any kind of intentional (or non-intentional for that matter) alteration of an *acoustic* instrument to change its timbre, pitch or volume. Distortion, to me, means changes induced in the sound by electronics or the reproduction system. For the benefit of other readers, I'll point out that clipping changes the harmonics by adding more high frequencies, due to chopping off of the naturally more rounded waveforms while a trombone mute reduces all frequencies, but the low frequencies more than the high frequencies.
I'm sure you intended to make a joke, but Bach's music is not harmonically more complex than Mozart's and certainly not as harmonically complex as later composers. It often employs great counterpoint, but Mozart did at times too (viz. Symphony #41 finale). And then there's rhythmic complexity - don't get me wrong: Bach is one of my favorites, but Baroque ornamentation which is what I think you're getting at, is only one kind of complexity.
A trombonist using a mute (not that common BTW - trumpets are more often muted) is doing so not to create distortion, but to change the relative amounts of harmonics in the sound, changing it's timbre and volume. 'Distortion' generally means clipping, or in the 'old days' wow and flutter, etc. caused by mechanical artifacts in record and tape players. Acoustic instruments like the trombone don't do any of that, and putting a mute in the bell doesn't either.
I've purchased hangers suitable for hanging coats to be worn by babies at Babies 'R Us, but if you're asking where they were manufactured, well, I'd guess China.
But if you're cruising down the road in a straight line and at constant speed (i.e. not accelerating) then you suddenly turn the steering wheel, you've just accelerated. Not in the everyday-language sense of accelerate, but in the physics definition of accelerate. And that's what magnets due to (already) moving charged particles. But you knew that.
Nah, he just sees the reflection of it off of the Moon, Venus, Mars, ISS, etc.
Then again, you're the one arguing with an Anonymous Coward!
The Who?
And onion is a flavor of ice cream, but that doesn't mean people are going to pay for that either.
Mmmm... bacon-wrapped salmon steaks!
Or, mackerel-flavored sausage. On second thought...
Right, instead of practicing with one, it is used during recording of the performance. The same thing in a different context sometimes has a different name.
Scientology has a Flash ad for their "video channel" on this page about neuroengineering, when they are intensely opposed/mistrustful of psychiatry (another brain-altering profession). Ha.
and Wafertech is not running a 45nm fab. Try 150nm.
.."is TMSC [sic] hurting for business due to the economic downturn, and is willing to make them dirt cheap, just to keep the factories running...?"
It's probably mainly that, in part,and the fact that Atom chips are too cheap to justify Intel fabs producing them. TSMC is a customer of the company I work for and I've heard they're way down, production-wise.
John Entwistle was also a French Horn player, like me.
Or 5...
Stupid correction: it's the same thing.
So is it time to go back yet?
Nitpick: Mach 8 has no meaning in vacuum. ("in space, no one can hear you scream...")
Hell, there are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the *ocean*.
Already been there. Many astronauts have been naval officers.
I was wondering whether more people know to turn it on, or routers are shipping with it default to on now.