Tag: Music Tech
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The Costa Conundrum (a Synthesizer Mystery)
Image Credit: Helmes Celesta, RCA Studio B by Adinda Uneputty, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Lately, I’ve been haunting Synthchaser’s Tube of Yous Channel because I’ve been thinking a lot about ARP’s early synths. Not the normal ones that everyone thinks of like the 2600 or the Odyssey – I’ve been obsessed with…
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Okay, Put Your Phones On Man… (Part Two)
Image Credit: “headphone graffiti!” by demcanulty is licensed under CC BY 2.0. You can find Part One here. We left off last time with some basic terminology and topology about headphones and introduced Harman Curves for calibrating your headphones to better match the response of ‘the average listener’. However, we need to talk about one other thing you’ll…
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Okay, Put Your Phones on Man… (Part One)
Image Credit: “Sony Headphones” by Hugo y Charli is licensed under CC BY 2.0. If you didn’t get the reference for the title, go here. There is a lot of info to unpack here so I’m going to break this up into two posts. This part focuses on headphone terminology, the issues with using headphones for creation and…
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(Repost) Light at the End of the Tunnel
(Originally from <the old site> – November 13, 2017) Most of the Normalization info here has come to pass, but it’s still a cool moment in time when the Wild West of Streaming was unpredictable. Eelco’s white paper is still worth looking at, and Saint Ian’s audiocast is still going strong… I have exactly a…