Hi, Joe, I'd like to work together. In whatever capacity. It's all good by me. Although I do become pretty anal about style. I am leary of humor or alot of editorial opinion in technical documents. I'm to busy to read things like that and when designing a document, I assume everyone just wants the facts. However, upon reviewing past documents that I've written, I find them to be dry and uninspiring. Perhaps there's some type of balance we could discover. It might be worth trying a modified Associated Press style report for the production of a song where the primary focus is on mastering. I could try to pull it off. Then if someone in the session says something useful and entertaining, it would be a colorful quote rather than a writers (mine) inbred and dull selfhumor. I don't want to get to ambitious either so I'll see what opportunity presents to us. It'll be awhile before JAM is ready to come out of the test closet and into a commercial session so we've got time. I've got plenty of clients that'd be happy to be the subject of a technical report. I suspect alot of aspiring engineers and musicians don't understand what mastering is so it might be important for us to explain to people how it differs from mixing. There's also the mysterious vodo vibe where mastering is best left to a small fraternity of unsociable and seasoned veterans. Maybe I'm ignorant but my experience has shown me that mastering is relatively straight forward. Of course I've got a couple of the right components in place for performing the task; an accoustically tuned room, a decent set of monitors and between my partners and I about 50 years of mixing experience. If anyone is aware of good articles on mastering, online, please do bring them to our attention. I don't read much about engineering so I'm completely unaware of resources. If the JAM code is available, I'll install, begin testing and refamiliarizing myself with it. I imagine we'll move conversations concerning JAM to a sourceforge mailing list when the new site is available. Has anyone registered the name that Steve's happy with? Joe, I'll dig up the TOC that I've written and mail it to you. I'm really happy to see people rally for JAM. IMO, which often has the equivalent value of deer track soup, it's a significant piece of the linux audio puzzle. ron --- Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:52:08 +0100 > Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hell no. I really can't be trusted with docs, I > can't spell, my grammar is > > terrible, you name it :) I really dont undeastand > how anyone could bring > > themsevles to write docs without being payed or > made to ;) > > On the other hand, I *can* spell and write > grammatically, so that is > something I can bring to the party :) > > -- > ====================================================================== > Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - > jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not > possible. - FZappa __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
