Ken Restivo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:07:44PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ken Restivo wrote: >> >>> After having been properly smacked upside the head enough times, >>> nowadays I get very impatient and annoyed with any kind of >>> "secret sauce" nonsense, black boxes, and other types of voodoo >>> that Richard Feynman called "Cargo Cult Science". >> I've come to call it "guitar-player-speak." :-) > > I always found it amusing when Steve Albini (a guitar player, by the > way, as well as an engineer) who spent many pages blasting > "producers" who used terms like "warm" and "punchy", instead of > describing things in mathematical terms. "Warm" and "punchy" tells you something the mathematics can't tell you. They give you the emotional response to the music. Which is something I think is much more important than the mathematics! -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
