david wrote: > 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! > > It goes both ways of course. Sometimes I wish for more maths where I work as monitor engineer for live shows. I often get "Give me more mids" but no idea if they mean 200Hz or 1200! Roger _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
