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Given that you primarily use headphones, what are the loudspeakers for?

After being educated as above, I should mention that "it's fine" means fine for my purposes, with the implication that I meant to say that all along. ;)

It's fine so long as you don't overdrive the downstream stage.

That's very useful feedback. Thanks. Can you, while using the Loupé, hold your position on the mics? I doubt I could. When I thought about plugging an acoustic into my looping rig I concluded I'd use the Fishman Rare Earth Mic Blend, for a number of practical and aesthetic reasons. But I...

I've had to attend to a lot of things besides music but yesterday finally made a new recording that I like musically enough to publish on youtube. X-Y pair angle is 50 to 60 degrees. About 8 inch away, slightly below the mid-line of the guitar pointing slightly up at roughly the neck joint. I...

Niù Abdominaux Dangereux

Peter Brötzmann died last year. We did a podcast episode about Einstürz about a year ago. Watching the film Halber Mench was very interesting from our perspective, knowing what an overt romantic Bargeld soon became.

I agree. I think philosophy is far too important to leave it to academics. For example. Or even in common sense. See above...

Same here.

I did a little test on Thursday. I remembered really liking the song Giorgio by Moroder from that big-selling Daft Punk album and put it on. (Moroder's a superhero, perhaps the single most important influence on me starting about age 12.) So I put it on. I liked it enough to play it over at a...

Die Haut

Not a specific band but when I was a student I was into avant garde rock (e.g. Beefheart), jazz (e.g. Derek Bailey) and concert music (e.g. Xenakis). All the cool cats in London those days were listening to dub reggae. I didn't get it. It seemed just boring to me. I don't recall when or how that...

The question as asked in the thread title is interesting. Quantization residuals are fairly straightforward to explain. But why do we call a sequence of them "noise"? and where did that signal come from? If I know your quantization scheme I can arrange an input signal so that one string quartet...

I would need to be at least somewhat expert in that specific field of design to comment but it's very remote from my field.

I think the less is more ethos can be attractive depending on the context, for example when I, a contrarian, am feeling oppressed by the more is more consumer ethos, which is not exactly uncommon in audio. But I don't think it is a very useful engineering concept. It's too simplistic. A good...