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How well can you hear #audio quality?
This page gives each of six audio samples in three formats: 320KBPS #mp3, 128KBPS MP3, and uncompressed WAV. You are supposed to listen to all three, and pick which one you think is highest quality. It then shows you which clip was which. Refreshing the page re-shuffles the clips.
npr.org/sections/therecord/201
#hifi #audiophile #audiophiles #recording #mixing #mastering

The Black Sails theme is an eternal banger and was one of the highlights of the show every night. My mastered board mix from the Chicago stop of Bear McCreary's Themes and Variations tour. Sorry for the iffy camerawork, it's hard to mix and film at the same time. youtu.be/vEbk1-Re8tg #livesound #mixing #blacksails

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I never knew these small PC's existed until Amazon pointed them out to me. Super compact, proper PC's with lots of ports and video outs. Before I got let go from my job 2 Decembers ago I was going to save up for a PC, and bring a friend to Micro Center and have him hand pick the components, and build me a super audio computer. Now I don't have that kind of money, but one of these properly equipped would certainly do the job.

amazon.com/GMKtec-K7-Plus-i7-1

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#Computers#PC#Audio

Pour-Over Physics

Fluids labs are filled with many a coffee drinker, and even those (like me) who don’t enjoy coffee, can find plenty of fascinating physics in their labmates’ mugs. Espresso has received the lion’s share of the research in recent years, but a new study looks at the unique characteristics of a pour-over coffee. In this technique, coffee grounds sit in a conical filter and a stream of hot water pours over the top of the grounds. Researchers found that the ideal pour creates a powerful mixing environment in a coffee-studded water layer that sits above a V-shaped bed of grains created by the falling water jet.

The best mixing, they find, requires a pour height no greater than 50 centimeters (to prevent the jet from breaking into drops) but with enough height that the falling jet stirs up the grounds. You also want to pour slowly enough to give plenty of time for mixing, without letting the jet stick to the kettle’s spout, which (again) causes the jet to break up.

That ideal pour extracts more coffee flavor from the grounds, allowing you to get the same strength of brew from fewer beans. As climate change makes coffee harder to grow, coffee drinkers will want every trick to stretch their supply. (Image credit: S. Satora; research credit: E. Park et al.; via Ars Technica)

Hey #musodon people, I’m Mark. Been on Mastodon since '22, starting fresh now on beige.party. I run #Wampus, a little #recordlabel and book #publishing outfit with about 140 releases out. I work in an attic #studio in the mid-Atlantic U.S. where I make my own records and do #mixing and #mastering for other artists. My pro background is in #writing, #recording, #publishing, #graphicdesign, and #artist #branding and #identity.

Shoutouts to #gearsquad and #musicproduction peeps far and wide.

More info in profile links.

Hey #foh #AudioEngineer crowd,

I'm looking for a reliable stand-alone sound meter when mixing live shows

I don't do shows all year long, but I'd like to have something that is reliable but also affordable. The shows are starting to be mid-sized and I'd like to add this to my arsenal 🤗

Would like to order from Germany and not Amazon. Found this one, any good? de.trotec.com/produkte-service

de.trotec.comSL400 Schallpegel-Messgerät - TROTECProfessionelles Phonometer zur Schallpegelmessung mit Datenlogger-Funktion und Kalibrierzertifikat nach ISO

Some days I'm blissfully unconcerned by my lack of music production knowledge, experience and ability as I charge headlong from one project to another.

Other days it sucks, and I'm overcome with frustration and embarrassment at current and past attempts to mix a song.

Lately it just sucks.

Okay, I'm still #mixing but it's time to look toward #mastering, which I'll be at soon enough.

So, those of you that do your own mastering (or do it professionally, if you don't mind sharing your secrets):

1) What does your mastering chain look like? Ideally, in generic terms (eg saturation -> EQ -> compressor -> limiter rather than Fab Filter Pro 9 -> UAudio LA1176 -> Izotope MasterBlaster 9k) because I'm using stock Ableton plugins for the most part apart from the limiter

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