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  5. THEO - my new progressive rock project

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    EDIT: The album is completed and available here - THEO at the Big O Store

    I've been busy the last three years or so writing and recording a progressive rock album. The band is called THEO (my middle name is Theodore) and the album opens as follows:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6OXW_cDO0

    That's about half the first song. The first three songs are interlinked, about 30 minutes long all together, and deal with themes of corporatism. Hey, it's prog. :)

    For those interested, there's a FB page and a very simple website up. I'm going to launch a crowd-funding campaign soon.

  11. neil young, audiophile

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    As for your closing line, advances in codecs are made using scientific research. It's not based on what people do and do not hear anecdotally.

    Listening tests are the only way to verfy that a certain psychoacoustical codec is producing a result that sounds the same as the uncompressed source. I was not referring to anectdotal information.

    I would think the best way to do that is to do a null test on the compressed audio and the uncompressed audio.

  13. neil young, audiophile

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Kinda rushed for time right now, or I could make this even more blatherous. But my point remains - call me a coal porter, and don't fence me in.

    Goodness. I can't imagine. :)

    If you cannot hear a difference, then what does it matter if there is one or not? Just enjoy the music. It's not like the RedBook CD format was some kind of subversive plot by a secret cadre of engineers and the mp3 is their latest foil against human harmony. Don't start going all 432Hz on me, now.

  14. neil young, audiophile

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    God knows,I listen to so much crappy digital poor quality and enjoy the hell out of it, but I still believe that there is a fundamental difference in the brain processing a serious of samples than in a continuous analog stream, jsut as there is visually.

    No, there is not. Once those samples are converted back into the analog domain, there is no difference if the sample rate is high enough. And for 99.9% of music, 44.1kHz is high enough. Just to re-iterate, that's 44,100 samples per second. The human brain is simply not capable of differentiating those individual samples. All higher sample rates do is raise the Nyquist limit to sample higher frequencies above human hearing. Whether this matters or not is subjective.

    I remain as skeptical of accepting what the brain "can't do" as I am of what the brain "could do". It's like here, I have a brain, this is all I can measure it doing, so that's gotta be all it really is doing. Just as I don't want some trippo telling me my brain can make me grow wings to fly, I don't want no dullo telling me hey, this is all you can hear, so this all we're going to give you.

    There's a really simple way to solve the issue of what you personally can or cannot hear. You can do an ABX test. There is software available that allows you to do it yourself. You can load a hi-res mp3 version of a piece of music and a 24/96kHz wav file of that same music and see if you can reliably hear the difference while not knowing which is which. If you get better than 50%, then congratulations! :)

    http://theproaudiofiles.com/audio-perception-and-abx-testing/

    Otherwise, without testing, you don't know.

    I do love the sound of tape for most things. But these days you can get that slurred transient, harmonic distortion, high-noise floor, magnetically compressed sound if you want with the simple addition of a plug-in. It really is incredible.

    And BTW, the engineers behind analog gear are guilty of the same imposition on the frequency range of their devices. So they are, essentially, telling you what you can hear as well. Just look at the RIAA curve on vinyl to see how engineers decided what constituted a nice compromise between fidelity and the amount of music you can fit on one side of a vinyl record.

  15. neil young, audiophile

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    God knows,I listen to so much crappy digital poor quality and enjoy the hell out of it, but I still believe that there is a fundamental difference in the brain processing a serious of samples than in a continuous analog stream, jsut as there is visually.

    No, there is not. Once those samples are converted back into the analog domain, there is no difference if the sample rate is high enough. And for 99.9% of music, 44.1kHz is high enough. Just to re-iterate, that's 44,100 samples per second. The human brain is simply not capable of differentiating those individual samples. All higher sample rates do is raise the Nyquist limit to sample higher frequencies above human hearing. Whether this matters or not is subjective.

    Keep in mind that if converted to digital specs, the bitrate of analog studio reel-to-reel tape is essentially 13bit (80db). The "sample rate" is effectively 40khz (depending on the tape and of course whether NR was used, most studio machines could go a bit over 20khz but not much).

    I think what a lot of people missed in the early days of CD was mainly the nice harmonic distortion that analog circuits with tape and transformers and tubes imparts on the music, but that can be added before the digital converters or in the box or afterwards. With digital, what you put in is what you get out.

  19. Privia PX-330 Problem

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey Dan,

    I have heard of this before but with the opposite cause; someone left a Privia in their car in Florida and the heat caused the same issue as you. I don't know if they ever resolved it. I would contact Casio about the issue. Do you know Mike Martin from Casio?

  21. 2014 Spring FundDrive

    in Forums Discussion

    Posted

    It's that time! The last funddrive was in September and we're fine for now but starting next month I'll need some more bread to keep this place going. I figured I'd get a headstart on things rather than waiting until they threaten to shut-off the server. See, I can learn new things! :)

    Paypal: b3groover@hotmail.com

    Checks to:

    Jim Alfredson

    PO Box 27551

    Lansing MI 48909

    Thank you much!

  22. Young Guns - Gene Ludwig, Pat Martino, Randy Gelispie

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Pattye Ludwig, Gene's widow, is offering these for sale direct for $15 plus $2 shipping. Contact her at pattyeludwig1@gmail.com. Yes, you can buy it from Amazon, but buying from Pattye directly puts more money in her pocket. She only has 25 copies, so get one now!

    This is an incredible collection of music, capturing a quintessential 1960s organ trio at the height of its powers. I've heard this before as a bootleg, but the new remastering is fantastic and it sounds really great. Pat Martino is at his intense best. Randy Gelispie (who is still playing and indeed is on my latest release, Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute To Big John Patton) shows why he's one of the most underrated jazz drummers alive today, and Gene Ludwig is absolutely on fire. From the blurb on Amazon:

    "From Pat Martino's private collection, here is a mid-1960s live gig featuring the B-3 artistry of Gene Ludwig and drummer Randy Gelispie. Rarely, if ever, have these artists played with more inner fire, more unbridled virtuosity and pure unadulterated joy as they did here, captured in the full bloom of their musical youth. Pat Marino's burning swing and impovisational wizardry takes on added zip with Gene Ludwig manning the B-3. With the colorful, propulsive drummer Randy Gelispie driving things along, this is one gig which surely deserves a "legendary" epithet."

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  24. Classic Blue Notes on SHM-CD

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    If being called an ass is not a personal attack, I don't know what is. If you don't agree with my perception of Lon's post, fine, but there's no need for insults.

    He said you're "being an ass", which means you're acting like one (ie, stubborn and obstinate) not that you actually are one. I really don't think this is worthy of filing a report and frankly I found your response to Lon far more rude than Stefan's response to you, especially considering all Lon did was offer his opinion (the entire point of a message board) in an attempt to help you.

  25. Hammond SK2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    OS8 is worth it for the chorus/vibrato MIX parameter alone. This has allowed me to faithfully recreate the sound of the chorus/vibrato on my 1954 Hammond C2.

    The HX3 sounds interesting but I don't have the money to spend on new toys at this time. Plus I am extremely satisfied with the SK2.

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