AllenLowe

look, Jim, do as you will to the rest of this site, but leave that thread with all the naked women alone -

I'd offer myself as moderator, but the words "Allen Lowe" and "moderation" go together like "George Bush" and "intellectual property" - on the other hand, if you guys can remind me to take my meds, I might be able to do it -

I actually would suggest, if Jim can be persuaded (and financially assisted) that the board be continued with only musical topics, though it may be too late, from Jim's perspective, for this - I also believe that there probably should be some kind of financial requirement, possibly for membership in order to post, even if it is as low as 5-10 bucks a year -

actually, if you hit 5000 you get to vest in the Organissimo pension plan -

yeah I know, my previous post is the kinda thing that's ruined this board - HOWEVER - I am serious about the blog; anybody who wants to keep this going (assuming we cannot kidnap Jim's family and hold them hostage to this web site) can email me if they feel like it - allenlowe@verizon.net maybe we can do a thing like Doug Ramsey - though technically, right now, I have no idea of how to do any of this - and, by the way, a major thanks to Jim - I certainly have done my share of tension-inducing things here, but he, by keeping this going in spite of people like me, has done the jazz community a major service - better than 200 arts organizations funded by the NEA, and I am absolutely serious about that - I have worked in many sides of that arts world, and I have rarely seen a place as open and stimulating as this one -

If this turns out to be real - YIKES, can't believe it - well, I've been putting off setting up a blog on my web site - but would be happy to do it if it's manageable - with a select few - sort of like in Dr. Strangelove where the Nazi doctor says that the world of the future will be for the intellectual superior to mate with the most beautiful women available - so - if your IQ is above 175, OR you are physically attractive (of course, I'm 2 for 2, but we can't all expect to do so well) - well, than you may survive this -

stange happenings, and unfortunate, yes - with all its digressions, I find this board a great place (maybe BECAUSE of all its digressions) - I may be wrong, but I'm willing to bet the financial aspect is what drags Jim down the most - not that he is not upset by the other, but he probably feels like he has to pay for all of this grief, and I can understand his desire not to - my email, btw, is allenlowe@verizon.net phone is 207-741-2846 web site is www.allenlowe.com SS #: 999-99999-999999-555555-456545654656

none - and that may be the problem -

on the program I use - Steinberg Wavelab - it does not apply compression, though that is another way to normalize a wave file - I suspect with these guys it is basically a method of trying to make sure levels are consistent - and a lazy way out, as to do this correctly and in a way that is sonically best, one needs to listen to the LP, find a peak passage, and set levels accordingly (though somewhat risky, this assumes that the LP will be internally consistent, and that other passages will not overload - and in 15 years of doing this I've never had a problem with an LP transfer ) -

thanks -

I think it's your imagination -

is it my imagination, or am I talking to myself here?

it's those horns - gets me going every time -

please, no personal attacks - I'm going to stay above the fray - taking the high road -

I sure could use a nice cup of tea - with some demerol dissolved in it -

"applying a constant amount of gain" - re normalisation - Couw, I don't think this is correct, at least relative to one program I use, which basically just takes a print of the wave form and tries to make it "consistent" - and I have a feeling they are using a program to do this, not their ears - though I could be wrong - turntables are important - I use a VPI and it really makes a big difference -

there are nice used danos reissues - a little higher in price, $200-300, but they play great and sound good -

there's been some recent and understandable concern around here about tension on the board - about nastiness, personal attacks, herpes, innuendo, viciousness, and personal threats (and that's just my last 10 posts) - so this thread will be dedicated to a positive outlook, to only good thoughts, and charity to our fellow man (sorry women - you're on you own) - as Lenny Bruce said, we have to all get together - white people, black people, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, we have to all come together - and beat up the Greeks - so here's to a new day:

come on guys - let's get some small contributions - 5$ or $10 - $3.99? Is it something I said?

"Yes, yes, but could we get back to the sex, please? " look, Jazzmoose, you only have to say you're sorry, you don't have to sleep with me -

I used to do that work for a living, but have cut back due to a day job; LPs, however, are pretty easy to do; just shoot me an email if you ever need anything -

the first part is ok (the 24 bit to 16 bit) but I would run from normalization, which sucks - they are doing this to keep the service inexpensive and reduce the need for human attention - in normalization the program "evens" out the level peaks and valleys by just basically looking at the wave form - since it is not really "hearing" the music it is simply doing this based on a digital mathematical estimate - so a quiet passage may get artificially boosted to match an average - in reality a piano at -3 dbs sounds much differnt than a sax at -3 dbs - so it is apples and oranges, and the program does no know this - this has to be done by ear, by a person, to be done correctly -

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keep me out of your sordid feuds, Lowe - if you wanna pretend someone's talking about you, use Nessa - -L.K.