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Post by Paul Barker on Aug 11, 2014 17:06:42 GMT
That balance thing. I first discovered 'balance' when learning about litho printing - you need a balance or ink and water or it don't work. What a pain I thought. I tried my hand at litho printing with a poor teacher and I was rubbish.4 Like so much it's dead easy when you know what you are doing. Since then I discovered balance is there in (almost ?) everything. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing We have it in the combustion process. The is a Stoichiometric mix of gas and air. Outside the required combustible ratio gas cannot ignight. Oddly though you can walk in a room with too much gas to ignight turn on a light and not blow the whole house to kingdom come. then open the windows, and at some time as the gas is diluted, operate a light switch again, and you have made the press their front page news. Picture of a pile of rubble. these days I find members of the public have so few brain cells it would be safer not to let them have gas in their homes at all. But nobody asks my opinion.
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Post by Paul Barker on Aug 11, 2014 17:17:42 GMT
the modes will always be there. If anyone does not believe this, I recommend a visit to a Reverberation Chamber, where the modes can be heard and felt as you walk around. There's no substitute for feeling and visualising what's going on. Place your head in a peak or null and the system will clearly sound wrong, but you only have to move the listening position by a small degree to achieve a better sound balance. Probably no hope for my room. The picture of the Poppy and the Yellow white flower are not special panels, they are what my daughter did when she was at school. I understand the piano is a no no. C'est la vis! Fact is it isn't set up for me alone, so I compromise. But it ain't great let's be honest. My other reception room is just a cube. A few of the guys here have been to sessions in that room. We could never get good bass in there. It just cancells everything it is a cube in every direction including ceiling height same as room length same as room width. Hopeless case. And it's too small IMHO.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 17:31:48 GMT
I do like a room to look lived in, can't stand show houses. I used to design them for a living and hated every minute of it. I reckon your room has enough in it to absorb and/or reflect just about any vibe going. Love it. I share my home with a wife and four cats. All five of them are even muckier than I am.
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Post by Paul Barker on Aug 11, 2014 19:13:50 GMT
as a gas man I go into a lot of homes. More than 50% of people may aswell be in the Matrix plugged into a computer. No evidence of human a brain in their homes. No magazines no books no cooking in the kitchen. just a perfect show house a TV a bed and a toothbrush holder.
The other 50% have a human sole (no idea how to spell it).
about 10% of those are as mucky as me or muckier.
I am the biggest hoarder I know, well with the exception of my uncle who has the UK's actually probably Europes largest collection of Cannon's of all sizes. All real ones. He once fired a full sized one from Scarborough Castle into the Sea. But he doesn't stop at cannons, he has a house garden and cellar fiull of engineering stuff military and naval stuff like sextants etc etc.
ME i just have a few valves transformers failed or set asside speaker projects unfinished valve amp, or old valve amp projects boilers boiler spares at a lockup and in a couple of the rooms in the house. It is 6 bedroomed so I get away with wrecking two bedrooms. Not that the ones left are completely unclutered. not a single room would satisfy most women I come across.
Funny when I am in a woman's home doing her gas that is obviously interested in me. I just think to myself "if you could see how I live you would not be in the slightest bit interested."
Don't worry it is never reciprocated, I am not that sort of person.
I feeel very very uncomfortable about show houses. It is also a fobia. they scare the hell out of me, as do the automatons who live in them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 19:29:13 GMT
There sure are some 'different' folks about. As I said, i used to do interior design and some of the houses I used to go into would take your breath away. With the obvious amount of money spent on them that is. We were at the very top of the market pricewise which is why this mob used us to try and inject a little style into their homes - and compete with their equally rich and taste free friends to see who could spend the most with us. Don't recall being too upset about that.. It was certainly a challenge from time to time. I remember one woman who wouldn't let me use the big table in the dining room to start making some sketches as I might have moved the place settings that had to be kept precisely set for any meal that might happen along. As I left, she started cleaning the chair I had sat on and no doubt fumigated the place as well. Probably checked that my passing hadn't disturbed any of the priceless blue girl posters on the wall too. I also don't recall being too upset when I lost the lot and had to give up that sort of stuff . Real life beckoned
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Post by Paul Barker on Aug 11, 2014 19:40:16 GMT
I don't enjoy working for rich people.
Way off topic now, my reputation is preceeding me. Better shut up. the autistics hate my conversational style.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 19:45:57 GMT
I don't enjoy working for rich people. Way off topic now, my reputation is preceeding me. Better shut up. the autistics hate my conversational style. A bit of thread drift helps pass the time
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 11, 2014 20:08:05 GMT
Ah but the sound of black !
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 16, 2014 9:22:42 GMT
There's a good story about room acoustics in the 1972 biography of Bessie Smith 'Empress of the Blues' by Chris Albertson.
There's a bit which describes the first recording she made into a microphone rather than into a horn. This was 1925. Electronic recording was still very much experimental & the learning curve was, shall we say 'steep'.
The label (Columbia) was just converting to the new system & their first recording was only made this way one hour before Bessie went into the studio, so they didn't yet know how the session was going to turn out. The band included players such as Fletcher Henderson & Coleman Hawkins. Columbia made sure that Western Electric had their engineers there for the session because were hoping to get ahead of the game with this new fangled electric kit.
One of the WE engineers thought the studio room was too big for the microphone they were using & he felt the room acoustics should be altered, so they made a huge conical tent that they suspended from the ceiling & lowered over the band & Bessie!! At the end of the session, the tent collapsed & fell on the band, smothering them all - that was the end of the 'Tent Theory'.
Anyway, the Paramount label were keen to get in on the electrical recording scene & did so with Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith's big rival. However, the Paramount recordings, despite having 'Electrically Recorded' printed on the label sounded crap compared to the Columbia efforts, which apparently led to the standing joke in the industry that Paramount just carried on recording the same old way with the horn, but to justify the 'Electrically Recorded' logo on the label, just turned on an electric light bulb while the sessions were in progress!!!!
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