What things have you learned recently?

[JGriffin]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

[trodden]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

[Judas Jetski]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

Do you mean the square yellow, or the round yellow?

[trodden]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

Do you mean the square yellow, or the round yellow?

uhhhhhh...... huh?

[Judas Jetski]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

Do you mean the square yellow, or the round yellow?

uhhhhhh...... huh?

Okay, this'll take a minnit so bear with me.

Author and theologian C. S. Lewis at one point described a type of question even God could not answer. The example he used was something like, "Is yellow square or round," the point being (more or less) that if the question doesn't make any sense it's not really answerable by anyone.

dwlb wrote that basically nothing about the job of recording engineer is truly objective. We've all been hit with statements like "it should sound a little more purple there, don't you think?" Or "this one sounds glassier than the other one." Stuff which is just impossible to quantify but must have some meaning to the person saying it. One would hope.

I'm just guessing that if C. S. Lewis had been an audio engineer and theologian rather than being a writer and theolgian, he might have had a lot of fun with this post. Just imagine:

Band member: "It needs to sound a little more yellow, don't you think?"
C.S.Lewis the Engineer: "Dude, even God couldn't answer that one."

[JGriffin]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

Do you mean the square yellow, or the round yellow?

uhhhhhh...... huh?

Okay, this'll take a minnit so bear with me.

Author and theologian C. S. Lewis at one point described a type of question even God could not answer. The example he used was something like, "Is yellow square or round," the point being (more or less) that if the question doesn't make any sense it's not really answerable by anyone.

dwlb wrote that basically nothing about the job of recording engineer is truly objective. We've all been hit with statements like "it should sound a little more purple there, don't you think?" Or "this one sounds glassier than the other one." Stuff which is just impossible to quantify but must have some meaning to the person saying it. One would hope.

I'm just guessing that if C. S. Lewis had been an audio engineer and theologian rather than being a writer and theolgian, he might have had a lot of fun with this post. Just imagine:

Band member: "It needs to sound a little more yellow, don't you think?"
C.S.Lewis the Engineer: "Dude, even God couldn't answer that one."

That's cool, Andy. I didn't know that (primarily because I haven't read all that much C.S. Lewis).

i think trods was making a reference to the color of the "meters" in ProTools, that turn from green to yellow as level increases.

[Judas Jetski]

See, and I missed the pro-tools ref. entirely because I'm not computer based...

Wish I could remember *where* Lewis wrote it. I just like the image of ol' Clive Staples pushing buttons in some mad studio somewhere, like a Narnian John Peel.

[cyantologist]

Author and theologian C. S. Lewis at one point described a type of question even God could not answer. The example he used was something like, "Is yellow square or round," the point being (more or less) that if the question doesn't make any sense it's not really answerable by anyone.

dwlb wrote that basically nothing about the job of recording engineer is truly objective. We've all been hit with statements like "it should sound a little more purple there, don't you think?" Or "this one sounds glassier than the other one." Stuff which is just impossible to quantify but must have some meaning to the person saying it. One would hope.

I'm just guessing that if C. S. Lewis had been an audio engineer and theologian rather than being a writer and theolgian, he might have had a lot of fun with this post."

- something i've learned recently.

[JGriffin]

See, and I missed the pro-tools ref. entirely because I'm not computer based...

Makes sense.

[TV Lenny]

I also learned last night in order to run sound for a show featuring DJ's and a percussionist, the DJ's need to show up.

Tom

BTW now the mice have taken to drinking all night long, smoking something that smells funny, being loud and abusive and joking in a British accent. I think they're forming a band. Good Lord!

[vvv]

before besides getting the to match.

i have recently realized (rather than learned) that three years of studying linguistics has taught me nothing about the myriad manners in which we humans communicate

[stevebozz]

I've learned, thanks to the latest Tapeop that I cannot continue my life without PSP Vintage Warmer plugin.

I joined this club recently, and it feels like I'm cheating.. but man is it helping me with almost everything.

[rhythm ranch]

Wish I could remember *where* Lewis wrote it.

It's from A Grief Observed

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theoligical and metaphysical problems - are like that...
Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our aparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

[trodden]

The only thing about this job that is not completely subjective is 0dBfs.

green almost yellow.

Do you mean the square yellow, or the round yellow?

uhhhhhh...... huh?

Okay, this'll take a minnit so bear with me.

Author and theologian C. S. Lewis at one point described a type of question even God could not answer. The example he used was something like, "Is yellow square or round," the point being (more or less) that if the question doesn't make any sense it's not really answerable by anyone.

dwlb wrote that basically nothing about the job of recording engineer is truly objective. We've all been hit with statements like "it should sound a little more purple there, don't you think?" Or "this one sounds glassier than the other one." Stuff which is just impossible to quantify but must have some meaning to the person saying it. One would hope.

I'm just guessing that if C. S. Lewis had been an audio engineer and theologian rather than being a writer and theolgian, he might have had a lot of fun with this post. Just imagine:

Band member: "It needs to sound a little more yellow, don't you think?"
C.S.Lewis the Engineer: "Dude, even God couldn't answer that one."

That's cool, Andy. I didn't know that (primarily because I haven't read all that much C.S. Lewis).

i think trods was making a reference to the color of the "meters" in ProTools, that turn from green to yellow as level increases.

Yes, that is what i was refering too, the protools metering...

fun post though Andy

if CS lewis had been a sound engineer and a theologian rather than a writer and theologian... fuck, he may have not written the screwtape letters and we'd be out of a band name!

http://www.myspace.com/wormwood
http://wormwood.us

[kearnsalot]

I keep on re-learning and re-experiencing that sometimes less is more.