• [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

    So after a ~2 month hiatus, today I finally started a new track.
    Jul
    30
    2010
  • Not to invent yourself is false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human..

    - David Starkey (via http://www.myspace.com/maryannehobbs)
    Jul
    29
    2010


  • Over the past week or so, I’ve started to practice 3D modelling using Google Sketchup. Last night I got the idea to make 3D graffiti. I used a picture of a piece I shot in Kopenhagen a couple weeks ago.

    The rendering needs some work, but I’m pretty happy with the results so far.
    Jul
    23
    2010
  • This is why you avoid “DIGITALLY REMASTERED!” versions: bye bye dynamics. felttip: dwineman: strutting: via Chockenberry, the damage record companies have wrought on the Rolling Stones masterpiece Exile on Main Street. LET’S MAKE EVERYTHING LOUDER YEAH THATLL SOUND GREAT … … buncha jerks. Wow. What’s going on here is that in remastering (top soundwave), the audio has been distorted (via compression and amplification) so much that basically everything is the same volume. There’s no dynamic range; every instant of sound is now at peak loudness. One of the greatest recordings of all time has been made harsh, dull, and tiring to listen to because record company executives want it to sound “loud.” It’s hard to tell from this graphic, but it looks like there may even be some clipping going on. See where the waveform is flattened against the top and bottom of the window? That’s audio data being amplified to the point of becoming indistinguishable noise. Normally when this happens, it’s a mistake: some piece of equipment is turned up too loud, overdriving the thing it’s plugged into. You turn it down, the clipping goes away. But when the clipping is part of the recording, it just sounds like dogshit at every volume level, forever.1 I’ll be keeping my non-remastered, non-ruined copy, thanks. Wayback Machine link because the original, classic Rip Rowan article seems to have disappeared. ↩ I’ve been aware of the Loudness Wars ever since Sound Studio came out in 1999. One of the reasons people preferred the vinyl versions of songs over the remastered CDs is because of this, and they would transfer their vinyl to digital with apps like mine. But it’s worth reblogging for all the new people who aren’t aware of this.

    This is why you avoid “DIGITALLY REMASTERED!” versions: bye bye dynamics.

    felttip:

    dwineman:

    strutting:

    via Chockenberry, the damage record companies have wrought on the Rolling Stones masterpiece Exile on Main Street. LET’S MAKE EVERYTHING LOUDER YEAH THATLL SOUND GREAT …

    … buncha jerks.

    Wow.

    What’s going on here is that in remastering (top soundwave), the audio has been distorted (via compression and amplification) so much that basically everything is the same volume. There’s no dynamic range; every instant of sound is now at peak loudness. One of the greatest recordings of all time has been made harsh, dull, and tiring to listen to because record company executives want it to sound “loud.”

    It’s hard to tell from this graphic, but it looks like there may even be some clipping going on. See where the waveform is flattened against the top and bottom of the window? That’s audio data being amplified to the point of becoming indistinguishable noise. Normally when this happens, it’s a mistake: some piece of equipment is turned up too loud, overdriving the thing it’s plugged into. You turn it down, the clipping goes away. But when the clipping is part of the recording, it just sounds like dogshit at every volume level, forever.1

    I’ll be keeping my non-remastered, non-ruined copy, thanks.

    1. Wayback Machine link because the original, classic Rip Rowan article seems to have disappeared. ↩

    I’ve been aware of the Loudness Wars ever since Sound Studio came out in 1999. One of the reasons people preferred the vinyl versions of songs over the remastered CDs is because of this, and they would transfer their vinyl to digital with apps like mine. But it’s worth reblogging for all the new people who aren’t aware of this.
    Jul
    13
    2010

  • Holidays in the Sun

    Gorillaz, Prince, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, NOFX, Efterklang, Japandroids and many, many more to see at Roskilde Festival this weekend. 

    Q: What does Roskilde look like?

    A: Flickr says:

    Oh god why!?

    Jun
    29
    2010
  • Just moved!  The most important: turntables are hooked up

    Just moved! 

    The most important: turntables are hooked up
    Jun
    16
    2010

  • You are not gangsta part 2

    ..my neightbour’s horse is.

    May
    24
    2010

  • New beginnings

    As you may have noticed, it’s been quiet around here recently.

    The reason is that I’ve moved back to The Netherlands. I got a new job and am still settling (looking for apartments in Groningen). As soon as I have my own place, I’ll set up a computer to make some noise again.

    My Desk

    May
    20
    2010
  • [Flash 10 is required to watch video]

    This is my girlfriend singing with the ensemble from her school. The song is 
    “How High The Moon”.

    Tumblr’s video transcoder did something very interesting with the original, making it somewhat mesmerizing. Enjoy.
    Mar
    25
    2010

  • fart-hop

    I found a forgotten folder with some music today, and it also contained 2 of my old tunes. I didn’t even remember that big weird synth on this one. Funny. I dubbed it fart-hop.

    I tell you by 003Labs

    Mar
    19
    2010
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