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Acoustics Experiment 2 – Main sound system overview
Based on the system EQ settings (and process) that inspired this blog entry a couple of weeks ago, I took some time to do some system measurements to see what kind of pink-noise response the system...
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Simplicity is sometimes best…
Just back from a wedding of two dear friends – itself a great day. I was humbled to have been asked to contribute to their service by doing live sound duty, on an unknown PA system in an unknown...
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Audiophile or Audiophool?
I’ve been getting way beyond my usual audiophile tendencies in the last month or so, and was brought back down to Earth by a forum post pointing me to this cartoon on xkcd: Sums the situation up quite...
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Thoughts on mixing sound for Christmas Praise 2010
Thought I’d dig this older post from the depths of another blog that has yet to go public. I had the pleasure of setting up and mixing for Christmas Praise last December in All Souls Langham Place....
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MP3 compression ABX test…
A friend pointed me at this interesting ABX test website that compares MP3 audio compressed at 320Kbps with MP3 audio compressed at 128Kbps. Comparing A vs B and hearing discernable differences is one...
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Shure and Sennheiser customer service woes
Been having some issues with some of our mics at work, and some phone calls to the technical teams at Shure and Sennheiser a couple of weeks ago proved helpful in the diagnosis of each mic. So last...
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Samson S-Monitor test
I’ve been building a cabling solution to make a basic IEM (in-ear monitor) system for work, and have had the opportunity to do some critical listening of our chosen headphone amplifier, the...
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Headphones in live mixing.
[rant] I’ve probably posted about this before – it’s certainly one of my pet-hates. I often find myself wanting (or having) to remind noise-boys happily mixing in their own head that they’re ripping...
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Appeal for info: Feia cassettes – Circa 1988-1992
I have these two cassettes to restore for my grandparents, who have lost their last working cassette-deck to age. The tapes themselves don’t sound to be in great shape, and the claimed Dolby B noise...
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Feia – cassette restoration case-study
After a few weeks playing with head alignments, audio interfaces, decks, plugins and sanity, I’ve run off a successful “first draft” attempt to restoring these interesting recordings. About the...
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“Podcast mix”– The Pilgrim’s Pod Radio Hour – Pilot Episode!
Download: the-pilgrims-pod-radio-hour-pilot-episode.mp3 Last Friday, a few of us gathered in in London’s Fitzrovia suburb to put on the first Pilgrim’s Pod Radio Hour – a pilot of a show that we hope...
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Pilgrim’s Pod Radio Hour, Episode 2 – Christmas Special featuring @miriamjones
Download: pilgrims-pod-episode-2.mp3 Well, here’s the second episode of the Pilgrim’s Pod Radio Hour, with our host Will Mackerras, Paul Enns leading the band, and our special guest Miriam Jones! I’ll...
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Pilgrim’s Pod Radio Hour – Episode 3
Download: pilgrims-pod-episode-3.mp3 Another episode was recorded on Friday 7th February. A slightly different feel to this one – with more spoken content. Featuring Liz Jadav and Phil Gallagher....
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The Pilgrims Pod Radio Hour
This radio variety show, hosted by Will Mackerras, is performed live with guest actors and musicians in front of a real live audience in London’s bustling Fitzrovia. The show is also streamed live...
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Protected: Restoration Listening Test 1
This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading.Filed under: Hifi, Sound Engineering, Technology
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abstractnoise reel-to-reel demos
This week I’ve been playing with our recently acquired Revox B77 1/4″ recorder. It’s a stereo half-track model, and I use it at 7ips. Currently I’m not sure what actual tape I’m recording to, as it’s a...
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On commercial remasters possibly issued without Dolby A decoding; Mistakes,...
Some background… I’ve commented on this blog before about the possibly questionable quality of some digital remasters released of late. Common subjective complaints in online fan and hifi forums, made...
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Preview: “O Holy Night”– performed by ASO and Constantine Andronikou
So here is a quick “faders-up” preview of “O Holy Night”, as performed at All Souls Church on 12th December at Christmas Praise – what a stunning event that was!...
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Lossless audio compression for project work and archive – what do you use and...
I’ve been using lossless audio compression as a matter of course in my audio workflow for a while, and not just for end-distribution. Services like Bandcamp and Soundcloud support uploading in FLAC...
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Updates on audio-related things in progress…
The long-running archiving project has hit a significant milestone – I’ve now digitised as much of the physical media as I can. Limits are set now by condition of the incoming media, and whether or...
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