One of the things that can really make your music stand out from the crowd and give it a professional sheen is high quality mastering. Mastering is a very different process from mixing which many amateur musicians who record their own tracks unfortunately often ignore. A fantastic place to start to learn about the art
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Digital Media Basics from Xiph.org
Two instructional videos from the xiph.org foundation, a “non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests” give a really excellent introduction and overview of Digital Media. The first video – A Digital Media Primer for Geeks – discusses the current state of digital media – which everyone now has
Continue reading »Please Speak Into the Plant – The Visual Microphone from MIT
An astonishing piece of research from the folks at MIT CSAIL was announced for SIGGRAPH 2014. The paper from Davis et al (Abe Davis and Michael Rubinstein and Neal Wadhwa and Gautham Mysore and Fredo Durand and William T. Freeman), entitled The Visual Microphone – Passive Recovery of Sound From Video, shows how they were
Continue reading »The Disintegrator – Random Project Idea Realized
A few days ago I posted this random idea to Twitter So naturally I went ahead and built a reasonable approximation using my new Web Audio API powers.
Continue reading »Compressed Sensing – An Introduction
This week Emmanuel Candès, professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of the authors (the other being Terence Tao) of the paper which brought about the field of compressed sensing. If you’ve ever done any signal processing, then you’ll know
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