Here’s a great article from Trust Me I’m A Scientist explaining sampling rates and the advantages and disadvantages of higher sampling rates. This is probably the most balanced, detailed and above all accurate article I’ve read on the topic which as we all know has passionate folks in both camps. Well worth a look
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Friday Fun – 99 Red Balloons played on Red Balloons
Musician Andrew Huang enjoys a good musical (or ice bucket) challenge. Here he is playing Nena’s 99 Red Balloons on a Red Balloon, with the help of some clever sampling and editing!
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 Loudness War – Now with Data and Charts!
I’ve mentioned The Loudness War before – squashing the dynamic range of a track to try and boost the loudness to make it stand out – but MusicMachinery.com has a great post with an in-depth explanation and the data to back it up. Paul Lamere of The EchoNest analyzed over 15,000 tracks to measure their loudness (and shows
Continue reading »The PONO Express Rolls In
Neil Young finally got to introduce PONO to the crowds at SXSW this weekend as previously announced. It is indeed simply a hi-res lossless audio player (and music store). Around the time that he first announced that he was working on a new digital device and format, I talked about how for most folks the
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