Sine Language

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This week, Jim Addie weighs in on the Loudness War, including providing us with this link to Audyssey’s room calibration tool for your DAW, a link for AudioLeak, and a link to a technical document on the subject of loudness, Geoff Hankerson points us toward a recent epsiode of the Home Theatre Geeks podcast, and … Continue reading "Sine Language – Episode 129"

This week, Kevin Smith chimed in some more on tracking with effects in place, a brief comment on how the use of reverb has changed over the years, Ron Eastwood suggested another way of accomplishing the “richer harmonics” that I talked about in episode 127, and J.R. sent us this link which he says is … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 128"

This week, Jim Addie replied concerning Dave King’s link to the Vacuumsound RIAA plugin, my trip to the Sony DADC plant here in Sydney, baking tapes, Springsteen’s Nebraska album, the Mixerman Diaries, an e-mail from Kevin Smith regarding “tracking with mixing/mastering in mind”. Size : 40198669 bytes Duration: 33:22 Love the podcast? Want to share … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 127"

In ep 126, some pros and cons of the Fast Track Ultra 8R soundcard, Dave King sent me this link for an RIAA EQ Curve Plug-in, Todd Sadowski asked about USB mics, Rob Scalise wanted me to cover digital noise reduction some more, so I’m asking for your samples, plus, in a recent edition of … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 126"

This week, we follow on from last episode, talking more about restoring your vinyl and converting it to digital media. Firstly, I came across Warren Barnett, a Sydney-based Mastering Engineer with what was, to me at least, an unusual approach to restoring vinyl, so I got him on Skype for a chat. Then it was … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 125"

This week, a discussion on digitising your vinyl collection, and turning it into a digital music collection. Everything from preparing your vinyl, to setting up your hardware, recording, editing, mastering, encoding, completing the metadata, and finally, your playback options. Links: (preparation) Gruvglide (hardware) Ortofon cartridges Stanton cartridges Techincs SL1200 (software) Adobe Audition Audacity Reaper (noise … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 124"

This week, a quick explanation of the new website layout (audio2u.com is now NOT the landing pad for Sine Language), the MOTU UltraLite as a mobile recording interface (NB: the link provided is to the current mk3 version… mine is the original mk1, courtesy of Daryl Gungadoo and AWR), dynamics control on portable recorders (and … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 123"

Happy new year! A quick mention of our holiday cruise (blog and pictures start here), an e-mail from Steve Filmer regarding a couple of articles on NPR; this one on the loudness wars, inluding this great pdf, and this on one the average level of TV commercials, a quick mention of James Cameron’s epic, Avatar, … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 122"

Yay! Got another ep out the door before the eyar escaped from me! This week, just tidying up some loose ends. A while back, JR sent us a link about the Schwartz Engineering Laser microphone. That link has now been revised. Someone also sent in a link to the Waves Vocal Rider, which at the … Continue reading "Sine Language – episode 121"