Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread stephen barncard
I was not aware that one could play two sounds at the same time on Rev anyway With the shorter delays, it has that strange boxy sound that one sometimes gets when trying to record one's voice with a native digital audio workstation: "latency". There are some cancellations in that situation w

sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Kurt Kaufman
"... What I'm attempting to do is to alter one copy of a sound file, then do a fade in/out from an original to the altered version. ..." I would agree with the person who suggested that you're perhaps best off doing that by ear, if possible. "If it sounds good, it IS good." Kurt_

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Jim Sims
On May 6, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote: > Identical, slightly out-of-sync signals used to be known as the "poor man's > 'stereo' remix". It creates a very unconvincing false stereo "spread" that > really just succeeds in blurring the sound. I have some really old > originally-mono LP

sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Identical, slightly out-of-sync signals used to be known as the "poor man's 'stereo' remix". It creates a very unconvincing false stereo "spread" that really just succeeds in blurring the sound. I have some really old originally-mono LPs that were so "enhanced". -Terrible! Kurt__

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Jim Sims
On May 6, 2010, at 9:10 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > The audio level control on the mac is not "tapered" for audio. Physical > volume controls on audio gear use a LOG taper. Once in a while one will run > into a consumer product with a LINEAR taper volume control in the circuit - > and you will

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hey Stephen, you are far more an expert than me in this regard. (Just a hobbyist musician here.) However, as you can not sync two players there will (at least as I understand it) a slight delay in start time of the second audio source, which might lead to at least partial cancellation. Please c

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread stephen barncard
Actually I beg differer on the cancellation. If the two sets of signals are from the same source are indeed identical, phase is locked and of the same polarity, then the level (voltage) will be additive. On 6 May 2010 00:02, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > Hi Sims, > > sound pressure is logarithmic.

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread stephen barncard
The audio level control on the mac is not "tapered" for audio. Physical volume controls on audio gear use a LOG taper. Once in a while one will run into a consumer product with a LINEAR taper volume control in the circuit - and you will notice it - most of the level change will appear in the first

Re: sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-06 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi Sims, sound pressure is logarithmic. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel Also when you use two players playing the same sound, you might possibly well experience (at least partial) phase cancellation of the sound. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_cancellation Hope that helps,

sound volume - sound engineering

2010-05-05 Thread jim sims
Perhaps a sound engineering or physics expert might provide me with some insight into my perception of how players, playing sound, work - what the dynamics of sound are. When I listen to one player playing a sound at 100% and then listen to two players playing that same sound but having the pla