Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:44:08 -0600 vickiebee
> <prairiedove73505@aol.com> wrote: [..]
>> Frying? Bricking? I think I'm wandering too far out into the
>> weeds...
>
> Frying: Power surge damaged components due to excess voltage being
> applied.
>
> Bricking: Anything that turns an expensive piece of electronics into
> a non-functional object that might as well be brick. More commonly
> used to describe the outcome of inadvisable software updates on
> phones and the like.
>
```
Thanks Steve, I love how "techie" terms sometimes make so much sense.
v --
https://www.thefarside.com/

John Williamson wrote:
> On 18/11/2023 10:58, vickiebee wrote:
>> Wow John, you really sound like you know what you're talking
>> about....
>>
> I can get a deeper, richer, and warmer sound off my CDs by using the
> tone controls. I can't get the brighter, more detailed sound of a CD
> off vinyl, as the information is not there on the disc. I prefer
> accurate, though for a lot of the stuff I listen to, accurate is an
> illusion, as it has been recorded over a period of weeks, and, often
> the musicians haven't even met each other in the studio. Then the
> engineer uses effects on the mix, including, on occasion, an old tape
> recorder or simulator thereof to get that warm, mellow, distorted
> sound that analogue tape inevitably has. [...]
>
```
You know, when you stop and think about it, you realize how important
and complicated are the jobs of sound engineers and audio techs - the
creative freedom they have to influence a recording or performance.

I guess that's why they give out so many awards for it.
v

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On 21/11/2023 14:58, vickiebee wrote:
> John Williamson wrote:
>> On 18/11/2023 10:58, vickiebee wrote:
>>> Wow John, you really sound like you know what you're talking
>>> about....
>>>
>> I can get a deeper, richer, and warmer sound off my CDs by using the
>> tone controls. I can't get the brighter, more detailed sound of a CD
>> off vinyl, as the information is not there on the disc. I prefer
>> accurate, though for a lot of the stuff I listen to, accurate is an
>> illusion, as it has been recorded over a period of weeks, and, often
>> the musicians haven't even met each other in the studio. Then the
>> engineer uses effects on the mix, including, on occasion, an old tape
>> recorder or simulator thereof to get that warm, mellow, distorted
>> sound that analogue tape inevitably has. [...]
>>
> ```
> You know, when you stop and think about it, you realize how important
> and complicated are the jobs of sound engineers and audio techs - the
> creative freedom they have to influence a recording or performance.
>
As long as we get it right, *nobody* notices.

> I guess that's why they give out so many awards for it.
>
Probably. But how many of their names do you remember?

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Tciao for Now!

John.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:07:01 +0000
John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:

> As long as we get it right, *nobody* notices.

Reminds me of a quote by a classical musician (name forgotten).

If I don't practice for one day I know it, if I don't practice for
two days my fellow musicians know it, if I don't practice for three
days /everyone/ knows it.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:53:35 -0600
vickiebee <prairiedove73505@aol.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve, I love how "techie" terms sometimes make so much sense.

All too often they're terrible puns or things like male and female
connectors - it's no fun when a child asks you to explain those. I did once
get a funny look from a customer when I asked a colleague to hand me the
gender-bender.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On 21/11/2023 16:01, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:53:35 -0600
> vickiebee <prairiedove73505@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Steve, I love how "techie" terms sometimes make so much sense.
>
> All too often they're terrible puns or things like male and female
> connectors -

Not to mention the fact that you get male sockets and female plugs!*

Chris

*I eventually worked out that the plug/socket description always applied
to the nature of the pins whereas the male/female term applied to the
shrouds. HTH

On 18/11/2023 08:36, Andrew Marshall wrote:
> On 17/11/2023 12:34, Hymermut wrote:
>> On 17/11/2023 11:44, vickiebee wrote:
>>> this dinosaur still uses a desktop
>
>> Nowt wrong with that. I've got two on the go.
>
>
> Glad to hear arRusty's OK.
>
> One desktop and one flotpat here still in jbexvat beqre; both are
> penguin homes.

One tower and one lapdog running W11, one tower and one lapdog running W10.

Mike Fleming wrote:

> Andrew Marshall wrote:
>
>> Hymermut wrote:
>>
>>> vickiebee wrote:
>>>
>>>> this dinosaur still uses a desktop
>>
>>> Nowt wrong with that. I've got two on the go.
>>
>> Glad to hear arRusty's OK.
>>
>> One desktop and one flotpat here still in jbexvat beqre; both are
>> penguin homes.
>
> One tower and one lapdog running W11, one tower and one lapdog running W10.

Two flatpots running Win11, one tower running penguin, green robot
fondleslab and phobile.

On 21/11/2023 14:58, vickiebee wrote:
> You know, when you stop and think about it, you realize how important
> and complicated are the jobs of sound engineers and audio techs - the
> creative freedom they have to influence a recording or performance.
>
> I guess that's why they give out so many awards for it.

Some awards, not just enough. Not only do they have the task of making
what is set before them sound not just listenable but good, they have
the task of putting the mics in the right place in the first place.