Fun Update

[Chris Strellis]

With a great analytical mind to problem solving like that I think
Dweezil chose the right man!

Well done Matt :D

Cheers

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Matt Picone
> Sent: 08 April 2009 06:15
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Fun Update
> 
> Here's a fun update from "the virtual road, day 2".
> 
> Dweezil is now in Japan gigging with the rig we built. Last night
there
> were level problems-- lots of volume pedal riding to keep any
semplance
> of balance. We had spent some time back in "virtual L.A." normalizing
> levels across programs, but it was a rush and done in a situation of
> sleep deprivation. The gig yesterday revealed obvious shortcomings in
> the method used. The job at hand was to help make fixing this
situation
> a little easier.
> 
> One's instinct asserts that rudimentary quantitative approaches to
this
> problem will only goes so far-- psychoacoustic differences make
> programs
> which appear the same on your meters to sound dramatically different.
> and then there's Fletcher Munson to argue with... but I needed to find
> a
> some way to identify troubles, and quickly, with just hours until the
> next show.
> 
> I connected my own Ultra (loaded with the sounds for the gig) then
> hooked up some white noise (-15db) to its input. I connected the
> outputs
> to sound forge, then stepped through all the programs, counting
> carefully. Hitting stop, I could instantly see the desired outcome had
> been reached: the waveform display showed clearly which sounds were
the
> major offenders at each end of the level scale.
> 
> Porting some screen captures of this file over to Photoshop for some
> labeling revealed that it was hard to read across the full horizontal
> spread, so I added some color bars for reference. Now, rhythm, leadm
> and
> "wild" sounds had target zones to sit in... Making some adjustments
> followed by a listening check set the stage for big improvement. Stand
> by for the final analysis.
> 
> The completed graphic can be seen here:
> 
> http://www.mysticworks.com/dz/all.gif
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