There’s a very primal urge surrounding the whole concept of shedding your clothes, a return to basics you could say. An act of liberation, shedding off all those layers of obedience and morality that society imposes, or maybe you just want attention, it could be any of these, but no matter what the purpose, whatever [...]
Heavy Metal – Head and Neck Injury
Posted by NA Admin in June 21st 2010
Brain damage and metal seem to be the two things spoken of most often in one sentence. At any heavy metal concert, you have everyone getting wasted and walking about like they want a fight, if only they could focus on one spot before throwing up. The whole evening is drowned in swirling your head, [...]
Catchy Songs – Earworms
Posted by NA Admin in June 13th 2010
Ever had a tune stuck in your ear for such a long time that it felt like auditory suicide? The same beat thrashing against your mind, again and again and again ad infinitum, ad nauseum. You would be lucky that catchy song went away for a while, a day maybe, two whole blissful weeks! Smug [...]
Sound Sculptures – Built of Music
Posted by NA Admin in June 13th 2010
Old houses tend to be uniformly creepy, with their unique swishes, groans and clangs. A decade’s old collection of withered girders in an abandoned factory, or the wind swishing through abandoned hallways can create acoustics which make your hair stand on end, praying that whatever it is in there, it won’t be following you. But [...]
Modern DJ using iPad
Posted by NA Admin in June 9th 2010
DJ Rana Sobhany is changing the face of modern DJing using the new Apple iPad. She got her idea to use iPads instead of turntables while she was waiting outside of a New York City Apple store at two o’clock in the morning on the day the iPad was to be released.
Music In the Clouds
Posted by NA Admin in June 9th 2010
Forget the last century in music portability. It is all posed for another shift. Who would have thought in 1960, when the 8-track tape was just a few years old, that within 40 years, the music community would transition from portable 8-track car decks to cassette walkmans and portable CD players.
Sound Test: Difference between WAV vs MP3
Posted by NA Admin in April 5th 2010
Matt here again. I took an mp3 listening test here a while ago. The shoot out was between an mp3 of 320kb/s vs. and mp3 of 128kb/s. A number of people commented that a test between a pure wav. file against a 320kb/s mp3 would be more useful.
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Can you hear like an audio engineer?
Posted by NA Admin in March 30th 2010
Can you hear like an audio engineer? Hello, my name is Matt. I record, edit, and mix music for a living. My profession requires an extremely discerning ear. This little listening test is to see if you can pick up subtle differences in pitch.
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