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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 140808" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: AES PNW Audio Over Ethernet Cable Workshop VideoThanks, Chris. Glad you enjoy it.If you want to stretch your audio brain, check out these videos (also made by me)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruSjIWuHFF0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruSjIWuHFF0</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_N7dvH7qg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_N7dvH7qg</a>They are almost completely irrelevant to this thread, but they do attempt to address a question that audio people often refer to: dynamic range.The presenter was a researcher at Bell Labs for 20 years, and is one of the world&#039;s leading experts on human hearing, as well as one of the inventors of the MP3.In these videos, he shows an analysis system he invented that runs on Octave and displays several measurements of the components of which we generally think make up dynamic range.I watched the first one easily 100 times as I was editing it and learned something new pretty much every time. The second one examines what might make up &quot;Microdynamics&quot;, of which there is no definition but has been discussed by mastering engineers as referring to minute changes in volume from one moment to the next. The measurements in both videos work on recorded music and not at all for live.This guy also sat down at a laptop one time when I was watching him and wrote out the code for an FFT analyzer that also works on Octave, in about half an hour, without using notes or references. He is an amazingly smart person, and it&#039;s fun to try to keep up with him and get a glimmer of what he&#039;s talking about.He gets in arguments in online forums with other smart people (and people who think they are smart) and these videos help keep him from making the same arguments over and over. He gets to say &quot;just look at this video and you&#039;ll know what I&#039;m talking about&quot;./topic swerve</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 140808, member: 2826"] Re: AES PNW Audio Over Ethernet Cable Workshop Video Thanks, Chris. Glad you enjoy it. If you want to stretch your audio brain, check out these videos (also made by me) [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruSjIWuHFF0[/URL] [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_N7dvH7qg[/URL] They are almost completely irrelevant to this thread, but they do attempt to address a question that audio people often refer to: dynamic range. The presenter was a researcher at Bell Labs for 20 years, and is one of the world's leading experts on human hearing, as well as one of the inventors of the MP3. In these videos, he shows an analysis system he invented that runs on Octave and displays several measurements of the components of which we generally think make up dynamic range. I watched the first one easily 100 times as I was editing it and learned something new pretty much every time. The second one examines what might make up "Microdynamics", of which there is no definition but has been discussed by mastering engineers as referring to minute changes in volume from one moment to the next. The measurements in both videos work on recorded music and not at all for live. This guy also sat down at a laptop one time when I was watching him and wrote out the code for an FFT analyzer that also works on Octave, in about half an hour, without using notes or references. He is an amazingly smart person, and it's fun to try to keep up with him and get a glimmer of what he's talking about. He gets in arguments in online forums with other smart people (and people who think they are smart) and these videos help keep him from making the same arguments over and over. He gets to say "just look at this video and you'll know what I'm talking about". /topic swerve [/QUOTE]

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