4297. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-203.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
18 Mar 2006 00:49:08
[ Happy S-P Day ]
Well, it marks the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, so it's a natural day to hold one. I'm not sure if they are all (or many) organized by the same people. |
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4296. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-203.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
18 Mar 2006 00:48:38
[ devil enrages monkey ]
RPS-2! |
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Playing Odds and Evens _completely_ eliminates the possibility of ties, and has fewer gestures. </no fun boy> |
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Heh, I'm glad that you appreciate the fact that I will "pan an album [I] actually don't like." Some of my friends sometimes say that I am a music snob or a fashion snob (neither of which I will really deny) because I will tell people when I dislike their music or outfits (probably other things too, but those seem to come up the most I guess), but I always say that I think it winds up a positive thing cuz then people know that I really mean it when I give folks compliments (and I hope I give more compliments than critiques).
Anyway, my opinion on your newest AAD: Really I quite like it a lot. I pretty much actively like almost every song. There are only two that I think aren't so great (Brain Coral and Japan On Mad), but even those I don't really mind, I just am not terribly into them. As for the rest, I like all of them very well, and especially like Self Life and Nothing Day, and extra especially love Spring Break Pittsburgh 2006 wooo, and then super great ultimate for me is Princess Of Justice! |
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4292. Sophia (c-24-218-58-208.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) –
17 Mar 2006 19:55:54
[ Happy S-P Day ]
Must be a national thing, cuz there's one that I'm going to in Boston tomorrow... |
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4291. Karthik (eliserver.eliresearch.com) –
17 Mar 2006 17:05:44
[ Happy S-P Day ]
I'm going to a similar anti-war protest in Fayette-ville tomorrow (or as Jen refers to, Fayette-nam). Happy St. Protest Day! |
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OK, so limiter is better than clipping, but unnecessary if softclip is on. |
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4289. Missy Olivia (wnpp-p-203-54-32-154.prem.tmns.net.au) –
17 Mar 2006 16:10:17
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
After discovering yet another strange mushroom/fungi thingy emerging from the exterior side of my shower base (similar to the fungi in the image here) I decided it would be a wise move to search the net to broaden my appraisal of the situation - and, as luck would have it, arrived at this site.
The fungi I am finding seems to match more closely the description of a "pig skin" as so described by someone else here.
I have been living where I am for about a year and during the last 12 months have removed approx eight bathroom "mushrooms" and doused the bathroom area in bleach each time. Finally decided it would be a good idea to check out Dangerous Fungi on the net and this site popped up. Thanks for all the suggestions - salt & hydrogen peroxide - and links.......and now I know I am not alone!
(I live in far southern Australia, by the way).
I am intending to 'research' the fungi growth lurking in my bathroom and hopefully source some information from specialists in the field. If I discover the specimen I co-exist with is health-hazardous I will be sure to let you all know. |
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4288. Missy Olivia (wnpp-p-203-54-32-154.prem.tmns.net.au) –
17 Mar 2006 16:08:37
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
After discovering yet another strange mushroom/fungi thingy emerging from the exterior side of my shower base (similar to the fungi in the image here) I decided it would be a wise move to search the net to broaden my appraisal of the situation - and, as luck would have it, arrived at this site.
The fungi I am finding seems to match more closely the description of a "pig skin" as so described by someone else here.
I have been living where I am for about a year and during the last 12 months have removed approx eight bathroom "mushrooms" and doused the bathroom area in bleach each time. Finally decided it would be a good idea to check out Dangerous Fungi on the net and this site popped up. Thanks for all the suggestions - salt & hydrogen peroxide - and links.......and now I know I am not alone!
(I live in far southern Australia, by the way).
I am intending to 'research' the fungi growth lurking in my bathroom and hopefully source some information from specialists in the field. If I discover the specimen I co-exist with is health-hazardous I will be sure to let you all know. |
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4287. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-203.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
17 Mar 2006 15:58:11
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
Whoa awesome. I ordered prints. |
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4286. bshangold (c-68-84-74-189.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
17 Mar 2006 15:48:48
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
Just went down stairs to our second bathrrom that we don't use very much. The multiple landlords have all had problems getting the shower tyling right. I guess it still isn't right. If I owned and didn;t rent I guess I wouldn't be so astonished. Ours are like 5-6inches big. Check out the pictures:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bshangold/album?.dir=/3235&.src=ph&.tok=phsYckEBCYciq9KC |
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Through some rummaging around through help files, it looks like they act a bit differently:
"The Limiter section
Limiter is designed to ensure that the output level never exceeds a certain set output level, to avoid clipping in following devices. Conventional limiters usually require very accurate setting up of the attack and release parameters, to totally avoid the possibility of the output level going beyond the set threshold level. Limiter adjusts and optimizes these parameters automatically, according to the audio material. You can also adjust the Release parameter manually.
The available parameters are the following:
Threshold
-12 - 0dB
This setting determines the maximum output level. Signal levels above the set threshold are affected, but signal levels below are left unaffected.
Release
10-1000ms or "Auto mode"
This parameter sets the amount of time it takes for the gain to return to its original level when the signal drops below the threshold level. If the "Auto" button is activated, Limiter will automatically find an optimal release setting that varies depending on the audio material."
"Soft Clip section
Soft Clip is designed to ensure that the output level never exceeds 0dB, like a limiter. Soft Clip, however, acts differently compared to a conventional limiter. When the signal level exceeds -6dB, SoftClip starts limiting (or clipping) the signal "softly", at the same time generating harmonics which add a warm, tubelike characteristic to the audio material. Soft Clip is simplicity itself to use as it has no control parameters. The meter indicates the input signal level, and thus the amount of "softclipping". Levels in the green area (weaker than -6dB) are unaffected, while levels in the yellow-orange-red area indicate the degree of "softclipping". The deep red meter area to the right indicates input levels higher than 0dB.
Avoid feeding Soft Clip with excessively high signal levels as audible distortion may occur, although the output level will never exceed 0dB." |
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Thanks! Your opinion means a lot (especially since I know you will pan an album you actually don't like)...
Do you think the limiter in VSTDynamics (or equivalent) does something other than just clip? Like simulate the sound of an analog limiter? I guess I don't really know, but I assumed they just clipped. |
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Yeah, I agree that your recordings have sounded quite good these days. I think that you get a very good balance of spending just enough careful prep time to make things sound substantially better than if you were completely careless about it.
I don't think that most applications will automatically limit your final audio output if it goes over 1.0. Most will just clip the output, I think, unless you set something up to limit the output.
Also, I do quite like this AAD so far (especially Princess Of Justice! I've been listening to it over and over all around town the past couple of days; played it for Kaitlin in the car yesterday and she liked it right away, too; very catchy, and perfectly cheesy). But I'll give a more proper dumping of my thoughts once I listen to it a few times more... |
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4282. Tom 7 (pool-70-20-80-28.pitt.east.verizon.net) –
16 Mar 2006 23:16:52
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
I'm glad it worked, and sorry about the bug. It seems it has bit almost everyone by now! |
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Ah yes, I am using OSX, and I did just make bookmarks in the level I was editing.
I followed the above instructions, and now things are back to normal. Thanks much. |
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Daedalus: Are you on OSX? If so, you unfortunately don't have the fix for this bug yet. The good news is that your data isn't lost. Search this page for "backup" and read those instructions; you can also edit the file yourself to fix it (you might want to make a copy somewhere first). To fix it, open daedalus.esp, find the line after "-- solutions" (it should start with an asterisk *. Delete that line and the ! line that comes after it. Then escape should start up just fine.
The thing that causes this is making bookmarks while playing a level from the editor. Just don't do that until I can release another version for OSX (sorry, the delay isn't my fault, urgh..). |
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This afternoon, on opening Escape I see:
daedelus.esp **ERROR** (-1)
and on clicking:
Couldn't read played daedelus.esp
These are the potentially disasterous things I have done recently:
I updated the deleted level file last week. I guess you're not supposed to...?
This morning I started playing with changing the text color of my levels.
I've never backed up my player; am I really screwed? |
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4278. Tom 7 (pool-70-17-180-254.pitt.east.verizon.net) –
15 Mar 2006 22:44:01
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
kirima: Yeah, I agree, that would be another good way to sort levels. I think redoing the level selector will be the next major overhaul in the game.
It's nice to credit everyone involved in a level, and the space isn't really limited. I think the current system that people have worked out is pretty good.
I can change your name on the server if you want, but I have to do it manually. It's pretty easy. Let me know if you want me to!
stephan: True, but it is a bit late to change the semantics of bombs now! Brian has been asking for a tile that sends a "push" out in all four directions; maybe some kind of air bomb would be feasible. The next tile I have planned is wire-activated panels, and I don't want to even add that until I feel like bombs are pretty much worn out... |
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4277. Stephan (fl-71-3-7-5.dyn.sprint-hsd.net) –
15 Mar 2006 20:29:07
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
It might be interesting if bombs toggled 1/0 panels in the vicinity of the explosion. (Either that, or another type of time-delay 'logic bomb') Or perhaps bombs could be made to toggle up/down left/right blocks? |
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4276. Kirima/mm (116.147.203.62.cust.bluewin.ch) –
15 Mar 2006 19:01:05
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
Tom, re-rating certain levels let me realize that I have no idea when I had solved them. Sorting levels by the date of the first solution could be interesting!?
The copyright-problem... (-; - original uploaded by X mod by Y via Z versus K... And most of us use at least 2 names? Doom's original mod by Kirima via Henri via mm? I found a level that indicates "pretty much everybody" as author, which is just funny.Is it possible to change the player's name? I guess it should be within the folder, but I think changing the author's name of a level would inplique another moving to the graveyard.When I started the game for the very first time, I just tiped "mm" as usual, all my people know who this is. But this is just a very "private" little indication of a name. We have to decide the name before having any idea that this name will or could appear as an official name. As you can easily guess: all my "name"-problems are secundary, not really important.
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I guess if you are using softclip, limiter shouldn't ever have to be engaged, but what it does is hard-limit the level so that it never goes above 1.0. I would expect the application to also limit it before sending it to the sound card or mp3 encoder, etc., so now that I think about it this is probably just superstition from my analog days. ;) |
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Okay, thanks. I already do a little bit of that, like throwing the softclip on the whole mix (wasn't sure about the limiter though - what exactly is the difference between the two?). I think one of the problems that pops up a lot in my music is that it's usually pretty complex, so that requires a lot more mixing work and tweaking so that the instruments are all clear and don't clash too much. |
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LOL. No particular advice, except that compression sound bad on guitar, and I like to turn the vox up Loud. I generally use the default settings in VSTDynamics (so the thing about release is a bit of hyperbole), but increase the ratio to like 4:1 and makeupgain to 9 or 10 dB. Softclip and limiter on the entire mix, to help with the "failure mode" issue. Also, another piece of simple advice is to eq the various tracks differently, since the ear is best at distinguishing sounds at different frequencies. This will result in a less muddled mix. |
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Yeah, I had a feeling it was just a lot of compression (I was specifically thinking about how the vocals sit nicely on top of the mix). Any specific advice about compression in particular? You do, after all, know how to set the parameters. Especially the 'release'. |
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