Veracohr

Triple-tasking: catching up on forum posts, working on MATLAB code for a class, and watching episodes of "Angel".

Jeez john, maybe you should meet some better people!

It's a biological instinct, all animals have it. We humans, possessing intelligence and the ability to analyze and think abstractly, invent abstract concepts such as 'right' and 'wrong', and put whatever we want into those concepts, such as cutting off a life before time into the concept of 'wrong'. BTW, the word you're looking for is 'innate'.

I'm just sort of guessing here, but if the blindness were the result of damage/malformation of the eyes and/or optic nerve, that wouldn't necessarily affect the part of the brain that processes optic signals. So if that part were stimulated by something, there could be the perception of sight without that perception coming from the external world.

But like I said (I'll expand), any frequency null or peak (caused by a room mode) exists in a particular place in the room, not everywhere. They are caused by cancellation or enhancement according to the physical properties of the room, and thus exist at specific physical locations in the room. Any problems at one listening location may not exist at any other listening location, so if you 'fix' such a problem with an EQ, you're just messing up the frequency balance elsewhere.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

Currently reading book 9 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, "Winter's Heart", for who knows how many times now. The last book in the series just came out, so I'm in the process of re-reading the whole series again in preparation for the last (14th) one. Also reading a DSP textbook, because I have to. I just went to the bookstore today and got a few things to add to my stack of things I need to read. I used to not buy any book I didn't intend to read immediately, but that was back when I rode the bus everywhere instead of driving, and didn't turn my TV on for weeks at a time. Now, I have these books waiting patiently on my shelves for me to read them: A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Last book in the Wheel of Time series. Just got today. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. Only had a vague desire to read these, but I had a gift card to the bookstore and it caught my eye. Just got today. The Twelfth Insight by James Redfield. Fourth book in the Celestine Prophecy series. I don't expect it to be very good, especially since the last one wasn't, but I felt compelled to continue reading the series. Just got today. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. An outrigger novel to the Ender series. I love the main series. I have three other outrigger novels to the series; they're not bad, but not as good as the main series. Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Everyone kept talking about the books and the TV show that I felt I should give it a try. I'd like to read at least the first book before I watch any of the TV show. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Not sure about this one, I borrowed it from a friend who said it was good. I'm not sure I've ever read a 'normal' fiction book; that is, a fictional book that wasn't fantasy, sci-fi or horror. Just a fictional book about normal things and normal people. Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind. Book 5 of the Sword of Truth series. From what I've read online, this may be where the series starts going downhill, but I've liked it up to this point. I also have a couple comic books that have been on my shelf for more than a year, maybe two. I really should read them. One is part of "Angel: After The Fall", a comic book continuation of the Angel TV series. The other is an issue of a comic book adaptation of the Wheel of Time (so nothing new to read there). I can't believe I own so many books I still haven't read. Part of getting old?

OK, so I'm replying to a more than 3-year old post, but just for the heck of it: I don't know who would list it under non-fiction, but it most definitely is fiction. James Redfield's books are fiction, but not really intended for entertainment. I think he sort of intended them to be modern-day allegories: fictional in content, but meant to convey relevant ideas. The first book meant a lot to me for a while, the second a little less so. "The Secret of Shambala" is the third book, and in my opinion jumped too far over the line of credibility. The first two put a little extraordinary content into an otherwise realistic setting, but 'Shambala' just dives completely into fantasy territory. I just got the fourth book, "The Twelfth Insight" today. I didn't even know it existed, or even would exist, I just happened to be at the book store for something else and saw it. I expect it to be at least as bad as 'Shambala', but for some reason I have to keep reading the series.

Correction, the name I was thinking of is Secret Society. Squee is the username of one of the members on my local psy forum. Amazing how much more watchable that video is when I mute it and put on the hardest metal I have!

Come on man, this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius! They TOLD us it would be awesome!

Yeah, it's frustrating. There are small regional "scenes" around, but if you're talking about artists from the US, it's rather deficient. There's occasional psy parties here in Portland and in Seattle, and there's at least one artist around here named Squee I think, but it's all fullon and darkpsy in the NW, no goa.

Sorry, but EQ can't fix a room's acoustic problems. If you're sitting in a spot where there's a frequency null and you adjust an EQ to make up for it, you can potentially move your head an inch in any direction and now the adjustment you made is over-enhancing that frequency. EQ was never meant to correct acoustic problems, and cannot. Only physical acoustic treatments can fix acoustic problems. Equalizers were originally invented to make up for other electronic devices in the audio chain that had less-than-optimal frequency response (often amplifiers). Only later they began to be used to intentionally shape the frequency content of recorded audio, the main use of them today.

I know nothing about FL, but can you disable some of the tracks/instruments, then render/record just a few at a time?

No, but it would be pointless. I listen to music in three ways: from my computer, in my car, on my iPod with earbud headphones. At home from my computer I have good-quality monitoring that needs no EQ. My room acoustics may suck, but EQ won't help that. In my opinion there's no point trying to make the sound in a car anything but whatever comes out. And iPod of course, is what it is. Most speakers these days don't have enormous EQ problems. Deficiencies are usually due to size, and some speakers are intentionally EQ'd to sound a certain way.

I listen to everything flat, as the producers & engineers intended it. Sometimes in my car I'll adjust the bass a little on certain albums.

I got it today, now to figure out what the hell to do with it...

Suntrip day!

I love that album, I just don't think of it as fullon.

I was at home watching 24 with my cat. At midnight I toasted her with my mug of mead, after which she ran away scared of the fireworks that started popping outside. yay

Not The Cure, no, but the Stones were hard when they started, comparatively.

Oh yeah, I see it now. Since the rest are (mostly) in metal or hard rock bands I wouldn't have guessed Bono. Then again, there is Thom Yorke.

Magneto? Damn Rotwang, that's going to drive me crazy now! Also, who's the guy behind Plant who looks like he's wearing a lamp shade for a hat?

While I'm not much into it myself, I think progressive stuff would probably be best for mixed company. Usually not to weird, groovy enough for dancing.

Wow, talk about an utter lack of scientific knowledge on the subject. Who the hell said that? First, the "solar wind" is not a wind of air, but of charged particles. Sound is fluctuations in air pressure, charged particles are electrical. Any changes to the solar wind and magnetosphere (which is not 'hit' by the solar wind, but is the solar wind) are electro-magnetic in nature, not auditory.