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Thursday, February 13, 2020

How to take fast impulse response measurements in Smaart© without pissing people off

www.sounddesignlive.com: Measuring room modes sucks. It takes too long, pisses people off, and the ROI is debatable.

1 comment:

Margaret Shumate said...

This article is very close to technical gibberish if you haven't done room tuning before, and only slightly further from technical gibberish if you've stumbled through it only a few times (hi that's me). That being said, this article is a model of how to write an article that contains a lot of technical gibberish. Even while understanding only about 45% of what was written, I enjoyed myself, and I think this is an underrated quality in technical gibberish laced discussion. When teaching, or discussing, or otherwise imparting knowledge on any kind of technical gibberish, maybe the most helpful thing you can do is to impart that technical gibberish with a large amount of humor. It encourages people to keep reading the technical gibberish, and keeps them more engaged and interested in the technical gibberish, so that one day hopefully, it will not be gibberish to them. Technically. I learned a few things about room tuning reading this article, which is impressive, and which I wouldn't have done if the technical gibberish hadn't been entertaining. And yes, I like typing the phrase technical gibberish.