Sonic TALK 272 - Ethan Winer

We are lucky enough to have a special guest in the form of Ethan Winer this week. His latest book - The Audio Expert - Everything You Need To Know About Audio is just out now and is a guide to the science and electronics of audio - but for the non maths graduate. There's also considerable information about audio myth-busting - which Ethan has a natural flair for. Essential listening

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  Music

[Hanitpal Singh]

right, but hes talking purely acoustically. he is saying that the sound itself will not change until you compress at high gains, he did not mention the loudness perception because that's a complicated conversation in itself. You're correct, but ethan is talking about the pre-perception

[Pete Brown]

Cool! Glad to see young Tom Hanks made it on to the show this week ;)

[Mocuischalom]

learn a lot, and finally learn english...thank you

[Colin Fichman]

ethan really knows his stuff,but go to 1:01:05. Acoustics may be linear as volume increases but the contours of the ear are not at all. The ear is most flat at around 83 dBSPL. Wiki Equal Loudness Contours.

[Christopher Merritt]

I have a moog lp and a prophet 5. I love to make music, but I'm just so afraid to record it. I'm so worried about it being recorded properly, and I can't help it.

[WBWelcomeBack]

Really really really great show. Thank you all for this :)

[suitandtieguy]

WHOA he just drew a parallel between classical orchestration and mixing, which is something i've been banging on about for a while.

[suitandtieguy]

which is kind of funny, since i actually refuse to compose with a computer or gig with one any more.

[suitandtieguy]

ooh ... he likes mixing with a mouse. SO DO I.