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Same. Glad to learn these principles and apply them to digital audio nonetheless. :)

Nixon in China.

Jk lol.

I'm not enough of a Radiohead fan to understand this.

Mao is a joke to me. The above quote (which is his) goes on to say, "In present circumstances, revisionism is more pernicious than dogmatism."

So...

Mao: Marxism is universally true. Also Mao: Dogmatic Marxism is bad. Also Mao: Anything post-Marxism is revisionism, which is also bad.

If you can get through it, read On Contradiction to see just how many back-flips he does to make Marx's "dialectical materialism" into something that is neither dialectical nor material but a metaphysical fact of our world and all human progress (as if that's not revisionism).

Yes, Brandi has got a lovely vibrato!

Yeah the sibilance is right. I believe it has to do with the large coil which sound has to move when using a dynamic.

Yeah that would work well if I were precise enough to know when to automate the click in and out. If I'm playing free-tempo, I won't really know when that click should begin.

I've never tried this! That sounds like pure vibes.

I'd imagine nostalgia is a big factor.

But otherwise, low-pass-filtered stuff generally sounds less exciting. You can read about pink noise and Brownian noise, for example, which more closely resemble natural phenomena like wind or rain from inside a shelter. Pink noise is white noise which decreases 3dB in volume each octave; Brownian noise, -6dB/oct. It were as if you put such a low-pass filter on white noise. So music that shares a similar frequency profile is relaxing.

Reverb can be used for lots of purposes. As you say, it simulates reverberations a physical space.

Short, natural-sounding reverb can be used to blend tracks together. If two instruments need to sound like they were recorded in the same room, do it virtually.

As others have written, longer, natural reverbs can create a perception of size. You can make a vocalist sound like sang in a concert hall or a church or a bar.

Sometimes reverb may be used to impart tone, evoke a vintage. A spring reverb has different cultural associations than a Lexicon. Some reverbs' modal resonances highlight certain frequencies.

Long reverbs can be used to increase sustain of an instrument. Every ambient guitarist in the world is familiar with this.

What reverb means in a piece is for the artist and listener to interpret.

Are you talking about something like Soothe or SplitEQ? There are certain spectral effects that can remove the tonal characteristics from a sound, leaving only the nontonal aspects. E.g. on a piano, you'd only hear the unpitched, percussive hammer and key sounds.

Here's a FOSS alternative for Soothe. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2024/03/03/nih-plug-spectral-compressor/

The better way to thwart republicans: take away their memes.

Who is the artist behind this work?