02-22-2010

This stuff is way trickier than I'd thought but I learned some stuff. The guys and I got together and decided to take a deeper look into this whole thing. 

First, PU2273 and I tried setting up a small set of computer speakers and recording it with one microphone that would represent my good ear. If I face the mic to the right, mimicking where my ear is, maybe sections of music will vanish, resembling how I've heard music for the past thirty years. I'm basing these dimensions roughly on how my stereo set-up used to be at the office. The  computer moniter having a speaker on each side, right where they are supposed to go for all you normals (now I keep both of them five feet way from me on my right). Hopefully, this will show how a lot of music disappears when you can only hear with one ear. 

I don't really have any real knowledge of what sound is. I'm just sort of trying to figure it out on my own I guess. I should maybe do some actual research, I will I swear, but I'm gonna have a little fun for the time being. Anyhoo, St. Vincent has some amazing stereo on her first release Marry Me, I'll share a small clip with you in both stereo and what I recorded from her song; Landmines. 

(I want to make a point that what I am looking is for the lifelessness in music that I knew)

Clips for Mono Experiment - St Vincent - Landmines  by  Timothy Renato Pizza

{Nothing really disappeared. Totally not what I expected to happen at all.} 


Afterward, we were a bit perplexed, we were not yet entirely defeated, so we decided to kick back and rock a quick jam.

After that, we sat around scouring through my music looking for something really cool but we got really frustrated because we couldn't find a neat enough example for you. PU2273 was so flustered that he felt it proper to pull his old "Speak & Math," that he himself personally bent. And I decided to play the Fish-mas Tree and 
"Thing-a-ma-goop." 

(We thought it went well. Sorry neighbors)

Afterward, we tried doing a few more stereo to mono transfers. I learned some stuff about phase cancellation. That was happening to the song when I rerecorded it this way. Why is nothing that try working?

Quell showed up right when we learned that during the transfers this phase cancellation thing was happening to some effects. He brought up a very 

valuable point.

At that point it was really late and we'd had a pretty good time trying to figure this stuff out. In a few day's we'll talk about Binaural sound.

Oh, and Audio Angel, we would have loved to invite you Dearie, but you know the rules: