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    OCR: Photographers

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    Anyway, I'm looking into buying my younger sister a fully manual camera. Canon AV-1 or a Nikon FE/FE2 with a 50mm. This is going to be her graduation gift. And for subsequent birthdays and whatnot, I can buy her third party lenses. woot. The gift that makes future gifts less bothersome. :D

    why not a modern digital camera? i know its expensive, but not everybody enjoys developing film and scanning it. plus i'm sure you could find one of those old EOS 300 or Nikon D50 or something for really cheap

    The Intrinsic Worth of Classical Musicians

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    wow this has become quite the thread. i only read a small part of it, and i was gonna say something but now i don't even know what to say. this has become an argument about nothing and everything

    xRisingForce, you seem pretty adamant about forcing your opinions on others, and wildly arguing with anybody who disagrees with you. I know you think you are correct, but so does everybody else, as evidenced by the fact that nobody has changed their opinion. and of course we are talking about art and opinions, so there is no "correct" anyways

    this kind of classic internet argument never gets anywhere. and if you all realize that, you could save a lot of time and typing posts when you find yourself repeating the same argument over and over in response to someone else's repeated argument

    so that's what i've learned on teh intarwebs... make your point ONCE, then let it go. it'll make your life a lot easier.

    with that, i'll make my point in response to the following quote, and you won't see me repeat this argument ad nauseam

    Dude, it's freakin' logical. The need for self-expression gave birth to art, pitch and rhythm gave birth to music, and composition, as well as listening, is how we utilize music. Music is, on the most basic level, pitch-driven. What value does a piece carry if the foundation of it is lyrical? Literature has absolutely no similar qualities with pitch! In lyrics' construction (making literature vocal and assigning respective notes) you can see that the purpose of lyrics is to augment music. Music however, does not exist to augment pitch.

    you're forgetting something very important, and that's rhythm... a lot of music is rhythm driven

    when the europeans went to africa, they discovered that the africans' music was pretty much all drums and rhythm. they thought it was "primitive" music and that they were so much more musically advanced since they had harmony

    fast forward to today, where this african concept of rhythm has become ubiquitous through black music having such a large influence in the modern music world. it's all about da rhythm... you don't see people dancing in the club cuz of pitch/harmony or lyrics

    jazz, hip hop, house, trance, 2-step, eurodance... all that stuff is rhythm based. it's DA PHAT BEATS... RHYTHM

    Computer Science, art, media, technology and academia

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    I'm trying to propose specific ways my Computer Science department can revamp itself (three professors, struggling to teach the bare minimum, not good for the majors)

    only 3 professors??

    see that's part of the problem right there.. 3 just isn't enough to provide a very broad curriculum. they could spend all their time teaching basic classes and never be able to teach more niche areas of CS such as graphics, HCI, etc

    good earplugs for noisy band?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I was thinking about buying a pair of these

    http://www.zzounds.com/item--HEA211

    There are another kind called the vaters too

    http://www.guitarcenter.com/Vater-Safe-N--Sound-Earplugs-104229588-i1170172.gc

    i use ones like the hearos (i'd bet there's an OEM manufacturer of those kind). they work really well, and block all frequencies fairly uniformly, although there still is a slight dropoff at the highest trebles

    i wouldn't bother with the vaters.. you can adjust the attenuation on the hearos depending on how far you stick them in your ear

    Songs That You Learned By Ear

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    Learn "Violin Partita No.2 (BWV 1004) - Chaconne" by ear.

    Bach should be pretty easy to learn by ear, especially something for solo violin where you can only play at max 4-6 notes at a time (not really at a time but really close together).. most of it is single note lines

    i think the only things i DIDN'T learn by ear were violin pieces which i hadn't heard before, just started sight reading and playing notes... and orchestra parts, which in a lot of cases are pretty complicated and you wouldn't be able to pick out even if you heard it by ear (with the full orchestra playing)

    Classic NES games

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    Check page one again, duder ;-)

    ahh.. nice list you have there

    some more games that i remembered that aren't necessarily the obvious most popular ones:

    Anticipation

    Baseball Simulator 1.000

    1943

    Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers

    Gyrus

    Golf

    RC Pro Am

    Blades of Steel

    RBI Baseball

    really.. we could probably list every NES game that wasn't really obscure and they could be considered classic. OLD SKOOL GAMING FO LIFE

    EQ rules of thumb...

    in Music Composition & Production

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    EQ philosophy is like girls' makeup philosophy... ie. the end result should look like you're not wearing makeup. similarly, you should EQ such that it doesn't sound like you EQ'd anything, where every instrument sounds natural

    start with FLAT EQ. then CUT frequencies in tracks that are too muddy, while maintaining the tonal characteristcs of flat EQ. if you do an A/B comparison of that vs flat EQ, it should sound the same except cleaner and less muddy

    if you can get that, then from there you can start shaping things to get a specific sound

    How expensive does a mic pre-amp need to be...

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    If you were thinking of getting a mixer anyway, most mixers have pretty competent builtin preamps for the price. Behringer Euroracks for example. It won't have "OMG TUBE WARMTHZ", but they're reasonably quiet. And yeah I think all the inexpensive tube-driven gear popping up lately is getting a little overblown :P

    i'm currently using a Behringer Eurorack. if you're mostly concerned with noise it's fine, but the sound quality isn't good. after all mine has 2 preamp channels and 4 mixer channels, plus aux sends + phantom power + EQ, all for about 70 bucks. yea, it's low noise and gets you the sound, so it meets the absolute MINIMUM requirements... basically it's the cheapest, lowest-end you can get with that feature set

    How expensive does a mic pre-amp need to be...

    in Music Composition & Production

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    if you just want low noise levels, a inexpensive preamp should be able to give you that. but if you want good (like "prosumer" level) sound quality you do have to spend hundreds.. there's no way around that. for example

    http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ART-DMPA-Pro-2-Channel-Mic-Pre-with-Digital-Outs?sku=180629

    http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Focusrite-Platinum-TwinTrak-Pro-Channel-Strip?sku=188218

    thats what i'd consider good.. low-end class A preamps

    Guitar Amp Buzz

    in Music Composition & Production

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    also, po! are you sure that the buzz you're hearing isn't just the front panel rattling since it's loose as you say?

    its definitely buzz coming from the amp. the front panel isn't really loose in the sense that it rattles if i hit it.. but more like i can bend/push it inwards.. and slowly over time it creeps back out

    i suppose i should fix it, but it doesnt really bother me much. if it starts buzzing i just push the panel.. and that keeps it happy for a couple months

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