Dolmot

Doppler shift refers to the perceived change in frequency due to moving sources, which is a different effect altogether and audible even in mono recordings. For the actual delay effect relevant for stereo modelling, you should search for interaural time difference (ITD). At low frequencies, the head's acoustic shadow isn't strong enough to attenuate the signal arriving to the contralateral ear, thus the interaural level difference (ILD) isn't very reliable. Conversely, the time difference produces an unambiguous phase difference, which can be easily perceived and dominates the observation. From approximately 1500 Hz upward, the wavelength is less than 20 cm (~head width), thus the phase difference becomes ambiguous. However, the acoustic shadow produces strong ILD so the latter becomes more important for stereo perception. You can still hear the time difference between sharp impulses at high frequencies, but not really for tones. For complete 3D localisation cues, look for HRIR and HRTF (head-related impulse response and transfer function). They've been documented pretty well. However, a part of the response is individual, thus generic rendering from 3D to stereo channels cannot be completely accurate. And the deal with channel inversion is that each frequency will have a half-wavelength shift, which corresponds to a different time delay for every single frequency. Therefore the brain cannot locate it at all because none of the overtones/harmonics will correlate with each other. Levels will be equal so no hints for localisation from that either. It's neat, but largely avoided in all audio production as mono or narrow stereo playback will fail due to cancellation. Realistic ITD (from, say, actual stereo recordings with or without a mannequin head) is acceptable but still risky. Off-phase channels can screw up vinyl cutting etc. so it's generally safer to use ILD coding only.

It's not dying, just dead drunk.

That way I can still follow my principle of not buying digital releases, obviously.

Me neither... Is it possible to donate money and then download it for free?

Then buy Doom.

Have we ever seen them in the same room?

Why not "Acacia Connection"?

If I could lucid dream reliably, that scene probably wouldn't be my first choice.

There are... For reference/reminders/inspiration: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/7398-remixes-better-than-originals/ https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/55156-remixes-matter-of-taste/ https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/69358-some-remixes-better-than-the-original/

Just out of interest, if this is still constructive, what would count as "bashing" on your scale?

I don't have any other versions for comparison, but it sounds (and looks) very gentle to me. Especially the last two tracks are normalised to a few isolated peaks with most of the signal only reaching about 0.9. In a typical modern release, those peaks would be the first thing to go to squeeze out an extra dB already before the actual compression kicks in. However, the whole production style here is quite airy and dynamic with sharp kicks and effects instead of seismic bass and three overlapping broadband supersynths, which contributes a lot to the overall sound. In short, already the source material makes a good starting point for enjoyable listening, and it hasn't been screwed up by excessive processing either. I'm happy with it.

The wavelength of 1 kHz would actually be 34 cm. If either of the paths changes by 17 cm (which, coincidentally, is about the head width), you already get inverse phase. No DSP, apart from using headphones, can prevent listeners from moving at least 17 cm around. Fortunately, at high frequencies the head itself produces a decent acoustic mask, thus you'll hear both signals separately to a sufficient extent if the sources are located roughly L/R. However, the wavelength of e.g. 50 Hz is 6.8 m, and head masking will be minimal so the waves do mix heavily. That kind of frequencies should be kept in a roughly matching phase so that at least the "sweet spot" listeners (including most people at home) will get the correct response. It's already a Shakta album and a track...

Let's see... Astral Projection released a new album, sort of. It's still so popular to be "the only guy who doesn't like AP" that about 80% of users seem to belong to the special snowflake group. All neogoa sounds exactly the same as long as you define neogoa only to cover the stuff that sounds exactly the same. Mastering is bad. Israel's post is crap. Font selection is difficult. Actual discussion is so last decade. Nowadays we just paste YouTube videos instead. There are people who like CDs and people who like digital. There's still a lot of PUI (posting under the influence). I think that's about it. Welcome back.

You know...this sounds like a 90s release. And I don't mean The Trademark Sound of any of the top ten classic acts we've managed to distill after two decades of careful analysis. It's more like visiting a record store in 1996, picking some French compilation because it has a neat mushroom on its cover, going home and hitting play. To me this is pretty much what you typically got that way. It's something you could spin at any moment of a rave party, which is simply a rave party and nothing more elaborate than that. It's energetic, it's direct, it's not overproduced, and it shouldn't be overanalysed. Sometimes things can be kept simple.

Not to be confused with The Thrillseekers, a fairly well-known trance act?

I think it goes hand in hand with maintaining certain profile and/or quality. There are labels who release (a lot) more frequently but there's a downside...

Writing a paper for a looming deadline...and I was just told that I'm expected to contribute to another too. Meanwhile, most of the main authors (and the guys who primarily get paid for this) have left for well-deserved holidays. I think there may be something wrong with this picture. Fortunately the weather has been crap for the whole summer and remains so for at least one more week, thus I'm not missing much by staying inside and saving my own vacation days for some later time.

This is where I asked and this is what I eventually bought...although most of it seems to comprise various kinds of downtempo and not even wholly 2015. Maybe I'll browse the free release side next whenever I finally manage to get rid of the last work deadlines.

About 30 times longer than an average HD...

This one?

But who spelled it "definately"?

Doof - Let's Turn On (R&R) Lectro Spektral Daze - Voyage in Your Mind Etnica in Dub Another Fine Day - A Good Place to Be Don Peyote - Blue Lotus Raja Ram's Pipe Dreams 1

Last year most practical information was still "TBA" when the festival had already started.

Shall we discuss hip hop...especially the early era when the whole point was to spin existing drum breaks while rapping on them. In the 80s the scene wasn't that concerned about crediting or clearing its samples. For example, I have one amusing compilation of tracks sampled for Eric B & Rakim's classic album Paid in Full (1987). It's a triple CD with a total of 44 tracks. Not bad, compressing all that to one ten-track, 45 min album. (It's a neat triple CD, by the way, going through loads of classic funk, soul, disco and whatnot. Some serious crate digging was involved in that album's production.) Then suddenly in 1991 there was a court case where it was ruled that "sampling without permission can qualify as copyright infringement". Bummer. It's often said that pretty much none of the classic albums could have been written under current legislation, considering the shoestring budgets those 80s guys had. (See the same article.) Nowadays you can get in trouble for sampling just one second of copyrighted material (which, in turn, can cover almost all recoded music in existence). But the point is that sometimes extensive mixing of existing stuff starts to count as a form of art by itself.

Weird...I was just considering adding this to my latest order last weekend. Eventually I didn't. The samples just didn't sound right this time either. Maybe I'll try streaming a bit more at some point. That's really slow growth if it ever happens...