Comments on: Lessons from Joey

By: Candis Dolney

Candis Dolney — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:58:29 +0000

It will absorb all nutrients that you have provided to it all day long. So, no snacking and no grazing which I know is often the downfall for us dieters.

By: MM: What I Do » Blog Archiv » The metaprogrammer

MM: What I Do » Blog Archiv » The metaprogrammer — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:59:29 +0000

[…] example, from my post about Joey De Maio and the comments. What if you believe assholes are bad people and accomplishing your goal could be […]

By: PHeMoX

PHeMoX — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:45:40 +0000

“Subwoofers can be run at way higher levels because bass tones don’t hurt the eardrum. ”

I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about this, because even a standard subwoofer 4Ohm speaker will damage your ears when you listen to it for a longer time at high volume. It’s because of the high levels of output involved, it doesn’t matter if you can’t hear or feel the actual sound as loud as high gain sound for example, but it definitely hurts/damages your ears just as bad. It has to do with which parts of the sound-spectrum our ears can hear.

As for your post as a whole though, some very good points made…

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:05:24 +0000

Wow that sucks. I didn’t know about the loudness war. Add to that music produced only to sound good on iPods and you got yourself musical hell. Concerts will be the only place in the future where you can listen to real music.

By: bullet

bullet — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:39:23 +0000

The only thing the Manowar prick was right about was when he was complaining about the sound to be compressed. Compressing is increasing average loudness on cost of the dynamics of sound. And this is what basically is going on in the music industry all over the world, read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

if you care. Because listeners are usually a bunch of stupid dickwads, they say “wtf, this is too low man” when they hear music with awesome dynamics. The key there is increasing the volume yourself, so you have LOUD music with great DYNAMICS.
What the guys in the studios do is compressing the shit out of sound so you get one giant square wave and the idiots are satisfied “wow dis is loud maan”. And this is because music at radio stations is played with some sound level x and if tune a is mastered to be louder at sound level x than tune b, people tend to like tune a more because as I said listeners are fucktards.
Apart from that the guy here is an absolute idiot. He’s got 120dB and complains about not being able to get spikes. Imagine a snare drum at 120dB (percussion => spikes). Your ears would feel like getting cut with a katana.
And MM, if you are about the bass experience. Subwoofers can be run at way higher levels because bass tones don’t hurt the eardrum. This would give the same feeling experience with more gentle sound. But everyone in the specific positions to decide such things are idiots.

By: Michal

Michal — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:59:21 +0000

It’s all about vibration that you feel in the body.
Take some good rock/metal music and play it on your headphones.
Now take that same music and play it on a hi-fi with a subwoofer really loudly.
The result is that in the first example you will say: hmmm very nice music and in the second you’ll tend to jump, bang your head, scream and generally have a kicking ass feeling.

By: mat

mat — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:27:29 +0000

I think the first 10 row of fans from the concert will thank later, the band, that they will lose their hearing faster than the rest from the show.

Yes, I’m a big fan of loud music as well, whatever it might be (usually what should be played loud, that includes rock) but after the concerts I attended (and there were a few) I usually like to stay close to the speakers, and beleive me, it ain’t all good in the long run. yes, you’ll regret it later. I’ve been told too, yet I couldn’t resist to my habit, and I am clearly aware that my hearing degraded in the last 10 years…

at any time I have left from my life, I would prefer the “the clearest sounding band ever” over the loudest. think about it.

By: thylacine

thylacine — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:51:20 +0000

@Clawbug

Wise people don’t listen to manowar.

Manowar are pretty big.

By: Michal

Michal — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:08:02 +0000

This is why I posted this. Manowar are not big music stars. If they thought fans are there just to admire them they would give a fuck about the sound system, but Joey knows that the fans are not there to admire them, they want to have an experience. A top notch musical experience at the day of the concert.

By: Shuger

Shuger — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:29:18 +0000

ClawBug: it’s just that big music stars sometimes become so assured of their own greatness that they think fans are somthing lesser, that fans are only supposed to admire the star’s awesomness. In that case they can call them stupid.
I’m not talking about Manowar here, i don’t really know much about them, there’s simply to many good metal bands to listen to them all 😀