• can@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago


      xkcd 1683

      Title text: “If you can read this, congratulations—the archive you’re using still knows about the mouseover text”!

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        3 months ago

        Close but the whole thing needs to be a progression of screen grab of phone cam shot of desktop monitor with full moire interference lines

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Terry Pratchett writes about this, how there is a difference between the sound of someone not being there and the sound of someone hiding and not making any noise.

    He often writes about how things like bird song can be a type of silence and how a train that always passes at the same time every night, not passing at that time, can wake you up from its absence.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      I used to live right next to a big ol’ belltower. It’d chime every hour and on special days, it’d be chiming throughout the day. A friend came to stay and was baffled at how I could sleep and work through it all

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    True silence is usually not an issue though, but there might be other reasons to record the silent room. Like getting the impulse response data, aligning the DC offset or getting the noise profile for noise reduction.

    In other words: It’s mostly used a reference rather than the explanation given in the post.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, what this person is referring to is called “room tone”, it’s not silence.

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    As someone who has done plenty of sound recordist work, it’s known as ‘room tone.’

    Also, I feel seen because I’ve had to explain that so many times. Even to people who really should know.