Actually some months back I asked Jam to ask you to give me a call to talk about something along those lines. You refused.
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Because I wanted to talk to you specifically. I wasn't looking for you to do something for me, I was wanting to do something for you.
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I've just chanced upon a PhD dissertation by Bernd Gottinger, who apparently hasn't been mentioned on the forum yet - this work has the intriguing name of "Rethinking Distortion: Towards a Theory of 'sonic Signatures' ", and, yes, it's precisely aiming at the very topic that is endlessly thrashed upon here, and on other threads ... mentioning many names of key people in the 'game'.
To give a flavour of the piece ...
Being a Google Books preview a lot of good stuff can't be seen; however, there is plenty enough there to get a good impression of the points being made ...
To give a flavour of the piece ...
A quite solid, chewy chunk of material is available to read from page 90 onwards ...
Being a Google Books preview a lot of good stuff can't be seen; however, there is plenty enough there to get a good impression of the points being made ...
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So why don't you take my call and hear me out? We could be the strangest bedfellows ever.
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That looks pretty interesting, and to some extent remarkable being accepted for a PhD in music. I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the oral defense.
I have only just glanced over some of the early pages, but I can't help chuckling about the term sonic signature. I've forgotten the name of the guy that used to work with Peter Qvortrup at Audio Note (or maybe he still does) but he told my friend Don that you shouldn't have too many of the same type tube in an amplifier, and Don summarized this advice by using the phrase "sonic signature buildup", which made me giggle as it sounded like an ad for laundry detergent --- along the lines of "ring around the collar". What's a mother to do???
Humor aside I might actually buy that from the archive service, if I can't get enough out of the preview excerpts.
So why don't you take my call and hear me out? We could be the strangest bedfellows ever.
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Is there a way I can unsee that?
Well I got sucked in and ordered it. I read enough to figure it would provide at least amusement about the overarching scope, and read too much before Google previews cut me off. I did want to see what he actually had to say about the design of electronics, but I spent my freebies on preceding material.
I sent the link to Toole and Olive, and I'll be most curious to get their reactions.
I'd rather have been on his committee. I got a copy through... irregular means and read enough to know that he starts out with some severe misconceptions about signal theory and perception, which professors of EE and psychology would have caught. He chose his major well- professors of music wouldn't generally be aware of these things. But having good criticisms at the pre-oral stage would have made this a much better piece of work.
I can see why some might like this- after 450 pages of gassing, he provides exactly no experimental support for his "theory." References to Bruno Latour are also a "tell."
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