what are you doing, Dave?

MP3 Inventor Demonstrates First Working Laser Mic. Cool.
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar (2 comments total)

For a guy that knows so much about audio, you'd think he'd know where to put the lavaliere so that it doesn't pick up the sound of his head turning.
posted by davejay at 6:56 PM on September 24, 2009

"Mary had a little lamb," the Utah Teapot of recording.

Upon viewing a proto-MIDI:

Schwartz posed the question to himself: what’s the difference between natural sound recorded digitally, and synthetic data of that music? “That got me going on audio compression,” he says. “There had to be a way of representing music with fewer bits.”

Which is like, yikes at some fundamental level. Its like saying "why does it take so much work to get this score out of an orchestra, must be some inefficiencies" and being right.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:57 AM on August 3, 2015