nikp
Headphoneus Supremus
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I agree with Uncle Erik. Drunk listening is a bit (maybe a lot) off topic.
Ok so I have got myself inebriated just for this thread and done 2 tests in my car. The first with a dirty windscreen and one with a clean one.
On a neutral scale whilst sound is much much better after a few bevies the staging has become a lot more obvious. My sub installed in the glovebox (uk right hqnd drive car)on a 45hz LPF and 30db slope is now suddenly dragging the stage down and left giving the effect of the mid and high range the same effect. "But" the sound is so damn smooth. Th degredatation (percieved break up) is close to non existent.
Then I clean the window which was covered in the last weeks dirt and flies. On the negative staging becomes worse, especially left centre on a track with a german guy saying the positions as they should appear (for anybody interested this is the EMMA 2010 sound quality judging disk). Degradation on the other hand is as smoothe as you like. This is saying that I am much more open to visual suggestion than when sober.
So I can scientifically say that drunk with a stripper performing in centre stage then your on to a winner.
Were you still drunk when you wrote this?
BTW, I can unequivocally say that regardless of how things sound when drunk, everything sounds like crap now that I'm hung over. Time to pop another excedrin
I understand why this rule exists but it's a little restrictive when discussing legitimate issues. We know for example how certain substances have influenced entire musical and artistic movements, for example; psychedelia, acid house and much club music. But substances like laudanum (opiate based) were influencing the composition of classical music in the C19th. In the C20th composers like John Cage developed whole new philosophies of music and it's composition, largely influenced by let's say "altered states of reality".
My experience taught me that while music I was trying to mix and produce sounded fantastic at the time, I invariably had to throw it all away the next day, when the cold light of day exposed how my perception had been deceived.
Hope this isn't an "illegal" post but I thought some legitimate discussion would be acceptable? Let me know if not and I'll remove it.
G
Many a performance has been helped by drinking. Funny how mixing does not share the trend.