Between trying to get the ‘sfocata’ site finished, trying to record more stuff and trying to practise guitar more, I haven’t really had time for much else. So I’ll just use this entry to recommend a few interesting links…
If, like me, you have a hard time believing either the motives or justifications for a Bush/Blair war against Iraq, this article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution provides a worryingly plausible explanation. If it’s true, My Little Tony isn’t only gullible, he’s also being royally screwed.
On a totally different subject… aural fatigue is difficult to explain (especially to people who don’t listen to lots of music) but basically, brutal amounts of compression are used to increase the overall average levels on a lot of modern CDs, reducing the dynamic range (the distance between loudest and softest sounds) and distorting the sound. This easy-to-understand article comes by way of the rec.audio.pro newsgroup.
One of the worst recent culprits of digital distortion and over-compression was the Rush album Vapor Trails, which is described in a prorec.com article by Rip Rowan.