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Musical Geeks Mine 8-Bit Sound

Written by TParker

Thursday, 13 October 2005

There is a nifty piece over at Wired.com about musicians using old technology to make new music. Called "8-bit style" or "vintage techno", these cats are coming up with new rock that sounds like it could've been in the sound track for PONG. Well, not quite that old... but, you get the picture.

Some Russian guy named Shulgin, is using an old 386DX PC with 8 megs of ram and a 40 gig hard drive to do his thang.

There is even a little doo-dad for the Nintendo GameBoy that turns it into a 4-bit music "powerhouse"... or something. Can't wait to jack that into my studio. :bozo

Click here to read the article over at Wired.com.

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Studio Jargon

Reverberation

A complex of many reflected sounds occurring in an enclosed space such as a building or cave. The effect is often confused with echo which, strictly, is a discrete repeat of a sound event. Reverberation occurs to some extent in any place where a sound can occur, but is most noticeable in very large places with many hard reflective surfaces which are at complex angles to one another, such as large churches etc. Most people are able to recognise particular types or reverberation and can associate these with imaginary rooms of varying sizes. Devices for the artificial creation of reverberation ( sometimes called "room simulation") have been available for some time. Initially based on electromechanical devices such as reverb springs or reverb plates, these are now usually digital devices. Several distinct phases are observed in the evolution of a reverberative sound and these include pre delay, early reflections, high & low frequency damping, decay.

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