User talk:Atlantictire

Question regarding Roland Space Echo and Echoplex

Are they just capable of analog delay and tape echo or is there more to it than that? Do they come with reverb? What are the differences between the two units? Whathitz (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

They're delay and echo, but they're not capable of reverb. I don't know enough about the two units to tell you what the specific difference is.--Atlantictire (talk) 19:26, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

So can the difference between delay and echo be compared to that of overdrive and distortion? Silly question I know. Whathitz (talk) 06:23, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Not sure. I they're essentially the same thing, although there may be more time variability with delay. Don't quote me on that.--Atlantictire (talk) 18:00, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Audio EQ & linear filter

Hi, I've had too much other work and haven't had time to do any work on the article (but saw a few things that I needed to deal with, beyond the additions I already had in mind). But I have a bit more time and will get back to it now. You asked:

"is it overly simplistic/wrong to say that the parameter (amplitude, frequency, phase) modified by a linear filter is directly proportional to that of the input?"

Well amplitude and phase are varied, but when talking about spectrum or transfer function, frequency is an independent variable (that is, it doesn't have a specific value but any value you choose to consider). So it would be more correct to say that the amplitude at any frequency is multiplied by the frequency response at that frequency (thus directly proportional to the input amplitude, as you say) and the phase varied by adding the phase of the transfer function at that frequency. I could try to write something in the article to that effect but will word it more simply. In fact I could easily make a diagram showing the spectra of the input, output and transfer function. But I haven't (yet) had any experience in uploading images (I just look for ones already present) but need to learn to do that sooner or later anyway.

On a similar subject, I would consider it useful to upload some audio files, as are present in some articles, with a short sample of music before and after particular filters. Again, I have no experience uploading those. Furthermore before making those (which won't be hard) I need to figure out what I can use that wouldn't pose a copyright concern. Would taking a 10 second clip from a pop song be considered "fair use?" Or do I need to find a musician to do an original performance and get a release statement? -- Interferometrist (talk) 12:54, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Re fair use: I know you're allowed to upload snippets of copywrited song to articles about the songs, but I don't know if you could, say, use a 15 second sample of "Living On a Prayer" in the Talk Box article. My best guess would be you can't.

Actually I didn't find the audio clip in the Talk Box article but only in the article for the song itself (which didn't contain the talk box segment but I listened to the whole song elsewhere to refresh my memory!). And by the way, a talk box, come to think of it, IS an example of audio filtering (yes, a linear filter!) where the filter consists of the person's mouth cavity (like the jaw-harp). But anyway, if you don't think use of a song clip in this manner would be legal then it shouldn't be hard to get a musician to produce such a clip and then it could also be more directly suited to illustrate what the article is trying to say. I'd pass the sound through a few different filters (which I could implement on the computer) showing those filter's frequency responses (and specifying their parameters). I have written a quick draft of such a section (but without the figures that I would add after obtaining the music file) which I uploaded to my subpage: User:Interferometrist/AudioFilter. Finishing the audio and image files will take a bit of work but I'd probably have time later next week or so.

So I guess I should ask you: are you a musician? :-) Or at least in a position to play a few notes (perhaps on a piano, say) and sing something (sounding much better than I would!) that could be used?

Ok, so a basic linear filter used in audio equalization is just something that determines the frequency response of a signal

I would say that it modifies the frequency content of the signal, as explained in what I wrote (tell me if it makes sense to you, and to the average reader).

(i.e. how loud the sound is at a given frequency). It sounds like either dB or frequency can be independent variables.

Uh, no.... I don't know if you really want a mathematical explanation of terms. But an "independent variable" is something that you just specify as you please in order to find out what the dependent variable is at that point. For instance, if you are measuring altitude above sea level, your independent variables would be latitude and longitude, and at every specified location, you have a particular altitude (the dependent variable) which corresponds to that position. Most of those don't apply to Joe who is at point A, but setting the independent variable to point A will give you Joe's altitude. Thus setting the frequency to 440Hz will give you the amplitude of the middle A (perhaps zero, until someone hits that note on the piano) and the value of a filter's frequency response (dependent variable) AT 440Hz will tell you just how much that note will be boosted or attenuated when it is played through the system. Likewise for every other frequency that could be played (including the harmonics of those notes, so that the filter also changes their sound -- I would have said "tone"). Does that make sense? -- Interferometrist (talk) 21:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Why is Harmonizer redirected to PitchShift ?

A Harmonizer is a 19" rack mounted effects unit manufactured by Eventide Clockworks Inc., NY, USA in the early 1970's. The Eventide Harmonizer H910 includes two digital delays and an Anti-Feedback channel. http://www.eventide.com/Home/Eventide/AudioDivision/Products/PlugIns/H910H949Video.aspx (roll video forward to 00:55) I wondered why Harmonizer has been redirected to Pitch Shift, because it does much more than just pitch shift. 82.11.121.200 (talk) 08:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Because it's a kind of pitch shifter.--Atlantictire (talk) 22:38, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

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Replying to your comment on my talk page. I am not an administrator. I closed that deletion discussion AFTER an administrator had deleted the article, because he neglected to close the AfD after doing so. I have looked at the articles you mentioned. I don't see either as qualifying for speedy deletion as advertising, but they possibly could qualify for regular deletion under notability. I would just let the normal deletion process run its course. Safiel (talk) 20:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for standing requesting the deletion review of the odious accents article, and standing your ground against inclusionists prepared to accept any sort of tripe as encyclopedic. Drmargi (talk) 18:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --◅ PRODUCER (TALK) 21:49, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, as you did at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 March 14, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Besides your comment being a pretty blatant personal attack, it totally does not pertain: deletion review is to discuss whether a particular discussion was closed properly, not whether some article strikes you as wrong. Drmies (talk) 23:25, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Please see this article Jewish Bolshevism. It is clearly marked as Antisemitism. How does it differ from Jews and Communism, and why in the world that second article should have been written in the first place? BTW surprise, surprise the very same PRODUCER calls it "nonsense" that Jewish Bolshevism is tagged as a part of a series on Antisemitism. Please make no mistake the article written by PRODUCER is antisemitic, just as youtube video is, and in case you doubt what kind of people write such articles and upload such videos, please take a look at the first video by the same user. That Youtube user is worse than just a bigot, he is the Holocaust denier. 50.174.101.232 (talk) 18:23, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

I think we're going to need to have a wider discussion, because this does seem to me like it's really about bigots getting crafty and exploiting the rules. I'm not Jewish, but I do use the internet, and am unfortunately more familiar with the Zionist Banker Jew Communist conspiracy theories than I would like to be. It is absolutely not ok for someone to create a page called Jews and Communism, whose primary purpose seems to be to advance the idea that Jews dominate communist movements. I've never accused anyone of anti-Semitism on Wikipedia before, so I have no idea how else you talk about patent anti-Semitism than to call it what it is. Drmies care to comment?--Atlantictire (talk) 19:10, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

I block you for referring to editors as bigots, and you respond by calling editors bigots. This doesn't need a wider discussion--"the bigots getting crafty and exploiting the rules". Who was that you were referring to? Drmies (talk) 21:13, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Drmies, initially I was referring to whoever created the Jews and Communism article. The content is familiar to anyone who has had the misfortune of encountering Jew Banker Zionist Communist conspiracy theories. As the anonymous poster on my page pointed out it's ugly ugly stuff, and with a side helping of Holocaust denial. The people who advocate this are bigots and they should not be welcome here. If PRODUCER created that page then he is a bigot. No one should be punished for saying that.--Atlantictire (talk) 21:25, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Drmies, like the offending Wikipedia article Jew Watch aims not to investigate communism as a movement which has historically appealed to impoverished and oppressed people, which  early 20th century Jews admittedly often were, but to give the misleading impression that it has a specifically Jewish character or somehow appeals more to Jews than other communities of humans. http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-communists.html

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Hello. There is currently a thread on WP:ANI that may concern you. Regards, -- Director (talk) 21:55, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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I'm actually not going to ask to be unblocked but to have my account closed permenantly. The fact that PRODUCER/DIREKTOR succeeded in having me blocked means he's won. You have an Anti-Semite you can't call an Anti-Semite and a sockpuppet you can't call a sockpuppet. It was very important to me to not allow anti-Semitism to go unchallenged, but I see now that you have to be nice to it and afford it the courtesy you would an honest well-intentioned person. And believe me,it will constantly remind you of this and report you the second you don't.Atlantictire (talk) 01:22, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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Your account can't be closed permanently. Some administrators will indefinitely block a user in response to their request. You can, of course, just stop editing here. You might also look at WP:VANISH, but given that you would be leaving not "in good standing", a request to vanish would probably be denied. There may be other options I'm either unaware of or are not coming to me at the moment. Other administrators who pass through here may have views on the issue.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

No Bbb23, I'm not going to be polite about this. I'm required to be nice to someone who when you plug their quotes from their source material into Google you get hits for David Duke's book and white supremist sites. I'm not gonna call that something other than what it is. Fuck that. It's only going to get more prissy, more entitled and more arrogant.--Atlantictire (talk) 01:37, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Be careful with your comments here, or I'll revoke access to your talk page. This is not a platform for you to continue your crusade.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:42, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Guess what Bbb23. Eat my fuck. You enable Anti-Semites.--Atlantictire (talk) 01:44, 21 March 2014 (UTC)