Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Mötley Crüe - Looks That Kill (1984)
One of the first music videos I can remember seeing - and to this day both my favorite video and one of my all time favorite hair metal bands!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Dismantling Henry Rollins, May 2008
HERE's the brand new episode of Heidi May's workplace harassment of Henry Rollins - Clip of the Month. This time Heidi's been drawing on Hank with a sharpie - much to her own amusement!Henry Rollins.com / The Henry Rollins Show / Harmony In My Head / Rollins Archive / Henry Rollins @ IMDb / Henry Rollins @ Wikipedia
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Dismantling Henry Rollins, February 2008
If you haven't all ready seen it, HERE's the February edition of Heidi May's behind the scenes look at Henry Rollins - Clip of the Month. In this episode we get to see how Hank makes his coffee - the black and strong kind! Looking forward to the new episode for March, but Henry is on tour now so it's probably coming later this month.Henry Rollins.com / The Henry Rollins Show / Harmony In My Head / Rollins Archive / Henry Rollins @ IMDb / Henry Rollins @ Wikipedia
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The Runaways - School Days (1978)
The Runaways performing their hit song "School Days" live at a German TV show in 1978.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Dismantling Henry Rollins, Episode 2
Episode two of Heidi May's hilarious documentary series "Dismantling Henry Rollins" was just made available over at HenryRollins.com - check it out HERE!Henry Rollins.com / The Henry Rollins Show / Harmony In My Head / Rollins Archive / Henry Rollins @ IMDb / Henry Rollins @ Wikipedia
Monday, November 19, 2007
Bad Religion - New Dark Ages
The brand new video for "New Dark Ages", of Bad Religion's latest album "New Maps of Hell".
Download the AVI version HERE!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
South Park - Guitar Queer-O (Season 11 Episode 13, 2007)
As both a Guitar Hero and South Park fanatic this latest episode of SP really made my day."Obsessed with the Guitar Hero video game, Stan and Kyle make a great team and score record points when they play. Stan realizes he has the potential for enormous success if he plays with another partner. He and Kyle break up but, without his friend, Stan quickly folds under the pressure of being a rockstar".
Download (173 Mb): MegaUpload / Streaming: South Park X
South Park Studios / South Park @ Comedy Central / South Park @ IMDb / South Park @ Wikipedia / South Park X
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Loudness War
The phrase loudness war (or loudness race) refers to the music industry's tendency to record, produce and broadcast music at progressively increasing levels of loudness to create a sound that stands out from others. This phenomenon can be observed in many areas of the music industry, particularly broadcasting and albums released on CD and DVD. In the case of CDs, the war stems from a desire to create CDs that sound as loud as possible or louder than CDs from competing artists or recording labels.
However, as the maximum amplitude of a CD cannot be increased, the overall loudness can only be increased by reducing the dynamic range and distorting or clipping the waveform of the recording.
Initially, a loudness war started between FM stations competing for listener ratings. Subsequently, record labels began increasing the loudness of their releases, both on vinyl and on CD, resulting in a volume "arms race". The main reason for this practice is that when comparing two recordings with different levels, it is likely that the louder one will be regarded as sounding better. This can be attributed to the way in which the human ear responds to sound pressure at different levels: as our ability to respond to sound frequencies change according to differences in sound pressure level (SPL), the more the SPL increases, the greater the amount of low and high frequency content we perceive. Music with higher levels is easily heard and understood in noisy environments such as: riding a car, a train, or walking on a busy city street. Higher levels can also result in subjectively better sounding recordings on low quality reproduction systems such as: web audio formats, AM radio, mono television and telephones. Compounding this loudness problem is the fact that artists are more inclined to request that their mastered CDs match the loudness level of top contemporary CDs.
Apart from audiophiles and hi-fi enthusiasts, this practice has been condemned by several recording industry professionals including Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer Doug Sax, engineer Geoff Emerick (noted for his work with The Beatles from Revolver to Abbey Road), and many others. Even Bob Dylan has condemned the practice, saying "You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like – static."
If a CD is broadcast by a radio station, the station will apply its own signal processing, which further reduces the dynamic range of the broadcast material to closely match levels of absolute amplitude, regardless of the original record loudness.
Opponents have also called for immediate changes in the music industry regarding the level of loudness. In August 2006, the vice-president of A&R for One Haven Music, a Sony Music company, in an open letter decrying the "loudness wars" claimed that mastering engineers are being forced against their will or are preemptively making releases louder in order to get the attention of industry heads. Some music bands are being petitioned to re-release CDs with less distortion. This may indicate a general public discontent to this practice, and a call to put an end to the "Loudness War".
Source: Wikipedia
More on the subject:
What Happened to Dynamic Range?
Dynamics & Dynamic Range
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
How CDs Are Remastering the Art of Noise
The Loudness War
Loudness
However, as the maximum amplitude of a CD cannot be increased, the overall loudness can only be increased by reducing the dynamic range and distorting or clipping the waveform of the recording.
Initially, a loudness war started between FM stations competing for listener ratings. Subsequently, record labels began increasing the loudness of their releases, both on vinyl and on CD, resulting in a volume "arms race". The main reason for this practice is that when comparing two recordings with different levels, it is likely that the louder one will be regarded as sounding better. This can be attributed to the way in which the human ear responds to sound pressure at different levels: as our ability to respond to sound frequencies change according to differences in sound pressure level (SPL), the more the SPL increases, the greater the amount of low and high frequency content we perceive. Music with higher levels is easily heard and understood in noisy environments such as: riding a car, a train, or walking on a busy city street. Higher levels can also result in subjectively better sounding recordings on low quality reproduction systems such as: web audio formats, AM radio, mono television and telephones. Compounding this loudness problem is the fact that artists are more inclined to request that their mastered CDs match the loudness level of top contemporary CDs.
Apart from audiophiles and hi-fi enthusiasts, this practice has been condemned by several recording industry professionals including Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer Doug Sax, engineer Geoff Emerick (noted for his work with The Beatles from Revolver to Abbey Road), and many others. Even Bob Dylan has condemned the practice, saying "You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like – static."
If a CD is broadcast by a radio station, the station will apply its own signal processing, which further reduces the dynamic range of the broadcast material to closely match levels of absolute amplitude, regardless of the original record loudness.
Opponents have also called for immediate changes in the music industry regarding the level of loudness. In August 2006, the vice-president of A&R for One Haven Music, a Sony Music company, in an open letter decrying the "loudness wars" claimed that mastering engineers are being forced against their will or are preemptively making releases louder in order to get the attention of industry heads. Some music bands are being petitioned to re-release CDs with less distortion. This may indicate a general public discontent to this practice, and a call to put an end to the "Loudness War".
Source: Wikipedia
More on the subject:
What Happened to Dynamic Range?
Dynamics & Dynamic Range
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
How CDs Are Remastering the Art of Noise
The Loudness War
Loudness
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Mr. Speed & Ace Frehley - Shock Me (2007)
Ace Frehley performing his signature song 'Shock Me' with Kiss tribute band Mr. Speed at the first anniversary party of the Kiss Coffeehouse at Myrtle Beach on June 16th. Ace is the king of rock!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Turbonegro - Do You Do You Dig Destruction
The brand spankin' new video from the Norway's deathpunk heroes Turbonegro!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Bad Religion - Webisode #1
Epitaph has released a new video from the 'New Maps of Hell' recording sessions - the video is also available for download HERE.
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