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Joshua Robertson sur Twitter : "The original five characters from Nuclear Throne! @vlambeer #nuclearthrone #pixelart #game #colourful #art #fanart. Metering. Audio metering is one of the most confusing and complex aspects of sound recording. Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns answers some of the most common questions on the topic. There are literally dozens of different audio metering systems in common use around the world — and they often appear to read completely differently when supposedly displaying the same audio signal! However, there are perfectly good reasons why this should be the case and the differences are mainly due to the historical development of the various metering systems and their interpretation.

Having said that, not all meters are equal and it's still a case of 'horses for courses' when choosing which system to use in particular applications. Q What are the meters really for? All audio material has a certain dynamic range — the difference between the highest and lowest acceptable levels. Q What's the difference between VU and PPM meters? Q Why do some meters have very different scales to others, and how do they compare? Maqam Rast Family. Extreme Metal. Technique : Recording / Mixing Extreme metal music demands, and expects, extreme skills from producers and engineers. In this in-depth masterclass we explain the techniques that go into crafting modern metal sounds. This is the first article in a two-part series. Read Part 2. Mark Mynett Modern extreme metal is anything but a passing fad. Slipknot have sold over 10 million albums without toning down their extreme metal sound.

Over their career, the band have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. However, extreme metal remains one of the most challenging styles to produce. This month will focus on the often misunderstood and undervalued area of pre-production, as well as the engineering and recording part of the process, with the next month’s article covering mixing. Pre-Production For obvious reasons, a record producer’s natural habitat is assumed to be the recording studio.

The Rehearsal Studio The initial meeting will more than likely take place in the band’s rehearsal room. Equipment. The Glyn Johns Drum Recording Method. When we think of professional drums being recorded in a studio our mind usually draws up images of complex mic techniques utilizing anywhere from 8 to 12 (or more) microphones. A combination of stereo overheads, close mics on each drum, as well as room mics seems to be the doctor’s orders for a modern, punchy drum sound. But today I want to highlight a famous technique for recording big drum sounds with minimal mics (4 to be exact), the Glyn Johns method. Who Is Glyn Johns? Glyn Johns is a british musician, engineer, and producer who most notably worked with Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, and even started his career assisting for The Beatles. Specifically all you need for this method are 2 overhead mics (ideally large diaphragm condensers), one kick mic (dynamic or condenser), and one snare mic (usually a dynamic).

It Starts With One Mono Overhead Now For Something Completely Different Kick And Snare To Round Things Out Final Thoughts To This Method. 6 Free E-Books on Learning to Program with Python. Python is an increasingly popular language, and it's also a favorite language teaching first time programmers. We've compiled a list of beginner's books to choose from. Just because they're free doesn't mean they aren't good.

Some of the books listed here have been used in courses such as MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming course and University of California, Davis' Basic Concepts of Programming course. A Byte of Python A Byte of Python is a beginner's book on Python by Swaroop C H. It's been used in several academic programs, such as the above mentioned UC Davis course, and by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It's available for both Python 2.X and 3.0, but only the 3.0 version is still updated. Learn Python the Hard Way Learn Python the Hard Way is a beginner's programming book written by Zed Shaw. Shaw is known as the creator of the Mongrel and Mongrel2 Web servers, and more recently as the author of this lively manifesto.

Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python See Also. Misc Research & Code | remote-exploit.org. Remote-Exploit: professional security research since 2001. Wyd wyd is a password profiling tool that extracts words/strings from supplied files and directories. It parses files according to the file-types and extracts the useful information, e.g. song titles, authors and so on from mp3's or descriptions and titles from images. It supports the following filetypes: plain, html, php, doc, ppt, mp3, pdf, jpeg, odp/ods/odp and extracting raw strings.

Download: wyd-0.2.tar.gz SHA-1: 45d8bceb158f0f0864be77b0869cc463f6813dc0 Psnuffle Psnuffle is a credentials sniffer module for the metasploit framework. It has been removed from our website because it is integrated into the metasploit svn now. You can get it using the command: svn co Busting The Bluetooth Myth During the last year, rumours had come to my attention that apparently it is possible to transform a standard 30USD Bluetooth® dongle into a full-blown Bluetooth® sniffer. CUPP v3 Download: cupp-3.0.tar.gz. Es:cracking_wpa. Version: 1.05 May 16, 2007 By: darkAudax Traducción: 22 de Agosto de 2007 Introducción Este manual trata sobre como obtener la clave WPA/WPA2 de una red en la que se usa un sistema de clave compartida (pre-shared keys). Es recomendable leer y aprender como funciona la encriptación WPA/WPA2. En el Wiki puedes encontrar una sección sobre WPA/WPA2. WPA/WPA2 tiene soporte para otros tipos de autenticación, además de clave compartida.

Hay otra diferencia importante entre crackear WPA/WPA2 y WEP. La única forma de obtener la clave es utilizando un diccionario. El hecho de tener que usar fuerza bruta es un inconveniente muy grande. No hay ninguna diferencia entre el crackeo de redes WPA o WPA2. Es recomendable que cada uno experimente con su propio punto de acceso wireless, para familiarizarse con estas ideas y técnicas. Antes de nada hay que darles las gracias a los Desarrolladores de la suite Aircrack-ng por crear estas herramientas tan fantásticas. Puntos de partida Suponemos que: Equipo usado. Sniffing on a raspberry pi | copy run start. So after a twitter back and forth with Craig Schnarrs (@the_wifi_guy) I felt it would be helpful to show others how I got sniffing working on my raspberry pi with a Tenda W311M usb wireless card.

This is going to be a “from scratch” deal since I don’t want to pooch my current install on another card and i’m writing this along with performing the actions so the output copies here accurately. Also note that I scrub a bunch of output from the cli because I don’t want a 50 page post. The input is left in there so you can cut and paste if needed. Here goes.. First I’m grabbing the latest and greatest rasbian wheezy build from the rpi page. I’m actually doing a wget in to my linux vm to get this started. Optionally you can wipe your flash drive if you move them around a lot like I do and might have extra garbage on there. Use fdisk and/or dmesg to figure out where my flash is and then dd to the target (this will take some time, 33 min in my case). Let’s compile and install (be patient) Enjoy! • View forum - Tutorials. Csound - General - Cabbage on Linux... The Canonical Csound Reference Manual. MIDI Programming - A Complete Study - Part 1 The Basics. Written by Stéphane Richard (Mystikshadows) What are MIDI files exactly?

We've all seen them at one point or another. These files have the .mid extension and hold data to play music, on a computer, through a sound card's Sound Synthesis electronics. If the sound card is of atleast good quality, MIDI files can play quite nicely. Not to mention that MIDI files hold the most amount of music related information in the smallest size. This is often the reason why they are used in games to hold musical sound tracks pertaining to the game. As we all know, FreeBASIC supports a library called FMOD which allows us to play MIDI files, however, this is not what this series is about. This first part of the series will cover some basic knowledge and concept about MIDI and MIDI files which will serve as background knowledge to build on in the other parts of the series.

General MIDI Level 1: This is the first Standard every created. F0 XX nn... Which can be read as: [F0 XX] [nn...] Tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q3_loudness_Camerer.pdf. Peer Production License. The peer production license is an example of the Copyfarleft type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity This version of the Peer Production License: a model for Copyfarleft was copied from the text "The Telekommunist Manifesto". Created by John Magyar, B.A., J.D. and Dmytri Kleiner, the following Peer Production License, a model for a Copyfarleft license, has been derived from the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike’ license available at a.

B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. Nothing in this License is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any uses free from copyright or rights arising from limitations or exceptions that are provided for in connection with the copyright protection under copyright law or other applicable laws. a. B. C. I. D. E. F. I. Ii. G. Introduction to OSC | opensoundcontrol.org. Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology.

Bringing the benefits of modern networking technology to the world of electronic musical instruments, OSC's advantages include interoperability, accuracy, flexibility, and enhanced organization and documentation. This simple yet powerful protocol provides everything needed for real-time control of sound and other media processing while remaining flexible and easy to implement. Features: Open-ended, dynamic, URL-style symbolic naming schemeSymbolic and high-resolution numeric argument dataPattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single messageHigh resolution time tags"Bundles" of messages whose effects must occur simultaneouslyQuery system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation Highlights OSC Research at CNMAT. Www.ociocritico.com/oc/blogs/gato/wp-content/images/elhijo.pdf.

FLAC - format. This is a detailed description of the FLAC format. There is also a companion document that describes FLAC-to-Ogg mapping. For a user-oriented overview, see About the FLAC Format. Table of Contents Acknowledgments FLAC owes much to the many people who have advanced the audio compression field so freely. For instance: A. It is a known fact that no algorithm can losslessly compress all possible input, so most compressors restrict themselves to a useful domain and try to work as well as possible within that domain. Within the audio domain, there are many possible subdomains.

Architecture Similar to many audio coders, a FLAC encoder has the following stages: Blocking. Definitions Many terms like "block" and "frame" are used to mean different things in differenct encoding schemes. Block: One or more audio samples that span several channels. The size used for blocking the audio data has a direct effect on the compression ratio. Interchannel Decorrelation Independent. Prediction Verbatim. Format. GDC Vault. Tala (music) A tala is a regular, repeating rhythmic phrase, particularly as rendered on a percussive instrument with an ebb and flow of various intonations represented as a theka, a sequence of drum-syllables or bol.

Indian classical music, both northern and southern, has complex, all-embracing rules for the elaboration of possible patterns and each such pattern has its own name, though in practice a few talas are very common while others are rare. The most common instrument for keeping rhythm in Hindustani music is the tabla, while in Carnatic music it is the mridangam (also transliterated as mridang). Examples of bol, notation and additive counting in Hindustani classical music The first beat of any tala, called sam (pronounced as the English word 'sum' and meaning even or equal, archaically meaning nil) is always the most important and heavily emphasised.

Carnatic music uses various classification systems of tālas such as the Chapu (4 talas), Chanda (108 talas) and Melakarta (72 talas). Tihai. How to Make a Raspberry Pi Web Server. Tolkien, l'anneau de la discorde. LE MONDE CULTURE ET IDEES | • Mis à jour le | Par Raphaëlle Rérolle C'est un cas rare, pour ne pas dire exceptionnel : à une époque où la plupart des gens vendraient leur âme pour faire parler d'eux, Christopher Tolkien ne s'est pas exprimé dans les médias depuis quarante ans.

Pas d'entretien, pas de déclaration, pas de conférence – rien. Une décision prise à la mort de son père, auteur du célébrissime Seigneur des anneaux (The Lord of the Rings, trois volumes parus en 1954 et 1955) et l'un des écrivains les plus lus dans le monde, avec environ 150 millions de livres vendus et des traductions dans 60 langues. Caprice ? Certainement pas. A 87 ans, le fils du Britannique John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) est l'homme le plus posé qui soit.

Non, la fière réserve de Christopher Tolkien a une autre cause : l'écart vertigineux, presque un abîme, qui s'est creusé entre les écrits de son père et leur postérité commerciale, dans laquelle il ne se reconnaît pas. Microsoft WAVE soundfile format. The WAVE file format is a subset of Microsoft's RIFF specification for the storage of multimedia files. A RIFF file starts out with a file header followed by a sequence of data chunks.

A WAVE file is often just a RIFF file with a single "WAVE" chunk which consists of two sub-chunks -- a "fmt " chunk specifying the data format and a "data" chunk containing the actual sample data. Call this form the "Canonical form". Who knows how it really all works. I use the standard WAVE format as created by the sox program: Offset Size Name Description The canonical WAVE format starts with the RIFF header: 0 4 ChunkID Contains the letters "RIFF" in ASCII form (0x52494646 big-endian form). 4 4 ChunkSize 36 + SubChunk2Size, or more precisely: 4 + (8 + SubChunk1Size) + (8 + SubChunk2Size) This is the size of the rest of the chunk following this number. As an example, here are the opening 72 bytes of a WAVE file with bytes shown as hexadecimal numbers: Notes: General discussion of RIFF files: References:

How You Can Make Big Money Importing From China – The Rise and Fall of My Empire… My very first profitable business was importing products from China and selling them online – mainly through Amazon & eBay. I started out with counterfeits at 12-years old, and by the time I was 17 I had built multiple different e-commerce brands into an empire I was proud of. I was incredibly confused when I was first getting started. I had hundreds of questions racing around my head: A couple hundred dollars worth of imports What product should I sell first? When you’re trying to start a new business from scratch, you’ll find your mind running in circles unless you have a clear direction to run into… So my goal is to make this the definitive A-Z guide to starting an importing & e-commerce business from scratch.

I’ll give you every step of the process, and also give some insights on the ‘why’ behind my strategy. Finally – I encourage you to follow this guide step-by-step, and to avoid jumping around. Basic Overview: Your Roadmap First things first, let’s wrap our heads around the concept… Compilation of threads on importing goods from Overseas (including tips on using Ali Baba) : Entrepreneur. Step-by-Step Guide on How To Find A Profitable Product To Sell. A Grammar of Ithkuil, a Constructed Philosophical Language. Cloruro Sónico (1987-1989) Fanzine de música experimental. EX LIBRIS. Synth Secrets, Part 5: Further With Filters. Great String Parts On A Budget. Jazz Resource Center. Tonos virtuales y análisis armónico.