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In Reply to: RE: Could, might, possibly, can, maybe. posted by Bill Way on May 03, 2016 at 00:23:37
This has been studied in depth since many decades ago. I'm not trying to side-step the opportunity to cite a couple of research sources, but it's been so long ago that I studied it, that I'd have to do some serious digging to find them. In fact, I just now googled "sonic memory", and got a pageful of hits for our good buddy Sonic the Hedgehog. LOL But you can go way back to Bell Labs, RCA, and several universities to find original research on the topic. The archives of the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society will likely contain some papers on it.I'm not talking about remembering a nuanced note sung or played by a favorite musician. (I can still recognize Bette Midler's sexy breathy voice singing to me in about one syllable of "Do You Want To Dance?". ;) ) I'm talking about our lack of ability to reliably compare the tonality of a sound to that of another very similar sound, more than a few moments later.
On a related thought, you may be aware of the story of the two guys in a studio control room, trying to tweak the sound of a recording. One guy is twiddling knobs and explaining what he's changing. Eventually, the other guy says, "Yeah, there! That's better!" None of the controls were in the signal path.
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We would often do the same exact thing to an executive once we realized he was there to simply "be an executive" and didn't know what the fuck he was talking about.
OK.. we will jut raise the level at the 20k range... is that better? ::do nothing:: Little more bass? ::do nothing:: Little more? ::raise the volume:: Then the executive would get that "THIS IS ONLY TOGETHER BECAUSE I AM HERE" face and leave us the hell alone.
Yeah, I hear ya.I briefly sold personal computers. The store manager was a fired air traffic controller who didn't know squat about sales or retail. His buddy, Rich Murray, who was also a fired ATC, was the area manager and got him the job. Rich didn't know squat about sales or retail, either. Apparently, I pissed off Ron (the store manager) one too many times by trying to tell him how to run a retail store (I had several years of experience and great sales training). In an employee evaluation session, Rich told me that I would never be a store manager, 'cause they didn't like me and I was pissing them off. The company is now out of business. But, one of my customers had hired me away from them to teach computer classes. Hey, I can't save everyone!
My inability to deal with "superiors" in a successful manner is partly why I haven't had a job in 30 (that's 30, with a "3") years.
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