Samuel Fischmann
Sam is the technical co-founder of Musik Hack, and a seasoned software developer whose portfolio spans audio/DSP, Web development, data analytics, and embedded systems. He’s also a composer and longtime musician. Sam is obsessed with building creative, functional, major-label-quality products that don’t look like airplane cockpits, and helping spread the joy of music through more intuitive approaches to DSP. If you ask nicely, he can also cook up a mean marinara...
Measure for Measure: The Loudness Wars
Status: Not yet available - Stay tuned!In one of the most public battles between measure and experience, the loudness wars in music drags on through a new era of streaming, transcoding, reproduction, and international standards bodies.
While the arguments shift, how is it that years of analysis, research, and proposed standards have not changed the prevailing attitudes of working mixing and mastering engineers that, quite simply, "Loud is good?"
Could it be that they understand something missed in the lab? Is there a set of measurements that would settle the war once and for all? Might there be a conceptual framework that works for us all?
A Practical Guide to Audio Distortion
Status: Available NowWhen talking about "distortion," we often throw it into one of two buckets: an undesirable quality squashed as low as possible to impress fastidious audio engineers, or a revered sound transmutation that imparts mythical qualities to otherwise drab sounds. How can it be that these are the same animal?
This talk provides practical understanding for audio engineers, enthusiasts, and programmers of the two most fundamental types of audio distortion: harmonic and intermodulation. You'll learn what these distortions are and how they relate to basic math, dispel some common myths, better understand measurements, and gain conceptual tools to push your sound in new directions.