It Sounds Good

In the end, the only way to tell if you are mixing properly, beyond going to a professional studio, is to burn a CD of your music and listen to it on your target system. Compare your mix with other CDs that you like. Is the bass all you can hear at reasonable volumes Can people who don t know the words to your song understand the vocal parts Pick CDs in the same genre as your music, listen to them, and set up the volume, equalization, and balance the way you like it. Position a chair in the sweet spot. Listen. Pop in your CD. Listen. Ask your friends. Listen. 

One word of caution, however Just as some music is good and some bad, so some mixing on commercial CDs is good and some is bad. Don t compare your mixes to just any CD—carefully pick a few standards that you really like. Finally, to trump everything that comes before or after this sentence in this book, remember what Duke Ellington said (and Peter Schickele oft quotes)  

The Input Modules on the mixer are where the various instruments and microphones are plugged in. They correspond to ACID tracks, each of which also has a part of the total mix in the form of a media file or loop. Along the top of each Input Module you may find a piece of masking tape with the name of the input. Of course, ACID tracks can easily he renamed without a magic marker. 

As with real-world mixers, each track in ACID has a fader that is used to control the volume and panning. ACID tracks also have an FX button for effects and EQ, Solo, and Mute buttons, just as boards in the real world often do. 

The Master output controls the final volume. Final equalization and FX can be added to the mix at this point. The fader on the busses in the Mixer window have two halves, one for each stereo channel, left and right. 

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It sounds good on paper," I admitted, "but Tm not sure it works in practice."... 

It sounds unarguable, but I want to argue it. I didn t think I would thought, if anything, that it would be good to shed the last scraps of my English life. But it isn t, because that means... shedding the last scraps of my memories of Mark. 

That sounded good but what he did was to hire Dr. Herb Copelan, a private practice, non-research-oriented internist, on a part-time basis. This was less than optimal, but it was easy to understand how difficult it was to find a fully trained psychopharmacologist willing to take on a temporary prison job (wifh no retirement benefits). Since Kligman had corrected most of fhe remaining deficiencies, I had no further complaints. 

While the proposed tax referendum sounds good, it s actually bad news for most citizens of Algonc uin county. It will not reduce taxes for middle-inoome families. In fact, middle-income families with children will pay 10% more per year, and families without ohildren will pay 20% more. Further, the referendum actually decreases taxes for the wealthiest tax braoket. In faot, taxpayers in the highest inoome bracket will pay 107o less per year if the referendum is passed. 

Non-obviousness (inventiveness) means that the invention/innovation process must not be something that would be immediately obvious to somebody skilled in the art. Non-obviousness, although it sounds straightforward, is often a difficult concept to apply in practice. Obviousness could be described as a simple and logical progression of prior art, thus non-obviousness requires an additional ingredient of inspiration or often chanced good luck. 

I was fighting to get on medication,, In high school I was extremely depressed and I reached out for help, and as a sixteen-, seventeen-year-old high school student, it s hard, Fm male [and] it s hard to do that. And I was at the point where I would have just taken anything to make myself feel better, I mean, if they could give me a pill, I would be happy. Sounds good to me,, , It could be seen as an easy way out, but,, I didn t know of any other way, (male peace activist, aged 22)... 

It is good practice to pre-specify in the protocol, or certainly in the statistical analysis plan, the statistical method to be used for analysis for each of the endpoints within the confirmatory part of the trial. This avoids the potential for bias at the analysis stage, which could arise if a method were chosen, for example, which maximised the treatment difference. As a consequence changing the method of analysis following unblinding of the study in an unplanned way, even if there seem sound statistical reasons for doing so, is problematic. Such a switch could only be supported if there was a clear algorithm contained within the statistical analysis plan which specified the rules for the switch. An example of this would be as follows ... 

Blender Solution". Try 6 oz tuna, 1 oz whey protein, 8 oz diet coke. Ya, it sounds bad but actually they taste pretty good and it supplies 60 GMS of protein. 

While market-driven research often sounds good in practice, it can be misused or it leads companies, once they become established, to lack innovation. The question to put in front of the panel is whether there are any ways that companies can address that possibility so that they don t fall into this incrementalism. 

The periodic table answers the question what are things made of If it sounds like something a small child might ask, it is good to remember that the answer was not obvious for thousands of years of human history. Before the question was answered, the periodic table did not exist, even in the imaginations of the most thoughtful scientists. 

Believable claims. If it is not believable or cannot be validated by a reliable and credible source, the user should beware. As the old saying goes, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. ... 

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