define: perfect sync


thats like the least punk rock thing ive ever seen.

^^ would like to see the mixing board for that show.

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Incorrect. The real mixing board for it all.

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I was just about to say that that's actually a lot closer to reality these days.

This is how you mix stuff like sports arenas


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I have seen enough fake ass dj's rockin dusty beats to know how these new kids are doing it.

Best thing I saw today

Joe, I found your problem:

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In the context of music, it means that two or more instruments are played in proper time with one another (what an electrical engineer might describe as "freq locked and in phase") such that notes which correspond in time within the original composition are either generated simultaneously (in the case of electronic or electronically-amplified instrument) or arrive simultaneously at some point such as a common microphone, a listener, etc (in the case of un-amplified, acoustic instruments).

In the context of video, it means that two or more signals arriving at a device (such as a switcher) are time-aligned such that the beginning of each frame arrives at precisely the same moment from all sources at the destination device. This is necessary in order to cleanly switch, dissolve, key, etc., between different sources. To achieve this, frequency is aligned by feeding each source device a common reference clock from a single source (typically a 29.97 Hz pulse*), and phase is aligned by some combination of varying cable lengths and electronic delays.

It can also indicate that the audio and video portions of a common performance are time-aligned with one another. This is commonly called "lip-sync", even if the material in question is not a mouth. For instance, when watching a baseball game on television, we expect to hear the "crack" of a bat striking a pitched ball at the same time that we see the bat make contact with the ball, despite the fact that these two pieces of information do not actually arrive at the same time at most locations from which a spectator would likely observe them in person at the baseball arena, owing to the vastly differing speeds at which light and sound travel through air, and the relatively large distances between the batter and a typical spectator in such a setting.


As this paper describes, this is, surprisingly, not the most unusual way in which the physics of perception might function counterintuitively (as compared with "common-sense" expectations) within the context of a game of baseball.




Which kinda makes sense, given that Nirvana never claimed to be a punk band...

This is the least punk-rock thing I've seen in the past few minutes:

I guess there are worse bird-impactions which could occur...


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Woudn't that be asstrich?

Since we're quoting xkcd in this thread...

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--Ian

Someone has to...

seems like a responsible firearm owner there.

Termites, maybe, but not a dog.

--Ian

First kid's on the way. Gotta start her off right:

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