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  • bloodfart@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then.
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    2 months ago

    It’s an incorrect comment based on a real thing.

    There was equipment with switched panning, but knob panning was so common it was referenced in diy electronic project books aimed at high schoolers.

    There are some tube amplifier circuit types where the pan control actually changes directly what signal goes to what grid of what tube, and in those cases it would be useful to have switch instead of pot pan, but there were circuits to mitigate the problems and even tubes intended to take multiple grid inputs by that time.

    Another comment explained how a person could work around that problem and get pot pan with split channels and they’re right.

    One of the biggest reasons for switched panning was that it wasn’t always clear that you were going for a stereo effect! Often in the case of reinforcing a live band, you had some speaker cabinets for different frequencies and it would be stupid to send the trumpets to the big cabinet meant for the tympani!

    Partial panning was also used in lots of the movie versions of stereo and multi source sound from over a hundred years ago so it’s not like switched panning was the only option or something

    Switched panning is famously present on mastering machines though for the old (er than single groove stereo) two groove stereo record type.

    So switched panning isn’t the reason for the wild mixing of the 50s and 60s, but it did exist.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then.
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    2 months ago

    The early days of stereo (which is what you’re talking about, the recordings of 70s which aren’t using stereo as an “effect” almost universally have the vocals panned to the center. The old way to take the vocals out of a recording was to adjust how much of the signal present equally on both channels was allowed to be played) were all about two things: backwards compatibility with mono systems and giving people with stereo systems a recognizable effect no matter what goofy system they had.

    Wild panning accomplishes both goals.

    Studio engineering that used the stereo format to create the illusion of a room or capture the sound of the room the players were playing in wasn’t developed yet and came from the experimental stereo recordings that sound crazy now like silver apples of the moon.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•Not all ai is bad, just most of it
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    2 months ago

    The difference between a reference guide intended for plant identification written and edited by experts in the field for the purposes of helping a person understand the plants around them and the ai is that one is expressly and intentionally created with its goal in mind and at multiple points had knowledgeable skilled people looking over its answer and the other is complex mad libs.

    I get that it’s bad to gamble with your life when the stakes are high, but we’re talking about the difference between putting it on red and putting it on 36.

    One has a much, much higher potential for catastrophe.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•Not all ai is bad, just most of it
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    2 months ago

    Do not use ai for plant identification if it actually matters what the plant is.

    Just so ppl see this:

    DO NOT EVER USE AI FOR PLANT IDENTIFICATION IN CASES WHERE THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO FAILURE.

    For walking along and seeing what something is, that’s fine. No big deal if it tells you something’s a turkey oak when it’s actually a pin oak.

    If you’re gonna eat it or think it might be toxic or poisonous to you, if you want to find out what your pet or livestock ate, if you in any way could suffer consequences from misidentification: do not rely on ai.