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Subject: 2. Re: Rich being Testy
From: "Martyn Stewart" mijdog2000
Date: Sun May 6, 2007 5:41 am ((PDT))
The quote stays I'm afraid, you don't have to read it if you don't like it,
sorry I missed this too. Lets stay on topic please.....

 

Martyn

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Sorry, I missed this topic.

Which insult?

And: Rich, I only rarely read your postings of the very simple reason 
that I never understand what you say or mean.

But: Can we drop this "insult-topic" (which??) or must I add or 
comment on something?
Can someone clarify? Or drop it....

Klas.

At 04:09 2007-05-05, you wrote:
>I must admit I had never noticed the quote before.. but I don't feel
>insulted by it at all.
>In fact the idea it's putting across is something I regularly try to
>keep in mind when I've made a recording I'm not happy with.
>
>Steve
>
>
>On 5 May 2007, at 02:50, Syd Curtis wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I normally avoid involvement in things like this, but as I was the
> > person who suggested to the Moderator, way back, that the quote
> > from a Klas
> > posting be appended, I have some responsibility to make an exception.
> >
> > Your unfortunate reference (twice), Rich, to " Klas insult"
> > suggests that
> > you are not aware that it was not Klas's idea to have his words so
> > appended.
> >
> > You apparently feel the advice to be unnecessary; and there I
> > differ from
> > you.
> >
> > This mailing list is (was?) about recording the sounds of nature.
> > Certainly
> > that warrants some discussion of equipment for doing so, but just how
> > relevant is it to get the absolute maximum in fidelity under
> > laboratory/studio conditions, when natural sound in the world at large
> > changes as soon as it leaves the source? And changes very
> > substantially
> > once you get any significant distance away, and even more so if
> > there are
> > any obstacles, trees for example, to reflect/refract sound waves.
> >
> > There will always be persons just starting out in recording, and
> > they are
> > unlikely to appreciate in advance just how sound changes with
> > distance. It
> > is far from immediately obvious, for example, that the higher the
> > frequencey, the greater the attenuation with distance. For them,
> > Klas's
> > advice is pertinent.
> >
> > And it really is quite possible for long-standing Nat/rec
> > subscribers to
> > train themselves not to notice the appended quote. Personally, I
> > simply
> > don't have time to read the material below the 'signature' of the
> > sender.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Syd
> >
> > > From: "Rich Peet" < <richpeet%40comcast.net>
net>
> > > Reply-To: naturerecordists@
<naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 01:07:59 -0000
> > > To: naturerecordists@ <naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com>
yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Group File Hosting Space (was
> > How do you
> > > post sound fil
> > >
> > > what we need at this point is an edit of some of the group screens
> > > that needs to be done by a moderator. This may not be a good time to
> > > ask as the birds are flyin.
> > >
> > > I would also ask that the Klas insult that tags the bottom of
> > posts be
> > > removed. Again.
> > >
> > > Maybe if Klas requested that this insult be removed it would happen.
> > > I just am hard pressed to understand that someone who affilitaes
> > with
> > > natural sound recording would want to be known that it is
> > impossible.
> > > I am still trying out here.
> > >
> > > Yup, am a bit testy tonight.
> > >
> > > Rich
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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>
>

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