[dba-Tech] "Take a sad song and make it better..." - Web browsers' testing automation with Selenium WebDrivers from LucidChart.com :)

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Shamil

I mean that if (performed) music followed exact rules, it would be boring. You may recall many years ago, that some fed a Moog synthesizer with the exact nodes of a piece of Beethoven. The output was, of course, correct but judged "dead" to listen to because of the missing variations a skilled performer always will add.

The microphone seems very well suited for the purpose, but I don't know it, so I can't say for sure.

The AKG microphone used was the C 451 - still available with a product lifecycle of 40+ years - at about €360:

    http://www.akg.com/pro/p/c451b
    http://www.coutant.org/akgc460b/akgcms.pdf

This is a studio condenser microphone, and these are analogue with a balanced output and powered by 48V phantom power - a universal standard across all studio equipment introduced by Schoeps in 1964, adopted by Neumann in 1966, and then accepted by all other manufacturers:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_power

/gustav


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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
Sendt: 25. oktober 2015 11:31
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] "Take a sad song and make it better..." - Web browsers' testing automation with Selenium WebDrivers from LucidChart.com :)

 Hi Gustav --

Yes, it's a great demo. It have happened, exactly this morning, I have got recorded (in my brain cells) that I should try to find a way how to explain (boring and) complicated technical details to other people often without technical background, - and here you're - this demo has come to me out of nowhere while I have been doing my heavy duty everyday software development R&D....

What do you mean by "music, luckily, often contradicts the laws of logic"?

BTW, my son is actively doing video/audio blogging and he has recently asked me to purchase the following microphone and related stuff:


Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone - Silver
http://tinyurl.com/nhmyzz6
Dragonpad pop filter Studio Microphone Mic Wind Screen Pop Filter Swivel Mount 360 Flexible Gooseneck Holder
http://tinyurl.com/ogosdww

It's now on the way coming here by express post...  What can you say about this microphone - is it at least a bit as good as the ones you mentioned were used by The Beatles? Thank you.

-- Shamil


>Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:33 AM UTC from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>Great demo - except that music, luckily, often contradicts the laws of logic.
>
>Further, in the tiny video clips, old audio connoisseurs like me will be pleased to recognise the Austrian AKG condenser studio microphones with the extension tube between the capsule and the (not seen) amplifier body. The Beatles often - and unusually for the time - used these in favour of the widely used Shure dynamic mices for rock vocalists, probably because of the much better sound quality.
>
>/gustav
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>Fra: dba-Tech < dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > på vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>Sendt: 25. oktober 2015 10:11
>Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Emne: [dba-Tech] "Take a sad song and make it better..." - Web browsers' testing automation with Selenium WebDrivers from LucidChart.com :)
>
>Hi All --
>
>Enjoy ->   http://tinyurl.com/osxrt8l :)
>
>P.S For technical details read this article:  http://tinyurl.com/qzelwvj
>
>--
>Салахетдинов Шамиль