Steve: How bout a Forum Glossary?

Gary,

This would a definition only, not the encyclopedia version. The history of the Nauga can be obtained at:

www.nauga.com

Bob

 

Great Idea.
Some interesting ideas
"The Coloration we love"
"Lean Sound"
"Slooow" (but it sounds good like a Mac C20)
The difference between Grover MK1 and MKII
How to tell if you have Grover MK1 or MKII
Most popular equipment by forum members (done with a robot to compile data)
Speakers, pre amp, amp, speaker cable,

 

A few I like:

Blue Screen (Job) - A CD remastered with compression, maximization, and thus no dynamic range. A screen shot of a sound sample will reveal a solid wall of blue.

Demaster - An especially bad (re-)remaster.

Outfakes - Outtakes created by piecing together several takes, weird fold downs, or other forms of post-session trickery.

Re-remaster - A third (or more) CD incarnation of an album or catalog.

Smiley Face EQ-ed aka Juiced - A disc with the bass and treble turned up, in order to sound "better" or "different" than a flat master. Will oftentimes sound better on boomboxes, car stereos, clock radios, etc.

 

Other than what the hell is the Origin of NAUGA here on the SH Forum. GARY should explain this.

As well as and don't laugh you guy's but *I* finally figured out what the heck IIRC finally means after reading it all these months in posts.

 

So Garr, type away on Nauga's for us, you got the job mang!!!

 

Here's a start for who ever is compiling.

Flat Transfer = Referring to a CD pressing where usually the sound is the way it is on the vinyl version of said album as they use the same mastering with no compression or noise reduction used and no added equalizer boosted frequencies.

MFSL UD1 = First generation Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs gold CD's. All made in Japan with only 1 or 2 exceptions. The best sounding of the albums released on CD with a few exceptions.

MFSL UD2 = Second generation MFSL gold CD releases. A mixed bag regarding sound quality, must be taken on an album by album basis. Your mileage may vary depending on the playback system.

Gort = Any one of 8 friendly volunteer moderators here at Steve's house.

 

Where are we?

Since I started this ball rolling let me ask:
Have we determined which of the volunteers (if not all) will be taking charge of this feature? Looks like we are already getting some entries.
I for one would like definitions of "GEMA" and "redbook"
They sound like a car finance company and a magazine for women...

Thanks!
Norm

 

Red Book CD=The Red Book is the 1980 document that provides the specifications for the standard compact disc (CD) developed by Sony and Philips. According to legend, the document was in a binder with red covers, originating the tradition for subsequent adaptations of CD specifications to be referred to as variously colored books. The Red Book described the CD's physical specifications, such as the tracks, sector and block layout, coding, and sampling. Sony and Philips referred to the discs as CD-DA (digital audio), defined as a content medium for audio data digitized at 44,100 samples per second (44.1KHz) and in a range of 65,536 possible values (16 bits).
The CD Format
According to Red Book specifications, a standard CD is 120 mm (4.75 inches) in diameter and 1.2 mm (0.05 inches) thick and is composed of a polycarbonate plastic substrate (underlayer - this is the main body of the disc), one or more thin reflective metal (usually aluminum) layers, and a lacquer coating. CDs are divided into a lead-in area, which contains the table of contents (TOC), a program area, which contains the audio data, and a lead-out area, which contains no data. An audio CD can hold up to 74 minutes of recorded sound, and up to 99 separate tracks. Data on a CD-DA is organized into sectors (the smallest possible separately addressable block) of information. The audio information is stored in frames of 1/75 second length. 44,100 16-bit samples per second are stored, and there are two channels (left and right). This gives a sector size of 2,352 bytes per frame, which is the total size of a physical block on a CD.

CD data is not arranged in distinct physical units; data is organized into frames (consisting of 24 bytes of user data, plus synchronization, error correction, and control and display bits) which are intricately interleaved so that damage to the disc will not destroy any single frame, but only small parts of many frames.

The Red Book specifications form the basis for all later CD technologies.

 

Red Book

Now that's what I call a definition !
Put that man's entry in the glossary!
Thanks Bradley
Best-
Norm

 

The glossary is a great idea! Since GEMA was mentioned, let's add BIEM/STEMRA and JASRAC. Also, how about someone take a stab at DIDX, DIDZ, DX, DIDP, DI8P, etc.? Add "matrix code" to the list too. "Smooth-edge jewel case" should be added as well.

I certainly would benefit from a glossary of mastering and mixing terminology.

 

UK Public Domain (PD) CD=A CD release from labels known in the UK and other areas in Great Britain that are released in accordance to the UK copyright laws of sound recordings 50 years old or older. Labels known for issuing UK PD CDs are ASV, Pearl Flapper, Proper Records, JSP, Jasmine Records , Prism Leisure (if the recordings are released within the UK PD rules), Disky Records (see comments regarding Prism Leisure, some notable releases are the 3 CD Golden Greats collections) among others.

 

It would also be nice if the glossary had references for further reading. Thus, books and good web sites could be referenced.

 

A great definition of Bear Family can be found at http://www.bear-family.de/tabel1/bear/story.htm

 

THIS thread reminds me of the Andy Griffith episode where Andy, Barney and Aunt Bea are sittin around doin nothing (the real inspiration for Seinfield?), and they start reminiscing about back in the day when they had those nice, relaxing Sunday evening band concerts down at the old gazebo in the park.

Pretty soon, they're working themselves silly to get ready for a relaxing band concert. Andy getting "the boys" (band) together for rehearsals, Aunt Bea fixing up the torn-to-hell band uni's, Barney & Gomer reparing the falling-down gazebo.

Who's going to play the part of Gomer, when they're trying to jack up the gazebo and Gomer discovers there's spiders under there?

Doug

 

Gomer

Not me man! No way.
I wanna be Floyd the Barber

Norm

 

Re: Gomer

You ARE Floyd the Barber.

I'll take Otis!

doug