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The Morse Code for YYZ in this article is confusing. Why is it this ({{Morse|dash|dot|dash|dash}}{{morse|dash|dot|dash|dash}}{{morse||dash|dash|dot|dot}}<!-- -.--/-.--/--.. -->) instead of this (<big>'''-.-- -.-- --..'''</big> )? For me it looks like the dashes are individual blocks. It's even like (<big>'''-.-- -.-- --..'''</big> ) in the YYZ main page. [[User:Venyanwarrior|Venyanwarrior]] ([[User talk:Venyanwarrior|talk]]) 20:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC) |
The Morse Code for YYZ in this article is confusing. Why is it this ({{Morse|dash|dot|dash|dash}}{{morse|dash|dot|dash|dash}}{{morse||dash|dash|dot|dot}}<!-- -.--/-.--/--.. -->) instead of this (<big>'''-.-- -.-- --..'''</big> )? For me it looks like the dashes are individual blocks. It's even like (<big>'''-.-- -.-- --..'''</big> ) in the YYZ main page. [[User:Venyanwarrior|Venyanwarrior]] ([[User talk:Venyanwarrior|talk]]) 20:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC) |
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== Error in Background and Recording == |
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The sentences: "During the sessions, they experimented with a pressure zone microphone, a type of boundary microphone that picks up direct sound and no reverberated signals, that was taped onto Peart's chest as he played. The audio captured from it was used to pick up the ambience in the studio room in the final mix" is in error. Of course pressure zone mics pick up reflections ("reverberated signals [sic]"). Any mic picking up reflected sound would be impossible. Moreover, with these mics, it's all reflected sound (from the plate to the capsule). What boundary mics do is rectify phase distortion between sound waves from the source interacting with reflections. Also, to then suggest the mics were used to pick up "ambience in the studio room" is a direct contradiction. The citation from Neil Peart's article in the drum magazine isn't authoritative. Neil Peart was a drummer, not an audio engineer, and he likely either flubbed this explanation, or (just as likely) was fed faulty information by his studio engineer for those sessions. I would remove the pseudo-science, and just leave it as "During the sessions, they experimented with a pressure zone microphone . . . that was taped onto Peart's chest as he played" and keep the link to the boundary microphone wiki page. [[User:O0drogue0o|O0drogue0o]] ([[User talk:O0drogue0o|talk]]) 23:14, 8 July 2022 (UTC) |
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Cover visual pun
A very long time ago, in 1990s, I remember a discussion on a BBS or USENET about this cover, but unfortunately it's been too long for me to remember the source. I remember the final description was very elegantly worded. Though I can't remember the exact wording, I think these are very close or dead-on. Using the exact two words "moving pictures" more than once is key for the description. If you don't like these, the please propose a more elegant version. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:59, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- Short length = People being moved by people moving pictures.
- Medium length = A moving picture of people being moved by people moving pictures.
- Long length = A moving picture of people being moved by "moving pictures" being moved by people moving pictures. (I put this one in the intro)
Morse Code for YYZ
The Morse Code for YYZ in this article is confusing. Why is it this ( ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ) instead of this (-.-- -.-- --.. )? For me it looks like the dashes are individual blocks. It's even like (-.-- -.-- --.. ) in the YYZ main page. Venyanwarrior (talk) 20:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Error in Background and Recording
The sentences: "During the sessions, they experimented with a pressure zone microphone, a type of boundary microphone that picks up direct sound and no reverberated signals, that was taped onto Peart's chest as he played. The audio captured from it was used to pick up the ambience in the studio room in the final mix" is in error. Of course pressure zone mics pick up reflections ("reverberated signals [sic]"). Any mic picking up reflected sound would be impossible. Moreover, with these mics, it's all reflected sound (from the plate to the capsule). What boundary mics do is rectify phase distortion between sound waves from the source interacting with reflections. Also, to then suggest the mics were used to pick up "ambience in the studio room" is a direct contradiction. The citation from Neil Peart's article in the drum magazine isn't authoritative. Neil Peart was a drummer, not an audio engineer, and he likely either flubbed this explanation, or (just as likely) was fed faulty information by his studio engineer for those sessions. I would remove the pseudo-science, and just leave it as "During the sessions, they experimented with a pressure zone microphone . . . that was taped onto Peart's chest as he played" and keep the link to the boundary microphone wiki page. O0drogue0o (talk) 23:14, 8 July 2022 (UTC)