Paul Walmsley
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Paul Walmsley
@pjwhams.bsky.social
Musical faffer:
- C++ software developer (Dorico, Cubase, ex-Sibelius)
- PhD in musical signal analysis
- Brazilian percussion (Maracatu - Baque de Axé)
When CDs came out and people found them 'sterile', that's because they reproduced the sound without the distortion
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Peter Gabriel's So album needed the running order changed for LP because the bass repro is different depending on whether it's at the start or end. LPs actually *add* distortion (which is what you call 'warmth')
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
That's not really the whole story. In practice, many compromises are required in the mastering process because you can't exactly reproduce the sound. The bass has to be dialed down.
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Yes, but there's a limit
August 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I'm looking forward to Monday's karaoke now
July 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Probably the only sentence to ever contain those two words
May 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
{'rock'}
May 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
They are evolving quite rapidly - they've mastered rowing boats too, so not long before our hovercrafts aren't safe from these menaces
March 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I was going to try a comparison of compiling our applications (reasonably large but smaller than Chromium) on a devdrive, but I couldn't get devdrive to work with bitlocker
December 14, 2024 at 11:38 AM
It's great then that MIDI 2.0 has support for 16 channels x 16 groups
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 PM
The textures bring The Pink Panther to mind
November 29, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Lovely pic - a nice surprise to see you in my feed, Lucy!
November 29, 2024 at 9:49 AM
...and so that's why we always have a bottle of calamine lotion in the back of the Mondeo.

26/26
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Oh, I'm so glad you asked. Well, the problems started last summer...

1/26
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
(Internal monologue: Tsk, the *real* Julie Fowlis never asks me about my kids...)
November 28, 2024 at 5:57 PM
They started to message me too. Blocked & reported. Still, nice of them to ask about the family.
November 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
An old school friend used to draw all the pictures from Slayer album covers of people being eviscerated by devils on his textbooks, bags, etc

Years later turns out he became a graphic artist on the Total War video games and spent his days drawing gruesome violence.

Follow your dreams...
November 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I remember the tears of laughter streaming down my face when I first saw that around the age of 10
November 17, 2024 at 12:37 AM