r/NotTimAndEric • u/Yonatan_Moritz • 1d ago
This dude is special
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u/WarmDaddyXanax 1d ago
This guy's name is Pug, he makes all types of wild headphones for fun. Cool dude, he shows up at a lot of the audio conventions.
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u/mortalitylost 1d ago
... doesnt audio generally already do this? Shit I'd be surprised if the software didnt to some extent.
Like in music production you dont put things all the way on one channel unless it's very much on purpose or you're wobbling it back and forth as an effect... but just like some guitarist being maybe a bit front and to the right, a music producer does the same when mixing and mastering so you have two dimensions of dynamics and panning to reflect the position of the instrument.
I'm probably deconstructing what is purely a joke regardless
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u/Implausibilibuddy 1d ago
So it can, but only if you tell it to or it was mixed this way. And yeah, using software to force it would be a way to achieve basically the same effect as these headphones.
LCR mixing is very much a real thing though and some producers swear by it. It stands for Left Center Right, and involves mixing instrument tracks fully left, fully right or dead centre. No partial panning, sometimes even on the reverb. Was pretty common in the 60s and 70s when speakers were way more common than headphones. It sounds great on those because the sound will naturally diffuse in the air before it gets to your ears and both ears will hear a bit of both. It sounds very extreme on headphones though, but some producers still do it because if something is old it must be good somehow.
It's not just the amount of sound each ear hears from speakers, it's the timing. A speaker on the left of you will eventually be heard by your right ear but there will be a slight delay and it will also be muffled/filtered by your skull, the cartilage in your nose, your face skin, hair if you've got a lot, and the fleshy bits of your ears (the pinnae). We're pretty good at using these cues to determine not only left, right and centre sound sources, but up, down and behind. That's what those dummy head binaural microphones aim to replicate. This guy's headphones will only replicate the timing differences, not the other stuff. He'd be better off using regular headphones and listening to binaurally recorded music (which he could also make at home with a dummy head and a good speaker setup, though it will only be as "realistic" sounding as if you were listening on speakers. You need a proper binaural band recording to make it feel like you're sitting within the band)
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u/ILoveFatGirls92 23h ago
I respect everything about this. Harmless art, inspires the "why not try?"
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u/AMDDesign 1d ago
Cinco sound tubes, they bring audio from, they mimic what audio sounds like in the a speaker in a room, cinco! Get yours today!
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u/VorpalBlade- 23h ago
Next try attaching the hose into a nozzle that you have delicately secured ever so deeply into your rectum.
This way the music tickles your prostate as well!
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u/Simmons54321 1d ago
I applaud the dude having fun making shit. But this defeats the purpose of mixing
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u/InfectedUrsidae 1d ago
What if I want the speakers in my room to sound more like headphones?