blindhorse
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The Color of Noise
Please accept my apologies if this topic would be best rendered in the coffee house. Because I was trying to learn more, I came upon the following article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise I asked a confidant if she thought the color of noise was of any consequence, and she looked at me with crossed eyes. Then she said, "shut up and make music. it doesn't matter, nobody cares. Do what you like, and like what you do. Now leave me alone." Then there was nothing but silence. For the life of me I can't understand why she didn't see the significance of having at least an awareness of these concepts. Maybe it's just me. the blind horse
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quantumeffect
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 09:04:57
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Brown Noise!?!? Never heard of it, But I have heard of a Brown Note. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note A Brown Note is the note a bass player plays that fills you with the urge to defecate (can I say defecate under the new code of conduct?). Well in any event you will have to ask bapu about the Brown Note. I am sure he can explain the subtleties of bass playing as it pertains to a Brown Note better than I can. You will find him in one of the threads about toilets over in the Coffee House.
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 10:16:14
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I tune my room with mauve noise--sounds like the '80s. blindhorse
I asked a confidant if she thought the color of noise was of any consequence, and she looked at me with crossed eyes. Then she said, "shut up and make music. it doesn't matter, nobody cares. Do what you like, and like what you do. Now leave me alone." Then there was nothing but silence.
But what was the color of that silence? Was it ... golden? How about the Sound of Color? http://photosounder.com/ 
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rumleymusic
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 13:01:12
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I agree with your friend. Need to lay off the mushrooms and worry about what matters. As far as noise "colors" go. Other than white noise, the naming scheme has really no significance to the sound. They are just test signals with convenient color identifiers. Pink noise is probably the most relevant for audio engineering as we hear that as a "flat" noise level. It is a very good reference to how your spectral graph displays should look after mastering your own recordings.
post edited by rumleymusic - 2014/10/04 21:52:13
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blindhorse
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 14:37:36
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Wow Rumley, the mushroom statement was quite an assumption on your part. Thanks.
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rumleymusic
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 17:21:25
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Not an assumption, a joke.
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blindhorse
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 19:25:28
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You or me?
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/02 19:35:55
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He was being light hearted, joking around.
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/03 23:41:15
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White Noise and Pink Noise are two things that are very valuable to audio mixers. They generate them and use them when tuning a room...I know that will bring another round of jokes.
If you are going to be a musician I recommend that you understand these concepts. They are not silly, esoteric theories.
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/03 23:59:04
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And after you have used noise to tune your room or live venue make sure you put on some quaity reference music tracks just to make sure. Remember noise is not music and it is music that you are listening to most of the time. Noise will only tell you part of the story.
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Re: The Color of Noise
2014/10/04 00:17:13
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blindhorse
...Then there was nothing but silence.
Then there was nothing but black noise. 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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