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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by robbyt on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:43PM (#12781584)
A friend of mine is a professional mix engineer in NYC. He's worked with several large artists, you've probably heard of. He strongly believes in setting numerically interesting values for things like eq, gain reduction, song length, delay time in ms, etc.
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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by seandougall on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:47PM (#12781623)
A not-insubstantial part of the engineer's job is to impress the artists. Mastering engineers even more so.
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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by ptaipale on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:09PM (#12781837)
Directional audio cables are another example of such "making impressions" business.

(Technically nonsense, of course.)

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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by hexane360 on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:19PM (#12783000)
https://xkcd.com/670/

I would take it a step further. I'd make up my own units based on seemingly natural things and then tune to numerically interesting values of those.

"This next song's beat is 432 times faster than a cricket chirping at 50 degrees C."

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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by mikey_p on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:04PM (#12782342)
A lot of those are significant though, EQ maintains relationship to pitch and tone, delay is directly related to rhythm, etc. The main issue is that most of these are relative to inputs, etc, with a few exceptions.

Edit: An exception would be trying to 'fatten' the sound of an acoustic guitar and using a 25-35ms delay, which puts it close enough that it's not perceivable as a delay, but will provide a noticeable effect on the tone of the guitar.

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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by anigbrowl on Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:20PM (#12807094)
Like I said, I try to exploit interesting numerical properties all the time. I really am a mystic, I've made major life decisions based on a tarot reading and am glad I did so as such methods seem to work better for me than purely analytical ones. On the other hand, I'm analytical enough to not want to bullshit people with unreproducible results.
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