Archive for 2023/01


Spencer Proffer-This Week’s Podcast

Spencer Proffer made his name producing records, most notably Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health,” which sold in excess of ten million copies, and now he’s producing movies, most recently “The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie.’” Proffer is a hustler/entrepreneur/survivor with a long history in entertainment, tune in for the story […]

More Atmos

Subject: Why you get pushback from some people about Atmos Hey Bob, Consumers listen to music, which includes sound. Engineers listen to sound. which includes music. People whose priority is music don’t really care about the delivery system. Craig Anderton _______________________________________________ I stood down on this one though I’m with you and awaited the responses. […]

Reboots

Even NBC can’t get our attention. That’s why the network is rebooting “Night Court,” which was not a “Seinfeld” level show (although little is), even though it was on the legendary Thursday night schedule as part of “Must See TV.” I might have seen a half hour of “Night Court” tops, when you add in […]

Re-Atmos

Bob you are 100% right about spatial audio. I learned a lot about this during my time with the ill-fated QSound. Not only do we only have 2 ears but they’re programmed to turn and FACE the source of sounds. It’s a primitive, autonomic survival mechanism – can’t be bypassed or tech-tricked into not working. […]