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At high and medium frequencies, sound is like water. That means that a small gap can spoil the insulation. That's why recording studios are built as ‘boxes within boxes’.

Low frequencies require mass-spring systems in which the walls are decoupled.

Sound absorption panels don't do anything about insulation. They just condition the sound inside the room or make it less "echoy".

DIY Sound isolation is very, very difficult. If you want to do it, call an acoustic company that knows what they are doing. Not a generic construction company.

I am so happy to have migrated everything from Google Cloud

“ People don't buy from clowns." - Claude C. Hopkins ”

Most brands are _trying_ to be funny.

You learn more by observing than by judging

I got to know the world of voice acting because I am a sound engineer and I had to record quite a few people. I started when I took acting classes, but the truth is that since I was little I liked to clown around with my voice. I've taken TONS of classes over the years.

There are so many genres where a voice actor can do voice acting. Think of anywhere you hear a voice. There is a voice actor behind it.

I don't know what area you live in but if it's something you're interested in, I'd look into where you can take classes.

I make my living as a voice actor. I've done everything from audiobooks, commercials, ADR to corporate.

The best thing you can do is practice, practice, practice, but with good guidance.

The first thing is to love and admit your voice. A lot of people try to sound deeper, more impostured, etc. They try to put on a voice they don't have. And the first thing is to recognise the sound of your voice. Your voice is your voice. You don't have to do anything special with it. Just accept it, understand how it works. It's that easy, it's that hard.

There are plenty of schools that teach voice acting. It is a difficult profession to be self-taught, as it requires an ability to "isolate yourself from yourself", as well as being directed by an outside observer. It is exactly the same as learning to act. You can learn from videos, books, but there is no substitute for physical learning with another person.

Audiobooks are one of the most difficult genres to work in.

They require you to tell the story, but you can't be more of a protagonist than the story. In most of them, I listen more to the narrator than to the story itself, which is a problem, as it is the story that has to transcend.

If you are curious, one of the classics to read are Cicely Berry's books "Voice and the actor" and "Freeing the natural voice" from Kristin Linklater.

In these times when nobody says what they think just to be liked, people confuse assertiveness with being an egomaniacal jerk

To complement what you say, you also have to consider that there are an absolute myriad of processes, people and companies within the audiovisual industry where the Dolby workflow is almost inseparable from what they do and what they work with. People and companies that have made investments, sometimes of many zeros and many hours, to be able to work this way.

Dolby is more than a standard or spitting six channels of raw audio out of speakers. That's just the end product, because it's not just standard itself.

It is, for example, the hardware that is in cinemas and home theaters (encoders, decoders, Dolby RMU...), the certification processes that Dolby does in cinemas and recording and mixing studios, the mixing technicians who work with all that and send the final mixes with the netflix/hbo/whatever specifications, vendors, integration partners, speaker manufacturers...

There are also plugins that work in DAWs like Pro Tools, the ecosystem (Dolby Atmos Renderer, Dolby Atmos Production Suite), just to scratch the surface.

One thing is to publish a standard and another the ecosystem around that standard. It is interesting that there are new standards, but given Google's history with its long term attention span I have my doubts that this will materialize into anything more than an internal asset for google.

I talk for a living. It takes time to improve. Some quick and dirty tips (sorry, english not my first language):

- Relax and meditate

- Practice a LOT. Everyday. Even two minutes helps.

- Learn to breath properly

- Record yourself speaking aloud at home with your phone. Make notice of all the nuances of the voice

- Prepare your material very well

- Visualize you are explaining the stuff to a friend at home. It will help you sound more natural.

Getting nervous is normal and part of the game.

Mmm... probably cancelled in two years.

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Amazon ran on losses for many years

Amazon ran on losses but was cash flow positive. Telsa is not.

This is fantastic

I have no idea why anybody would believe that

Just look at the last 10Q and the rising debt.

who knows what defects and shortcomings lurk in this automobile?

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/925ss0/just_to...

No, it doesn't. My mistake.

You might want to try 010 Editor: http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ It runs on OSX, Windows and Linux.

Is it just me or the letter-spacing on this site looks just weird?

I am Spaniard too and agree with what you say. If you search on a dictionary, lumia is indeed a word for 'Prostitute', but in some places of spain is used as an affectionate word.

In fact, my granddaddy used to call my small sister 'Lumia', which in north of Spain could be used as a familiar substitute for 'Rascal'.

For me, (being an Spaniard) the biggest problem in Spain regarding to entepreneurship, is taxes and the insane burocracy (and by insane I mean a crap pile of BIG nonsense burocracy).

If you open a company right now, you will have to pay at least 180€ each month, regardless of your incomes.

Even if you dont make a penny from incomes, you will have to pay that.

Mmmm.... http://twitpic.com/6wcvmo

I wonder how piwik or browsershots could make me more productive.

Yet another "XXX" is dead post.

Just for the record, they already use it to build the Youtrack bugracker:

http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/