A lot of electrical works problems at home are actually minor cases that you can solve yourself by turning off the main circuit breakers and either applying electrical tape, replacing the wire, or adding or replacing other fixtures that could pose a hazard, such as faulty power outlets and light sockets.
When fixing these things yourself, safety is the most important factor to consider. Before working with the problematic power/light socket/exposed wire, be sure to turn off the main power switches, which is usually located at the circuit breaker.
Make sure to secure each exposed wire with proper insulation (i.e., electrical tape). For light sockets and power outlets, make sure that these are all in good condition before screwing in place and turning the main power switches back on.
However, there are certain instances when you should contact an electrician or an electrical services company to help you out. This article will help you get started on the different things you need to know when it comes to hiring an electrical service company.
An electrician is the person maintains and installs electrical and power systems for both residential and industrial areas, as well as different types of electrical equipment and machines. They may specialize in either construction or maintenance, though they usually are able to handle both.
For electricians specializing in construction, they are in charge of installing wiring systems into factories, buildings, and homes. Electricians that specialize in maintenance, meanwhile, repair and/or upgrade existing electrical systems and equipment.
Their work with the blueprints, which are technical diagrams that show where the circuits, outlets, load centers, and other equipment are located. Once they know where the different wires and components go, they will be able to make the necessary installations and/or repairs, if necessary.
Whether it's industrial or for domestic applications at any place in Singapore, a good electrician like power max in Singapore who is well-equipped with both the necessary knowledge, experience, and tools will be more than able to help you get the job done.
An "electrical fault" is what is described when voltages and charges deviate from their supposed values on the meter. Under normal conditions, power systems equipment carry nominal currents that allow the entire system to operate safely.
When a fault occurs, excessively high currents can flow into and overload all kinds of equipment and devices, which can damage them permanently. Having an early detection device is necessary in order to prevent this from happening.
Also called "balanced faults", these types of faults have quite severe effects on power systems. The two types of balanced faults are, namely, line-to-line-to-ground (or LLLG), and line-to-line-to-line (LLL).
This type of electrical fault rarely occurs, making up as much as 2 to 5 percent of all system faults. Analysing these faults is usually easy and is carried out on a per-phase basis. When it comes to selecting set-phase relays and rupturing capacity and switchgear evaluation, a three-phase fault analysis is usually required.
Unsymmetrical faults are more likely to happen to your power system, though they have a lesser impact. The three types of unsymmetrical faults are line-to-ground (LG), which is the most common, line-to-line (LL), and double line-to-ground (LLG).
LG faults occur then active line makes contact with the ground. LL faults occur when an active, exposed line touches another, and LLG faults happen when two active, exposed lines make contact with the ground.
These faults are also often called "imbalanced" faults, as they can cause an imbalance to the system. While analyzing unsymmetrical faults are also carried out on a per-phase basis, they are more difficult to analyze compared to symmetrical faults.
These faults can either be caused by equipment failures, such as a malfunctioning circuit breaker or a switching device, or by other factors, such as bad weather conditions (typhoons, tropical storms, etc.), smoke and fire, or by human error.
When left unmitigated, these faults can result in not just current overflow, but also to loss of equipment and a potential electrical and/or fire hazard to nearby operating personnel. The job of an electrician services company, then, is to make the necessary repairs in these instances and install measures and devices to prevent accidents from happening.
•	Power failure analysis – A licensed electrician employed by the company will be sent over to your building in order to inspect your power systems and find the cause of your power failure.
•	Upgraded wiring/Rewiring – Wires can deteriorate under harsh conditions or be stripped of their insulation, which can cause a potential electrical or fire hazard.
Microwave's Dilemma: To Put or Not to Put?
You implore the help of many household appliances to make your lives easier and more convenient. There is nothing wrong if you rely on household appliances but sometimes, you have to realize that there are limitations. In the case of microwave, it is super-handy but it cannot possibly handle everything.
Many Singaporeans consider microwave because of its use. You only need to wait for few seconds or minute to make something edible – that is truly remarkable. With this, you want your microwave to live a long life but will it? It will not if you continue to abuse it and be ignorant about it. You have to remember that it cannot handle everything. There are some things that you cannot just put in there.
Dry sponges: Sponges can harbour germs and bacteria. To kill germs and bacteria, we zap it in the microwave thinking that sponges can stand its heat. This somehow makes sense but it is not good for the microwave. You have to know that the sponges will catch fire if you let it sit inside the microwave. To avoid fire, why not buy new sponges instead?
Metal food containers: You have to remember that if metal food containers are microwaved, it can also catch fire. The best practice is to look for microwaveable plates instead of metal food containers.
Eggs with shell: There is nothing wrong if you cook eggs in the microwave provided that egg shells are not in the mix. Attempting a hard-boil egg in the microwave can create problems. If you let this happen, the egg will explode.
Plastic containers: Sometimes you just put anything directly at the microwave without thinking of its property. There is a tendency that ordinary plastic containers will melt if heated in the microwave. Unless it is labelled "microwave safe", you have to spare it from the heat.
Foil: You believe that foils cannot do harm to your microwave. You should avoid using foil when microwaving because it can lead to sparks. However, there are specific microwaves that can tolerate foils. Reading the manual first won't do you harm.
If you follow this, your microwave will last probably a lifetime. If you think that there is something wrong with it, you should consult your technician or service provider right away before misfortunes happen. There are many technicians spread across Singapore than can help you.


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Center for Maine Contemporary Art begins the transition to Rockland
Contractors began tearing down a building in Rockland on October 27, 2014, to make way for a new home for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art(CMCA). CMCA got special permission to build a new contemporary building in Rockland going against city ordinances. City officials agreed to the modern design of the new CMCA museum/workshop space because Rockland has become a go-to place for fine art in Maine.
The move to Rockland will enable CMCA to stay open year-round and increase its presence and Rockland's reputation for a growing creative economy and cultural community.
The art center will move seven miles south to downtown Rockland by July 2016. CMCA has been in Rockport since 1952.
The Constellation Gallery, home of the Maine Artist Collective, puts out a "Call for Art"
USM, group get $1.9 million art education grant

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Law enforcement from all of the state converged on the Garden State Plaza Mall late Monday night after reports of gunfire. The Mall was in lockdown for several hours while police searched for the shooter. Eventually they discovered the shooter killed himself in a non-public portion of the Mall.


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An Epiphany in Portobello
Olivier Assayas, reply by Lucy Sante
'After May,' What? from the July 11, 2013 issue
I am a subscriber, so I almost fell from my chair when I bumped into Luc Sante's piece "'After May' What?" [NYR, July 11]. I am very grateful for the unexpected honor of having my work reviewed in a magazine I hugely respect. I nonetheless need to correct a factual mistake that ultimately has the author misreading the very meaning of my film.
When he describes the final scene in Something in the Air (Après Mai), Luc Sante refers to a "brief dream sequence projected in a theater as if it were a commercial, with a voice-over drawn from that text [Debord's]."
This is not it. Gilles walks into an "experimental cinema night" at the Electric in Portobello—in the early Seventies this was a commercial-free zone. And there he sees, well…an experimental film, starring his lost love, and muse, Laure. She is now dead. And she may have appeared in that film when she was in London, the previous summer.
For Gilles, it is an epiphany. He finally understands what cinema (or art) is about: reviving the past, resurrecting the dead, making (higher) sense of what's lost. Up to that point he had been attracted to movies, but without exactly knowing what they really meant for him. Here, he finally grasps that they deal with some sort of metaphysics, that they speak directly to him, and echo his most intimate wounds. He finally understands that through that art he can try to reach whatever his teenage idealism was naively pointing to.
That is something militant filmmaking could not embody, or the film industry, as Gilles experiences it in his short internship in a British studio. This is something that can only be embodied by whatever idealism is at the root of independent filmmaking. Which is—not so obviously, it seems—my point.
There is no voice-over. Only a Kevin Ayers song, "Decadence," which says:
She lies in waterfalls of dreams
And never questions what it means.
And all along the desert shore
She wanders further ever more
The only thing that's left to try
She says to live I have to die.
So, Laure lives again in art.
I suppose it also echoes the final chapter in my essay where I try (in my own idiosyncratic way) to put the practice of cinema into the perspective of creating situations in the sense early Situationism used that word in the late Fifties (and not later).
Answering, I hope, the question "After May," What?: well, for me, life.
PS: An English translation of my essay "Une adolescence dans l'après-Mai" was published earlier this year by the Vienna Filmmuseum under the title "A Post-May Adolescence."
Luc Sante replies:
I'm sorry that in my haste I relied on another critic's account of the voice-over, which I couldn't remember when I wrote my review. I must say that I'm disappointed, though; a voice-over taking its text from Debord might have introduced more interesting contradictions into the scene than the Ayers lyric, which merely illustrates the image.
Alan Rusbridger
The Snowden Leaks and the Public
When Privacy Is Theft
The Strange Powers of Norman Mailer
From 'The Lady Eve'
Veronica Geng
Jay Neugeboren
On Wiseman's Heights
January 14, 2016 issue
Darryl Pinckney
The Opposite of Ordinary
July 2, 2020 issue
Art for Film's Sake
Robert Sullivan
The Ministry of Mr. Rogers
He saw his show as a faithful companion to young people and even a daily seminar for parents
Max Nelson
Chris Marker, Always Moving
In his films, writings, and other projects, Marker kept returning to the matter of what it meant to live a happy life.


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Ontario Funding New Healing Lodge for Garden River First Nation
Archived News Release
Province Investing Nearly $750,000 to Support Healing and Resiliency
June 28, 2016 12:30 P.M.
Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Ontario is providing nearly $750,000 to support a new healing lodge to serve First Nations communities who are located from Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie.
Located in the Garden River First Nation outside of Sault Ste. Marie, the new healing lodge is a partnership between Dan Pine Healing Lodge and the N'Mninoeyaa Community Health Access Centre's Traditional Health and Healing Program.
The new facility will host both residential and non-residential programs and focus on three priority areas:
Providing accessible health and healing programs that incorporate traditional and contemporary methods to build a culture of violence-free, healthy relationships among individuals, families and communities
Building community capacity to support ongoing sustainable, community-based family violence and healing programming for all North Shore communities
Strengthening collaboration and networks among Indigenous and non-Indigenous service providers.
The province's investment in the Dan Pine Healing Lodge is one of many steps on Ontario's journey of healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. It reflects the government's commitment to work with Indigenous partners to create a better future for everyone in the province. This investment also affirms Ontario's ongoing commitment to responding to critical service needs in communities through programs that support healing and resiliency.
The Dan Pine Healing Lodge will provide culturally appropriate programs and services as part of the government's investment of $47 million in the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy (AHWS).
Under AHWS, Indigenous partners and service providers manage and create culturally appropriate solutions to improve health and healing, and prevent family violence in their communities. The Strategy serves approximately 55,000 people every year.
Since its creation in 1994, AHWS programs have created approximately 600 jobs and 460 community-based health and healing projects across the province on and off reserve.
In 2014, Ontario announced an increased investment of approximately $10 million in AHWS to help improve the quality of life for Indigenous people by increasing access to services such as crisis intervention; counseling; supports for women, children and families at risk; and health and family violence awareness and education.
In partnership with Indigenous communities and the federal government, Ontario will establish up to six new or expanded Indigenous Mental Health & Addictions Treatment and Healing Centres. The centres will provide care using a combination of traditional healing and clinical care.
Walking Together: Ontario's Long-Term Strategy to End Violence Against Indigenous Women
Ontario's Joint Working Group on Violence Against Aboriginal Women
See how the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy supported new mothers at the Six Nation's Maternal and Child Centre.
"This new healing lodge will improve access to culturally appropriate services and provide front-line workers with the training and experience they require to provide these important programs. This investment will help expand the reach of services to a growing Indigenous population."
Dr. Helena Jaczek
Minister of Community and Social Services
"The new Dan Pine Healing Lodge is an important addition to the Garden River First Nation and will play a vital role in helping the community get the care and services they need close to home. As part of our journey of reconciliation we are committed to improving health outcomes for Indigenous people through collaboration."
David Zimmer
Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
Geneviève Oger
Children and Youth Services
Genevieve.Oger@ontario.ca
Kristen Tedesco
Community and Social Services, and Immigration
Kristen.Tedesco@ontario.ca
Peter Varley
Minister's Office
peter.varley3@ontario.ca
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This is going to cost me some money soon!
So I just started playing with my little Ukranian 2 Meter transverter on the satellite downlink bands on 2 Meters.
I am currently receive only, but what fun!
It is amazing to watch the birds show up on the display as they come into range, and peak as I turn the antenna. Even without a mast-mount preamp, circular polarization, or AZ-EL rotation, I am getting excellent copy on many of the birds, especially when they are at low angles.
I can't think of a better way to get the downlink signals than a Flex 6000 rig!
Now I need to get a simple transmit antenna up for 435/6 MHz so I can transmit with my IC-706MK2G and get online with full duplex satellites.
This is likely to get expensive.....but what fun!
Hi Ken, I ordered those transverters last week for 2M and 440M they should be here within the following week or so, inside HRD there is a satellite function I have not used it yet , but recall it being there, if you already have HRD you might want to check and see if it fits your needs.
I currently only have the 2 Meter one, but saw one used on this forum for 70cm. I may order one anyway. Even at low power, I may be able to make a few contacts Full Duplex. It has been done by others with a 6500, using a switching matrix to determine which one is TX and which one is RX. It shouldn't be a big deal to create, since you are only switching milliwatts of power at 20-32 MHz. It will also require modifying (or ordering) the units to have separate TX in and RX out instead of using the same line. Then feed the RX from the transverter into the RXA and the TX out from the XVTR port to the transverter.
BTW, I don't use HRD. I use a lot of other programs.
It took eight weeks for my transverters to get here (Florida) from the Ukraine. I must admit they work great.
It took me abou six weeks for the two meter, all assembled, back in April.
The work well, but drift as they warm with tx heat. Also must watch power out, because they can get dirty beyond a few watts.
There is a review about checking the bias voltage on the final transistor that I haven't done yet.
I wonder if anyone with a Flex 6600 has tried running full duplex (XVTR A and XVTR B) for both TX and RX to work the birds? Seems that may be possible?
yup it work i do this in last ARRL HF contest .
my only observation is that it not have ton of isolation from XVRT A to B while in RX mode ,so strong station on A may appear as weak station on B.
Thanks for the info Marc!
Set up that way here, too. Works well. Using bandpass filters on the inputs of my Elecraft 2m and 70cm transverters. High RF environment really crushes their front ends.
You can use the PstRotator program instead PstRotatorAz. PstRotator has a satellites tracking module embedded, so you don't need another tracking program. The same license works for both PstRotator and PstRotatorAz programs. If you have any question, just send me an email.
Thanks, Codrut. I discovered that yesterday after I reread your web page. I hadn't realized PsrRotator had a tracking module built in.
I played with it for a few hours last night and it works really well. Now I am really hooked. I need to read up some more to try additional settings. I may switch permanently from the AZ version. Except that the AZ version can shrink down to the bare minimum needed.
Hi Ken, I have a 6600 and also recently purchased two transverters from the Transverter store, but do not have a rotatable antenna setup yet. Hoping to make some progress on that later this year. I really like Orbitron's user interface, but it seems there might be more current support for SatPC32. If you are able to get Orbitron interfaced to a rotator, I would be very interested in your lessons learned.
Ken - If I remember correctly NOVA will run on Windows 10, but you have to run it as Administrator.
I ran the patch, but haven't tried running as administrator. I'll give that a try.
SatPC32 seems to be the one if you use Windows. Works with PSTRotator.
It also integrates nicely with the green heron controller as well as others. Had zero problems with it, although it does take a few hours to figure it out if never used it before.
Ken, Does your family realize you will soon have a large tower supporting an azimuth and elevation pointable set of circular polarized antennas with lots of cables running back to the shack to automate satellite tracking?
Do they realize this array will periodically fire up and track a satellite across the sky, perhaps right in the middle of your backyard BBQ? And that when that happens the burgers will burn on the grill as you run into the shack to capture yet another satellite QSO?
I am also using SatPC32, works well. Never got the HRD software to work correctly with my setup for satellite work. They also have a known bug (over a year now as of today) with the Green Heron RT-21 AZ EL computerized controller which I use. Does not show elevation in their software. So that makes it problematic.


Shoei wanted to have a turn. There were only two red pencils left, so he decided to measure Nathan using orange pencils. Nathan was 8 orange pencils long. Now we had a problem- was Nathan 14 or 8?
Lovisa decided to solve the problem by measuring Nathan one last time. She got the yellow pencils and carefully laid them out. Oh oh! Nathan was 11 yellow pencils!
I asked the children what answer we should tweet to KinderPals. Some children thought we should tweet all answers. Others thought we should choose the biggest answer. One person thought we should tweet the yellow answer as yellow was her favorite color. After much discussion, the children reached a consensus that we should tweet all three answers and explain that one was short, one was a little bit long and one was the longest. Scarlett suggested that we needed to mention "one what? They need to know what the thing is, like a pencil". She was out-voted. I decided not to interfere at this stage, but to wait and see how the inquiry unfolds; finding out for oneself is a much more powerful learning experience than being told.
The KC children are delighted with their work. I am wondering what KinderPals will make of this information. I look forward to seeing how KinderPals respond and where this inquiry will go next.


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controversy99
Existing releases with Reverb on Vocals
There are complaints about reverb on the vocals of the two most recent vault releases. Some say Prince hardly ever used reverb on his vocals or didn't use it during the particular era. But are these claims about his existing studio releases accurate? I'm not great with the technical terminology or effect, so I'm genuinely curious. There are fair number of Prince tracks that had some kind of reverb, delay, and/or echo on the vocals. Thinking about 1999 era, I hear some reverb or something that gives the vocals a fuller or more spacey feel on:
Something in the Water (Does Not Compute), Little Red Corvette, Home Come You Don't Call Me Anymore, DMSR, etc
I've even seen older discussions on the Org that very complementary of Prince's use of reverb on his vocals. For example:
https://prince.org/msg/7/358559
Subject: "The Echo of Purple Rain"
Folks on this thread generally liked Prince's reverb on vocals and even said that a lack of reverb on more recent releases might be a problem for some people.
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I think the granular issue is that there are SOME songs where the estate allowed a heavy amount of reverb unnecessarily - great examples are Jungle Love and Sex Shooter.
Once the person doing the mixing confirmed the reverb was a modern production choice and not necessarily reflected in the demo reels, people had a reason to be upset. Now there's a name and face attached to their bugbear which may or may not be related to them still getting over Prince's death. There's gotta be something or someone to take out the anger/frustration on.
I do think the reverb on the above mentioned tracks is a LITTLE distracting because it isn't anywhere to be found on any of the demos or released versions of those songs. Jungle Love does not sound like it was recorded in a church hall and Sex Shooter doesn't even need the crazy echo.
Of course, Prince also did this shit to his songs and ruined them accordingly sometimes. Check out Crucial for a wonderful example of Prince drenching his vocals in reverb and destroying a classic.
Then you have tracks like The Ladder, Sometimes It Snows In April, and Little Red Corvette that are tastefully produced and have an amount of reverb (chosen by Prince i imagine) that emboldens the song rather than pulverizes it.
lavendardrumma
It's not just reverb, it's the type of reverb. You can even hear a difference between what was used on ATWIAD, Grafiti Bridge, Camille/Black album, and SOTT compared to previous records. Then it's a difference between using it as a pedal effect vs. a post effect, and linking it to the compression. It's lazy and my guess is it wasn't just done to sound more current, it was done to hide imperfections they didn't spend time on, or mask tape hiss. What bothers me is the backup vocals will sound to up front in the mix, and overly clear, then you realize how muddy and reverb heavy they made his vocal track.
lurker316
controversy99 said:
That's an excellent question. I was going to make a similar post but you beat me to it.
LoveGalore said:
I think the comparison to the demos is the tricky part. Since the songs were never released, we don't know if Prince and/or his engineers, etc. would have added reverb prior to release. I personnally would rather have the demos/songs as is from Prince, but I can see an argument for adding reverb if it appears similarly in that era and/or if the engineers working with Prince at the time think it would have been added.
That's a good point about it possibly being needing to put anger on something/someone.
So far we have reverb on Little Red Corvette, The Ladder, Another Lonely Christmas, and I believe Purple Rain, I Would Die for You, and We Can Fuck for songs recorded in the 1981 to 1984 period. Plus I'm sure there's a lot more.
Genesia
There's a lot of reverb on Another Lonely Christmas. I love it - sounds like he's screaming his grief to a star-filled sky. Or like it's echoing through the empty hallways of his broken heart.
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Let's Go Crazy, The Beautiful Ones, Paisley Park, Girl, Christopher Tracy's Parade, the list goes on. I'd say it's at least 50/50.
While we can't necessarily compare or judge whether reverb coulda/woulda/shoulda been on most demos, we know the intention wasn't to add reverb to the lead vocals on Jungle Love or Sex Shooter. At least, in the case of Jungle Love, not nearly as wet as it is on Originals.
I like reverb, so I don't really care. In some songs, it sounds so damn good. In others, it's just like... Why? It is really all in how you do it and what the settings are.
leadline
Two historical examples we do have of whether these demos with no reverb would have had reverb on them when released and/or completed is the Crystal Ball and The Vault : Old Friends 4 Sale releases. I can't think of anything on either of these where the vocals were altered from the demos we had prior, so I think at least from that perspective, it would be safe argument to say these songs on Originals and 1999 SD would 'not' have had this reverb added.
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Very well said LoveGalore, this represents fairly all of my frustrations in regards to this topic.
Jungle Love and Sex Shooter are indeed prime examples of this, and it was very unnecessary and distracting. Jungle Love vocals sounding like they are in a church makes it sound like someone is doing karaoke over an instrumental version, it just dissassociates his vocals from the track itself.
Two historical examples we do have of whether these demos with no reverb would have had reverb on them when released and/or completed is the Crystal Ball and The Vault : Old Friends 4 Sale releases. I can't think of anything on either of these where the vocals were altered from the demos we had prior, so I think at least from that perspective, it would be safe argument to say these songs on Originals and 1999 SD would 'not' have had this reverb added. Can anyone here imagine Jungle Love type reverb on Last Heart vocals? I don't think anyone would even consider that a possibility or a good idea.
It is almost as if these engineers are trying to add their own signature to Prince's music.....there is a time and place for everything, and curating Prince's music is definitely not the place for this. They have example after example in the vault of how is vocals were laid out, all they need to do is follow and respect what they find there, nothing more, nothing less.
leadline said:
The one example we do have of Prince adding very very very wet reverb to a vocal (which conflicts with what we had as bootlegs) is Crucial. There was a boatload of outrage when this song was released in its current state given, as you astutely put, it disassociates the vocal from the song. Funnily enough, Crucial sounds much like Jungle Love on Originals in that respect. Church karaoke songs!
yzman
I am recording engineer and I work on mixes daily especally with 2" tape. It is very common that effects are printed on separate tracks along side the other tracks as well as mixdown tracks of a final mix.
It is possible that the heavy reverb was already present and they just made the decision to keep it as Prince last recorded it.
I did cringe when I heard some of over-processing but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that there was a logical reason because otherwise it's very amateurish.
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"I know most of the original engineers," Niko Bolas explains. "The first thing I did was call David Leonard, Susan Rogers and Peggy McCreary. I asked all three of them, 'What did you do? What do I do, and how can I honor this?' They all told me what equipment they had in the control room at the time and what was going on. The greatest thing for me was when Peggy McCreary sat down and listened to one of my mixes. She said, 'It's a great mix, but it's not what he would like. You have to sing the words and dance to it, and that's all he would want.' Once I reframed my brain around that, it was actually really easy to do, because everything's recorded so well. It was already there."
One might interpret this a lot of different ways. But how they understood that Jungle Love required that amount of reverb is beyond me. I cannot truly imagine Susan Rogers giving the thumbs up to it.
One thing that cannot be misinterpreted is his the violet reality interview he did where he talks about how he has a phd in reverb, and added this reverb to many of Prince's songs/vocals where there was none before. He went on further to explain why he did this, but I don't remember offhand what that reason was.
I wonder though if he added this, or, if it was just a different version that we were aware of. Also, I do recall a lot of reverb on the demos circulating, which would only be exacerbated and sound much heavier to the ears on a pristine version.
Honestly though, I hear just as much reverb on this original Crucial here below as I do on the Crystal Ball release.
I've actually never heard that version in such clarity, so that's quite interesting. Wish it was the full version.
https://www.youtube.com/w...aXIwbfIyBk - Here's Crystal Ball's version to compare.
You may be right - better audio fidelity could've revealed that what ears once perceived as tape hiss/distortion/mud was actually... reverb, lol.
Possible. But it sounds like plug-in reverb not 80's era reverb, doesn't it? Also, listening to a lot of other recent remasters on Tidal, the reverb seems to be a signature they're all adding for various reasons. Like they intentionally need it to sound a little different so they hit people over the head with different mix (or in this case, maybe added filtering).
I'm a producer and have been studying Prince's music for many years. I think there's been too much reverb applied on the new mixes in general and that it's not in keeping with Prince's production aesthetic. It's far too high in the mix, bass-heavy (could have had some low-end rolled-off) and has an overly long decay-time.
Of course Prince used reverb in his music but usually had it relatively low in the mix, and on funk or up-tempo tracks he tended to keep things quite dry, with some elements completely dry. I feel that much of 'Originals' is rendered unlistenable due to wildly inappropriate reverb. On the new previously un-released 1999 tracks they seem to have toned things down, but there are still instances of loud reverb and Prince's voice having a chorus-like effect on it. An engineer friend commented that he didn't think it sounded like Prince's voice on a few tracks because of the processing that was applied.
Otherwise, the balance levels are quite good, and the instrument tracks sound good and clear.
Holmes said:
Of course Prince used reverb in his music but usually had it relatively low in the mix, and on funk or dance tracks he tended to keep things quite dry, with some elements completely dry. I feel that much of 'Originals' is rendered unlistenable due to wildly inappropriate reverb. On the new previously un-released 1999 tracks they seem to have toned things down, but there are still instances of loud reverb and Prince's voice having a chorus-like effect on it. An engineer friend commented that he didn't think it sounded like Prince's voice on a few tracks because of the processing that was applied.
Yep, all very true, the estate really needs to take note on this, because there really is no historical example that justifies the drowning of his music in reverb. Prince did use reverb, but he used it sparingly and only when necessary. Crucial is an example of this, the reverb fit very well. It's very close to a ballad, and makes sense, Damn U is another example, but does anyone out there have any historical examples of a song like Jungle Love, Sex Shooter or The Glamorous Life containing heavy reverb/chorus? I can't think of any, but if there are, I would think they are far and few between.
I will say it again, this technique they are using on his music very much disassociates his vocals from the music itself, there is absolutely no justification for a church type chorus effect to be on fast songs or funk songs, it is counterintuitive.
I really hope the estate sees this stuff and takes note, there are many people talking about this. Prince's music, his process, his technique, are just not being respected.
The sad part is, getting right should have been easy, they have access to thousands of released and unreleased songs showing exactly how Prince did things. Prince did all the hard work for them, the fact we are even talking about this is honestly the last thing I would have ever expected to be debating when it came to his unreleased music.
I love Originals and 1999 SD, the estate did a great job on these sets when it comes to song choice and overall asthetics, but the songs themselves will likely only be getting one release, there is only one shot to get these things right, and better care and thought really needs to be taken on future releases imo. I hope they get it right.
OperatingTheta
That type of reverb is not on any existing official Prince releases. The reverb on 'If It'll Make U Happy' is an exception and not a good one. All Bolas has to do is actually LISTEN to Prince's existing work and vocal production and follow accordingly. It shouldn't be necessary for him to contact ex-engineers when so much of Prince's music as produced and approved by Prince is out there. In fact, it's pretty damn pathetic.
A shame as generally, the last two releases (Originals, 1999 Super-Deluxe) have been high quality and right in so many ways, but the vocal production and mix on some of the songs is obviously so very wrong.
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Wolfie87
Uhhhm. In layman's terms; What is specifically "reverb"? And what examples can you give me?
rdhull
Wolfie87 said:
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Reverb stands for reverberation. If you clap your hands in the shower, there's some reverberation. If you go to a big room, it sounds different than a small room. There are ways to emulate that effect. It can be used with delays and that kind of thing. One classic example is David Bowie's "Heros", which is said to have been created by literally setting up a daisy chain of multiple microphones placed 15 feet from him. I think the song Purple Rain is a good example of one with reverb, especially at the "Honey, I know, I know" section. Certain types of reverb are associated with certain musical eras, like 80's drums for example.
novabrkr
Yeah, I've been thinking about this too.
If the reverb FX for the vocals has been attached to a send and has been printed on a track of its own, it'd have to be recorded at loud enough levels to avoid hiss and in order ensure the tails would sound good enough. For someone that would visit the mixes years later, it wouldn't be so obvious at all how loud the tails should be in the mix. For Prince or his engineers from the time, it would have been obvious that they'd be placed low in the mix, so not even notes for the mixes would be needed. Prince favoured the mixes for his funk (or "funk-based") tracks done pretty much the same way throughout the years.
Of course Prince used reverb in his music but usually had it relatively low in the mix, and on funk or dance tracks he tended to keep things quite dry, with some elements completely dry.
Excellent observations. You get extra points for noting the bass-heaviness
OperatingThetan said:
That type of reverb is not on any existing official Prince releases. The reverb on 'If It'll Make U Happy' is an exception and not a good one. All Bolas has to do is actually LISTEN to Prince's existing work and vocal production and follow accordingly. It shouldn't be necessary for him to contact ex-engineers when so much of Prince's music as produced and approved by Prince is out there. In fact, it's pretty damn pathetic. A shame as generally, the last two releases (Originals, 1999 Super-Deluxe) have been high quality and right in so many ways, but the vocal production and mix on some of the songs is obviously so very wrong. * [Edited 12/5/19 8:17am]
The effect on "If It'll Make U Happy" is more of a "slapback echo", or "tape delay", type of a thing, which doesn't bother me personally. It fits the pop-reggae style of the song.
Yeah, sure. If Prince didn't use such an effect on the track originally, it really shouldn't be there on the released version either. I understand that point.
but i thought the orignal intent was to NOT change what was existing in the vault?????
bonatoc
rdhull said:
Nope. That would be "Delay".
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bonatoc said:
I think "echo" puts it rather well in layman's terms.
Referring to just delay effects with the term "echo" seems to be a fairly arbitrary decision by musicians and gear manufacturers. If you clap your hands in a hallway, the echo you get sounds hardly like the clean, isolated repeats of a delay effect.
Most of the reverb units are really just fast delays coupled together anyway. =/
novabrkr said:
This is all more or less true. Reverb and echo are the same concept - sound reflected off a surface. The difference is that with reverb, the echo is perceived (essentially) immediately whereas echo travels a farther distance and the reflected sound is... Delayed. :)
Ask someone to replicate the sound of an echo verbally and they'll say, "Echo, echo, echo, echo" in a decrescendo of sorts. Ask someone to replicate a reverb and, well, they probably couldn't because our vocal chords can't mimic that but it'd basically be something like, "ECHOOO." lol
This is all more or less true. Reverb and echo are the same concept - sound reflected off a surface. The difference is that with reverb, the echo is perceived (essentially) immediately whereas echo travels a farther distance and the reflected sound is... Delayed. Ask someone to replicate the sound of an echo verbally and they'll say, "Echo, echo, echo, echo" in a decrescendo of sorts. Ask someone to replicate a reverb and, well, they probably couldn't because our vocal chords can't mimic that but it'd basically be something like, "ECHOOO." lol
Yeah, but have you ever heard anyone commenting "there's a lot of reverb in this room"? People say there's "echo in the room", or something like that. I've never heard any non-musician / non-sound engineer use the term "reverb"
I've studied reverbs quite a lot lately. Once you start paying attention to the tails it should become apparent that the more impressive-sounding reverbs from the 80s (Lexicon, EMT etc.) are made of cascading delay lines (modulated and feeding into each other). There's not a world of difference between a typical algorithmic reverb from that era and a multitap delay with feedback controls.
btw, I have no idea how I could swing back this discussion to Prince and not get blamed of derailing the thread.
Whatever you want to call it, the result remains the same......easiest thing is to probably call it the "church effect", most eveyone can wrap their head around that.


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Clubhouse Facilities — We've got a clubhouse you can use for your group to get together.
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RV Sites Together — Generally in the spring and the fall, we'll be able to get most of your group in the same area of the park so you can be close to each other.
Resort Amenities — While you're here, the group can enjoy swimming in the pool, hot tubbing, using the boat launch, or lounging on over 1,000 ft. of Colorado River beach!
Nearby Off-Roading — The Ehrenberg Sandbowl and other ATV and jeeping trails are so close you won't even have to tow.
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