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  2. Dynamic range compression - Wikipedia

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    As far as the compressors are concerned, the authors performed two processing sessions, using a fast attack (0.5 ms) in one case, and a slow attack (50 ms) in the other. Make-up gain is deactivated, but the resulting file is normalized. Set with a fast attack, the tested compressors had the following influence on the signal:

  3. Dynamic range - Wikipedia

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    In modern recording, this range is often limited through dynamic range compression, which allows for louder volume, but can make the recording sound less exciting or live. [ 50 ] The dynamic range of music as normally perceived in a concert hall does not exceed 80 dB, and human speech is normally perceived over a range of about 40 dB.

  4. Sound Blaster X-Fi - Wikipedia

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    In addition to PCI and PCIe internal sound cards, Creative also released an external USB-based solution (named X-Mod) in November 2006. X-Mod is listed in the same category as the rest of the X-Fi lineup, but is only a stereo device, marketed to improve music playing from laptop computers, and with lower specifications than the internal offerings.

  5. Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...

  6. Bill Gates - Wikipedia

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    One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.

  7. Boston - Wikipedia

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    The most recent sub- 0 °F (−18 °C) reading occurred on February 4, 2023, when the temperature dipped down to −10 °F (−23 °C); this was the lowest temperature reading in the city since 1957. [135] In addition, several decades may pass between 100 °F (38 °C) readings; the last such reading occurred on July 24, 2022. [135]

  8. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Frances Densmore and Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief working on a recording project of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916).. Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

  9. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    The early-19th-century master of the bizarre turn of phrase. Great Moon Hoax: An infamous article by The Sun that claimed that animals such as unicorns and bat-winged humans were found living on the moon. Great Stink: A London summer so smelly it prompted government action. Charles J. Guiteau: The strangest man to ever assassinate a US President.