Spaced out, again

After playing with a Jecklin Array for a couple of months I've decided to go back to using a spaced array. I admit that the Jecklin allows me to create incredibly realistic recordings. If you listen to some of the raw recordings with headphones when I'm getting the guitar out of the case or walking to the mics you would swear someone was actually in the room with you. However,

Hey You, Get Off My Lawn!

Ray Charles really was a genius.

People who score high on intelligence tests are also good at keeping time, new Swedish research shows....

Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University have now demonstrated a correlation between general intelligence and the ability to tap out a simple regular rhythm...Those who scored highest on intelligence tests also had least variation in the regular rhythm they tapped out in the experiment.

Karolinska Institutet (2008, April 21). Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy Go Hand In Hand. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 21, 2008, from Science Daily Digest.

Tone, tone, tone

The guitarist Allan Alexander emphasized this above all to his students. And while I paid attention to "tone, tone, tone" while playing the classical guitar, I fear that I haven't been so faithful to this tenet on the 12-string. But I wondered why the recorded sound was so scratchy and shrill while the guitar sounded very nice while I'm playing. Either the guitar sounds significantly different between the front, listener position, and from above, in the playing position, or perhaps there is some psycho-acoustic event going on that alters the sound as it travels from the guitar to my brain: I hear