[sdiy]RE: Re: [sdiy] [OT] What is filter squelch?

[rdrake]

hence the standard sdiy response when asked "what are you doing down in the basement?"... "just farting around."

bbob th beaneater

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "Anton Coops" <dubshot at xs4all.nl>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:08:18
>
>On 5 Sep 2005, at 22:48, harrybissell wrote:
>
>> Paul Perry wrote: <snipp'd>
>> 
>> > When people say a filter sounds 'squelchy" they
>mean it soundslike
>> > when someone wearing rubber boots stands on a
>frog.While it is
>> > farting.
>> >
>> > Ahh yes. Quick and to the point.
>
>The boots and the frog.. well... ok, but the
>farting...
>
>It makes me think about the oldschool Greek
>synth-DIYer 
>Pythagoras, who had lots of great ideas (the
>octave, scales, 
>harmony of the spheres etc. etc.). 
>
>Pythagoras also had a very strong opinion about
>flatulence: he 
>hated it, and he never ate a bean in his life. I
>personally think that he 
>had a point, and I can't help but wonder what his
>reaction would be 
>if he heard that nowadays whole generations of
>electronic musicians 
>are playing around with machines that create sounds
>that remind 
>you of a troubled metabolism...