{"items": [{"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102431376577847", "anchor": "fb-102431376577847", "service": "fb", "text": "Yes, this applies to all kinds of sensors, not just audio ones.  I see this in my robotics work - if a sensor (maybe a position sensor or force sensor)  is reporting \"funny\" data, you can turn a knob (more than usual) to get it into a sane range, but it always means there's something wrong with the sensor or the way it is set up.", "timestamp": "1347037847"}, {"author": "Taviy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102431386577846", "anchor": "fb-102431386577846", "service": "fb", "text": "good thought, and interesting case study! Setting the appropriate gain on one's \"confusion\" meter could make an interesting analogy...", "timestamp": "1347037850"}, {"author": "Nick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102438793243772", "anchor": "fb-102438793243772", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff, I've had this happen to me more than once.  I now double-check my trim settings by also listening to what the mic sounds like through headphones.  That helps me diagnose things like poor mic mounting or placement (or mistakes such as mislabeled lines at the board) much faster.  I keep a pair of Shure monitor earbuds in my board rack for this purpose; the fidelity is OK, but the isolation is what I'm looking for.", "timestamp": "1347039013"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102466419907676", "anchor": "fb-102466419907676", "service": "fb", "text": "@Nick: I really should keep some headphones with my sound stuff.  If it had been easy to just listen to that track I probably would have, and I might have noticed.  I did solo the fiddle out over the mains, but it sounded pretty normal that way.", "timestamp": "1347045170"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1347060143400", "service": "gp", "text": "I'm curious to what extent you got this from the\u00a0similar\u00a0rule for aspiring rationalists", "timestamp": 1347060143}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102543536566631", "anchor": "fb-102543536566631", "service": "fb", "text": "This is one of the better reason the apprentice system existed. Experience matters, and so does shared experience from mentors. In retrospect one can often say, I should have figured that out. That happens too often to actually be true. Sometimes you just have to have the experience.", "timestamp": "1347064290"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102545209899797", "anchor": "fb-102545209899797", "service": "fb", "text": "God know I appreciate my mentors Paul and especially Marvin Dupont. Have never looked for a job since High School", "timestamp": "1347064778"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102574669896851", "anchor": "fb-102574669896851", "service": "fb", "text": "Ah Marvelous Marvin the magnificent machinist. Of course, you understood what to do with it would that it would be so with everyone the age you were at the time.", "timestamp": "1347073844"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102575049896813", "anchor": "fb-102575049896813", "service": "fb", "text": "He was the best machinist of all time in our business Phillip as you are aware. I am proud to have learned from him and thankful that your brother gave me the opportunity as a sophomore in High School", "timestamp": "1347073958"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1347074210100", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n\u00a0in fact I linked to it.", "timestamp": 1347074210}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1347074277898", "service": "gp", "text": "My close reading grade: D+", "timestamp": 1347074277}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102576133230038", "anchor": "fb-102576133230038", "service": "fb", "text": "Frank were Mac and Belmonte there during your time. Mac, was just a genius with motors (electricians were always calling him up with control questions) and Belmonte, for his many vices was one of the best/fastest motor men on this coast. It was a unique cast of characters: CEM was blessed with some great people.", "timestamp": "1347074284"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102577173229934", "anchor": "fb-102577173229934", "service": "fb", "text": "yes I worked with them both, Mac unfortunately got very sick and passed while I was there, Belmonte while I was in Air Force. CEM had such a crew in the early days, just brilliant pump and motor guys, fortunate to have sucked up every bit of info they were more than happy to share with me. Also just nice, good people, your Mum included, always think how lucky I have been. Sure I am a machinist, not sure how many people are proud of something like that. But since 1977, I have never,ever been an unemployment statistic", "timestamp": "1347074646"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102579913229660", "anchor": "fb-102579913229660", "service": "fb", "text": "Yeah, how hard can it be to work to 1/100th of an inch tolerance/ sarc off. Note to everyone else, I acknowledge that the conversation is off topic, but I expect it is a world with which you are not too familiar (except Andy)", "timestamp": "1347075254"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102580216562963", "anchor": "fb-102580216562963", "service": "fb", "text": "yeah sorry everybody, nighty night", "timestamp": "1347075310"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102580356562949", "anchor": "fb-102580356562949", "service": "fb", "text": "by the way its 1/1000th", "timestamp": "1347075337"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102580426562942", "anchor": "fb-102580426562942", "service": "fb", "text": ".ooo1", "timestamp": "1347075348"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102581196562865", "anchor": "fb-102581196562865", "service": "fb", "text": "I was being conservative ( I was actually thinking 1/10,000 but settled on 1/100 which I knew for sure)", "timestamp": "1347075526"}, {"author": "Frank", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/102427309911587?comment_id=102582393229412", "anchor": "fb-102582393229412", "service": "fb", "text": "Close enough for goverment work LOL!!", "timestamp": "1347075829"}]}