How music and sound affects the Brain Part I

Hello Everyone, Mr. Rude is back with some good information about how frequencies effect the brain and how they motivate us in different ways throughout our daily lives. In this two part post I'm posting an article by Ben Greenfield that expalins how important these elements are to our lives that no one really thinks about. Ben greefield is a fitness guy and I myself was pretty suprised about what this guy had to say. I hope you find this information useful and educational. Thanks again to everyone who views my blog and comments. PEACE!!

                                                                      -MR. RUDE-









Most of us know that work out songs and music can help you to exercise harder
But if you understand how sound and music actually change your brain waves, you can use this knowledge to alter your mental and physical performance states with laser accuracy.
It sounds geeky, but I’m going to explain how…

At first glance, brain waves seem a bit like “woo-woo” science, and it can be a bit intimidating and confusing to understand how they work.
But here’s the basics, which will really help you when you’re listening to today’s interview with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson about how sound affects your brain.
Your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, and your neurons (just like the rest of your body) use electricity to communicate with each other. As you can probably imagine, these millions of neurons sending signals all at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in your brain, and this can actually be detected using medical equipment like an electroencephalography (EEG), which measuring electricity levels over areas of your scalp.
When you graph the electrical activity of your brain using EEG, you generate what is called a brainwave pattern, which is called a “wave” pattern because of its cyclic, wave-like nature.
And the brainwave patterns are generally categorized like this:

UAD LA-2A vs Waves CLA-2A.

Hey Everyone, Mr. Rude is back with an interesting blog post for those of you who know about the virtual LA-2A compressor plugins that are on the market today. I know that I may be jumping around as far as topics are concerned but I post what I feel at the time so please forgive me. Today some well known manufacturers of plugins such as Waves and UAD are diving into the past with some replications of some of the best old-school analog gear that has been used for decades. What I decided to do was post a video that compares two versions of the LA-2A Compressor from these manufacturers and let you decide which one is best or if there is any difference between the two. Although no virtual piece of gear will ever come close to being an exact copy of the real thing I beleive that the people behind these plugins are doing an awesome job with what there coming up with for the digital world. Again, I'll let you make up your mind to which sounds best and I hope you enjoy. Thanks to everyone for viewing my blog and I appreciate you comments. PEACE!!!!

                                                                       -MR. RUDE-

P.S. I own the Waves version and it is an awesome plugin with lots of power!!!!!

Mr.Rude Video Blog

Hello everyone, Mr. Rude is back with another post for all those who have a love for audio. This week I'm taking a different approach by introducing a book that I have had the opportunity of reading and studying. The book is called "Understanding Audio" by Daniel M. Thompson. It is a book that has  very good and useful information for anyone who would like some in depth coverage about many aspects in the audio world. This book is a text book so it may be a little hard to read at first but if you go chapter by chapter it will all begin to make sense eventually. If there are any questions please feel free to post them on my blog and I will will be happy to answer them for you. Thanks again to all those who view my blog! I look forward to posting some new stuff in the future. Peace

                                          -Mr. Rude-

Episode 2 - Sound Behaviour Part 2

Hello everyone, Mr. Rude is back with some more knowledge that I think everyone who is interested in audio should know. A couple of weeks ago I posted Episode 1- Sound Behavior which discussed Sound Propagation and how different frequencies affect the way we hear things. In this episode the discussion focuses on Phase relationships and describes Constructive interference, destructive interference, and the 3:1 rule. This episode also talks about reflective surfaces and boundary behavior. In the reflective surface discussion the subjects that are focused upon are reflection, diffraction, transmission, and refraction. As you guys can see we are know beginning to get into some pretty technical stuff so if there are any questions about any of these terms please feel free to comment with questions. To all of you who already have knowledge about this stuff please feel free to just comment. This kind of information is really important to those of us who have a passion for audio and how sound works. I invite you to view this post and I hope you enjoy. Thanks to all of you who have been watching and commenting on my blog, I l look forward to posting new stuff in the future. THANKS AGAIN!!! PEACE

                                              -MR. RUDE-

Radio Interview

Hello Everyone, Mr. Rude is back with another point of interest for those us who love sound and the way it works but first I would like to thank all of you who have viewed my blog and posted comments, I appreciate! Today, I would like to continue with some basics in audio that I feel are very important in understanding how sound travels in our environment. "Sound Propagation" is the term that is used to describe how sound travels through air and how it affects the air molecules around us. With out these air molecules the bass coming from the car passing by would never reach our ears because it's these molecules that carry the sound to us. In this video, sound propagation is explained in a way that may be elementary to some but completely alien others. You will hear words like like compression and rarefaction but don't worry about these terms right now. I'll explain those in a future post. Thanks again to those who view my blog and I hope that you get something out of this clip. Remember you can always comment and send me questions at any time. PEACE

                                                        -MR. RUDE-

3D- Human Ear

Hey Everybody, this is my fourth post and I thought that I would switch it up a bit and get a little technical, informational, and educational for those who are just beginning to get into audio. To begin to understand the wonderful world of audio, I felt that it would be a good idea to post a short clip of how the ear deals with sound pressure which intern is turned into what "hear" on a daily basis. Now I know that this may be a bit elementary for those of us who already understand how sound works but again I think that this is good for those of you who are just starting out. I hope that you enjoy and I would appreciate some feed back. Thanks again for viewing my blog and I'll talk to you soon. PEACE!!!

                                         Mr. Rude