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From what I’ve read, in a pop/rock recording session, they basically function as the producer’s technical support. The producer says “I want some deep reverb on the guitar there, and a softer tone to the drums”, and the engineer figures out how to make that happen and make it good. In a classical music recording session, the producer has more of a managerial role, and the engineer decides what sound to make happen. But there’s obviously plenty of fuzziness at the boundaries between the various jobs. The pop/rock producer probably has a bit of Electronics Operation and a bit of Musical Composition (specialised in Arrangement), or maybe a Professional Skill. Building new equipment is (mostly) for the design engineers (with Electronics Engineering) at the record company. Though plenty of studio engineers and producers have improvised or kludged up new systems. Quote:
The fun thing is setting skills for someone like Hannah Peel, for whom Mechanic (Music Box) is a compositional and performance skill...
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06-29-2018, 09:46 AM | #32 | |
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In any case, I think the compositional part would be Musical Composition. Though I would certainly allow a Singing or Musical Instrument roll to improvise variations on an existing tune or in a standard format like figured bass or "long boring guitar solos." I'm not sure, though, if there is a skill of Musical Instrument (Music Box); they aren't normally "played" except by winding them up and starting them, right?
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06-30-2018, 04:43 AM | #33 | |
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It's actually an exact low-tech counterpart to programming a sequencer or whatever, which is an established part of modern electronic music recording and performance.
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06-30-2018, 06:36 AM | #34 | |
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06-30-2018, 02:42 PM | #35 |
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Not mine. Electronics Repair may benefit from being treated in the same way.
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Hopefully without derailing my own thread, another "I've been reading fantasy books, and came across an anachronism" question. (The thread was inspired by the Finder's Stone trilogy from Forgotten Realms, starting with Azure Bonds.)
When did professional cooking and mixed drinks become common? I mean, I read through the Volo Guides from AD&D 2E (Forgotten Realms), and they talk about the meals that are cooked in inns and the drinks available. Even in a high-magic world like Faerun, I wouldn't expect plentiful herbs/spices, or a plentiful selection of drinks (e.g., I'd expect locally-brewed beer, maybe some young wine for the nobles, and maybe some mead if all the bee hives haven't been killed; anything beyond that, I don't see being common). Does Low Tech or its companions talk about trade, distillation, or so on?
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07-01-2018, 04:28 PM | #37 |
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Low-Tech lists "Distilled Liquors" as a TL3 thing, dropping in price at TL4, as a side-effect of alchemical pursuits. As Forgotten Realms is pretty solidly TL4^, IMO, having a number of hard liquor drinks is not out of place.
Taverns in the "place for travelers to stop and get a bed for the night and a meal" have been recorded as far back as Roman times (TL2), and would not be out of place as far back as Mycenaean Greece (TL1). Herbs and spices have been known since neolithic times, though the spices tended to be locally grown rather than imported.
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I would expect lots of spices in Faerun, just like in imperial Rome or the 16th century of our world (or pretty much any time in the 'spicy' parts of the globe!) The whole point of herbs is that they can be dried and stored and that a small quantity gives a big taste, so they make great trade goods. Ancient and medieval societies had lots of locally-growing herbs which have since died out or been abandoned for something a bit more efficient or stronger-tasting that grows in another climate. The peasants relied on those to flavour their meals, while the rich had expensive imports from the other side of the world, just like the peasants wore pewter and glass while the rich wore silver and imported gems wrested from some awful desert or mountain at the cost of many lives. Gaius Petronius Arbiter knew about wine snobs paying obscene prices for old vintages, and the merchants who swindled them. Again, wine is a good trade good ... that is why cargo capacities were measured in tuns (wine barrels) in the middle ages. I think that Low Tech talks about distillation.
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07-02-2018, 12:26 AM | #39 |
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I think wine barrels might have been used as the unit of measure/account because they where the preferred way to move things as the alternative was break-bulk (lots of little boxes) a man can roll more goods in a wine barrel then he can carry in his hands.
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07-02-2018, 07:51 AM | #40 |
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Actually, before wine barrels, the main approach to shipping used amphorae.
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