James Perrett

HEQA Home Education and Exams Survey 2026 This survey is for home educating parents of young people who are sitting or had planned to sit GCSE, IGCSE, AS, A level or similar qualifications in Summer 2026. It will run until Friday 27th March, ...

Home educators - anyone taking exams this summer? If so, please answer my survey on exam costs and centre availability :) If not, please share with anyone who might be!

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Is he called Liam by any chance? This sounds more like a post from @crimegirl.co.uk rather than your normal posts.

To start with, use your ears. The recording will usually tell you how loud it can go without being mangled. Most of my masters end up higher than the common -14LUFS level but I know that they'll still sound good when the level is reduced because I haven't pushed them beyond their limit.

I remember a Motown engineer say that they were always amazed by how good The Beatles' records sounded. And then they found out that The Beatles used Motown records as a yardstick.

For a few months, or maybe years, other people's records will sound better than yours. True perspective takes time.

I heard something similar from a colleague who left to join an F1 team as a technician. He came back to us a few months later.

I like the artwork from @mydogsighs.bsky.social in the background there.

Actually more like 3 billion (I did the calculation when my son had a fascination for large numbers and he wanted to know how old his Grandad was in seconds).

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

I first heard it round at a friend's house on the way to school one day. Jack Dimanio and Robert Robinson gave the programme a great combination of serious discussion with humorous interludes. It became essential morning listening up until about 10 years ago when the whole of BBC news lost its way.

In my experience Henrys are cheaper and work far better than Dysons.

Has anyone checked the Land Registry to see who actually owns the property?

Taken by Aphex back in the 1980s to go with their Aural Exciter.

Huge Booty has also been taken...

And more about the people behind the USVs at www.oshendata.com/company

An interesting application of USVs (uncrewed surface vessels) here.

maybe time to teach

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which probably works on just about every major platform now that Windows has a Linux subsystem.

Oops - the Daikin unit sound power level is actually 57dB which requires a distance of 5.64m from the centre of the outdoor unit to the neighbour's property. A fence would reduce that to 3.17m.

From looking at the Daikin specs I now see why I'm confused. The 45dB you quote is probably the sound pressure level. The number used in the calculations is the sound power level. The quietest Daikin unit that I've found so far has a sound power level of 58dB (??? but no suffix).

And 1.5m to the centre allows you to use a 45.5dB unit.

More than a metre to the centre of the heat pump allows you to use a 42dB unit (assuming it is ground mounted at the bottom of a wall). If you can stretch it another 20cm then you can use a 43.5dB unit. That's without needing to use a fence in between.

Our cat has a favourite space in the far corner under my son's bed. Fortunately she snores when she's asleep so I can usually tell when she's there.

To be honest, the sound box idea sounds weird in the context of a heat pump. Who suggested it? If it was an installer then I'd be very worried about them.

I've just re-read the MCS docs. There's no need to build a box - a decent fence will gain you an extra 5dB allowance while a more substantial wall will gain 10dB. If you have a decent fence and can site the pump more than 1m away from the boundary then you'll meet the noise limit with a 47dB unit.

If I was to use AI for coding I'd never hear the last of it from my son. If I get him interested in something then he's almost as fast at coding as AI but getting him to do what I want is the problem...

I'd agree that making something for yourself is more fun. I'd really like to learn how to train these models because I have quite a bit of source material here to train them on.

Or you could have downloaded UVR which would give you a choice of algorithms (including the one you are currently using). It will also separate the different drums.

I think we've had this discussion before - the noise level isn't a simple number. It is a calculated level that involves distance too. So a 45dB unit will comply provided it isn't too close to the property boundary.

I've been out to see live music 4 times this week. Two amazing gigs and two not so amazing but all free to get in. Probably similar next week too. There is so much good grass roots music around at the moment.

I've pretty much given up on journalists these days. After all, we saw what happened when they were given power.

Mind you - those are just my thoughts. There are plenty of other ways to do things and probably many other ways yet to be discovered.

Line Audio (a small Swedish company) for SDCs and then I'd go for something expensive if you really want an LDC - there is a reason why you'll see U87s used on all kinds of things in studios. If you can't afford a U87 then use the Line Audio mics instead with a bit of eq.