From:    Tony Iannotti                          Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      Joseph Max                             21 Nov 94 10:06:12
Subject: Re: WAV. calls?                        UpdReq 

 JM> This does raise an interesting question - is the recorded playback of the
 JM> Calls an acceptable substitute for speaking them directly during the 
 JM> course of a ritual? 
   I think that the vibrations in the head matter a great deal, as well as the 
breathing. One can get the vibration part from hooking up a guitar amp to 
your PC for enough volume, but I would want to breathe with it anyway. 
Deserves an experiment or two....
 JM> If so, is there a difference between a recording of the operator
 JM> hirself speaking them or some other persons voice?
   Here I don't think it would matter, but these are opinions only of course.
 JM> Mostly it has to do with the rather intrusive nature of a big enough PC 
 JM> to have sound cards in it inside an active ritual space, and the
   You can have the PC in another room if you don't mind a little 
reconstruction. I have more holes in the walls, floors and ceilings than my 
girlfriend likes to contemplate.
 JM> Paying to much attention to fancy tools and getting ever syllable correct 
 JM> is a very neophyte kind of mistake, when it is at the 
  Good point. You could have touch sensitive tablets, though, so that the 
appropriate calls are triggered by touching particular squares with the wand.
 JM> Secondly, the sheer size of the .WAV file and the amount of memory needed 
 JM> to play it back would be prodigious and awkward, I would think. 
Especially 
 JM> since the same thing could be accomplished with a $20 cassette deck. 
Using 
 JM> a PC with soundcards is threading a needle with a sledgehammer, IMHO.
    You are right about the space. I am not sure about the memory. Do .wav 
playback programs try to load the whole file
 into memory at once before playing them? If not, it's probably better to play 
them off of a CD in the PC if you have a
 fast enough CD player or it's well cached.


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