John Atkinson, editor of Stereophile Magazine, has written up an article about the measurement equipment he uses to produce the measurement sidebars (example) for Stereophile’s equipment review articles. According to John, FuzzMeasure is increasingly becoming John’s weapon of choice for measuring the frequency responses of loudspeakers.
Continue reading Measurements, Maps & Precision on Stereophile’s site.
A few days ago, I was featured on Apple’s download site and have received a huge torrent of download requests (for FuzzMeasure, anyway).
The ‘killing’ part happened last night, when Apache just stopped accepting HTTP connections. After some investigation, it turns out I had to increase Apache’s MaxClients setting from 20 to 50 to handle the increased load. There were so many people downloading at the same time that Apache wouldn’t let anyone else into my site!
<apachenerd>I should probably also investigate switching from prefork back to worker, but I’m pretty sure something I have running on the server requires me to use prefork.</apachenerd>
So far, the number of downloads since being featured has passed 8500, and it’s rising like crazy. I’m so grateful for being featured, as it’s obviously helping to get FuzzMeasure in the hands of so many new users!
Today only, FuzzMeasure is 20% off (for a total of $120). For the rest of the month, FuzzMeasure will be 10% off. Time to buy your favourite audio engineer or hobbyist a fancy gift they will love!
Note that this discount only applies to full license purchases only, and not upgrades or educational licenses. If you don’t see your discount applied automatically using the link above, let me know!
A customer approached me about a week ago looking for ways to use DRC-generated pcm files with convolvers other than BruteFIR on Linux. I realized that this wouldn’t be an easy feat for a user to handle on their own, seeing how the pcm files aren’t a standard format, so I created a tool to easily convert pcm files to aif files.
I put the source and binary up at my smug google code repository. Hopefully it helps a lot of folks out there.
If you have any questions about the tool, or how to use it, fire me an email.
If you’ve been hiding under a rock today and haven’t already seen the news elsewhere, you’ll be very excited to learn that FuzzMeasure Pro 3 launched today! This is an especially important release for me, since it falls on the 3 year anniversary of FuzzMeasure 1.0 first going on sale.
FuzzMeasure 1.0 was a very different application, and certainly not the high-powered award-winning tool it is today. Three years is a very long time for a product to mature, and FuzzMeasure 3.0 is certainly the most mature release I’ve put out the door.
The response to the Leopard-only requirement of FuzzMeasure has been positive. My user base is very understanding of my decision, and they’re looking forward to the future enhancements that will be made possible thanks to Leopard.
FuzzMeasure 3.0 represents over a year of part-time work, and I believe that it’ll help me reach an even wider audience now that I’ve added even more tools to satisfy users in the live sound industry. When I first started out, I had no clue that FuzzMeasure could even be used to help tune PA systems. Now I learn that FuzzMeasure is used to set up concerts for Linkin Park, and other big-name bands around the world. Who knew?
So, without further delay, download a copy of FuzzMeasure 3 if you haven’t already, and start learning what all the fuss is about! And if you don’t really get what FuzzMeasure’s all about, at least download it to check out the fancy new 512×512 icon in CoverFlow! (Thanks, Sebastiaan!)
