http://whywereason.com/2012/05/25/is-too-much-familiarity-bad-for-creativity/ Connecting psychology to the world, and the world to psychology Tue, 21 May 2013 04:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://whywereason.com/2012/05/25/is-too-much-familiarity-bad-for-creativity/#comment-2588 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:31:48 +0000 http://whywereason.wordpress.com/?p=2806#comment-2588 Hey Kara,now you didn’t think that you could have a topic about recording tcehnology and just have me sit on the sidelines, did you?Despite the naysayers, there a more than a few studios who prefer Source Connect over ISDN. One of the big reasons for this is cost (it’s much cheaper than compared to ISDN). Additionally, Source Connect’s interface with applications such as Pro Tools makes life a lot easier for studio engineers than ISDN does (though frankly, that comment is a hard sell to me as I’ve not really noticed it). However, what I truly like are the backup capabilities which I am told that Source Connect can provide. I was talking to George Whittam about this, and one of the primary reasons he was pushing the current version of Source Connect was that it had the capability to recover and re-download the audio as it’s automatically stored on the computer and can be resent.As for ISDN, yeah it’s going away. I’m sorry, but you can see it in how it’s being used and in how difficult it’s becoming for talent to have it installed. I like ISDN, and for what it was designed to do (short dedicated connections, video teleconference) it does a great job. VOIP hasn’t gotten there yet, and frankly it’s not going to be for a few years still. Latency, and major security issues are keeping a lot of corporations from fully embracing it, and they’re the ones who will set the tone for what the telecommunication companies provide. Until they fix the issues, and the tcehnology is fully embraced, ISDN will continue to limp along (which is a good thing).As for whether anyone actually needs ISDN for their voiceover business, the answer is that it depends. It’s one of those things that you need, when you know that you need it. If you’re losing $ because you don’t have it, you might want to consider investing in ISDN, but not necessarily (depending on how much you’re actually losing compare to the cost of installation and maintenance).Cheers!-Greg

]]> http://whywereason.com/2012/05/25/is-too-much-familiarity-bad-for-creativity/#comment-1749 Mon, 28 May 2012 02:35:09 +0000 http://whywereason.wordpress.com/?p=2806#comment-1749 thanks for this! i was a bit nervous when you cited the simonton study and started talking about innocentive, and was relieved to see you address the common misconceptions surrounding the “outsider effect”.

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