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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
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Primer is done! My drywall guy is here now doing final touch-ups and spray texture. Next up will be the outer coats of primer on top of the texture.
Why are you Americans still using these strange units...
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Maybe this should be the My New Studio Build Megathread?
There are two kinds of countries, those that use the metric system and those that have been to the moon.
NASA has been using metric for about 30 years. Science has been using it forever.
NASA Finally Goes Metric
NASA Finally Goes Metric
Maybe this should be the My New Studio Build Megathread?
There are two kinds of countries, those that use the metric system and those that have been to the moon.
NASA Finally Goes Metric
- Apr 20, 2009
- 2,620
- 4,666
- Disclosures
- Endorsements: your name could be here, Mr. Sadowsky!
Yes, I was teasing, I am a US American but used the metric system all through engineering school. I recognize its superiority, but we haven't made the switch yet for whatever reason.
Imperial measurements are superior for dividing. 12 inches has even divisions of 1,2,3,4, and 6 inches. 16 ounces has even divisions of 1,2,4, and 8 ounces. Metric is easier for multiplying, which we don't care about in the US.
Around 1990, NASA started using metric predominately but not exclusively. Even after a couple high profile unit-conversion SNAFUs, don't some NASA missions *still* involve both metric and imperial units?
Change comes slow when bureaucracy and conversion costs are involved.
The space station is metric so NASA conforms there. As an engineer, I’ve always worked in metric. A Chevy Impala that I bought in 2003 was all metric and GM started converting some components in the 70’s. I had to buy a new set of wrenches for that car.
Progress is being slowly made. One of the issues is CAD systems and legacy data files. Upgrading a system to different measures is a nightmare. Then there’s all the tooling. With automated CNC, it was made a little easier. As far as I know Boing still has plane specs in feet and inches.
Canada went visibly metric starting in the mid 70’s with product labeling and speed limits a few years later.
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I remember a Mars orbiter being lost in the late 90s. The project wasn't exclusively on SI units, and a units miscommunication with Lockheed Martin ultimately resulted in the craft's burning up on its (far too low) approach to Mars orbit.
It's telling that huge embarrasment couldn't prompt NASA to make all projects SI-only. The costs were just too high, and the agency's budgets wouldn't cover them.
It's telling that huge embarrasment couldn't prompt NASA to make all projects SI-only. The costs were just too high, and the agency's budgets wouldn't cover them.
I step away for a couple days and you guys have turned this thread into some sort of space race!
SI sound units are watt per square meter for sound intensity and pascals for sound pressure. Most use the deciBel and Hertz for frequency.
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The metric standard comes under the International System of Units, or SI, International Bureau of Weights and Measures. At one time they considered recommending adoption of the dB but it failed. It has been adopted in standards by the International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC and the International Organization for Standardization, ISO.
In 1886, the US made using the metric system legal in the US.
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A decibel is 1/10th of a Bel, it was defined by Bell Telephone and used as a unit of attenuation per 1000 feet of telephone wire.
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Interesting to note that monitoring loudness in analog and digital has different requirements. In digital, some like to monitor with LUFS, loudness unit full scale, as opposed to VU.
Here is a good explanation of loudness metering:
Loudness Metering Explained | Waves
Here is a good explanation of loudness metering:
Loudness Metering Explained | Waves
Back from my trip. Returned to find everything spray textured.
We picked up paint samples earlier tonight. I put up some squares of primer and framed them with painters tape so that tomorrow I can toss paint samples on the wall and make a decision on colors. I think I have it picked out, and it’s going to be BOLD.
We picked up paint samples earlier tonight. I put up some squares of primer and framed them with painters tape so that tomorrow I can toss paint samples on the wall and make a decision on colors. I think I have it picked out, and it’s going to be BOLD.
