In article , Iain Churches
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Iain Churches
wrote:



It is not the word "reverb" that is in contention, but the use of the
word "delay", which can clearly be either verb or a noun, depending
on the context.

"Delay" is a verb in the expression "delay the reverb" but a noun in
the expression "reverb the delay"

Perhaps you will have done so by the time this posting appears.

But as yet I've still not seen you explain:

1) How anyone (not already privy to your jargon) reading your initial
assertion would have known you used the same word for two different
things.

2) What you mean by saying one use is a "noun" and the other is a
"verb".

Your earlier explanation seemed to say that in one case you applied a
reverb process, and in the other applied that *and then combined it
with the current input to the reverb process". That does seem to me to
be a clear functional distinction. But I it isn't clear to me how that
answers the above questions.

Both these terms are colloquialisms in every day use in the studio
environment. Every producer, engineer, student and trainee
understands their meaning, and the difference between them.

That doesn't particularly surprise me. Quite easy for an in-group to
adopt a jargon that make no sense to anyone else. Ambiguities like
these are common enough. e.g. the use of "compression" or "bandwidth"
to mean quite different things which those "in group" would
distinguish from context. But I'm not clear why you'd expect anyone
else to understand your (hidden) meaning when you simply wrote

"You can delay the reverb or reverb the delay. Totally different".

This issue does interest me as I've lost count of the number of times
I've found both students and 'experts' don't really know what they are
doing as a result of such lazy jagon where the user assumes "people
know what this means" without the need to actually explain or resolve
the ambiguity. It clouds both comminication and the ability to think.

To date, with the exception of yourself, I have met no-one else who was
confused

But that does not prevent you from actually answering my questions. :-)

Or do you prefer an air of aloof superiority to explanation? ;-

Afraid that thus far I am left feeling that you haven't even understood
that your initial statement *is* ambiguous and that your later "noun"
versus "verb" has done nothing to resolve that.

Slainte,

Jim

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