Ins & outs

IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT REALLY LOW BASS Scientists in Canada have found that super-low bass frequencies – those beyond the range of human hearing – compel people in clubs to dance more enthusiastically. So, tweaking your sub-bass settings is time well spent after all.

PIANO BY MOUTH A Steinway dealer in America has discovered that bite marks on a 19th-century Model B Ebony model he owns may belong to Thomas Edison. The inventor was actually hearing impaired, so took to clamping his mouth to pianos to “hear through his teeth”.

TEENAGE DRINKERS A branded craft beer seems right up Teenage Engineering’s street, so we weren’t that surprised to learn that a Swedish brewery is releasing one. It’s an Okinawa-style lager that has “hints of light bread, lemon, lime and bergamot”. And no, you probably can’t afford it.

ILOK-ED OUT

Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) is no fan of the iLok software licensing system, it turns out, asking his Twitter followers if there’s a cracked version of the Strymon BigSky – a plugin he actually bought – as he is “not really a dongle person”.

VENTURA CAREFULLY macOS Ventura (v10.13) is here, so we’ll issue our usual warning not to upgrade until you’re sure that your DAW, plugins and audio hardware are LL supported. At the time of writing, lots of developers are advising against making the jump.

ENO’S ENDINGS

We had to agree recently when we heard Brian Eno telling Apple’s Zane Lowe about “that feeling of terror you get when you’ve done something and you know it’s good, and you just don’t know how not to ruin it”. A feeling we’re all too familiar with…