教授B是另一個我非常喜歡的男神級教授，雖然他上課肚子常常一直叫好像永遠都在挨餓，而且每次見到他都睡眼惺忪，但是無論課再多、上課途中遇到多少人攔住他要和他討論系務、一再delay他的行程，他方圓半公尺內總是籠罩著一股從容的氛圍。他的耐心不會因為繁重的工作而耗損，即使我的曲子像坨屎他還是會很耐心的示範實驗各種可能或是不厭其煩講解一些我應該要知道的理論與原理。即使一邊肚子叫一邊耐心地上著已經超過時數很久的課，對他來說好像沒有什麼事情大不了。
嘗試各種可能的過程會把我的檔案弄得亂七八糟，不過回家重新思考挑選之後曲子都會精緻很多，明明自己在家弄到覺得已經快要完成的曲子到他耳朵一聽又有一堆可以改進，都是些那麼細微的變化：幾微秒的拍點移動、幾db的dynamic、不同種類的reverb或是將空間pan到不同方向、一點點的EQ、一個素材 來來回回玩得介於聽得出來和聽不出來原本的物件是什麼。
有些嘗試可能不適合這首曲子的實驗，有些卻莫名地為曲子增色不少，可能是完整了頻率、創造更多元的聲音與趣味，就像他說的這都是個人喜好，不代表妳一定要這樣改，重點是有這麼多種概念妳能嘗試。每一次下課我都覺得自己是一個全新的人，被按過重新整理鍵那種，同時又壓力很大，因為以為做完的作品又多出了雜毛要處理，而這些微小的改變，在新版本與舊版本中或許根本聽不太出來哪邊不一樣，但修改過後整體來說就是比較好聽。
[Adventure in Birmingham] Exquisite result always comes from subtle changes.
B is another tutor I admire a lot. His stomach rumbles a lot during session like he is always in starving and he seems doesn't make efforts to open his sleepy eyes, but he always seems so chilled like nothing in the world would bother him even his schedule is full of lesson and lots of delay due to bumping into someone who wants to have discussion on department issues with him.
Being important and busy doesn't drain his patient while listening to a very early stage of my work which sometimes might sounds like a shit or to explain some theories, terms or whatever the knowledge that I don't know. The best part of the one-to one lesson is that he will do some practical experiment on my piece. He hits the point by listen to the piece once or twice and make suggestions immediately no matter on musical aspect or the angle of acousmatic and mixing balance.
Every time I bring a piece which I considered almost finished, he makes a bunch of suggestion. I'm amp and feeling refreshed as well as stressful by knowing there are lot of improvements could be made in my work. After save as a new file, he starts to mess up the session. All of the possibilities make sense not just crazy idea flash out. Sometimes change goes too far sometimes it just works too well. I amazed by the messed up session and can remain the decision later on after play a bit more. In his words "It's just a matter of preference, it doesn't mean you have to do it but I think you got the idea." Movement between few milliseconds, few db of dynamic altering, different kind of reverb or panning on reverb, etc. Hundred of ways to play with a single sample whether to enrich the frequency or create a sense of vague boundary between sounds. All these subtle things lead to a more exquisite result. It might not easy to tell the different between but it sounds better somehow.
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