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The Association Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Dietary
Choices among Obese Individuals during Middle to Late
Dean W. Beebe, Ph.D.1,2, Nate Miller3, Shelley Kirk, Ph.D., R.D.1, Stephen R. Daniels, M.D.,
Ph.D.4, and Raouf Amin, M.D.1,2
1Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA
4The Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver School
of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA
Objective—Determine whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with the dietary
choices of obese individuals during middle- to late-childhood. It was hypothesized that OSA
would be associated with increased caloric content of a dinner order, particularly with high
carbohydrate food choices. Secondarily, we examined the relationships between sleep duration
and dietary choices.
Methods—42 obese subjects aged 10–16.9 years participated in a cross-sectional study that
involved systematic collection of sleep duration (based on actigraphy), presence and severity of
obstructive sleep apnea (obstructive apnea + hypopnea index [AHI] from inpatient
polysomnography) and the macronutrient content of dinners ordered from a standardized hospital
menu the evening before the polysomnogram.
Results—Primary analyses using Spearman rank-order correlations found that AHI was
significantly associated with total calories, as well as grams of fat and carbohydrate, but not
protein. These macronutrient variables did not correlate with sleep duration across a week, nor the
night before the meal. Findings were unchanged after correcting for age- and sex-adjusted BMI.
Conclusions—More severe OSA appears to be associated with an increased preference for
calorie-dense foods that are high in fat and carbohydrate in a manner that is independent of degree
of overweight. Although this novel finding awaits replication, it has potential implications for the
clinical care of obese youth and individuals with OSA, adds to the limited data that relate sleep to
dietary choices, and may have implications for OSA-related morbidity.
© 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author: Dean W. Beebe, Ph.D., Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, MLC 3015, Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA. Phone: 513-636-3489. Fax: 513-636-7756.
The authors have no financial conflicts of interest to report.
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children; adolescents; pediatrics; sleep; calories; diet; food; obesity
Excessive body weight and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are well-correlated in adults,
adolescents and, to a lesser degree, young children, but the underlying mechanisms remain
uncertain [1–3]. The strongest evidence has been that excessive weight can cause OSA, but
recent publications have highlighted mechanisms by which OSA might also maintain
excessive weight. OSA has been linked to metabolic aberrations that can contribute to
weight gain [2–3]. OSA also disrupts sleep, and inadequate sleep can alter appetite-related
leptin and ghrelin levels and result in cravings for calorie-dense sweet and "starchy" foods
[4]. OSA can further cause inattention, impulsivity and negative mood, which could
contribute to poor food choices [2]. Indeed, a recent report linked OSA with parent-reported
diet and activity patterns of 5–9-year old children [5]. The relationship between OSA and
excessive weight may be particularly important to understand during middle to late
childhood, when the OSA-weight link becomes firmly established, food choices are
increasingly self-determined, and weight becomes highly predictive of adult obesity and its
morbidity [6].
In the course of a larger study of the neurobehavioral correlates of OSA in obese 10–16
year-old children and adolescents [7], we incidentally collected information on the food
chosen by participants for their dinners. In analyzing this food-choice data, we predicted that
severity of OSA would be associated with increased caloric content of the orders,
particularly to high carbohydrate food choices. Secondarily, because sleep duration has been
linked to weight status, we examined whether the ordered food would be associated with
sleep duration during a week proximal to the food order and, in a subgroup, the night before
the order was placed.
Obese subjects were recruited from a pediatric weight-management clinic or sleep clinic [7].
All were 10–16.9 years old, had a body mass index (BMI) >95th percentile for their age and
sex, and did not have a history of neurological illness or injury, craniofacial abnormalities,
neurodevelopmental disorder (e.g., Down Syndrome), or adenotonsillectomy or other
treatment for OSA within the past 2 years, nor were they using any psychiatric medication.
Procedures were overseen by the Cincinnati Children's research ethics board, following
informed parent consent and subject assent.
Dinner Orders
Subjects arrived for evaluation between 15:30 and 16:30, at which time they placed an order
for dinner, to be consumed between 18:30 and 19:30. They were instructed to order only for
themselves and could not order caffeinated beverages, but otherwise had no restrictions
placed on their orders from a standardized hospital menu that presented options in the
following sections: breakfast, bakery, soups, sandwiches, entrees, side orders, condiments,
beverages, and desserts. Subjects were not charged for dinner and the menu did not list
prices. Orders were made without a lasting record at the initiation of our larger study, but
then hospital procedures changed to require a faxed order. The orders for the subsequent 44
subjects were retained and later coded for macronutrient content based upon the hospital
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compendium, including total calories and grams of carbohydrate, fat, and protein. The coder
was blind to sleep data and recoding of a random sample of 10% of records yielded 100%
agreement. Two subjects were considered outliers because their orders reflected fat or
protein content ≥2.5 standard deviations higher than the remaining sample, and their data
were subsequently dropped.
Polysomnography (PSG)
That night, each subject underwent PSG, as detailed previously [7]. Obstructive apneas were
defined as a >80% decline in airflow over two breaths, despite continued chest/abdominal
movement. Obstructive hypopneas were defined as an airflow decrease of 50–80% over two
breaths that was associated with (a) paradoxical respiration, and (b) oxyhemoglobin
desaturation (>4%) or a subsequent arousal. The apnea+hypopnea index (AHI) was
computed as the sum of relevant events divided by hours slept. One participant did not
tolerate PSG, and is not included in PSG-related analyses.
Participants were asked to wear an actigraph (Mini-Motionlogger, Ambulatory Monitoring,
Inc., NY) during evening and overnight hours for a week. Raw data were compared against
a sleep diary to screen for artifacts, then run through a validated sleep scoring algorithm [8].
Actigraphy data were missing for 2 subjects. The remaining 40 wore the unit an average of
5.6±1.4 (mean±sd) nights. Most (n=36) wore their actigraph the week prior to their hospital
stay; in 4 cases data were recorded another week within the same month. We averaged sleep
duration across the nights each subject wore the actigraph. For the 27 subjects who wore the
unit the night immediately before the hospital visit, we also examined sleep duration that
Body Mass Index
Height and weight were measured before dinner, and BMI was converted to an age- and sex-
adjusted z-score (zBMI) [9].
The 42 eligible participants were 71% female, 64% African-American, 31% Caucasian,
13.1±1.9 years old (mean±sd), and quite obese (BMI=37.0±7.1, zBMI=2.44±0.25).
Spearman correlations were used to associate AHI with total calories and grams of protein,
fat, and carbohydrate ordered. Secondary analyses substituted AHI with sleep duration.
Correlations were first computed on an uncorrected basis, then as a partial correlation
corrected for covariates. We a priori selected zBMI as a covariate because of concerns that
any association between sleep and food choices might be confounded by obesity severity.
Beyond this, we considered age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (see [7]) as
potential covariates, but none contributed to the prediction of our dietary outcome variables
beyond zBMI (p>.10), so they were trimmed from the final models [10].
As shown in Table 1, AHI significantly correlated with total calories and grams of fat and
carbohydrates, but not protein, in each food order. Findings were unchanged after
controlling for zBMI. Sleep duration failed to correlate with any of the coded macronutrient
To our knowledge, this is the first study of the relationship between OSA severity and the
macronutrient content associated with individuals' dietary choices. Severity of OSA
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correlated with calories ordered for dinner, and especially with the fat and carbohydrate
content of that meal. These relationships persisted after covarying for age- and gender-
corrected BMI, so they can not be explained by a confounding relationship with obesity
This novel finding has important potential implications. If OSA induces changes in diet, this
would represent a potentially modifiable behavior that could contribute to a spiral of
worsening obesity and sleep-disordered breathing [5]. A causal link between OSA and diet
also would support aggressive screening and treatment for OSA. An alternative explanation
would be a reverse causal sequence, in which dietary choices alter nocturnal respiration,
independent of BMI. Acute dietary changes can alter sleep architecture in humans [11] and
ventilation control in rats [12]. Such an effect could have implications for the conduct of
PSG. Even in the absence of a clear causal sequence, the co-occurrence of OSA with a diet
high in fats and refined carbohydrates may increase morbidity. In an animal model, such a
diet worsened the impact of intermittent hypoxia on learning and neural tissue [13].
Although links between OSA and carbohydrate content fit with prior reports of increased
craving for carbohydrate-rich foods following experimental sleep restriction [4], fat content
also was associated with OSA in our sample. Prior research did not specify macronutrient
content, and the greatest craving increase was for "salty" foods, including high-fat foods. In
our study, similar items (e.g., "french fries") were ordered by 75% of subjects with an
AHI>3, compared to 14% of those with AHI≤3. Methodological factors may also explain
the discrepancy between present findings and past reports that (a) sleep duration correlates
with weight status [14] or dietary patterns [15] and (b) experimental sleep restriction
heightens food cravings [4]. The current study was not well-powered to detect the small
correlations that have been reported in epidemiological studies, and experimental work to
date has limited sleep to far less than that experienced by our subjects.
Several limitations temper the conclusions that can be drawn from present results, which
reflect food choices, not food consumption. We could not control for activity level or food
consumption prior to the appointment, and subjects may have ordered atypically in
anticipation of a hospital stay. However, if anything, this unmeasured variability might
attenuate correlations, not result in spuriously inflated findings. Our sample size did not
allow us to explore gender as an effect moderator, and the study lacked the hunger ratings
and physiological measures needed to address the mechanisms that might underlie a
relationship between OSA and food choices. Detailed PSG data were available, but no
variable surpassed AHI as a correlate of dietary data; the rate of desturation events
correlated with fat grams only (r=.32, p=.04; all others p>.05), and frequency of arousals,
average O2, and nadir O2 failed to correlate with any dietary index (p>.05). As an additional
limitation, BMI does not index fat distribution on the body. Finally, our recruitment of obese
subjects ensured a broad range of breathing functioning during sleep, but the generalizability
of findings to other populations, including non-obese individuals, remains to be seen. Taken
together, these limitations suggest that findings be viewed as intriguing, but preliminary,
warranting replication and extension in future work.
Financial Support: National Institutes of Health (K23 HL075369, UL1 RR026314).
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra with the redesigned 2016 Chevrolet Volt at the 2015 Detroit auto show.
GM flexes engineering prowess with 2016 Chevy Volt, Colorado dieselPosted 11:45 am U.S. ET, Oct. 6
SAN FRANCISCO -- Last week, General Motors let auto writers drive two of the company's most important new products: the 2016 Chevrolet Volt and the diesel-powered 2016 Colorado pickup.
Neither of these vehicles is going to light up the U.S. sales charts for Chevrolet. Oil prices have stabilized between $44 and $47 per barrel, cutting average U.S. prices for regular gasoline prices to under $3 per gallon in most states. The demand for gasoline-electric hybrid cars isn't strong right now.
As for the Colorado, Chevy officials expect only about 10 percent of buyers to spend an additional $3,730 for the diesel engine option. That might add up to around 10,000 to 12,000 units annually, including t ...
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VW's travails aside, diesel fans remain loyalPosted 11:45 am U.S. ET, Sept. 29
BMW's 328d diesel sedan at the New York Auto Show in March 2013.
Mike Thomas, a writer who lives in suburban Orlando, bought his first diesel-powered vehicle, a Ram EcoDiesel pickup, earlier this year. Now he's worried that Volkswagen's rigged diesel engines to skirt emissions tests will drag his truck into the mess.
That is a valid concern. All diesel-powered vehicles are today operating under a thick but likely temporary black cloud of suspicion caused by the deception at VW.
The EPA said it will now conduct on-road testing of all light-duty diesel engines in the U.S. to ensure they don't have VW-style defeat devices to switch off emissions systems. ...
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Why Nissan will keep one eye on VW's diesel scandalPosted 4:08 pm U.S. ET, Sept. 25
Nissan's 2016 Titan XD is anchored by a 5-liter V-8 turbo diesel engine rated at 310 horsepower and 555 lb-ft of torque.
The news of Volkswagen's diesel emissions-cheating scheme was still coming into focus this week when Jose Munoz, chairman of Nissan North America, took to the podium for an upbeat press luncheon in Detroit to tell reporters about product enhancements to the 2016 Nissan Altima sedan.
One had nothing to do with the other. But Munoz is savvy enough to know that when news is bubbling the press likes to ask executives about their competitors. Munoz began with a witty defuser -- proclaiming with relief that he does not have a single diesel vehicle to talk about.
But guess what?
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In wake of VW scandal, it's time to scrap self-certify eraPosted 12:00 pm U.S. ET, Sept. 22
The fuel economy and smog ratings are displayed on the sticker price of a 2015 Passat sedan at a Volkswagen dealership in Escondido, Calif. this week. (REUTERS)
It's time for the EPA to admit the system of allowing and trusting automakers to self-certify cars and light trucks for fuel economy and emissions standards no longer works.
The system, in place since the 1970s, works like this: Automakers test their own vehicles and submit the findings to the EPA, where engineers review and usually approve them. The EPA also randomly tests between 10 and 15 percent of new vehicles yearly for fuel economy and emissions at its Ann Arbor, Mich., lab.
But today, with 40 brands selling more than 300 nameplates in the U.S., there is no way the EPA can test them all. The ...
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Why VW's betrayal with diesel engines is differentPosted 11:00 am U.S. ET, Sept. 21
For the second time in my life, it appears that the U.S. diesel passenger car market has been mortally wounded by a car company claiming to be its champion.
The first time, it was due to incompetence: GM foisted an underdeveloped diesel V-8 engine on customers, dealers and technicians who were ill prepared to maintain it.
This time, it's due to outright dishonesty on the part of Volkswagen, a leader in U.S. sales of passenger cars with diesel engines. There's nothing wr ...
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Frankfurt: Lights, cameras, technology!Posted 12:01 am U.S. ET, Sept. 21
Jason Stein is publisher and editor of Automotive News.
By 8:30 a.m. last Tuesday, about the time BMW's new CEO Harald Krueger tumbled to the stage inside cavernous Hall 11, the Frankfurt auto show was veering toward an odd theme.
Amid all the predictions of European momentum -- as represented by 90-some new-vehicle introductions -- all anyone wanted to talk about was who wasn't here.
Krueger, having recovered from his dizzy spell, got a clean bill of health from his doctors and was sent to Munich.
Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne skipped the show altogether to pull off a new UAW labor contract in Detroit.
Former VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech didn't make the IAA for the first time since the invention ...
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Opel pins compact car comeback on Astra's posh comfortsPosted 12:01 am U.S. ET, Sept. 18
Available features on the latest Astra compact hatchback include a massaging driver's seat, a perfume diffuser and high-end LED adaptive headlights, made up of 16 ultrabright bulbs.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- Mainstream brands have been nuzzling closer to their luxury counterparts in recent years, adding everything from heated steering wheels to high-end sound systems and high-tech safety packages.
But General Motors' Opel brand has reached a new level of luxury incursion with its redesigned Astra, a cousin of the Chevy Cruze.
Available features on the compact hatchback include a massaging driver's seat, a perfume diffuser and high-end LED adaptive headlights, made up of 16 ultrabright bulbs.
A media test drive here showed how each bulb can automati ...
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Wave your hand, watch the hood pop (minus grimy fingers)Posted 6:00 am U.S. ET, Sept. 18
A show car developed by Brose for the Frankfurt auto show.
FRANKFURT -- Auto suppliers are not only working to make for clean air. Some also want clean hands.
At the Frankfurt auto show, German components maker Brose showed off its latest innovations -- among them, a rear door that can be opened automatically and a gas tank door that can be opened with a simple gesture.
The rear door uses electronics similar to those found in automatic liftgates, something the company makes, along with mechanical and electrical components for seats and doors.
Brose sees a touch-free door as a comfort feature. When dropping off the kids at sch ...
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Mercedes pickup won't be a 'fat cowboy truck'Posted 6:00 am U.S. ET, Sept. 18
The Mercedes-Benz pickup that isn't a Unimog is coming, and it'll share some underpinnings with the Nissan NP300 Navara pickup, Automotive News Europe reports.
The latest Nissan Navara NP300 1-ton truck made its debut in the metal at the Frankfurt motor show, with Daimler announcing plans to use it as the basis for a yet-unnamed midsize pickup t ...
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Why Infiniti will offer Q30 with different heightsPosted 12:01 am U.S. ET, Sept. 18
Infiniti Q30 aims to appeal to younger and older buyers with different versions of the Q30.
Infiniti will offer its new Q30 compact car with two different ride heights: the Premium and SE versions of the five-door hatchback are 20mm taller than the Sport model. But why?
The Nissan-owned premium brand doesn't call the Q30 an SUV. The QX30 will fulfill that role once it is revealed at the Los Angeles auto show in November.
The big reason for the different heights is to satisfy a growing trend for taller vehicles. "The higher H [hip] point makes all the difference," Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti head of design, told Automotive News Europe at the Q30's reveal this week a ...
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Leaders in business, national security, public health, agriculture and other fields can make good use of the data, said Michael Mastrandrea, a Stanford Woods Institute consulting assistant professor. "Climate change is not just something for governments to be thinking about."
Field acknowledged that the report's continued value depends on making it more accessible and relevant to a wider audience. "There are a number of things I think the IPCC does spectacularly well. There are some things we don't do so well," he said. Field would like to see more author participation from the private sector, such as oil companies and reinsurance firms, and more integration of IPCC working groups.
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Harrison Mixbus
The result was pretty surprising. On the PT session, I was using my plethora of plug ins.. Waves, iZotope Ozone, SSL etc., so to be honest, I thought that comparing the Mixbus mix to the PT mix with all the plugins might be a bit unfair. Boy was I wrong.
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A year or so ago, I was approached by a friend, Nathan Adam, who was really excited about a new product from a local company, Harrison Consoles. Nathan and I have been doing Pro Tools tutorials together for the last 5 years or so. We saw an opportunity to do the same for this fledgling product.
Nathan told me about Mixbus and shortly after, we started digging into this version 1 workstation and putting it through the paces. It started out kind of rough, but since then Mixbus has matured nicely. We've made a couple of videos; you can purchase the latest one,
"Pop Country Mixing"
, at the Harrison store. I also have some free videos at my site
For the last 8 years or so, I have been a pretty "Avid" (no pun intended) Pro Tools user… One might say a Power user… but the more I use it, the more I can see how Mixbus has nailed a few items that make mixes easier to "gel".
Just the other day, I took a song that I was working on in Pro Tools and imported the raw files directly into Mixbus… you know, just to see how it would measure up.
The result was pretty surprising. On the PT session, I was using my plethora of plug ins.. Waves, iZotope Ozone, SSL etc., so to be honest, I thought that comparing the Mixbus mix to the PT mix with all the plugins might be a bit unfair. Boy was I wrong.
It took less time to mix in Mixbus because all of the plugins are already in place and ready to go. A world class EQ, Three types of Compressors, busses with tape emulation, EQ, Compression… all ready to tweak.
I think the only plugin I used was a reverb… (which I understand, Harrison is working on that too)
• What I noticed was the Mixbus mix was more open. I don't know if it's because of the cleaner signal path, the EQ or the way the output buss is structured with a -1db output to allow for less expensive consumer convertors
• It was warmer .. this was probably because of running every track through the 8 mix busses that Harrison provided.
• It happened faster. I think that having everything in place puts me back in the mindset of being a performer. I made decisions more quickly and I think it served the mix well.
If you get a chance, go and check out the free trial at
Harrison Mixbus
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Great Harrison Mixbus video with you and Ben on your site. Very informative tutorial especially on the editing.
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I put up a review of Harrison's Mixbus on my blog:
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If I was a rich man...
I recently bought a copy of Harrison's Mixbus DAW, via a sale they are having at DontCrack. Though I already use Reaper as my primary DAW, I was attracted by the potential for Mixbus to put an analog console feel to my mixes, as well as the price point. Some folks have said it's a no-brainer buy, while others touted their own favorite console emulation plugins as better sounding. Seeing as mixing is not my day job and $40 puts Mixbus at one of the cheapest prices for a console emulator plugin (though it is invariably more than that), I decided to dive in and give it a try.
Harrison has been around since the 70s, making high end boards for film and audio. Since the digital revolution in recorded audio, they've been transitioning into the digital domain, making their boards with digital controls whilst keeping a good sounding analog frontend. Mixbus is their first step into the DAW world, and while I must say there are some things lacking, they have made the core of their product in line with the sound they've created through their analog consoles.
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Mixbus's mixer view - looks like a sound board!
A board approach
Mixbus's approach is directly derived from what they've been making for years and years: consoles. The mixer view is designed to look just like a recording console. The idea is to have one knob control a single function, and to have everything you need to make a mix on one screen. Needless to say, a nice wide screen helps if you have a lot of channels!
Just like a sound board, there is an EQ and compressor per channel, but there is also room for your favorite plugins to be put in as inserts. Channels can be routed to up to 8 busses, which ultimately combines into the master fader. On each of the busses, as well as the master buss, is tape saturation. Embedded into each of the mixer's features is Harrison's DSP, derived from their own consoles. That means that the EQ, compressor, and tape saturation all have Harrison's trademark sound on them.
Harrison's experience in the analog console world has informed them of the optimal settings and configurations of each effect in order to give the maximum benefit with just a few knobs' worth of turning. The EQ is designed to give a broad Q when cutting or boosting very lightly, but once you turn the gain towards an extreme, the results is a thin but deep cut or boost. The compressor has 3 flavors: Leveler, Compressor, or Limiter. Leveler mode is designed for evening out the volume of a channel, for example, normalizing between soft and loud parts of a vocal. The Compressor is your standard compression, and can give a nice strong tone to the channel. Limiter mode is of course a hard compression that tames anything above its threshold coming its way.
The sound
My plan in buying Mixbus was mostly to use it as a final touch for my mixes. The two reasons for this are because 1) I'm already used to mixing in Reaper, and 2) Mixbus is still short of some features that I would want in a full-time DAW (I'll explain more below). I imagined either routing the outputs of my busses from Reaper into Mixbus, or exporting stems from my mix into Mixbus for the tone it gives. I haven't gotten to try out routing straight from Reaper into Mixbus yet (also explained below), but I have had the chance to put an almost-finished mix's stems into Mixbus and compare the tonal differences.
Remember Heather from last post? I've got a few songs of hers just short of mastering-ready. Here's a clip from my Reaper mix:
Since there are only 3 instruments in this song, I threw them all into individual tracks on Mixbus. With no EQ nor compression, I evened out the tape saturation knobs to around 0, and then printed the mix. Here's what it sounds like:
[audio samples here]
I'll leave it to you to be the final judge, but I hear two big things. One is that there is a nicer bottom end, which comes out in the guitar's lower notes as well as thickening up Heather's lower notes. Secondly and my favorite so far is that the high end is tamed much better than I could do with EQ; parts where Heather strains a bit while she goes high, no longer sound piercing, but rather has a smoothness to it.
While I could only hear the difference subtly on my monitors and headphones, the real kicker is when I played it in my car; yep, I gave it the old car stereo test. My car speakers are like NS-10s in that whatever tiny bit of a mix sounds bad, the speakers make it sound worse. So any screechiness that I didn't catch at home, is now someone yelling ear-piercingly into my ear when I'm in the car. Mixbus did me the favor of taking all (well, most) of that away, as well as not making my mix sound too boomy (which tends to happen in the car). Those two features alone made it worth the buy, and I'm barely at 24 hours of owning it!
A few caveats
But nothing's perfect in the world...which is why mixing, even though it's a fun passion of mine, is sometimes still a lot of work. There are a few things that I wish Mixbus had that Harrison has not yet developed into their software. The biggest is that I can't wire my Reaper stems into Mixbus for direct playback (using something called MIDI Machine Code or MIDI Time Code). The feature unfortunately is not yet available in Windows, though if you run OSX or Linux, you can do this. On the Mixbus website they claim that it is a feature coming soon, so I will hold my hopes high; in the meantime, it looks like I'll be exporting finished stems into Mixbus to give it that final sheen.
Another annoying thing is that if I were to move to Mixbus for all of my mixing, I would have to learn a new DAW, with all its new keyboard shortcuts and different button places. It is an annoying thing, but if Mixbus puts the time into coding their stuff right, it just may be possible that I'll be learning it completely. I will tell you that I spent an hour on a brand new mix (albeit 4 instruments), and I was able to get something very decent out of it at the end of the hour. Here, I'll show you:
[audio sample here]
Lastly, you'll read as well that not every VST plugin works on Mixbus, nor does every AU work for Mixbus on Mac. There is quite a bit of programming work to be done, but now that Mixbus is getting more attention, my hope is that they will roll out updates with fixes sooner than later.
So I gotta say I love Mixbus so far, and for the price it is right now, it's a great addition any budget-conscious mixer's bag of gadgets. It gives me that analog sheen without much effort, and it makes me excited for the step up in sound I'm not able to produce.
Through June 12th [2013] you can get it for only $39:
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"No aldermen voted on this tax. It never went before the Chicago City Council, which makes the so-called 'Netflix tax' an illegal tax," Jeffrey Schwab, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center, said in a news release Thursday. "If the city wants to tax Internet-based streaming media services, then it should put the measure through the political process, and let Chicagoans have their voices heard through the democratic process."Should Chicago's plan even survive the lawsuit, it remains unclear how the city plans to collect the tax. Would it demand that Netflix and Spotify tax users themselves, even if they have no physical presence in the city proper? Would Chicago residents be required to report this revenue (which they either won't do, or would hide behind VPNs)? Chicago's just one of many cities taking this controversial tack as traditional revenue runs dry, creating an absolutely mind-boggling legal minefield for new economy companies suddenly facing an ocean of discordant and often logically and legally inconsistent attempts to tax the cloud.
by Karl Bode
Thu, Sep 10th 2015 9:31am
Filed Under:
copyright, culture, downloads, licensing, movies
"We hear from our members that you wish we had newer movies. So do we. Studio licensing practices means it often takes more than a year before consumers can watch a theatrically released movie when and how they want. Just like we've changed the game for TV watchers by releasing entire seasons around the world at the same time, we have begun making movies that will premiere on Netflix globally and in some cases, simultaneously in theaters. It will take us time to build a robust slate of original movies, but we're hard at work on it with such great stars and directors as Brad Pitt, Ricky Gervais, Judd Apatow, Angelina Jolie, Sofia Coppola and Adam Sandler."And yes, while some Netflix content (House of Cards, Bloodlines and hopefully soon one of my favorites, Black Mirror) is great, it's not entirely clear that more Adam Sandler movies are the answer for users frustrated at the growing lack of popular options in Netflix's B-grade heavy content catalog. And while licensing does certainly hamstring Netflix, in this instance both Hulu and Amazon didn't find Epix's asking price too severe, meaning that Netflix made a judgement call and decided this content was content that its customers can live without.
"I think it's something that lots of people ask for. We'll see if it's something lots of people will use. Undoubtedly it adds considerable complexity to your life with Amazon Prime – you have to remember that you want to download this thing. It's not going to be instant, you have to have the right storage on your device, you have to manage it, and I'm just not sure people are actually that compelled to do that, and that it's worth providing that level of complexity."Of course that's crap: letting people store a local copy of a film isn't remotely complex. What's complex is explaining to consumers why such functionality would likely cost Netflix significantly more in copyright licensing fees and layers of mandated DRM deployment. As we've noted previously, Netflix is still transitioning from a DVD rental business governed by the first sale doctrine, to a streaming business governed by the permission winds of countless fickle media empires. Communicating the costs of that transition to consumers clearly and honestly certainly isn't easy, but much like its Qwickster snafu of a few years back, it's entirely possible that Netflix could be pushing too far, too fast.
by Karl Bode
Wed, Sep 9th 2015 6:12am
Filed Under:
blame netflix, broadband, holman jenkins, net neutrality, title ii
"More than one-third of today's expensively rolled-out bandwidth already is consumed in peak hours by a single company, whose customers represent a tiny minority—about 1.2%—of Internet users. Richard Bennett of High Tech Forum calculates: "If 12 percent of the Internet user population is streaming at prime time, the traffic load goes up to 340% of today's level; and if it rises to 60%, the load goes up to 1700%." And suppose users want super-high resolution 4k TV, which requires four times as much bandwidth as today's hi-def?"Generally Netflix traffic stats are trotted out to imply that Netflix is somehow consuming too much of the overall pipe, or isn't paying its fair share to deliver this traffic, which as we've pointed out for years is total nonsense. It's quite simple: users who pay their ISP for bandwidth are requesting this data, which Netflix (who also pays for bandwidth) then sends to them. Insatiable mega-ISPs honestly believe a bigger cut of this revenue is their god-given right; as such, they work tirelessly to get it, whether it's via usage caps or interconnection fees.
"Make no mistake: The bandwidth used by Netflix is paid for. But it's paid for inefficiently, by spreading the cost over all broadband subscribers. In the airline industry, if backpackers and grannies had to pay for the frequent connections, last-minute seat availability and other features demanded by business travelers, there would be fewer planes, fewer flights, less connectivity, less travel for everyone—which is a fair model of the future that utility regulation will now create for broadband users."It's impossible to even deconstruct that argument because it actually makes no coherent sense. One, as we've explained at length, ISPs are not now facing "utility regulation" under the new neutrality rules. Two, under the current Netflix model, ISPs are paid for the bandwidth (sometimes several times over), and customers pay for the content they want. Is it actually possible to get any more efficient than that without involving telepathy? Jenkins, however, is clearly annoyed that the government has stepped in with rules preventing the Comcasts of the world from erecting totally unnecessary tolls on the Internet:
"Unfortunately the entire confused and inane thrust of federal Internet policy lately has been to sustain the Netflix distortion. Even collecting token amounts, as Comcast did, for expanding direct peering to receive the Netflix deluge apparently now will be verboten. And forget about the elegant fix of usage-based pricing, i.e., charging each customer according to his demand on the infrastructure. It's clearly a nonstarter with regulators and activists."Poor fellow! How does Jenkins sleep at night knowing that the government won't allow Comcast to impose completely arbitrary and anti-competitive new fees on content companies? What kind of a world are we building where we don't let companies like Comcast impose draconian, unnecessary and hugely unpopular usage caps to fatten revenues? Won't you think of the children? Why can't you people understand that Netflix is the root of all evil?
"So what does this mean? The oomph behind a regulated Internet isn't coming from the net-neutrality philosophes. It's coming from Netflix and its attachment to a particular pricing model for broadband...By the way, we are not stating a Netflix conspiracy theory...the fact is, regulators are trying like crazy to make the necessary broadband seem like a free lunch to Netflix customers—a short-termism that necessarily undermines the incentive of others to compete with cable's already-paid-for infrastructure."From there, Jenkins throws around a lot of terms like it's pretty clear he doesn't actually understand "overbuilders!", makes a few bizarre, unsubstantiated claims that Netflix supports last mile broadband monopolies, and even tries to vaguely blame Netflix for AT&T and Verizon's plan to hang up on millions of DSL users (something that's long been in the works and is totally unrelated to net neutrality or the FCC's Title II push).
by Karl Bode
Wed, Sep 2nd 2015 3:33pm
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disclosure, john sununu, net neutrality, shills, telecom
boston globe, broadband for america, netflix
"In the interest of more transparency, we're posting bios for our regular freelance op-ed columnists online and linking those bios to their bylines. John Sununu has told me he will avoid writing about issues pertaining to cable and internet access because of his seat on the Time Warner Cable board."Note Clegg's primary worry appears to be Sununu's seat on a cable company board, not the fact that he's been paid by a lobbying group since 2011 or so. Sununu can, of course, still write on other issues where his conflicts of interest are at least marginally obscured in some half-assed fashion. Clegg goes on to make some ambiguous promises in regards to shoring up any transparency gaps moving forward:
"It's safe to say that few freelance columnists make their living solely from writing for newspapers these days, so most have other jobs or consultancies. We want to be more transparent with our readers about the nature of columnists' work and affiliations. When appropriate, we'll include relevant details in the text of the print edition of the column, as well as the link for our digital readers."Great, except it's not entirely clear that just posting a bio is enough, since those bios often intentionally obscure direct financial relationships. Take a recent Sununu piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, for example, which actively helps Sununu and friends confuse customers by pretending the telecom lobbying group that pays Sununu, "Broadband For America," is actually "a coalition of 300 Internet consumer advocates, content providers and engineers."
by Mike Masnick
Tue, Aug 18th 2015 3:06am
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adapting, box office, business models, hollywood, internet, movies, records
netflix, universal pictures
Thanks to the overperformance of N.W.A biopic "Straight Outta Compton," Universal Pictures is tracking to cross the $2 billion mark at the domestic box office on Saturday, setting a new speed record in doing so.That does not sound like an industry that is having a problem getting people into the theaters, even if the movies are available via infringement. But, people will argue, these services are actually harming the "home video" revenue stream. But that's questionable as well. First off, it was Hollywood that angrily fought against ever allowing a home video market in the first place (remember that?). And, more to the point, we've seen over and over again that when the industry actually adapts and offers content in a reasonable format at a reasonable fee, people will pay at home, just like they do in theaters.
Universal's historic climb will break Warner Bros.' previous record of reaching $2 billion by December 25, 2009. The studio is also extremely likely to break the record for all-time domestic box office high, which was set by WB in 2009 with $2.1 billion.
by Tim Cushing
Mon, Aug 3rd 2015 3:57pm
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privacy, video rentals, videos, vppa
The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has upheld a win for Netflix in yet another privacy class-action lawsuit arising from the publication of then-Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's rental history oh so many years ago. The Video Privacy Protection Act sprang into being in 1988 and was used to extract a settlement from Netflix over 20 years later.
The lawsuit Netflix settled featured one key difference: in that case, rental information -- in the form of "anonymized data" -- was released to third parties working on better suggestion algorithms in hopes of winning $1 million. In this case, no information was released in any form to third parties… at least not in this sense.
At the center of this lawsuit were complaints that Netflix exposed viewing history to certain third parties, i.e., anyone who used the same login as the account holder. This would include family, friends and guests at a person's residence. Since Netflix allows any number of devices to be allowed to access the account simultaneously (depending on how much you want to pay per month), one person's viewing history could theoretically be accessed by a great many people.
So, while there may be a privacy concern, it isn't a logical one. The information "exposed" to third parties is done so willingly by the account holder by sharing login info/logged-in devices with other viewers. Certainly the original account holder would like immediate access to recently viewed content. But this convenience also allows anyone using that login to see what's been viewed by that account. The plaintiffs claimed this convenient feature was actually a violation of the 27-year-old Video Privacy Protection Act.
The complaint alleges that upon setting up a Netflix account, personally identifiable information, by default, is only disclosed to a Netflix subscriber through her password-protected account. Under those circumstances, a subscriber's queue or recommendation lists are only viewable by the subscriber. Netflix subscribers can then elect to display on their televisions what would otherwise be password-protected information by registering Netflix-ready devices in their accounts. Thereafter, Netflix automatically displays on a television what it displays on a subscriber's computer: streamed instant videos, the subscriber's queue, and video recommendations. This is plainly a disclosure "to the consumer" as contemplated by the VPPA. When Netflix displays a subscriber's queue, viewing history, or recommendation lists in her online account, that is a disclosure directly to the consumer. The nature of that disclosure does not change when subscribers choose to display the same content on their television screens. The subscriber's choice to do so does not trigger some new statutory duty on the part of Netflix.Furthermore, the law (logically) does not demand that Netflix prevent things it can't possibly control.
The fact that a subscriber may permit third parties to access her account, thereby allowing third parties to view Netflix's disclosures, does not alter the legal status of those disclosures. No matter the particular circumstances at a subscriber's residence, Netflix's actions remain the same: it transmits information automatically to the device that a subscriber connected to her Netflix account. The lawfulness of this disclosure cannot depend on circumstances outside of Netflix's control.The lawsuit also used California's civil code as a fallback option in case the VPPA claims failed, but the court finds the wording in that statute doesn't open Netflix up to any additional culpability.
While phrased in slightly different language than the VPPA, the California Civil Code plainly excludes liability for disclosures to a subscriber who is the subject of a record. Netflix's disclosure of personal information was made to its subscribers and therefore it is not liable under section 1799.3.That this case made it as far as the appeals court is simply the judicial system functioning as it should, rather than indicative of the lawsuit's strengths. Exhausting every available remedy is something the system grants to plaintiffs, even if the arguments made are incredibly weak.
by Karl Bode
Fri, Jul 17th 2015 7:34am
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cable, competition, david cohen, price, streaming, tv
"While Cohen sees Netflix as a complement to Comcast's cable offering, he acknowledges that streaming services, especially those that offer slimmer video packages like Sling TV and Sony PlayStation Vue, could potentially be more attractive to price-conscious consumers. "Part of this is a self-inflicted wound," Cohen said. "We have made video too expensive."A cable or broadcast executive admitting they've refused to compete on price is a rare animal indeed, and even more rare from a legendary obfuscationist like Cohen. Normally, Comcast has downplayed their slow quarterly hemorrhaging of video subscribers, while Netflix, in contrast, added 3.3 million subscribers last quarter alone. Like most cable execs, the folks at Comcast are so used to a pampered duopoly, they see price competition as a vile alien abomination, justified in part by the millions of consumers that continue to pay an arm and a leg for bloated, over-priced lineups of unwatched channels.
"Cohen added while some fear that more Netflix customers means less cable customers, he reminded the audience that reliable broadband is a crucial element of the streaming service. "Remember, you can't get Netflix without broadband service," Cohen said. "Those are 3 million customers of our broadband service."And that's the rub. At the end of the day, Comcast still intends to grab its pound of flesh one way or the other, whether that's by forcing Netflix to pay direct interconnection fees, or by slowly expanding the company's usage cap and overage fee trials and hoping nobody notices. Either way, Comcast will continue to do absolutely everything in its power to avoid having to compete on price for as long as humanly possible. But as they say, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
by Karl Bode
Thu, Jul 16th 2015 10:29am
Filed Under:
acquisition, deals, fcc, interconnection, peering
"This new policy and the commitment to apply it across the 'New Charter' footprint is a substantial public-interest benefit and will support scaling the Internet to meet consumers' growing demand for online services and help foster continued innovation across the Internet ecosystem. Accordingly, Netflix supports the proposed Charter Time Warner Cable transaction if it incorporates the merger condition proposed by Charter."If you recall, Netflix and transit operators have spent the last two years accusing last mile ISPs of intentionally letting transit points degrade in order to kill settlement-free peering and force Netflix into costly new direct interconnection deals. The problem is since both sides keep these business deals aggressively private, there hasn't been enough hard data to prove it (even though we're getting closer). Regardless, the mere threat of real net neutrality rules (you remember, the rules that were supposed to destroy the Internet) appear to have put the kibosh on a large chunk of this ugly infighting.
by Karl Bode
Mon, Jul 13th 2015 12:45pm
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stream, streaming video
comcast, hbo, netflix
"Here's some quick math: Comcast sells Internet at different prices in different markets, but right now a basic broadband-only subscription in its home market of Philadelphia is $67 a month. Add in the cost of Stream and you're up to $82 a month. But Comcast sells a basic TV + Broadband package, including HBO, for $45 a month. You will want to read the fine print when you compare the two offers.** But you might reasonably conclude that Comcast would still rather sell you cable TV than Web TV."Gosh, yes, you might just reasonably conclude that. Comcast (like all cable operators) is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If it offers a truly disruptive, well-priced internet streaming service, it will start heavily cannibalizing all of the customers currently paying an arm and a leg for traditional television. The answer? Cable will have to do the unthinkable and begin competing on price, offering traditional cable TV and streaming capabilities and a better bundle price. Yes, the reduction in quarterly revenues is going to make investors and executives cry over their lattes, but it's a smarter play over the long haul than responding to fleeing, cost-conscious customers with the inept one-two punch of yet more rate hikes and the pretense of innovation.
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CBTS and MIT students began our second day of classes with Dr. Marshall this morning. The class shared in some very edifying discussion based on students' questions that stem from our reading. One of the things I have thoroughly enjoyed about this D.Min program is its concern for the practical; applying sound theological thought to the realities of ministry. Our discussion this morning was no different. My colleagues from Myanmar brought up fascinating questions such as how to discuss the cross with children and how to preach about the Holy Spirit in animistic cultures that believe in many spirits.
In the afternoon, in lieu of having a lecture/discussion in our pastoral care class, we drove 1.5 hours across the Irrawaddy River to visit the ThaBarWa Center, a place of refuge for orphans, elderly, homeless, and the sick. It was founded and is run by a Buddhist monk named Sayadaw U. Ottamasara (who was not present during our visit). It is a 70-acre area that houses more than 2200 families. Children receive an education here and we saw at least 4 large groups of children going through their daily lesson. There was a striking contrast between the glowing children who waved at us and the adults lying in huts who look very sick and despondent. In the large group dwellings, Buddhist sermons were playing over a loudspeaker for the people to listen to. Although this place was significantly different from the place we visited Saturday (especially in terms of cleanliness), I couldn't help but remember the many biblical injunctions to care for the orphan and widow and those who are generally helpless. The people who have come here were truly in need and had nowhere to go. Our Myanmar colleagues have expressed frustration that Christians in Myanmar, being a small minority, are unable to raise funds for such projects and centers. It has cultivated my own appreciation for the many resources the churches in America still have and take for granted.
Thank you for your interest in our experiences! Please remember in prayer today the people at the ThaBarWa Center.
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