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What is log recording?

What is log recording?

- So Rich, when people talk about log recording I always have a little bit of a giggle because in the same kind of discussion about what log is somebody will eventually say, "ah, that's all just math." I'm going, "exactly!" - Yes - And that's a good thing - It's all just math. - You know what's also math? Accounting and paychecks and all sorts of things. - Absolutely Creative people don't like math. Not saying that if you do you're not creative - Yeah It's just it's not the first class that most creative people sign up for, but the engineers did the math and you can benefit from it. - Well log doesn't mean just log, it's not like a bump on a log, you know. What it means is logarithmic and you've probably heard this term if you think way back to high school math class. - Yeah - Logarithmic, right? So you've heard of linear. - It's a button on a calculator. - Right, you've heard of linear, it's a straight line. You've heard of log, hey that's a curve of some sort, right? - Yes And…

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