Best. Gig. Ever.

‘Nuff said.

S

As much as I hate youtube (the majority of it anyway), I really must say it’s an invaluable resource.

Awhile ago I was researching synth’s and I found that youtube had a huge bank of fairly O.K quality demo’s of various synths.

One thing I found particularly interesting was that some of the video’s had a ‘Watch in high definition’ button, but some didn’t. I put this down to the quality of the video being uploaded having to be above a certain level, but the majority weren’t (hence the semi-random distrobution of ‘High def’ buttons).

So one I happened across a video that could be viewed at higher quality, so I pressed the button. I watched the video and noted that it was definately in stereo, not mono (something very useful to hear when researching sound modules).

A ‘&fy=18′ was added to the url when it was in high def. To cut a long story short I found it possible to force normally poor quality video’s to thier original quality just by adding ‘&fy=18′ to the url!

Try it yourself!

Sam