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by mizzdirekt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:22 pm
Forum: • general
Topic: article about engineer doing blind test of 128mp3 vs wav...?
Replies: 66
Views: 20905

Alright, well...being that I'm quoting and responding to the discussion currently going on it relates...I don't know how it doesn't. Good Grief.
by mizzdirekt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:16 am
Forum: • general
Topic: article about engineer doing blind test of 128mp3 vs wav...?
Replies: 66
Views: 20905

Re: article about engineer doing blind test of 128mp3 vs wav

i was just having another discussion about the whole "mp3 vs. 320 vs. flac" thing with djing (be it cd, traktor scratch or ableton) with a friend, and he mentioned that someone we had booked for bunker told him about an article about some sound engineer, possibly from fabric, that was giv...
by mizzdirekt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:15 am
Forum: • general
Topic: article about engineer doing blind test of 128mp3 vs wav...?
Replies: 66
Views: 20905

once a sound has been digitized and re-digitized and re-digitized and compressed and eq'd...it's over. It all sounds the same.
by mizzdirekt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:08 am
Forum: • general
Topic: Hey Americanos
Replies: 28
Views: 7647

Forced Exposure is one of my favorites as well, but you kind of have to know what you are looking for.
by mizzdirekt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:05 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: Emptiness is a playground
Replies: 11
Views: 4124

When cd's first took over the music biz I remember an interview with Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü) who said..."digital music is too clean, everything is spelled out for you and in the end your imagination has no where to go with it. You can't relate to it because it's not open to interpretation." ...
by mizzdirekt
Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:49 pm
Forum: • producers
Topic: What would be the best closed headphone for production.
Replies: 39
Views: 9528

JackNine wrote:I use a set of AKG K280 Parabolic (dual transducer) from the 1980s. I bought them new for $250 back then and they still rock now.

Great all-purpose phones that have lasted me 20+ years.

HAHAHA! sweet. I thought my nearly ten year old mdr-v900 was old.
by mizzdirekt
Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:12 pm
Forum: • producers
Topic: techno isnt about the past, its about the future
Replies: 105
Views: 16580

You are just coming of age man...that's all it is. We have all gone through it. You are starting to recognize that it only takes one voice to be musical...if you know how to play it. When those guys used to reference "the future" in their concepts and music it wasn't about technology. The ...
by mizzdirekt
Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:51 pm
Forum: • general
Topic: building a dub/minimal/leftfield room in a 5000 sqft loft
Replies: 32
Views: 7006

Believe it or not, there is a whole group of people my age..(I'm almost 38 now) who don't want to drink anymore...and don't go out anymore precisely because drinkers are so blessed annoying. I think this is a new market that hasn't been tapped yet. We grew up in the techno and underground music comm...