wait...what?iainkerr7 wrote:If you burn your tracks as an audio cd does this reduce the quality??
Shoud you always burn as mp3??
never thought to ask before:s
Oh ok, I dont think I'll go so far as to start doing that, the room where all the gear is, is 2 studios in one. One being my side and the other being my wife's clothes/t-shirt making stuff, so its not really that serious. But I was thinking of getting those things that sit directly under the speakers. Do they absorb some of the vibrations and lessen the "boom", (sorry for the crude terms). But i read they also make the overall sound cleaner. I think it said "the most important 40$ u'll spend for ur studio" or something like thatThemis wrote:no MiniKat, thats not a bass trap, its only for absorbing the vibration from the speaker, but it dont help the acoustic (apart from the vibrations)
a bass trap is something like that
http://www.vicoustic.com/imgsprodutos/G ... coteco.JPG
you install it in the corners of the room. because if a bass drone thats because the acoustic in a room is shitty - and a bass trap should solve such a problem. droning happens if the sonic is reflected from walls, without loosing much of its power. then you hear the sound not only once by the time it came out of the speaker, you hear it multiple times, everytime the sonic bounce of a wall and go again to your ear.
A Basstrap absorb much of the power and so you could hear theoreticly a very clear, defined bass.
but in some locations there are natural bass traps, like for example a big bed in a corner of the room. Generally rooms with much furniture have better acoustics.
Nah I wasn't asking if it would sound better, but by reconverting it to a wav file from say 320, does this degrade the sound or have no effect?cloutier wrote:wait...what?iainkerr7 wrote:If you burn your tracks as an audio cd does this reduce the quality??
Shoud you always burn as mp3??
never thought to ask before:s
a file has to be a wav for it to play as a normal audio cd, so most burning software reconverts whatever the mp3 is back to a wav and then burns that. and no, that doesn't make it sound better.
burning as an mp3, for a data disc, is very different. and, so far as i know, only the cdj.1000's can play mp3 cd's.
It can be kind of a hard thing to visualize but think about watching movies on digital cable or Divx / Xvid. Everything might look superb until you see something like fast running water on Digital Cable you can see artifacts of macro blocks. This is because the bitrate is not fast enough to accommodate the change in data. Most digital cable signals are probably processed on the fly or the media is mass processed for the format.nierika wrote:"Variable BitRate encoding is designed for size & quality optimalization. Where there is silence in the music, it is less "demanding" in terms of its encodability, it makes sense to drop the bit rate, simply because there's not much there to encode, and the wasted space is overkill."
I would hope that people (especially on this board) would desire just as much sound quality in the "less demanding" parts of a track.
Also, considering how cheap 500GB+ HDs and DVDR discs are these days, I don't know why anyone would bother with any lossy compression when recording/archiving audio.
Each character represents a piece of data. This top line is an abstract way of representing the complexity of a song or sound that is to be encoded. * character represents null or nonexistent or unnecessary data
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Left 320 CBR, Right VBR
1123415318313136 1123415318313136 <- abstract way of representing the complexity of a song or sound.
**************** *********1****** @500 kbps
**************** *********1******
**************** *********1*****1
0000001001000001 ******1**1*****1 @320 kbps
0000101001000001 ****1*1**1**1**1
0001101101101011 ***11*11*11*1*11
0011101101101011 **111*11*11*1*11
1111111111111111 1111111111111111
0000000001111111 0000000001111111 Reference Positions
1234567890123456 1234567890123456 Read in a vertical manner, These are just for our reference.
Someone like you could use some advice... pay attention!miniKAT wrote:ok, this is probably a stupid question, but if I have some 192 or 128 and I conver them up to 320, would that make the sound quality better or is that like recording a tape onto a cd?
Thanx
