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- Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:13 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Do people prefer the sound of mp3's?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5507
Has anyone ever listed to satellite radio? I've never heard it myself, but wiki says it's 128 kbps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_Satellite_Radio I have listened to XM. It is certainly better than FM, and not as good as a CD. But, it was in someone else's car...so I was not accustomed to their ca...
- Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:18 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: MediaMonkey - software to organize your mp3
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8752
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:55 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Do people prefer the sound of mp3's?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5507
Do people prefer the sound of mp3's?
A very interesting article about the rising preference for the sound of an mp3 among young(er) people. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html And another that takes a decidedly less optimistic view... http://i.gizmodo.com/5166649/ipods-and-young-people-have-utterly-destroy...
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:17 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: hearing test - equal loudness contours
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11230
- Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:13 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22296
Re: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
Have you run an RTA on both recordings to look at the content? Audacity has a built in RTA that is good enough for these purposes. What's an RTA :?: Here is what the RTA output of Audacity looks like (I forget what song I used to make this...but it was some modern pop song with lots of bass in the ...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:44 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22296
Re: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
When I hear 30s music played on vinyl or shellac (which, fortunately, you can quite often hear in London), I don't notice any problem with harsh trebles - the music just sounds great, even though there is extra surface noise. Somehow, those harsh trebles are there when the music is on CD, but not t...
- Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:25 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22296
Re: Strategies for reducing treble harshness on 1930s tracks
Most 1930's music has about 40-50dB of dynamic range. That is not a lot of range to try to get all the content into. Further, there was no practical way to have a home based playback system actually reproduce much in the way of either low or high frequencies - so the mastering process tended to favo...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:53 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: External Sound Cards for Laptop DJing
- Replies: 152
- Views: 250778
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Anybody Shuffle?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12911
I often use random when I'm listening to music. Sometimes the combinations are interesting, thought provoking, and lead to inspiration to use when crafting a set. BUT...I would never use random/shuffle when I was at an event. The day I think random will pick better songs that I can, is the day I han...
- Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:39 am
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: High-speed tagging?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 45293
How does using standalone tagging software interact with library managers like itunes/jriver/etc? Do the managers automatically update their library (since they typically build their own library files instead of loading all the id3 tags each time) or do you have to do that manually? I typically do ...
- Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:26 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: High-speed tagging?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 45293
The most advanced id3 tag manipulation program I've found so far is Mp3/Tag Studio . Unlimited trial version: http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ +1 I love mpi3TagStudio for batch edits. I use eMusicTagEditor for one off tag editing. Both are worth the $$$. If I had to choose, I'd go with eMusic Ta...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:46 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Volume - how to increase it?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15447
If you are curious... Disconnect the sound card from the speakers. Play a 1kHz signal through your computer. Turn the volume all the way up. Use a volt meter that can read RMS to measure the voltage of the signal coming from the sound card. As I said before: 1.228Vrms = +4dBu 0.775Vrms = 0dBu 0.3162...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:40 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Volume - how to increase it?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15447
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:26 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Volume - how to increase it?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15447
Thanks Stan - great advice :) Are you sure that the Turtle Beach card 'adds noise' by the way? The Turtle Beach card will pre-amp the sound, but adds a lot of noise in the process. I haven't noticed this. The card I use is the Audio Advantage Micro portable USB Sound Card as described here: http://...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:56 am
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Volume - how to increase it?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15447