Has anybody read the interview with Shimon on the d'n'b arena site? He comes up with some pretty intersting points about cleaning up your files, and making rooom for sounds to give the biggest impact on the dance floor. Well worth reading!
-----Original Message----- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 February 2002 04:07 To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: volume digital clipping leads to audible "crackling"... but if you clip only every once in a while, say on a snare, that's fine because it probably won't change the sound as much, but try clipping often on bass and it's horrible. and normalizing won't throw off any eq'ing or anything else you do, it just scans your sound file, determines what the loudest peak is, and then will boost the entire file to whatever level you specify (if the loudest it goes is -5.2 peak db, and you normalize to 0 db, it'll essentially turn up the entire file by 5.2 db). and commercial releases are much louder than things we release because... they're commercial - people with huge racks of tube/analog equipment get paid to work on the tracks until they're loud as hell without clipping. keep at it. frequent clipping's bad, normalizing isn't, and one day we'll get loud enough. joe --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ _________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by UUNET delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.uk.uu.net/products/security/virus/ DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any attachments to it contain information that is private and confidential and should only be read by those persons to whom they are addressed. Neither Tower Hamlets College nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to check the email and attachments (if any). No contracts may be concluded on behalf of Tower Hamlets College by means of email communications. Any views or opinions presented are only those of the author and not those of Tower Hamlets College. If this email has come to you in error please delete it and any attachments. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by UUNET delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.uk.uu.net/products/security/virus/ --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
