I think your wasting your time Shawn. There have been problems in the past with LAME
and other encoders which may have been expoited to make bad sounding MP3's, but as
each distortion is isolated, it has also generally been worked on to overcome the
distortion. So I suspect your album would become the
test case to get LAME working even better.
Cheers,
Ross.
Shawn Riley wrote:
> If you remember my question a while ago about crippling wavs so they sound bad at
>all but the highest bitrates, this is a follow-up.
> My band is recording its album in the near future. I know MP3 has its limitations, &
>I thought it would be useful for the band from a business perspective if we messed
>with the original recorded tracks to make so-called "CD-quality" MP3ing difficult.
>
> The recorded tracks will probably consist of the following (maybe less, but no more)-
> 2 tracks for the kick drum (front & back)
> 2 tracks for the snare (top & bottom)
> 4 tracks for the toms (4 toms- one track for each)
> 1 track for the hi-hat
> 2 overhead mics (for the cymbals & room resonance)
> 4 tracks for the guitar (2x stereo)
> 1 or 2 tracks for the bass guitar (1x mono or stereo)
> up to 4 tracks for vocals (1x stereo lead, up to 2 backups)
> up to 4 tracks for keyboards (2x stereo)
> up to 4 tracks for solo instruments (more if we get carried away & hire a 96-piece
>orchestra :-)
>
> The album will be a mix of ballads & rock songs. How do you guys suggest we do it?
>
> Note that we'd like there to have no percievable difference between the original &
>effected sound in the studio.
> I decided that the MP3 encoding should be bad for the following combinations-
> 128kBit/sec - JStereo - 44.1kHz
> 112kBit/sec - JStereo - 44.1kHz
> 56kBit/sec - JStereo - 22.05kHz
> I'd like to limit the subectivity of the word, "bad", to mean that it sounds
>particularly nasty & unfaithful to people who are normally satisfied with sound
>quality at those described bitrates.
> But I'd like it to still sound perceivably lossless for 320kBit/sec - Stereo, 'cause
>*I* would like to be able to make an MP3 of our stuff w/o having artifacts popping
>out everywhere. But that doesn't really matter quite so much 'cause I could always
>get a copy of the CD, mastered without the mangling.
>
> Shawn
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