On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:47:24 -0700, Rich Stivers <r...@stivers-bros.com> wrote:
> When tuning your segue levels, did you work much with rdmarkerset? I > used that to make global segue marker changes in a Test Group. < No, but we did a couple weeks of testing/listening to different settings before deciding on that combination for rdimport, then imported tracks in groups alphabetically by artist and occasionally listened to some of those. That, then, took a couple more weeks of sending rdimport off on a group and leaving it unattended. Since most came out okay, we don't want to touch those, and are just catching the others individually when we hear them. We are a community station, too, but with 'wide' variety consisting of everything from rock to blues, country, bluegrass, trance, folk, new age, comedy, and classical--all mixed in the same hour. Our Program Dictator does not allow for exceptions to the music format other than paid programs and syndicated shows. The tracks we have the most trouble with are classical. I have long criticized classical for being the worst recordings on the planet. They put a couple microphones 50 feet from the performers and call that a recording. It is the consequent room noise that keeps the markers from being set properly. Classical recorded in Hollywood for movies uses close mic'ing and is vastly superior to most orchestra and chamber recordings. Hollywood's material comes out fine. And there is just zero excuse for hearing things like fingernail clicks in Maria Pires' piano recordings--you don't hear that in Aimee Mann's or Cat Stevens' piano work. I am now taking the original wave rips on new classical (there's not much of that these days) and fading them up and down in production before importing as the fix. I say YMMV on those settings because over the years, I have never known even supposedly identical computers with identical soundcards and software to nuance exactly the same. I work more in TV and video than radio, and even there, with two supposedly identical edit suites, the color rendition does not come out exactly the same, even though using the exact same field video in both suites. We'll never be going back, but the fact is that color WAS identical back in the analog, pre-non-linear days. --Chuck W. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
