Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hm. Well, as far as I know wma is also a compressed file format, but it's one I never use so I can't say much about it..used to have bad experiences with them so I've just avoided them ever since. - Original Message - From: Danny Miles emowarr...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality Hi. Thanks for the response. File is a .WMA file, as that's the original format of the vocals. The music was originally a .wav file, but when I mixed this in it didn't pose any problems, and the hiss to which I referred is most noticeable when there is no noise at all so I'm sure that this hasn't caused a problem. I tried saving the .WMA file as both a .MP3 and a .WAV file to see if it made a difference but it didn't do anything. All the best, Danny On 1/12/12, JM Casey crystallo...@ca.inter.net wrote: Hey Danny. There are probably others more experienced than I who can provide some possible answers, but I do know that editing and re-saving frequently should not affect the quality of your file, unless you save in MP3 format, in which case you might lose some quality each time. Your processor would do all the work during the actual editing, and not the saving process, so if as you say the sound was fine before you did your final save, that shouldn't be an issue either. - Original Message - From: Danny Miles emowarr...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm having a bit of trouble on the old one. For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house ... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the file back to what it was before. Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what else might have caused this? For example, can continually editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any other suggestions would also be appreciated. As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original files so would have to record it all again. Cheers, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm having a bit of trouble on the old one. For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house ... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the file back to what it was before. Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what else might have caused this? For example, can continually editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any other suggestions would also be appreciated. As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original files so would have to record it all again. Cheers, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hey Danny. There are probably others more experienced than I who can provide some possible answers, but I do know that editing and re-saving frequently should not affect the quality of your file, unless you save in MP3 format, in which case you might lose some quality each time. Your processor would do all the work during the actual editing, and not the saving process, so if as you say the sound was fine before you did your final save, that shouldn't be an issue either. - Original Message - From: Danny Miles emowarr...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm having a bit of trouble on the old one. For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house ... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the file back to what it was before. Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what else might have caused this? For example, can continually editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any other suggestions would also be appreciated. As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original files so would have to record it all again. Cheers, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
Hi. Thanks for the response. File is a .WMA file, as that's the original format of the vocals. The music was originally a .wav file, but when I mixed this in it didn't pose any problems, and the hiss to which I referred is most noticeable when there is no noise at all so I'm sure that this hasn't caused a problem. I tried saving the .WMA file as both a .MP3 and a .WAV file to see if it made a difference but it didn't do anything. All the best, Danny On 1/12/12, JM Casey crystallo...@ca.inter.net wrote: Hey Danny. There are probably others more experienced than I who can provide some possible answers, but I do know that editing and re-saving frequently should not affect the quality of your file, unless you save in MP3 format, in which case you might lose some quality each time. Your processor would do all the work during the actual editing, and not the saving process, so if as you say the sound was fine before you did your final save, that shouldn't be an issue either. - Original Message - From: Danny Miles emowarr...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality Hi All. Thanks so much for your fantastically helpful responses on my licensing question. I haven't yet moved to the new laptop, but I'm having a bit of trouble on the old one. For the past week I've been editing together a podcast. I finished it yesterday and, prior to saving it, everything was fine. I wasn't aware of changing anything within the file content after the point at which I checked it, but when I opened it today to listen to it all the way through I found that parts of the vocals were distorted and there was a hiss present which hadn't been there before (not a permanent one like one which comes from recording, but a temporary one which sounds a bit like a radio being tuned in or wind blowing around a big house ... but obviously quieter). With sighted assistance I was able to observe that there may be some issue with the stereo mix, but I've tried every possible combination of 0% and 100% on the four channel options and none of them have brought a perfect result (although a couple certainly improved it a bit). I've tried hiss removal etc, and even some of the equaliser options, but none of them have taken the file back to what it was before. Presuming that the intermittent distortion and strange background noise aren't caused by any changes within the file, I'm wondering what else might have caused this? For example, can continually editing/re-saving a file affect the quality of the output? I have done this sort of thing before so don't believe that this is the case but thought it was worth asking. My stronger suspicion is that the lack of speed of my processor (it's a Celeron) may have lead to a poor quality saving of the file, which would also explain why some parts of the file are unharmed. Would this be a likely/possible reason for my problem? If there's something which I haven't yet thought of, any other suggestions would also be appreciated. As always any help will be very gratefully received, as this work took me a good length of time to produce and I don't have the original files so would have to record it all again. Cheers, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Another GoldWave Question - Problem with File Quality
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