Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread drew Roberts
On Friday 24 January 2014 11:42:24 Wayne Merricks wrote: > FYI, looks fine to me. I use thunderbird and my phone. I've known > Outlook and the various iDevices to mangle things beyond recognition if > thats what you're viewing it on. I can confirm that it is messed up here reading with an old km

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Friday 24 January 2014 11:42:24 am Wayne Merricks wrote: > I've known Outlook and the various iDevices to mangle things beyond > recognition if thats what you're viewing it on. Outlook is one of the worst e-manglers I've ever run across. ( *painful* memories of spam-o-matic ( dot com ) devel

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
FYI, looks fine to me. I use thunderbird and my phone. I've known Outlook and the various iDevices to mangle things beyond recognition if thats what you're viewing it on. Regards, Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 24/01/14 16:06, Cowboy wrote: On Friday 24 January 2014 11:03:06 am Cowboy wr

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Friday 24 January 2014 11:03:06 am Cowboy wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2014 10:30:17 am Fred Gleason wrote:> On Jan 24, 2014, > at 08:47 23, Cowboy wrote:> > > Who, in their right mind, > would produce a piece of > > **professional** equipment that *deliberately* > introduces> > harmonic di

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Friday 24 January 2014 10:30:17 am Fred Gleason wrote: > On Jan 24, 2014, at 08:47 23, Cowboy wrote: > > > Who, in their right mind, would produce a piece of > > **professional** equipment that *deliberately* introduces > > harmonic distortion ? > > Because it sounds good! > > (“Good” bein

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jan 24, 2014, at 08:47 23, Cowboy wrote: > Who, in their right mind, would produce a piece of > **professional** equipment that *deliberately* introduces > harmonic distortion ? Because it sounds good! (“Good” being, in this context, a more-or-less completely subjective, ‘aesthetic’ judge

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Alan Peterson
- Original Message - From: "Cowboy" Who, in their right mind, would produce a piece of **professional** equipment that *deliberately* introduces harmonic distortion ? The makers of guitar fuzzboxes. Been that way for about 50 years. I forget where I read

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Friday 24 January 2014 08:45:00 am Chris Howard - CBR wrote: > Some cuts have hum and other artifacts that would be nice > to lose if it could be done without blood, sweat and tears. "Relatively" easy in production. Almost impossible with just an in-line processor. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Cowboy
On Thursday 23 January 2014 08:50:52 pm Jay Ashworth wrote: > The *Compellor* does that? > I had always heard that that was what the *Exciter* did; that was it's > raison d'etre from introduction... You may be right. It's been a while. Looking at the Aphex site today, I can't find it, on either

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Howard - CBR
Thanks for all of the good information. My content is almost all home-recorded readings of classic books. You can try some out at librivox.org. So there are level problems and audio problems in a lot of the cuts. For one-piece cuts I can cull out bad stuff but for larger works where there were

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > On Thursday 23 January 2014 07:47:40 pm Jim Stewart wrote: > > Otherwise my vote is an Aphex Compeller, that I think can be "slowed > > down" enough to give the processing you desire. > > Just be aware that the Compellor deliberately generates > ev

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-23 Thread Cowboy
On Thursday 23 January 2014 07:47:40 pm Jim Stewart wrote: > Otherwise my vote is an Aphex Compeller, that I think can be "slowed down" > enough to give the processing you desire. Just be aware that the Compellor deliberately generates even order distortion ! The theory is that even order di

Re: [RDD] Audio Processing -- was -- normalization (Alan Peterson)

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Stewart
I think ideally you need a "simple and slow" AGC-like compressor that has a "side-chain gate" so that it can be adjusted so it doesn't "pump up" the level during silence periods that are "supposed" to exist in spoken word. I don't know what kind of "Radio" station you are running, but you likely