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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 16:47:49 GMT -6
In the 1970s, everybody was trying to get away from transformers as much as possible. That continued until digital made them attractive again.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 16:30:55 GMT -6
My understanding is there is no need. I suspect the ideal way might be to use the proper amount of dither for a 16-bit file but then not truncate into the MP3 or AAC file and let the player output handle the truncation. I'm just not sure how you would do it.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 10, 2024 13:15:43 GMT -6
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 9, 2024 19:27:56 GMT -6
While MP3 won't truncate, only high end players won't truncate. That is why an encoded properly dithered 16 bit file is safer.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 8, 2024 12:51:39 GMT -6
I saw a thing on YouTube that showed a properly dithered 16-bit file would sound better if the player truncated to 16. Apparently, many do just that.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 8, 2024 7:54:58 GMT -6
The whole idea of optional dither is as stupid as the idea of optional tape bias would be! Almost any digital signal processing kicks the bit depth up to infinity. The distortion will always be more audible than the dither. There simply is nothing to gain by not dithering. While dither can appear to have no benefit, not dithering can come back and bite you down the line.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 3, 2024 21:12:11 GMT -6
Why would you short 2 & 3?
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 3, 2024 19:35:26 GMT -6
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jan 3, 2024 19:22:36 GMT -6
It should include a transformer!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 30, 2023 21:45:41 GMT -6
I suspect he is trying to get away from what are probably endless inquiries about his software and Lexicon.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 25, 2023 13:00:51 GMT -6
I always thought a real 670 followed by a real Pultec sounded best.I was surprised to find that the reverse sounded better with plugins.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 22, 2023 16:47:22 GMT -6
I'd go to the finest music school I could get into. Forget recording programs. You need musician connections and not recording connections.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 14, 2023 12:39:50 GMT -6
Three to five feet was not uncommon. It vastly reduced he need for compression in addition to the more uniform microphone response. I was very disappointed after I left Motown and worked in studios that lost vocal presence that far back.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 13, 2023 21:00:11 GMT -6
Distance in a well designed studio was a whole bunch of it.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Dec 11, 2023 10:48:17 GMT -6
What gets me is people going ga-ga over plug-ins modeling vintage gear that I absolutely hated back in the 1960-80s.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Nov 23, 2023 14:17:29 GMT -6
When people sing to speakers, they typically require a lot less compression!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 27, 2023 8:07:57 GMT -6
The first Pacific Microsonics converter ran at 88.2 and 44.1. It could convert 88.2 to 44.1 in real time and sounded better than anything else in the'90s if you didn't have all day to process each song.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 8, 2023 19:06:37 GMT -6
Jay wrote that he was invited to see it because he had designed the equalizer so it had one which.was pretty radical for the mid 1950s. I understand that recorder was the very first multichannel recorder.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 8, 2023 6:16:03 GMT -6
There wouldn't have been room for much more than a simple passive bass and treble.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 7, 2023 21:00:50 GMT -6
I would be surprised if that console even had equalizers. We are talking mid-'50s.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 7, 2023 20:44:10 GMT -6
I suspect all of us who used them back when they were new are rolling our eyes because they ate tubes every three or four months!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 4, 2023 14:05:02 GMT -6
I'm still amazed by how great they sound when fed by way of a 16 Ohm series resistor, so the crossover is at the correct frequency, and the woofer is not damped. People forget that those speakers were intended to be fed by 70.7volt lines.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 4, 2023 8:27:46 GMT -6
I learned this with Bob Babbit. He wanted to know how we got the sound we got from him at Motown. He brought his bass over and I plugged him into my home brew direct box and there it was. I never even used a compressor on him back then but the players always were listening to Altec studio monitors.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Sept 30, 2023 20:30:20 GMT -6
The player's touch makes all the difference. For that reason, it is critical that the player is hearing exactly what is being recorded.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Sept 19, 2023 20:29:29 GMT -6
I'll be there on line.
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