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Re: OT:My health update [message #57852 is a reply to message #57847] |
Mon, 05 September 2005 14:29 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/PARIS_Forum_Template/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/PARIS_Forum_Template/images/down.png) |
Nappy
Messages: 198 Registered: September 2006
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hen streaming many tracks while truncating from 32
bit
>float through a 20 bit digital feed was creating some harshness in the
>1-2kHz frequency range.
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>To solve this, I found a very flexible dither algo and have instantiated
it
>on every channel of my Cubase mix template. Now each track is being dithered
>as it is passed from SX to Paris. I'm mixing a small project that I tracked
>yesterday. What I'm hearing at the end of the songs as they fade sounds
just
>like tape hiss. I used mostly class A, solid state preamps on this project
>and even my tube gear is dead quiet........so I'm almost positive this is
>cumulative dither noise. Fading the tracks takes care of it and the final
>stage of the process is yet another dither.
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>Rather than thinking it unpleasant, I'm actually liking the sound of this,
>though it certainly isn't digital purity by any stretch.
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>I ned to paly around with this some more though. This is a small
>project........15 tracks tops. I don't know how this would sound in a
>project with 40 + tracks. Might be a problem.
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>Hmmmm.......
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>Hmmmm...........good question. I've been working this way for a while and to
be honest, I'm less and less thrilled by the sonics of the whole situation.
It's really nice to be able to just open up a UAD-1 plugin or insert an
external processor on a track and it is automatically compensated. That's
very cool. Also cool is being able to bus groups to compressors.
The thing is, I'm doing mostly acoustic/bluegrass projects and the overall
clarity of the mix is a *huge* deal here. Processing always reduces that, no
matter what. Even without using processing in SX, there is processing going
on in the lightpipe transfer and the more I work this way, the more I'm
noticing a cumulative hit. It might work fine for pop music...........not as
well for this.
I am very seriously
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Re: OT:My health update [message #57978 is a reply to message #57841] |
Wed, 07 September 2005 22:56 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/PARIS_Forum_Template/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/theme/PARIS_Forum_Template/images/down.png) |
Rich Lamanna
![UNITED STATES UNITED STATES](/images/flags/us.png) Messages: 316 Registered: February 2006
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> > with a little 2.5 octave cut bringing it up to a tiny peak at 7kHz tjust
> > to
> > get some definition. If I solo the track, this works fine and it smooth
> > out
> > the voice....on the solo track.
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> > Problem is, it;'s all over the dobro, mandolin and doublebass and
guitar.
> > Carving his voice out of all these instruments basically kills the mix.
> >
> > There are also phasing issues because the instrument mics are, in every
> > case, at least 10 ft. and in the case of the dobro, 20' away from the
> > singer. It's not really a problem with instruments being that far
> > separated
> > from each other, but with a singer, it's killin me.
> >
> > WTF was I thinking letting them do this? I should have shot the
producer,
> > stolen his money and paid mys
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