OT:My health update [message #57841] |
Mon, 05 September 2005 13:39 |
Nappy
Messages: 198 Registered: September 2006
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aign in the 1980's
along with many others and eventually thwarted his bid for governor of
Texas.
The thing that irks me about autoBush haters is that all they do is bitch.
They never take into consideration the circumstances he inherited when he
came into office and they never propose any proactive solutions. I
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Re: OT:My health update [message #57852 is a reply to message #57847] |
Mon, 05 September 2005 14:29 |
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 |
Rich Lamanna
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.
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> > 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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