On Sun, 10 Jul, 2005 at 12:39AM -0700, Florin Andrei spake thus: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:42 +0100, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > http://dis-dot-dat.net/content/music/calmer.ogg > > Wow, what a fresh, dynamic and nice tune! Mike Oldfield himself could > not be ashamed to come up with something like this. > > Please, bump up the Ogg bitrate, it's all muddied and I can't really > figure out the finer aspects of the mix. > I still can't decide whether I don't like your distort, or whether it's > the meager bitrate that's causing the issue with the distortion. Try swapping ogg for mp3 for now, and does anyone have a clue to what set of options oggenc requires for a good bitrate/size tradeoff? > > Jamin is playing silly buggers, so it hasn't gone through my usual > > final compression to sort out levels > > Well, give it a kick and see if it's still breathing, 'cause some > tweaking would be nice. E.g. the piano at the beginning is "lost in the > forest". > > I would also beef it up with a couple more instruments, the stage is a > tad hollow for my taste (I hear the idea but it's not fleshed out > enough), but maybe that's just me. Alternatively, the slight hollowness > might be caused by an unfinished mixing/mastering. I can't really make > up my mind. > > Don't hesitate to use panning more generously. Maybe that's part of the > slight hollowness issue. > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
