On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:39:00PM +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote: > On 23/10/11 04:21, S. Massy wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 07:48:04PM +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote: > >>On 21/10/11 10:29 AM, S. Massy wrote: > >>>I very much like the mood of this piece, and, as someone else said, it > >>>could be longer... Unfortunately, there are a lot of issues with high > >>>frequencies to my ears caused by all the sweeping filters and the drum > >>>processing which makes it grating and spoils the mood. :( Hopefully, > >>>it's just some idiosyncrasy of my hardware or wetware (ears) and others > >>>will not be affected, because this piece is otherwise very good. > >>> > >> > >>Thanks for the feedback -- the glitchyness of the drums is > >>deliberate, of course, but I wonder if there's a way to smooth out > >>the higher frequencies a bit. I've heard people say that bouncing to > >>some good quality tape has various magical qualities, including > >>smoothing out high frequency transients in general, but I tend to be > >>suspicious of such claims :) > >I've heard similar claims, among others, that bouncing to a high quality > >VHS tape (using a quality VCR, obviously) can do wonders. My guess is it > >has something to do with gentle, non-linear, natural compression > >occuring at that stage, but other, more knowledgeable people probably > >could elucidate this better than I could. > > > I had actually been thinking about trying exactly that -- I do have > a good quality hi-fi VCR here still, despite the fact that I haven't > used it in years -- so I set it up yesterday and gave it a go. I > hooked my laptop up to the VCR, played the track while recording, > then swapped the connectors around, rewound the tape, and recorded > the audio from the VCR back in to the laptop. > > It's amazing just how clean the signal from the VCR is. In fact, > it's so clean that it sounds identical to the original audio to me. > Comparing the signals in Japa, I can see a sub-50Hz hump in the > VCR's audio, and a slight roll off above about 10KHz. There's > clearly some stuff going on in the time domain, too, but it's very > subtle, and I definitely can't hear it myself. > > So, an interesting exercise, but perhaps a pointless one :) I can > upload the audio if anyone's curious and wants to do their own > comparisons, though. If you can spare the time and provide a link to both the original and bounced version, I'd be very interested to listen and see if I can hear any difference. Al Thompson mentioned levels being important: How hot did you bounce it? very interesting exercise. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
