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Per multiple requests, here's my guide to, "When the hell do I start turning these knobs, and where do they go? " But before we begin, I offer you the fine print: These references are general ideas for where to begin to look for sonic issues with particular sounds, instruments, and voices. DAD/Rip – Thomas. 24bit/96kHz FLAC to 16bit/44.1kHz via Audition with Triangular dither?
Steve Albini talks about some of his recording techniques.mp4. Steve Albini on Recording Drums. AIFF Vs. WAV. Perfect AAC Rips with EAC and iTunes - JetShred. Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It. Legendary artist Neil Young at the AllThingsD media conference Tuesday in Laguna Niguel, California.
Photo: Asa Mathat/AllThingsD Neil Young is right: Those songs on your iPhone do sound like crap, and it’s time we demand better-sounding alternatives for our digital music. Speaking at the D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, the outspoken musician expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the MP3 format and called for an end-to-end reboot of the consumer digital audio ecosystem, from file formats to playback devices. Young’s big beef: Digital music files download quickly, but suffer a significant loss in quality. Bitrates for most tracks on iTunes average 256kbps AAC audio encoding, which is drastically inferior to the quality of recorded source material in almost every case. Direct Stream Digital Audio. AudioZ - Professional Audio Software Community. MP3 Diags. Wiki. dBpoweramp: CD Ripper & Audio Converter. Secure ripping to mp3, FLAC, m4a, Apple Lossless & WMA.
Batch edit your iTunes music info tags - Applelinks.com. Okay, here's a pretty simple tip, but one you may not have known you could do.
In iTunes, you all know how to edit the info tags, right? It's the same as getting info on a file from within the Finder; you just select the song you want, then hit Command+I on the keyboard (or select Get Info form the File menu). Click the Info tab in the window that opens, and you'll see the following information: Fair enough, but let's say you want to add an entire album's publication year to the info list, or that you want to change the genre to something a little more accurate, or even that you want to add artwork. For a long time, I actually did this field by field, track by track for a whole album. To select multiple tracks (in this case the entire Metaphysical Graffiti album by the Dead Milkmen), you simply click the first track of the album in your iTunes library, hold the shift key on your keyboard, then click the last track.
YouTube to mp3 Converter. How to Rip to, Play and Split One-Album FLAC Files? Flac is the most well known lossless audio codec among audiophile communities.
It allows you to archive CDs without any loss of quality. It is possible to rip CDs in one file per CD, instead of one track per song. Along with the one-album flac file, we will have a cue file containing the markers and tracklist. To rip a CD we're going to use the excellent fre:ac (formerly known as BonkEnc).
Click here to download. Go to Options > General Settings, choose "Flac audio encoder v1.2.1". You are now ready to rip your CD: click the "Add audio CD" icon, fill in the information, then click the "Start the encoding process" button. To play a one-album flac file, I recommend you use Foobar, an awesome audio player. To split one-album flac files into the actual songs, use Medieval, an excellent cue splitter. Codec Central Windows Media Audio. LAME.
LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the Hydrogenaudio recommended MP3 encoder.
It has been developed by the open-source community since 1998, and has become the highest quality MP3 encoder for most purposes. Some benefits of using LAME: Highly optimised presets Fast encoding CBR, ABR and quality-optimized VBR encoding methods Gapless playback with LAME-header compliant decoders Supported by recommended CD rippers Exact Audio Copy and CDex Highly tunable History[edit] LAME development began around mid-1998.
The project quickly became a team effort. How to play FLAC files. This article shows how you can play Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files that you may have obtained on the Internet.
It covers the easiest methods to just download software that supports FLAC playing, to making your current software, like Windows Media Player, support FLAC playing. Convert audio and video to MP3. Error: the number of inputs exceeded the limit of 3.
In order to continue you need to upgrade your account: Error: the total file size exceeded the limit of 100 MB. Error: the total file size exceeded the absolute limit of8GB. EAC Guides. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is simply the best CD ripper for archiving your CDs while using as little storage space as possible. There are plenty of other ripping tools that are easier to use, indeed, but no other software (so far) allows you to make perfect rips, compress the files to FLAC, and keep the CD structure so that you can re-create a perfect copy of the CD.
However, if you are using Mac OS X, you may want to take a look at X Lossless Decoder(XLD). Foobar2000. XLD. From Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase link title X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a secure CD ripper and a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play most lossless and lossy audio files.
The supported audio files can be encoded/decoded and split into tracks with cue sheet. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs. [edit] Features. Adobe audition mac. Bobby Owsinski's Big Picture Production Blog. Wickiemedia's Channel. Welcome to WickieMedia's audio engineering and production tutorials.Here you'll find in-depth information about sound-design and processing of sound.
In the first season we see Dynamic processors like compressors, gates, de-essers, maximizers. In the second season: Spectral processing, we are looking at frequencies and how to manipulate the frequency content of our audio signal with the use of filters and equalizers. Currently running season 3. Fuck yeah studio porn. Music * Reviews * Audio * Sound * Vinyl... Stereophile's May issue includes my first of a two part review of VPI's Classic Direct Drive turntable. Does the new 3D printed tone arm sound different than the company’s standard metal one? Does it sound better, or not as good? I give my opinion in the review. StyloBuzz - Synthesizer. GoRankem Upgrades Crowdsourced "Cheat Sheat For Music Discovery" StereoStone High Quality Outdoor Rock Speakers. Norbert Nissel (RenoAudio) The Intelligent Music Application Platform. VIRTUAL DJ SOFTWARE - VDJPedia - Index.
The Ultimate Guide to Remixing: 19 Track-by-Track Tips from Disco Pusher. MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Disco Pusher released our new mixtape Now You Know How The Story Ends. It’s a 19-track selection of our remixes, productions and songs that features artists that we’ve worked with and, hopefully, demonstrates our musical style. The artists range from the international to local, pop stars to street kids, the past and the present. Www.samsontech.com/site_media/legacy_docs/H4n-manual.pdf.
5 Ways to Promote Your DJ Mix on SoundCloud. SoundCloud has been a game changer, not least for the number of CDs that haven\’t been burned & binned since it came along. Just last week our making a mixtape series got loads of feedback proving how popular mixtapes are with DJs wanting to promote themselves. Of course, they’re not mixtapes or even CDs a lot of the time nowadays, and it was obvious from your comments that your favourite place for posting digital mixes is SoundCloud. Tape Op Magazine. Knowledgebase:Main Page. Using Audacity/Moving tracks. Tape Op Magazine > Reviews. 4165-insiders-look-grateful-deads-wall-sound. Blog>An Insider's Look at the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound.
Music Hack Day. Port Forwarding Guides for Utorrent. How to open / forward ports for uTorrent / Azureus. One of the biggest headaches with using a BitTorrent client with a router is port forwarding / lack of open ports / checking for open ports. Opening ports in a torrent client is more about troubleshooting router settings and configuration to get the port forwarding right. BitTorrent tracker. Trackers and indexers[edit] X-mini Euro Store. Music Machinery.