yup, u r right,
it all has to do with over-compressed mastertracks, which then being
converted to mp3 formats, sound bubbly & distorted bass-less.
The compression-algorithms can't handle the squashy compressed
stereo-wav.
I realised it by converting own, compr. trax to stereo 44.1kH mp3 format
& it sucks...
`SedarkA´ :(Pee-N-yoU):
http://pnu.widerstand.org
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:46:07 +0200
To: idm@hyperreal.org
From: Irene McC <substar@iafrica.com>
Subject: distortion
Message-id: <39FECD1F.18772.11D2B79@localhost>
Just a general MP3 related question: a lot of MP3's I'm listening to
are distorted, either at the top end which clips, or the bass which
just goes "bbsshhh" - and looking at the actual curve, it makes
standing squared waves.
Presumably this is not due to the extraction, but comes from the
original source - is it because people use huge compression on their
sound files? Is there any way around it? Even if I convert my own
CD's to MP3, I cannot predict which ones will come out distorted
(and many do). Selecting the "normalize" function does not seem
to help - sometimes it even boots the gain.
I
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