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From:
Lee Azzarello
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IDM
Date:
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:29:24 -0800
Subject:
Re: [idm] distortion
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on 10/31/00 3:46 AM, Irene McC at substar@iafrica.com wrote:
quoted 20 lines Just a general MP3 related question: a lot of MP3's I'm listening to> 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 > * > np : Godspeed's Levez your skinny mitts... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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