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| From | Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> |
| Subject | Re: Let it be. busted |
| Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:27:46 -0500 |
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>From: "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca>
>We must have gotten two different versions of the CD...mine is a HUGE
>improvement over the previous release and boots..
I would be curious how you 2 listen to the CD. I.e., with speakers,
good headphones, or portable CD headphones? The difference in
listening experience has to be different. Considering that many
people listen to music like I do, which is to do so using a portable
CD player, with your basic inexpensive headphones, I've often
wondered if producers test how their mix will sound with a portable,
especially when new digital techniques are used to try and increase
the quality of older recordings. It might make the music sound
brighter, but at the same time, you lose the some of the smoothness
of the original analog recordings. This is especially true of the
drum and cymbal sound, which Frank complained of. If you listen to
music with portable CD headphones, the music is right up on your
ears, and something like overloud or annoying drum or cymbal sounds
might be more noticable than if you listened with speakers (and
especially since portable CD players have no controls that allow you
to correct the sound, except for "extra bass" and "lots of extra
bass")
P.s. if you have the time, in some cases, you can correct the problem
with the cymbals by applying a high pass (or notch) filter. The
drums is another story. I've actually taken the time to use audio
editing software to manually smooth out the start of each drum hit.
Although you have to be crazy like myself to spend the amount of time
necessarily to do this, without being paid for it!
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