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Advantage of tape over MD?
Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote: Understanding how to use the software to achieve desired results and understanding the jargon used to describe the process are not necessarily interdependent requirements of the experience overall. Unless you wish to communicate about it with others. Onion other hand, there's a good chance that I already do understand what "RMS" is without actually recognizing the acronym. What exactly do the letters represent? Root Mean Square. If you square every sample in the file, add all those numbers up, divide by the number of samples and take the square root you get the RMS of the file. It is a measure of its overall loudness. -12 dB is pretty hot. I honestly think the reason why the older CDs sound as bad as they do is because audio processing software such as "normalize" hadn't been invented yet at the time they were manufactured. If you think that louder is better. The process of squeezing the dynamics of the music to get that extra loudness introduces distortion (which may actually "enhance" some kinds of music to some listeners) and generally makes it less interesting. There is a growing sentiment among recording professionals that it is exactly this process of squeezing the dynamics for the sake of loudness that is making music less and less interesting and faithful to what was recorded and there is a growing movement away from it. Bob -- "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler." A. Einstein |
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