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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

^ sometimes you gotta hammer home a good point.

Flat line = no equalisation  at all...so turn it off.


Lol. I wish it were that simple, but you use the FLAT setting as the base, then start tinkering. Never use any of the other eq presets then start to tinker. That's what i mean. I know your being funny, but seriously try it? You'll appreciate your favourites more if you find the right sound setting but something tells me you already have and that you are just having a go at me.
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Something came to my mind just now and I had to come back here to ask. To all of you.Let's say you're on your mom's house, auntie, neighbour, store, supermarket, whatever. One of your favorite songs/band starts to play on the radio or in the tv, a normal tv.You can't enjoy yourself and the moment with your favorite song because the audio is inferior??

Agreed. This is true. It will take away from the pleasure instantly. I'd feel like I'm literally missing out on what could and should be experienced in terms of audio quality. Quality audio is everything! And yes it's expensive, but in most cases incredibly worth it. Just watch what you buy in regards to amps and other players. Sound can be subjective



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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

^ sometimes you gotta hammer home a good point.

Flat line = no equalisation  at all...so turn it off.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I like smiley face



right back ya my friend.

You said you like a flat line.


FLAT EQ setting generally brings out the most clarity in your music because your not making things like trebal and bass out of whack or extremely out of balance. If you have too much treble the sound will sound too bright and crispy. If you have too much bass, sound usually tends to be very muffled and you don't get the full picture when you do that. Anyway, if you have quality sound products like a solid amp and incredible headphones let them do their job. If ya mess around with the equalization you'll screw things up a lot, but then again it all depends on what type of music your listening to. 

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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Also I would be curious to know what type of sound works for you?? I'm a dynamic man myself with a little extra bass boost. Also, when I pair my I pod up to my amp I always select the FLAT sound Equalization because I feel it gives the best balance and clarity to whatever type of music I'm listening to, especially prog/electronic. Balancing the lows-mids-highs of the sound spectrum to an equal FLAT line I feel works very well with the headphones I have as well. What do you prefer when your having a listening experience with your favourites??

I have learnt that flat response is the best compromise. Sometimes you hear a recording that feels like it needs a bit of boost or cut here and there and that's fine, but whatever setting works for that will sound terrible on the next album you play, so you tweek the controls again and then the next one sounds a little off and so on. It's easier to leave them alone and accept what the producer wanted you to hear. Of course there is always the possibility that the producer mixed the album with the bass boosted on his play-back system so when you get to hear his final mix played through your system with the controls levelled it's all a bit meh...


Yes yes. Very true. You do have have to do a bit of tinkering Here and there. I do have to do that sometimes and I know there is no universal sound setting that will make what ever you are listening to, the bees knees. ;) and funny that you mention the extra bass in some recordings because just last night I was listening to REDEMPTION's latest effort 'THIS MORTAL COIL' and I could immediately Here that something was off in this recording by Neil Kernon and Alan Douches(yes that is his real name) anyway, it sounded so muffled and thats because the bass was far too 'boosted' for my liking. Sound was less bright then what I'm used to and I didn't here much diversity in the back round thus limiting sound seperation, meaning it did not sound channeled off correctly. So long story short I had to fix that by choosing a completely different setting than I normally use. It had to be way brighter. Meanwhile I thought the album wasn't their strongest effort. So I don't highly recommend that one.
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All Analogue to Digital converters and all Digital to Analogue converters have transfer characteristics, just as every amplifier and every speaker has a transfer characteristic. We know what these are and we can measure them. A professional studio quality ADC that converts the audio signal into a series of data-words has a linearity that is measure in fractions of an LSB, this we can convert into an ideal THD value and we can compare that to the actual THD value we can measure from the device: professional audio ADC have ideal THD values approaching -150dB which when combined with the actual measured noise-floor give measurable values in the order of -87dB to -105dB - there is nothing secretive or hidden about those figures - all manufacturers publish them and anyone with the right equipment can measure them. And then design engineers put those ADCs into pcbs that will either become outboard studio quality samplers or into PC or MAC sound-cards that aren't quite so studio quality and the overall performance drops off a little more because of the quality of the analogue signal the feeds into them isn't quite as clean and good as it could be because the preamplifers aren't as good and the environment of the PC or MAC isn't as clean as the one in the outboard ADC box. And again there is nothing secretive or hidden about that. The degradations are in the analogue domain so they will affect the audio - this is inescapable.
 


Thanks for taking the time to discuss this stuff.  I do appreciate it even though I am sure you are tired of my incessant questioning.  I think maybe we are getting somewhere... and I would like to hear your thoughts on these converters and how they vary from one sound card or hardware interface to another.  

If two machines claim the same specs... why would they sound so different?  If it is just simply 1's and 0's.. then what are these characteristics you mention?  What are the specs that are going to scientifically show what these characteristic differences would be? 

Early on we were recording on a blackface Alesis Adat.  Then we recorded on a PreSonus Firepod.
The Firepod claims 24-bit/96kHz.

 
 
 ADAT:
 

FIREPOD:



I have recorded on both systems.  The ADAT uses SVHS tapes as transport.  The Firepod connects right to our Mac via Firewire cable and can load into various digital editing programs. 

These are very typical set ups for smaller studios, home studios and the majority of Prog indie releases are being recorded this way.  Most bands don't have access to $100,000 high end ditigal studios. 

I know you will label statements that I make as just subjective.. but these ADATs and FiREPODS  SOUND LIKE CRAP!!!!

I am sure high end digital studios sound much better.  What kind of specs are the big boys using in the digital world that are getting an acceptable sound compared to the entry level stuff mentioned above?
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I like smiley face



right back ya my friend.

You said you like a flat line.


FLAT EQ setting generally brings out the most clarity in your music because your not making things like trebal and bass out of whack or extremely out of balance. If you have too much treble the sound will sound too bright and crispy. If you have too much bass, sound usually tends to be very muffled and you don't get the full picture when you do that. Anyway, if you have quality sound products like a solid amp and incredible headphones let them do their job. If ya mess around with the equalization you'll screw things up a lot, but then again it all depends on what type of music your listening to.
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Also I would be curious to know what type of sound works for you?? I'm a dynamic man myself with a little extra bass boost. Also, when I pair my I pod up to my amp I always select the FLAT sound Equalization because I feel it gives the best balance and clarity to whatever type of music I'm listening to, especially prog/electronic. Balancing the lows-mids-highs of the sound spectrum to an equal FLAT line I feel works very well with the headphones I have as well. What do you prefer when your having a listening experience with your favourites??
I have learnt that flat response is the best compromise. Sometimes you hear a recording that feels like it needs a bit of boost or cut here and there and that's fine, but whatever setting works for that will sound terrible on the next album you play, so you tweek the controls again and then the next one sounds a little off and so on. It's easier to leave them alone and accept what the producer wanted you to hear. Of course there is always the possibility that the producer mixed the album with the bass boosted on his play-back system so when you get to hear his final mix played through your system with the controls levelled it's all a bit meh...
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I like smiley face



right back ya my friend.

You said you like a flat line.
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^ Confused I don't know what you intended there, but the use of the sleepy smiley Sleepy seems just a little insulting to me.


Didn't want to seem over zealous. I am being completely sincere though. I agree with your statements and actually a lot of what you ve been saying on this forum. Please don't take that in any other way. . Also I would be curious to know what type of sound works for you?? I'm a dynamic man myself with a little extra bass boost. Also, when I pair my I pod up to my amp I always select the FLAT sound Equalization because I feel it gives the best balance and clarity to whatever type of music I'm listening to, especially prog/electronic. Balancing the lows-mids-highs of the sound spectrum to an equal FLAT line I feel works very well with the headphones I have as well. What do you prefer when your having a listening experience with your favourites??
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^ Confused I don't know what you intended there, but the use of the sleepy smiley Sleepy seems just a little insulting to me.
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Originally posted by ProgShine ProgShine wrote:

There's a <SPAN id=result_ lang=en><SPAN>inexplicable force in, for example, listen to THAT album when you're travelling by bus to that place you really want to go.Or for example, you and your brother singing out loud with that cd in your car.Music's life and life is happening all around us. Stop seeing it as numbers and charts and let's have a better life,  Catcher10 (José) and rogerthat already agree with me.Cmon guys, let's ride the train of music LOL with no boundaries, that's Prog, not a format. Tongue</SPAN></SPAN>

How can I explain this? ... I don't see it as numbers and charts. I never have and I never will and my life is good enough thank you.

 

(I'm probably not being clear enough.)

 

Music is music. Technical specs are Technical specs. How things work is how things work. What you like is what you like.

 

The whole point of all of the numbers and charts and long-winded technical explanations that fly over the heads of non-technical people is to show that what people find to be "best" or "far superior" is NOT based upon science or numbers or charts, that it is simply a matter of personal likes and preferences. If you like the sound of music played through a digital system it is not because it is "better" and if you like the sound of music played through an analogue system it is not because it is "better" - it's just what you prefer. This is the only point I have been making since my first post in this thread on Page 1.

 

If you don't understand number and charts or how things work then there's nothing I can do about that but that's not a problem because it doesn't matter whether you do or not. If you don't like them then don't read them. If you like music for what it is without "hearing" the technology that supports it then science and technology has done its job, and the numbers and charts have proven their worth to those who do understand them, because the people who do understand them are the people who invent, design and build this stuff.

 

 


this statement Dean, that you made is absolutely right. There is no better or worse in this context between analogue and digital. It's a matter of preference or style. For me personally, Digital works best to my ears. I like a big bright dynamic sound and Digital sound formating/recording I feel does a better job. Scientificly it shows it does a better job with the use of frequency and wavelength graphs. This is why I'm a digital man, but at the same time I know that my sound preference is a bit subjective and I can't say that what I like is better definitively towards an analogue lover. Most importantly, we are all individuals and some of us hear things differently than others. Over the years I've had to take that into account not to step on anyone's toes. ;)
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Something came to my mind just now and I had to come back here to ask. To all of you.Let's say you're on your mom's house, auntie, neighbour, store, supermarket, whatever. One of your favorite songs/band starts to play on the radio or in the tv, a normal tv.You can't enjoy yourself and the moment with your favorite song because the audio is inferior??

Agreed. This is true. It will take away from the pleasure instantly. I'd feel like I'm literally missing out on what could and should be experienced in terms of audio quality. Quality audio is everything! And yes it's expensive, but in most cases incredibly worth it. Just watch what you buy in regards to amps and other players. Sound can be subjective



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Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

Analog played on a proper set up sounds much better. Richer, deeper bass, more realistic highs. 
These are subjective terms. I know that doesn't mean anything to you because they are all good and valid to you, but they have no universal meaning - my understanding and meaning of "more realistic" is not going to be the same as yours, or Tom's or Dick's or Harry's. Moreover, when I play the same pieces of music on the same set-up, (whether that is analogue or digital or some Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg/Storm Petersen contraption with an arrangement of levers, pumps, pulleys and Victorian ear-trumpets), to a dozen different people I will get a dozen different subjective opinions of what that all sounded like. So even when they use words like better, richer, deeper and more realistic that still does not necessarily imply they all mean the same things to all people. And if you cannot define those in words that everyone will agree with and agree to stick to when using them then what chance does anyone have of explaining what those differences in subjective opinion all mean.
Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

It's the job of science to explain why this is.. not to discredit and write off what mine and others ears hear so clearly as just preference. 
The only person who sees it as a discredit or who is seeing it as a write-off is you. If you say Neapolitan ice cream is better than vanilla then how is that am I discrediting Neapolitan ice cream if I say that it is not better, it is that just you prefer Neapolitan?
 
But if you say you believe Neapolitan ice cream is far superior to vanilla because it's made from three different ice creams which makes it three times bigger and I prove that isn't the case by showing that both vanilla and neapolitan are the same size, then I haven't discretitted or written-off your preference, just your misconception of why you believe it is far superior - you still prefer Neapolitan to vanilla - nothing has changed..
Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

I believe that GOOD science would explain this..  and if science cannot, then it is missing a key ingredient. It could be how the listener experiences analog vs digital in the body.
If it needs explaining by the application of "magic", (which is another name for this "missing key ingredient", that will turn your subjective opinion into indefatigable objective truth), then it is not science and it certainly isn't good science. If you can "experience" (another word for "sense") the difference between analogue and digital "in the body" then that is supernatural and paranormal and that does not require (or expect) science to explain it. If by any chance you thought that drawing around the edge of CD discs with a green pen made them sound better then that was magic, not science.
 
I have already explained that systems are different and provided graphs that show that. If we record the vanilla sound of a musical performance using a Starmax onboard ADC then we will get a vanilla flavoured sound recording. However, if we use a Otari MX80 @ 15ips (the blue line in the following graph)
 
...then what will the effect of the +2dB hump at 70Hz do to that vanilla sound? Will it boost those bass notes and make them deeper and richer or will it reduce them and make them thinner and weaker? (if you only ever answer one direct question in this thread then answer that one). What will the effect of the little 1dB dip at 150Hz have? Will it separate the bass notes from the rest of the music a little and make them sound a little more punchy, or will it muddle them up and make them less clear? Whatever the effect is, what it means is the sound is no longer vanilla. It's still vanilla from about 400Hz up, but below that it's Richer and Deeper and more chocolaty.
 
Similarly other characteristic performances of other pieces analogue equipment in the production chain will have their own affect on that vanilla sound, adding their own colourations and subtle enhancements that make it all sound much more pleasing to you. Perhaps there is some part of the process that is affecting the highs, (wherever they are or whatever they may be ... is that the top-note of a piano or the ring of a china cymbal or some inaudible supersonics... because all three of those are distinctly different in terms of where they exist on the frequency spectrum), adding some realistic notes to the vanilla sound like the freshness of real fresh strawberries.
 
But now what is coming out of your analogue set-up isn't the vanilla sound of the original musical performance you were trying to record - it's now got a nice richer deeper bottom layer, a smooth vanilla middle layer and a nice realistic top layer ... not unlike this:
And there is nothing wrong with Neapolitan ice cream if you prefer it.
Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

All I have heard here is that digital sampling of a sound wave should sound better than an unsampled sound wave being recorded.  It's simply illogical to say the least.
That's a strawman fallacy. No one has said that and certainly not I - that wouldn't just be illogical, it would be stupid, just as they would be illogical and stupid to say that an analogue recording of a sound wave should sound better than the sound wave being recorded.
Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

Are some CD recording devices better than others even though the "specs" say they sample at the same rate?
If it is just converting 1's and 0's at 44k 16 bit... does a direct feed into a Mac differ from a PC or the software being used, or if the interface if Protools or a Firepod?  Even if it is recorded at 24 bit, it must be dithered down to 16 to fit on a CD.  Does that not degrade the sound? It sure does.
Of course. No one here (or anywhere) is claiming otherwise, that would be a foolish thing to do.
 
All Analogue to Digital converters and all Digital to Analogue converters have transfer characteristics, just as every amplifier and every speaker has a transfer characteristic. We know what these are and we can measure them. A professional studio quality ADC that converts the audio signal into a series of data-words has a linearity that is measure in fractions of an LSB, this we can convert into an ideal THD value and we can compare that to the actual THD value we can measure from the device: professional audio ADC have ideal THD values approaching -150dB which when combined with the actual measured noise-floor give measurable values in the order of -87dB to -105dB - there is nothing secretive or hidden about those figures - all manufacturers publish them and anyone with the right equipment can measure them. And then design engineers put those ADCs into pcbs that will either become outboard studio quality samplers or into PC or MAC sound-cards that aren't quite so studio quality and the overall performance drops off a little more because of the quality of the analogue signal the feeds into them isn't quite as clean and good as it could be because the preamplifers aren't as good and the environment of the PC or MAC isn't as clean as the one in the outboard ADC box. And again there is nothing secretive or hidden about that. The degradations are in the analogue domain so they will affect the audio - this is inescapable.
 
But, what you are implying is all that is measurably worse than an equivalent analogue recorder, and I'm saying it isn't  ... I'm saying it most certainly has an effect, it's just not worse than analogue recorders and vinyl recordings. If you prefer the analogue and really don't like the digital then that is perfectly fine and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't like chocolate or strawberry ice cream.
 
Originally posted by Surrealist Surrealist wrote:

I have recorded enough music to know.
That's good then.
 
 
 
 
Now I've taken the time and effort to answer your questions and address your comments perhaps you would do me  the courtesy of answering just one of mine? Stern Smile


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Analog played on a proper set up sounds much better. Richer, deeper bass, more realistic highs.  It's the job of science to explain why this is.. not to discredit and write off what mine and others ears hear so clearly as just preference.  I believe that GOOD science would explain this..  and if science cannot, then it is missing a key ingredient. It could be how the listener experiences analog vs digital in the body.

All I have heard here is that digital sampling of a sound wave should sound better than an unsampled sound wave being recorded.  It's simply illogical to say the least.

Are some CD recording devices better than others even though the "specs" say they sample at the same rate?
If it is just converting 1's and 0's at 44k 16 bit... does a direct feed into a Mac differ from a PC or the software being used, or if the interface if Protools or a Firepod?  Even if it is recorded at 24 bit, it must be dithered down to 16 to fit on a CD. 
Does that not degrade the sound?  It sure does.  I have recorded enough music to know.
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