BerenstainsMonster

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Reverb can be used for lots of purposes. As you say, it simulates reverberations a physical space.

Short, natural-sounding reverb can be used to blend tracks together. If two instruments need to sound like they were recorded in the same room, do it virtually.

As others have written, longer, natural reverbs can create a perception of size. You can make a vocalist sound like sang in a concert hall or a church or a bar.

Sometimes reverb may be used to impart tone, evoke a vintage. A spring reverb has different cultural associations than a Lexicon. Some reverbs' modal resonances highlight certain frequencies.

Long reverbs can be used to increase sustain of an instrument. Every ambient guitarist in the world is familiar with this.

What reverb means in a piece is for the artist and listener to interpret.

 

Especially for recording vocalists, I've found it much easier to mix dynamic mics. Dynamic mics don't often get the praise they're due.

Condenser mics are more expensive to build, so they are regarded as more expensive-sounding, which hasn't been 1:1 in my experience. I find that a 57 sounds better than most budget condenser mics. I think they're a much better bang for the buck.

What do you think?

 

In which Dan examines the oft repeated advice to "only dither once" and attempts to show why this should be "only dither to 16 bits once".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you talking about something like Soothe or SplitEQ? There are certain spectral effects that can remove the tonal characteristics from a sound, leaving only the nontonal aspects. E.g. on a piano, you'd only hear the unpitched, percussive hammer and key sounds.

Here's a FOSS alternative for Soothe. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2024/03/03/nih-plug-spectral-compressor/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The better way to thwart republicans: take away their memes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who is the artist behind this work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Suno CEO doesn't even know what tuning an 808 means.

 

This is a neat demonstration of how low-pass filters affect D/A converters. Might mess around and try to replicate this test.

 

Does a sitar bridge effectively clip the waveform of the string? It certainly adds new harmonics.

I had a friend say it's more like the string being plucked or re-excited, inharmonically in this case.

Might this be like feedback?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I hear people are doing such dishonest things as flooding the ICE Tip Form with false leads.

The fools. Hope they've got a VPN, or whatever it is they need to stay anonymous and untraceable.

 

A purely theoretical example of how easy it is to automatically spam up government snitch lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Based on my experience, there shouldn't be any difference between distributing a long song vs. a short one. You may not have come across them in the wild because algorithms, like radio, tend to favor 3-4 min songs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Pretty neat IMO (though I'm not a Bitwig user). They really seem to be upping the ante as an Ableton alternative.

Stuff like this makes me think this may one day become classic, historical gear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Still amazes me to this day that they were able to render such a faraway horse in 128-bit...

I think there was a ROM hack that solved this floating-point error. If I can find it, will post link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I appreciate it. I always thought Deezer was just a streaming platform like Spotify.

Also, dang, surprised so many downvotes for my original comment lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work part time as an audio producer. Converting MP3 to FLAC is like trying to upscale an image: you can use all the fancy algos to repair loss, but it's still lossy.

 

I've been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don't have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn't available. Can you recommend good places to get started?

 
 

Mikey Shulman, CEO of AI music generation startup Suno, actually thinks people don’t enjoy making music anymore. “It’s not really enjoyable to make music now,” according to him.

 

Multiple officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages after more than 15 months of war.

 

I've been pondering ways to run my guitar through VCV Rack or Cardinal, and of course Sarah Belle Reid had this inspiring demonstration.

 

Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don't enjoy the "majority of time" making music.

 
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