Skol303 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357632646' post='1925511'] Not necessarily, its a complex thing, but you certainly aren't getting what you would from something tracked at 96. Furthermore you arent giving the fx the extra fidelity (without their own upsampling) that upsampling everything to 96 outside of the DAW with sox would give either. Depends on what did the sample conversion to a very great deal. Not all DAWs are equal in this regard, one of the best tools is sox, and another is the Voxengo tool for up/down sampling - both free. Cant remember the site with all the numbers to prove this though, do a google search for it! [/quote] Cheers Si, that' useful to know. I'll be Googling SoX later and checking it out - thanks for tip off, never heard of it before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357638600' post='1925611'] Really? Why? Is it so hard to click download and playback the file locally then? [/quote] It's not that really mate [I don't think] I think it's that people [b]may[/b] take time out to listen to all the tracks, but then to down load larger files is even more time. If it's just the folk in the mix comp you expecting to vote, fair enough - But people not in the comp might find it tedious, and not bother. Just look at the Composing comp, some people are admitting that they just skip through, and that's just through streaming. I can hear through the Soundcloud [converted] files which ones stand out to my ears - I am not sure unconverted files will make that amount of a difference. I thought the art was to make things translate. Just my take and no offence meant, others will vary of course. Good luck to you guys. Edited January 8, 2013 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 Its a command line tool that originated in the Gnu Linux world. Its really not all that difficult to use, has versions for all platforms is free, and has a fairly complex set of possibilities. You will want to read the manual and get to the examples for up/down sampling Where it absolutely excels is file conversions, and being command line if you know your beans on your platform its easy to script it to do lots of files. It can do other stuff like normalisation and so on too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1357639493' post='1925635'] It's not that really mate [I don't think] I think it's that people [b]may[/b] take time out to listen to all the tracks, but then to down load larger files is even more time. If it's just the folk in the mix comp you expecting to vote, fair enough - But people not in the comp might find it tedious, and not bother. Just look at the Composing comp, some people are admitting that they just skip through, and that's just through streaming. I can hear through the Soundcloud [converted] files which ones stand out to my ears - I am not sure unconverted files will make that amount of a difference. I thought the art was to make things translate. Just my take and no offence meant, others will vary of course. Good luck to you guys. [/quote] To be honest I didnt think anyone would even notice what we were doing tucked away in the Recording forum. Its not unusual to sit here all on my own for a day watching tumbleweed go by, its only when I venture outside its comforting embrace into the lands of General Discussion and Off Topic that I get myself in trouble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357640367' post='1925655'] To be honest I didnt think anyone would even notice what we were doing tucked away in the Recording forum. Its not unusual to sit here all on my own for a day watching tumbleweed go by, its only when I venture outside its comforting embrace into the lands of General Discussion and Off Topic that I get myself in trouble [/quote] You will be amazed at some of the people who slither down to this little pit, Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifer Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Late to the party but I'll be having a go at this. Very interested in the K-metering, one thing that's always bugged about my mixes is that they feel a bit 'squashed' and reading the article about K-metering I can see why! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) looking for a free file host for the mp3 version of my mix... any ideas peeps? Edited January 8, 2013 by OldG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='OldG' timestamp='1357648655' post='1925877'] Ok, final tweaks and this time in downable mp3(224VBR) <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audioUrl=http://www.wikiupload.com/9I8 src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" width="400" height="27" quality="best"></embed> [url="http://www.wikiupload.com/9I8"]http://www.wikiupload.com/9I8[/url] [/quote] Link not working [for me] Like the way wikiupload says 'Share your files easily' Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 quick reply! see edit above... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) another failed try... I don't really want to use soundcloud for mp3's as I'm under the impressiion it will compress it again when I upload, I currently have the file on my ISP webspace but can't seem to link to it - any other suggestions? Edited January 8, 2013 by OldG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 OldG use sound cloud, its what we are all using, you can upload wav files as well for better quality i believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Thanks RS, I uploaded a mix to soundcloud in wav format previously. I didn't really want soundcloud to ''process'' my final mix render ( rendered to mp3 @ 224 VBR).... Anyways, Hobson's choice leads me to SC again - but it hasn't killed it totally, so here goes... [url="https://soundcloud.com/lucy-hastings/bc-mix-final"]https://soundcloud.c...gs/bc-mix-final[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 box.com or dropbox.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357661903' post='1926246'] box.com [/quote] Wish i knew about that when i was single. Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357561828' post='1924420'] I have no problems with people submitting revisions to their mix, or even whole new second mixes if you want. Go for it, but lets say submissions in by Monday 14th, and I'll do the poll thing that evening? [/quote] So after all that , we DO have a second chance , I will have another go if i get the opportunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 i keep seeing k-metering being mentioned.... is this something i should have done for this? or is a preference item? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I have downloaded it and put it as an effect on the master , I don't quite know what it is doing, but it is there . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 [url="https://soundcloud.com/#lurksalot/no-second-chance-again"]https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/no-second-chance-again[/url] I don't know if its any better in real life but it does a bit to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 [quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1357683201' post='1926834'] i keep seeing k-metering being mentioned.... is this something i should have done for this? or is a preference item? [/quote] I was hoping to try and prevent peoples judgement being swayed by the loudness of a track. I wasnt suggesting everyone go and set up a full k-metering system, but a true k-meter vst will have pretty rigourous definitions to follow on how it meters something allowing us to all get pretty much the same volume - it didnt work though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstriper Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 [quote name='charic' timestamp='1357636488' post='1925574'] I think it's a little unrealistic to expect people to download the tracks to listen (it's optimistic enough to expect many to listen to different variations of the same track several times) [/quote] They are big files to download, so I doubt most people will download them all. The option is good to have though, because it might be useful to download the 2 or 3 favourites for further appraisal after auditioning them on soundcloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Mines available for download now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 [quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1357686731' post='1926932'] [url="https://soundcloud.com/#lurksalot/no-second-chance-again"]https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/no-second-chance-again[/url] I don't know if its any better in real life but it does a bit to me [/quote] That diesnt seem to be the right url to me, it jsut goes to the front page of soundcloud - or am I being dense?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstriper Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357826717' post='1929054'] That diesnt seem to be the right url to me, it jsut goes to the front page of soundcloud - or am I being dense?? [/quote] I had the same problem when clicking the link, but it works fine if you copy and paste it. It must be the way it was entered via BCs link option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357826717' post='1929054'] That diesnt seem to be the right url to me, it jsut goes to the front page of soundcloud - or am I being dense?? [/quote] Lets see if [url="https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/no-second-chance-again"]this [/url]works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 yup the link in lurksalots original had a # in the url where as the copy pasted one didn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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