I've actually found the opposite to be true. Good acapella recordings, at least to my ears, are some of the first ones to reveal their poor source material. The human brain is very well suited to lo listening to the human voice.
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NoiseDesign - Sep 03, 2010 10:20:15 am PDT #14779 of 25501
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tommyrot - Sep 03, 2010 10:26:57 am PDT #14780 of 25501
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Huh. Maybe my ears are more attuned to non-human sounds.
So maybe a better example would be that a single monophonic instrument (say, a trumpet) would sound better at 128 kbps than a song with lots of instruments.
NoiseDesign - Sep 03, 2010 10:38:30 am PDT #14781 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Brass instrument another tricky one becuause it isn't just a single tone but really complex over tines going on. If they arennt done just right the. The sound is wrougng. It is on e of the reason that reasons that sampled brass libraries are so expensive when done right.
Sean K - Sep 03, 2010 10:54:16 am PDT #14782 of 25501
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And (Drew has personally hammered this into my head) it REALLY helps to listen to a high fidelity recording. Using most rock songs is bad for this kind of test, because most rock songs use so much distortion and whatnot to create their "wall of sound".
Hil R. - Sep 06, 2010 8:06:14 am PDT #14783 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm using a Mac and Firefox. Whenever I open a PDF file from a web site, it automatically saves to my desktop. How do I make it stop that?
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2010 8:14:59 am PDT #14784 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm using a Mac and Firefox. Whenever I open a PDF file from a web site, it automatically saves to my desktop. How do I make it stop that?
When you click on a link for a PDF, you don't get any dialog box at all? I get one that asks if I want to open it (and if so, with which application) or if I want to download it, and if so, where.
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2010 8:18:49 am PDT #14785 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hil, this might help: [link]
le nubian - Sep 06, 2010 9:15:54 am PDT #14786 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil R. - Sep 06, 2010 10:36:35 am PDT #14787 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thanks! That worked! (I was getting very sick of my desktop getting cluttered with every menu I looked at.)
Spidra Webster - Sep 06, 2010 10:37:39 am PDT #14788 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I wish restaurants would just put them up in HTML. I am SO SICK of PDF shovelcontent.