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In Reply to: RE: Depends on what they did posted by Tony Lauck on March 12, 2012 at 13:40:38
"The reason for excessive compression is greed and ignorance."
I remember the old "Dyna flex" LP's ... awful, awful awful. MP3's sounded better. THink it has a similar root cause.
Agree that music loses something when compressed - but the "thwack" of a drum or some peaks are loud enough that I was wondering if a little compression would be "ok"
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"
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Do you mean "Dynagroove" which was a different process from Dyna Flex? I don't recall any Dyna Flex disks, but the Dynagrooves were horrible. Fortunately I only bought one with my own money.
It's OK to chop off one or two isolated peaks in a track if they are artifacts of multiple waves happening to roll in phase. (There are usually better ways of doing it than straight clipping.) If this is done with skill the result won't be audible and the rest of the track can be boosted. However, if the exact same processing is done repeatedly (e.g. on repeated drum hits) then the changes may be individually inaudible, but taking the track as a whole there will be degradation. It may manifest as a sense of unease or possibly as a conscious feeling that the recording is "unnatural".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"
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