KVR Audio

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:31 pm

Sickle wrote: Maybe I need to start from scratch and redo this whole thing..

No need for that, but just to make sure I just downloaded it again with the same result

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:41 pm

I'm downloading this file from my server to inspect, and I'll upload an alternative 196kpbs or higher file as well.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:52 pm

256kbps CBR is uploading now. Double the file size, but if this doesn't sound good, then I have no business making tracks anymore..Same original link, but please wait 15 minutes before downloading again. All transients seemed to be intact aside from one particular spot where I hardlimited and compressed to pieces about 1/3 of the way in. File is also normailized to 0db.

Now, if I made an error in how I did that, I'd really like someone to let me know, as I have no intention of making someone wait under a long download for an improperly rendered audio file..

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:53 pm

using the vbr encoding of AA will return some strange readings in various media players ...
inspection of the file reveals 32 bit / 44.1 HZ despite what WMP and Winamp show while playing ...

i never use the vbr encoding , in AA ...
for mp3 , it's 320kbps , fixed rate , damn the file size ...

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:03 pm

What was that app that had the better LAME encoder..Excalibur, or some such? I keep learning this lesson over and over..

New 256kpbs file is ready for your consideration.

Buh-Bye, VBR crap..

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:12 pm

I still have no clue what the heck had happened but this sounds as it should, and such a difference it makes too.

forget about the energetic dynamics remark; it's here!

Sorry about the confusion possibly created

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:33 pm

mystahr wrote:forget about the energetic dynamics remark; it's here!

Good. You had me make a shitty in my pants for a sec.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:14 pm

Finally a chance to listen.

great work, of course. your mixing is really nice and the tones seemed to fit well.
this seemed the most narrative of the series, and I want to listen to them all in order now, as a set. Some of your pieces - the cathartic ones(?)- are a sustained primal note, singular in purpose and expression, but this has a direction to it I quite like, cinematic* and leading without being obvious.

*the image conjured for me was of a man in a lifejacket, ship sunk, alone at night in a rough pacific sea, flotsam drifting by as war continues on indifferent overhead.

thanks for offering this

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:59 pm

Cheers. I enjoy other's interpretations quite a bit.

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:49 am

Sickle wrote: I can't remember who the first one was dedicated to, it may have been xoxos, not sure

Well, despite the xoxos source material, the id3 tag on my copy says it was actually dedicated to dystonia_ek.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:09 pm

Voidoid Surrealist wrote:
Sickle wrote: I can't remember who the first one was dedicated to, it may have been xoxos, not sure
Well, despite the xoxos source material, the id3 tag on my copy says it was actually dedicated to dystonia_ek.

Oh yeah..there was that 'proof of concept' thing that he inadvertantly got under my nails with, eh?

God I'm such a burnout. Act I had many fathers, all equal.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:43 pm

Sickle wrote:Oh yeah..there was that 'proof of concept' thing that he inadvertantly got under my nails with, eh?

You mean this?

dystonia_ek wrote:For drone music, acoustics will always trump electronics, IMO. For proof of concept refer to any given Organum record.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:42 pm

shamann wrote:
Sickle wrote:Oh yeah..there was that 'proof of concept' thing that he inadvertantly got under my nails with, eh?
You mean this?

dystonia_ek wrote:For drone music, acoustics will always trump electronics, IMO. For proof of concept refer to any given Organum record.

Nope; t'was one of those nasty, sprawling, psuedo-intellectual thread monsters KVR's so famous for. James cut to the chase and basically p0wned everyone, me included(probably without intending to, of course).

It was the thread here that birthed the 'Achemaic Digitalis' section over at the Auditorium.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:55 pm

Sickle wrote:It was the thread here that birthed the 'Alchemaic Digitalis' section over at the Auditorium.

That was one of Rick's doings, if I recall. I kind of miss those punch-ups. There's these two (which are so similar they could be one):

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=124987

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=113861

But I don't think either birthed that forum. I'll have to go a-hunting.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:01 pm

Actually, I recant. It was in the first link that the alchemaic forum was born. Now to find the quote.

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