KVR Audio

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:41 pm

alvfaria wrote:This time I decided to not use Maximizer on the main out. This gave me a nice DR of 10. Of course the volume is a little lower than if I had used it, but I think it's pretty good still

Turn upi the volume knob of your speakers and feel the magic of a good DR value.

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Don't know if it's as a result of focusing on dynamics with the DR talk here, but the other day I actually got annoyed after having to listen to MTV that the woman leaves on when a song had no-let-up and just a straight wall of even and constant volume. The song was not really bad, it was the incessant sound that did it.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:38 pm

Use lots of compression and maximization in a track is like to have a big and confortable house entirely available to make a party, but ends to squeeze all the people only in the kitchen.

What is the sense in have 16 or 14 bits of dynamic range if you will put your song knocking at 0dB from start to end?

If you try to make a page on your text editor, you don't put all the text on Bold/Red/72 points.

Some words need to be big to get attention, but others no. Variation creates interest. Creates moments of tension and relaxing.

That's the reason why classical music NEEDS CD's with 16 bits of dynamic range. An Orchestra is a MONSTER of Dynamics. Popular music are in general, more "linear", but also gets advantages in having a comfortable space for dynamic variation.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:41 pm

waltercruz wrote:Na verdade, do Brasil!

Legal, tem uns brasileiros perdidos aqui no kvr.

Pois é! Não espero mesmo encontrar muitos. rs
Até agora, só conheci você, e o Willian, do Wusik.com.

Um abraço!

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:43 pm

And the sad news... After a power failure, my desktop PC has gone.

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:49 pm

alvfaria wrote:And the sad news... After a power failure, my desktop PC has gone.

Maybe only the power core, no?
Or the whole motherboard too?

Good luck with it, man.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:53 pm

Seems to be the motherboard, because the DVD driver opens and the lights turn on. But no BLEEP, no bios screen and none of the other "before windows" stuff shows up.

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:04 pm

Ouch, awful news with the computer but do try another power supply first.

alvfaria wrote:That's the reason why classical music NEEDS CD's with 16 bits of dynamic range. An Orchestra is a MONSTER of Dynamics. Popular music are in general, more "linear", but also gets advantages in having a comfortable space for dynamic variation.

Absolutely, but sometimes the difference between the quiet and loud parts and especially when it's combined with tempo changes in classical music is just too much in my opinion, like both the composer and conductor were manic depressives..

But of course DR here is more about the difference between peaks within parts more than the difference between parts themselves.

adagiocm · Post by **adagiocm** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:20 pm

alvfaria wrote:Seems to be the motherboard, because the DVD driver opens and the lights turn on. But no BLEEP, no bios screen and none of the other "before windows" stuff shows up.

It could still be the power supply, since it produces 5 different DC voltages, and only some of them might be fried. Take a peek at this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28115 ... wer-outage

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:26 pm

V'ger wrote:Ouch, awful news with the computer but do try another power supply first.

alvfaria wrote:That's the reason why classical music NEEDS CD's with 16 bits of dynamic range. An Orchestra is a MONSTER of Dynamics. Popular music are in general, more "linear", but also gets advantages in having a comfortable space for dynamic variation.
Absolutely, but sometimes the difference between the quiet and loud parts and especially when it's combined with tempo changes in classical music is just too much in my opinion, like both the composer and conductor were manic depressives..

But of course DR here is more about the difference between peaks within parts more than the difference between parts themselves.

You're righ!

DR is more about "let the peaks free" and that is the fun.

Is really pleasand to hear a snare or bass drum that hits 5 or 6 dB above everything.

Tthis is what makes the movies sound get their impact. They left room for things really "kick our butts" when it's necessary. Room to let the shotguns and bombs scream over the normal level of dialogs. If they put everything hiting hard at 0dB all the time, the whispered "I love you" and the "mega-giga-atomic-bomb-blowout" will just sound the same.

Boring...

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:32 pm

adagiocm wrote:
alvfaria wrote:Seems to be the motherboard, because the DVD driver opens and the lights turn on. But no BLEEP, no bios screen and none of the other "before windows" stuff shows up.
It could still be the power supply, since it produces 5 different DC voltages, and only some of them might be fried. Take a peek at this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28115 ... wer-outage

Thanks! Reading it now.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:48 pm

IrionDaRonin wrote: And now, something i wanted to share with all of you. A mad idea.

http://vimeo.com/49484255

More pics, here.

After see it, I had an interesting idea for a new vst synth. The problem is, I'm not a developer.

waltercruz · Post by **waltercruz** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:59 pm

alvfaria wrote:And the sad news... After a power failure, my desktop PC has gone.

my condolences.

jasinski · Post by **jasinski** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:13 am

If I remember correctly, this thread had something to do with submitting tracks for some kind of contest...

http://soundcloud.com/jasinski/jasinski-logos

I went in a very different direction this month in contrast to what I've contributed here in the past. Went back to my ambient roots...

Created with 26 tracks of Steinberg's Retrologue synthesizer composed and produced in Ableton Live 8, mixed using Live's native effects such as compressor, EQ8, Reverb, TAL-Dub-3, and TAL-Reverb-3.

Mastered using DCAMFreeComp, Ableton Tube Amp, Overtone GEQ, Limiter6.
DR:9

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:35 pm

Rules vote here

Please keep the discussion about the rules poll in the general discussion thread.

satYatunes · Post by **satYatunes** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:32 pm

My dear fellow OSCers, I need your help. Please see my other thread and let me know if I it's even an issue. If it is then how should I fix it. I have only a few hours left..

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 05#5077505

One-Synth-Challenge 44: Retrologue - Submissions and gossip