EB1000;582804 Wrote: > Thanks > > I know that some modernly mastered CD's' especially of cheap pop music > use too much dynamic compression in order to achieve higher volume > without clipping. I'm not talking about those cd's as I don't really > care about that kind of music. On the other hand, in order to utilized > the maximum dynamic range of a 16bit encoded audio, the cd's must be > mastered so that the highest peak reaches the full scale level of a > 16bit word' that is 0db reference. take for an example old dire straits > mastered in the late 80's. They have extremely low volume with much > wasted headroom, resulting an a dynamic rage equivalent of 15 or 14bit > recording. My reference CD's are believe it or not, all recent fully > digitally mastered Michael Jackson albums such as Dangerous and > History. These albums where recorded and mastered by one of the best > recording engineer/producer named Bruce Swedien who even won a Grammy > for some of work with MJ and Quincy Jones. So my question is can the > pre-edited gain tags be tweaked with any other software beside > Foobar2000?
MP3Tag lets you edit the RG tags by hand. The normal RG ref level is 89dB which is 15-bits... and is fine. Remember, if the track peaks below that, RG changes nothing. Ignoring highly compressed cr*p, you won't notice a difference in audio quality. The cr*p will still sound cr*p unfortunately... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82644 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
