If you remember my question a while ago about crippling wavs so they sound bad at all
but the highest bitrates, this is a follow-up.
My band is recording its album in the near future. I know MP3 has its limitations, & I
thought it would be useful for the band from a business perspective if we messed with
the original recorded tracks to make so-called "CD-quality" MP3ing difficult.
The recorded tracks will probably consist of the following (maybe less, but no more)-
2 tracks for the kick drum (front & back)
2 tracks for the snare (top & bottom)
4 tracks for the toms (4 toms- one track for each)
1 track for the hi-hat
2 overhead mics (for the cymbals & room resonance)
4 tracks for the guitar (2x stereo)
1 or 2 tracks for the bass guitar (1x mono or stereo)
up to 4 tracks for vocals (1x stereo lead, up to 2 backups)
up to 4 tracks for keyboards (2x stereo)
up to 4 tracks for solo instruments (more if we get carried away & hire a 96-piece
orchestra :-)
The album will be a mix of ballads & rock songs. How do you guys suggest we do it?
Note that we'd like there to have no percievable difference between the original &
effected sound in the studio.
I decided that the MP3 encoding should be bad for the following combinations-
128kBit/sec - JStereo - 44.1kHz
112kBit/sec - JStereo - 44.1kHz
56kBit/sec - JStereo - 22.05kHz
I'd like to limit the subectivity of the word, "bad", to mean that it sounds
particularly nasty & unfaithful to people who are normally satisfied with sound
quality at those described bitrates.
But I'd like it to still sound perceivably lossless for 320kBit/sec - Stereo, 'cause
*I* would like to be able to make an MP3 of our stuff w/o having artifacts popping out
everywhere. But that doesn't really matter quite so much 'cause I could always get a
copy of the CD, mastered without the mangling.
Shawn
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