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Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
CD sales are down 20% since last year, which were already at the lowest point ever. This is likely due to P2P sharing of music, online sales at iTunes.com, puretracks.com etc. and the fact that there really hasn’t been anything good music released this year yet. The new Nine Inch Nails album is coming out soon, that should boost sales a little, but there is a rumor that it will be leaked online today.
I wonder what the sales are like for HDCDs and SACDs? 
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
A bit can either be a 0 or a 1. Think of it as a light switch, the light is either on or off. Add another to control the brightness, and another and another etc. 16 bits (216) gives you 65536 steps of quantization. 24 bits is 16777216 levels. Thats probably enough resolution, but then there is also 32 bit float. Audio formats have pretty much stopped here, no need to go higher than that, as most people can’t hear the difference between 16 and 24 bit, or 128 vs 320kbs .mp3!
This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night. Please correct me if I am wrong in my calculation.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Ah the 003, finally! …Right? Maybe not…
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
One of the biggest issues Protools LE users have to deal with is latency, whether it’s plugin latency or the delay heard when not using direct monitoring on an Mbox. What I will go though today is measuring the delay when using outboard gear, specifically with the Digi002, and what to do about it to correct the problem. This tutorial should be helpful for anyone that wants to use outboard gear in their computer based studio.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Blogs always do this, why should this one be any different? The bands on this list aren’t wicked underground, but are bands that have really impressed me in the past year with their latest releases.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
One of the hardest things to find is multi-track sessions of hit songs. Thats why I love NIN for showing the fans some love and releasing their songs ready to be remixed. On their previous album, they released The Hand That Feeds, and Only in various formats for fans to remix. The best remixes made it onto the remix CDs as part of a contest. This time around Trent Reznor has decided to release every song on Year Zero this way, and surely there will be some sort of contest to go along with it. The first release is Survivalism, and while its not an amazing song, it is interesting to see a little bit into what is under all that compression.
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