philblackpool
gamelanstep
Need that guy Rashad Becker on the case X-D
Hmm, not very encouraging.
This might be a stupid question but with your glitch ridden CD could you just loop the parts that work well and scrap the rest- as a worst case scenario. One of the unintended advantages of the eight bar structure is that with a worn out twelve you can rip the crackle free 16 bars and just loop it ad infinitum.
That is something I've always wondered about- presumably most producers are hopeless at mastering. And do you reckon the likes of Radio 1 have in house masterers to make their shows full of CDRs sound good? That would explain why certain tracks sound great on the radio but crap elsewhere.
The EP of old stuff I want to put is on a CD that the producer. That CD is 8 years old though, scratched and has digital glitches. If I can copy it off direct to a desktop so the glitches go (for some reason they show up more when you rip it to itunes)...
Does anyone know if you can check a file and see if its a WAV or mp3 from the waveform?
I'd use EAC to rip it off the CD http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
It's quite a hassle to set up properly but if you do all the steps it does what it says on the tin and gives you a exact copy of the wav.
Yeah it's really easy with a spectral analyser, mp3's have an obvious cut off above a certain frequency, 16khz I think, though it's been ages since I've checked. You can even take a pretty good guess at what bitrate it was encoded at if it was an mp3. http://spek.cc/ is free and looks like it would do the job, though I've never used it personally.
Yeah, he couldn't find the WAVs for loads of them for the Wiley CD
Think there are 4 of my records on the Ruff Sqwad CD, again the WAVs just couldn't be found. The vinyl got ripped at a professional place so they sound pretty good though