Bit questions

[Sip]

Should I be recording in 32 bit? What about background mixing and mixdowns?

[jecahn]

Yes, you should be recording in 32 bit. There have been discussion on the advantages of 32 bit on these boards and I seem to remember seeing one on prorec as well. I have a really good magazine article about just how 32 bit works. It does a great job of explaining it. I wasn't a 32bit believer. But once I tried it I became a convert. I'll never go back!

[Sip]

Okay, I should be recording in 32 bit. Under the settings tab in cep, should I be mixing in 32 bit as well? What about the mixdown setting? To burn to cd, I have to have my mixdowns at 16 bit don't I?

[ears]

Sip,

Record and mixdown in 32 bits, save a copy, and then dither down to 16 bits 44.1khz for printing to audio CDs. There's some great dithering algorithms built into CEP. Read the 1.2a update manual. Good luck.

[Latin-Macho]

beetlefan
Member posted 10-21-2001 06:35 AM
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1) Trolls like "Latin-Macho"
2) High-schoolers and college idiots with too much time on their hands

3) Warez peddlers

This place has been a circus for the last year.

[This message has been edited by beetlefan (edited 10-21-2001).]


Sonic Valley
Moderator posted 10-21-2001 07:57 AM
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I agree...

Whoopysnorp
Member posted 10-21-2001 08:52 AM
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What's a 'collage' idiot? I know nothing about collages.
But seriously, I'm in college, man. You hurt me!


beetlefan
Member posted 10-21-2001 10:37 AM
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I'm in college too, but you know what I mean...

Whoopysnorp
Member posted 10-21-2001 03:13 PM
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Yeah, I get you. Just funnin' wit'cha.

duane
Member posted 10-21-2001 04:44 PM
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Originally posted by Sonic Valley:
I agree...
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Your name has the word moderator next to it. Do you have any responsibilities as the moderator? Hanging the nomenclature "troll" on Latin-Mucho is a discredit to all trolls. Why aren't those kind of posts removed or at least locked. These are common functions to other Ultimate Bulletin Board powered forums that are moderated. It keeps the signal to noise at a reasonable level and it would separate this forum from the swill over on the alt newsgroups.


quote:
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Originally posted by beetlefan:
This place has been a circus for the last year.
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I’m a longtime lurker of this forum from when it started on Pixelite. I agree with Beetlefan, this isn’t what it used to be. I’ve checked out Syntrillium’s own version of this forum and I feel that it’s frequented more by beginners. When informed conversation breaks out here I feel more at home. Still, someone needs to be at the steering wheel keeping things inline. I tried to keep my previous posts’ topic centered on audio software, but boy there was a lot of extraneous garbage. I’m shocked but something tells me I shouldn’t be.
Duane



resistor man
Member posted 10-21-2001 11:14 PM
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Really, Sonic Valley, if you don't start using the delete key now and then, this forum will die. It's already pretty withered.

DS_Sultan
Member posted 10-22-2001 05:59 AM
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If you all note, Sonic Valley is NOT the moderator of this forum. Syntrillium is. Sonic is the moderator of the Air Check forum. So asking him to delete posts here will go on deaf fingers.

Ben
Member posted 10-22-2001 06:36 AM
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Well, I think if a new version of the software was released, we might all have something to talk about!
As it is, CEP 1.n has been out for years now and I think people who know what they're doing having pretty much explored all the possibilites. Some of them, myself included, may have moved on to other software...

Ben


duane
Member posted 10-22-2001 08:00 PM
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Originally posted by DS_Sultan:
If you all note, Sonic Valley is NOT the moderator of this forum.
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Well that explains why then. Sorry Sonic Valley. Has Syntrillium left this forum for a few bad apples to ruin it? That's too bad.

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Originally posted by Ben:
As it is, CEP 1.n has been out for years now and I think people who know what they're doing having pretty much explored all the possibilites.
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Ouch, I think there's a grain of truth to that.

Duane



Sonic Valley
Moderator posted 10-23-2001 04:28 AM
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Yupp...DS got it right. If we had these little piss fights in the Air Check forum I could have more control. I've asked Chris Puram the dude who runs this place for moderation over other forums but no go...so the tag by my name means jack shyte. I'll be talking to Chris again soon and see what can be done to clean this place up. Frankly I'm disgusted with the rep this place is getting.

Whoopysnorp
Member posted 10-23-2001 07:22 PM
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You think there's a troll problem here? You should check out alt.fan.frank-zappa. It's terrible. So far this forum is still sound enough for me to enjoy visiting it daily.

lamvtha
New Member posted 10-23-2001 08:06 PM
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Beatlefan, as one who appreciates appropriate comment,
I can't ignore your post. Although an occasional visitor
here, I've been a member of two other interest groups
and they also seem to have gone in the direction you
are regreting.
Circus? Well I've been to a couple and they all had at
least three things in common: elephants, clowns and a
freak show. Elephants are slow, clumsy and they crap
constantly, so they are followed everywhere by people
whose job it is to clean up after them. Clowns? Wow,
how tempting it is to point and laugh! A freak show?
No comment needed.

Most people who have two or more uncooked brain cells
have probably asked themselves why EVERY method of
human communication has to be turned to trivial tripe
and vapid idiocy. Apparently Sturgeon's law holds on
the net as it does most everywhere else: "Seventy-eight
percent of everything is **** ."

But hey, let'em piss in their beer; they're the ones
who'll wonder why it tastes funny. None of the rest of
us have to drink it.

Ignore the geef (plural of goof). Kick off your shoes,
mix a drink, have another listen to a couple of year-old
projects.

It's still kind of amazing what you can do with talent
and some hard work, ain't it?



rxfudd
Member posted 10-26-2001 01:06 AM
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You know, it's funny...I check up on these forums about once a month and it keeps getting worse. The last time I remember seeing intelligent conversations going on was in July of last year. Since then, it has been either dead quite or infested with idiocy.
My theory is that once CEP2 comes out, things will return back to normal (i.e. how they were 2 years ago or so). Everything that can possibly be discussed about CEP1.x has been discussed. There are very few new tricks up anyone's sleeves and the only new questions are ones which could be answered with a quick search of the archives. This amounts to about 5-6 posts a day in here. As soon as the new CEP arrives, there will probably be a surge in posts (I hope). And with many people who have lots to say about the subject matter at hand (audio recording), trolls will not have as much fun posting. And the dilution factor (1 troll post/6 real posts now compared to 1 troll post/60 real posts later) should work to our advantage as well.

Beetlefan, what do you study? I graduate from U of IL in less than 6 months. Then med school next fall. Ugh...


DCO
Member posted 10-26-2001 06:07 AM
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Hopefully SOMEONE....ANYONE will start to moderate this forum. If it was truely moderated, this jerk "Latin Macho" would be barred, case closed.
This forum is very valuable to me (any many other musicians/audiophiles) and it's worth more then any book, video, or CD on recording audio.Most of us can figure out 90% to 95% of how to use recording hardware and software from reading the manuals, but forums like this one help answer the 5% uncertianty that comes up now and then.
It worries me to see someone like Beetlefan , who is one of the major posters here for years, actually say that he doesn't even want to come here much anymore because of the nonsense that's been posted.If the knowledgable contributers all leave this forum, we're screwed.
The guys with moderate experience and knowledge can always advise the beginners, (and I try to offer advise to beginners as often as possible), but its the pros who are the backbone of this forum, and if they leave, the guys with moderate knowledge can't get help with in deepth and complex issues. Which then will cause them to leave also, leaving only the beginners - and a bunch of beginners asking questions of each other won't achieve anything.
Lets try to get the moderator problem settled so we can discuss more important issues....like my post (which I'm about to upload)regarding WDM drivers.
DCO (formally Guitardog)
God Bless America

[jdechant]

and the point of that reply Latin-Macho?? to prove to us you can use the copy and paste functions?? you want a cookie for your hard work or something there??