Best SQ Songs?Vocal?Bass?

[djjdnap 10+ year member]

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so u can really tell the diffrence

 

[Steven Kephart 10+ year member]

Originally posted by djjdnap i'm sorry to butt in but um IT doesn't really matter..

When you record a song you can record it as an mp3. or wav or whateva, mp3's are compressed but it's not that big of a diffrence. I could have a wave file and a mp3 file play them both and you wouldn't be able to tell the diffrence... Cd's are mostly recorded as wav files, but in the case of being compressed you could decompress a wav file even more, but it wouldn't work on your cd player nor could it be burnt to a cd, ok it could be burnt but a normal cd player wouldn't be able to read it...

But the file starts out as very large. So when you compress it, cutting it down to about 25% (depending on how much compression) of what it was, you are taking out information. Now it might not be information you can actually tell a difference right off the bat. For instance, if you aren't really familiar with the recording, you might not be able to tell the difference. But, for example, there are reflections recorded on the disc based on the size of room it was recorded in. On a properly setup system, you should be able to get a feel for that size room, and not sound like you are in a car. If this informaion is taken out, it probably would be very difficult to notice, especiall if you aren't familiar with the material as mentioned before. But it is gone, and if it were there, your experience would have been heightened all the more.

Now normally this isn't a big deal. But the thread was started as "best SQ songs", so I feel compressed music is not appropriate in this instance.

 

[evilsaint 10+ year member]

Stephen, when you compress a file, you are taking out redundant infomation, so you have no actual loss of quality if you de-compress it properly. I'll be ****ed if you can tell the difference between a burned copy of a cd and the original. Now if you're talking about the master copy.... that may be a different story.

 

[djjdnap 10+ year member]

room size huh, i record from my keyboard str8 to my cp, i use gold wave... Cant tell the diffrence between mp3 and wav

 

[goofballer 10+ year member]

Lil Kim ft. 50 Cent - Magic Stick

Huge bass, awesome song. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[AScreenName 10+ year member]

i had to read this for a report i did on the history of recording

mp3's don't have a shittier quality than a CD

so read up *****s

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp31.htm

the same process is used to burn an (edit) *audio file* to a CD and manufacture it as you burning a CD at home. and if you've kept up on how your favorite artists have been recording over at least the last 5 or so years, you'd know they're using digital recording techniques: which means the songs they record are transmitted onto a computer and the computer turns the information into an audio file. which are what you download. audio files.

so, do us all a favor and know what you're talking about before hand

 

[Terminator 10+ year member]

yeah he is right. sometimes you can actually make your own CD that sounds better than one you buy. most CDs are recorded at 192 kbps (i think) and ive downloaded songs at 320 kbps.

 

[BonusBobo 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Terminator yeah he is right. sometimes you can actually make your own CD that sounds better than one you buy. most CDs are recorded at 192 kbps (i think) and ive downloaded songs at 320 kbps.

you realize it is impossible to make data to fill 320 kbps from a 192 kbps song, right? you can convert it to 320, but it'll sound just like 192.

 

[Caraudiodude 10+ year member]

man i dont know if some of yall like them or not. but the ying yang twins have tons of bass! i mean a shit load. try the song.."say i yi yi"

 

[AScreenName 10+ year member]

i don't know if i said this yet

but for bass try "slow ya role" by c-loc and youngbleed. that song does NOT lay off the bass.

 

[Terminator 10+ year member]

Originally posted by BonusBobo you realize it is impossible to make data to fill 320 kbps from a 192 kbps song, right? you can convert it to 320, but it'll sound just like 192.

did you ever think that it would be made at 320 and not converted???

 

[BonusBobo 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Terminator did you ever think that it would be made at 320 and not converted???

I don't understand this. He said it was possible to rip a CD and make it sound better than it was recorded, which is untrue. You can make a 320 kbps file from 192 kbps, yes, but the algorithms will estimate the sounds the exact same way they would in a 192 kbps song, making the quality the exact same.

 

[Terminator 10+ year member]

i said nothing about ripping. i said download.

 

[zephyr 10+ year member]

back to the topic, how about pink floyd and dave matthews band. there's also a lot of good jazz recording you can find in kazaa (stanley clarke, mike phillips, larry carlton).

ps: go to http://www.telarc.com to download some good jazz, blues and classic recordings.

 

[evilsaint 10+ year member]

Terminator.... What Bobo is trying to say (I think), is that if the song, when it was originally recorded, was recorded at a 320KB/s bitrate, then you can change it to whatever other formats that you want to and it will remain 320KB/s (as long as you encode it correctly). If the song was originally recorded at a 192KB/s bitrate, then that's the highest bitrate that that song can be re-recorded at. Correct me if i'm wrong...