If I can easily hear the difference in my monitoring environment which costs less than $1000, how did most of the world buy this lie.
How the music industry ever got the entire world to buy into the lie that High Quality MP3's are equivalent to the CD, beats me. And I know a good many including seasoned musicians who happily buy the commercial mp3's exclusively, by default. I've always been suspect of the commercial mp3 equivalence with CD's and have never paid for an mp3 for this reason, never bought one - preferring to listen to the CD's. Never knew MP3 conversion could add a bit of saturation! Even though I was well aware that this was not an authentic representation of the source. I dare to even use the W word - warmer - yes. Strangely - after a few listens I ended up preferring the MP3 version option I had settled on, via Razorlame, over the original wav file - that slight brightness was quite pleasing, and obviously some distortion - albeit pleasing had been added to the audio, giving a bit of what soldiers would call, from the terminology of polishing boots - a bit of spit and polish - a glossier version. I ended up preferring a set of options using Razorlame which did not take too much away from the low end, but maintained and did not overly exaggerate the brightness and dynamics. I "developed" a few presets in Razorlame, which should cover most future needs. I tried it out and am definitely happier with the ease with which I can choose conversion options.Īll the options, tended to take away some of the bottom end, usually becoming overall brighter than the source wav file. Thanks also for your pointer on Razorlame. wav track into Reaper, to ensure it nulls (I make the assumption that a phase reverse is applied to the rendered track after importing to achieve the null).
If you are aware of which plugins do this then you may just have to use the type of rendering that works best for those.ĭomThanks - I love your idea about bring the.
#Razorlame mp3 encoder Offline#
I usually use offline for ITB only processing but always bring the rendered file back into the project and make sure it nulls with the track I rendered from (I can't remember it ever not nulling).