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Post by mattchew on Nov 17, 2009 22:54:57 GMT
Thanks blade. Thanks ledjarde, good recording.
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Post by mattchew on Nov 22, 2009 9:12:51 GMT
Hey guys, here's only a snippet of a recording from the Coldplay tour that somebody from a chat room sent to me claiming that they had recorded the show in Cincinnati. I guess they were right. Now I'm going to see if I can get more out of him. www.megaupload.com/?d=EUX8TL4S
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Post by blade on Nov 23, 2009 21:40:12 GMT
Sounds good - you must get more!
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Post by mattchew on Nov 24, 2009 0:22:35 GMT
blade, you never told me how you like the birmingham gig that I remastered. Can you tell any improvment in the balance of it?Also, I know you were having some difficulty in figuring out how to burn flac files and I offered you some help with. Did you fingure that out? ;D
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Post by mattchew on Nov 24, 2009 0:45:37 GMT
Sounds good - you must get more! Yeah, I know.....but he was bein' real aggy with me. I don't know, it always seems like there's always gonna be somebody that has a hair up their ass about somethin'. You know what I mean?
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Post by blade on Nov 24, 2009 22:39:01 GMT
Yes, sorry, I forgot to say thanx for that flac recording. I could tell a difference, but to be honest, not much. Either my ears are not finely enough attuned or my hi-fi is too cheap!
Anyway, I've kept the flac version to play on the home system and the mp3 version for the car.
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Post by mattchew on Nov 25, 2009 2:08:19 GMT
Man, if you can't "honestly" hear a difference between the two than I don't know what to tell ya. I bet if the band heard the before and after they would most likely say your crazy. I believe the numbers I used were a 7.9 db increase at 20 khz, somewhere around -14db!!! in the middle of the board, and 7.0db at 20k. So that's a world of difference sonically between the two. I also want to say this, that conversion to mp3 of live recordings is a no-no. You want to maintain as much of the original fidelity as possible. I'm not saying that so I can sound all technically astute and toot my own horn or try to belittle you or anything like that, that's not in my character, I'm just stating facts. That's why I was saying that if we could get the original taper to not EQ at all or re-EQ somewhere close to those specs, that would be cool. Because I remember you provided his lineage information in your post and it said that he had amplified it, so most likely the recording was quiet and he changed the balance of it by pushing up different bars on the board or did a traditional amplification where he just increased the volume by a half a percent or so. To me it sounds more like he was messing with the board levels though. As well I want to air out some dirty laundry. I've noticed the tone of your posts for me seem to have a negative attitude towards me, or a jealousness or whatever you want to call it, blade. I don't know if it's coz I'm from the United States or it's because you didn't like my captions or what, I don't know what your problem is. But I didn't do anything to you, so basically **** off if you got a problem, keep that shit to yourself. Just because I like the band too doesn't make it right for you to sit there and be pissy behind your computer at me if I know a certain date or found out a little tidbit of information that you hadn't heard yet.
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Post by blade on Nov 25, 2009 9:57:21 GMT
I've never been slagged off before - whatever I said to upset you I apologise for it as it was never intended.
I just don't understand anything about EQ and dB and sound engineering, which is my problem, not yours. I'd never heard of flac files until I downloaded that torrent and if I've committed a crime converting them to mp3 I apologise again. There are two reasons I did so: (1) it makes the file size much smaller for uploading/downloading, so it can be downloaded in half an hour rather than the week it took me to download from the torrent site; (2) I didn't know how to burn flac files to CD, but I know now - thank you to you.
And that business about the session in June was just a misunderstanding. I thought you were talking about photos on the HB Facebook page when you were actually talking about the SpotlightTV Facebook page.
I hope none of this has put you off because your contributions are gratefully received.
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Post by mattchew on Nov 26, 2009 2:31:35 GMT
My feeling is, it's not healthy to suppress emotions, so it's better to let the feelings you have inside you, out. I agree with that to a point. I'm not sayin' that people should be out letting their true racial feelings or sexual thoughts be known or anything like that. In a situation like this it's necessary, coz otherwise people would be pulling their hair out and walking around in their own life giving people the skunk-eye, because somebody over the internet that they don't even know has gotten to them for some odd unknown reason and is now they're target of rage. For something that is a nothing,something so unnecessary that it can be labeled pathetic. I'm not so naive to think that just because it's the internet people now put away all their emotions. Words typed over the internet still have feelings and intentions behind them. You know when somebody is being sardonic, or clever, or is saying something in a certain way. If my thinking was a mistake than I too apologize. I've never had a problem with you, blade, other than I thought for some reason you apparently didn't like me. But as far as I'm concerned now, that's over and done with, so I'd like to forget and move on. I like the band, that's why I come here. I don't come here to rub people the wrong way. To do so would just be a waste of time in my opinion...now all I have to do is come through with that "Cincinnati" recording.
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Post by mattchew on Nov 26, 2009 2:59:22 GMT
Oh, and I forgot. I also want to say that I think you've done a very good job with the wikipedia page. It's got everything there, alot of good information and reading. It must have been painstaking to track everything down like that. I'm quite sure the band appreciates the time and the effort you put into making such a great page for them.
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Post by blade on Nov 26, 2009 12:08:13 GMT
Glad we've smoothed that over. And thanks for your kind words about the Wiki page. I've done it bit by bit over a few months and added to it whenever I've found something interesting.
And it'd be marvellous if you could track down the rest of that gig.
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Post by velvetgirl on Nov 29, 2009 16:39:20 GMT
Glad you got along with everything guys Well I also don't have much clue about audio stuff but I agree to some extent that flac files sound better than mp3s in general because you can hear more instruments and depths in the songs. However it depends also on the source you've taken them from. If the source is bad the flacs will not sound better they only take more disk space. I always transformed flac files into wav to burn them on cd. For the computer flac is better because it does not take that much disk space than wav files.
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Post by mattchew on Nov 29, 2009 23:51:22 GMT
Glad you got along with everything guys Well I also don't have much clue about audio stuff but I agree to some extent that flac files sound better than mp3s in general because you can hear more instruments and depths in the songs. However it depends also on the source you've taken them from. If the source is bad the flacs will not sound better they only take more disk space. I always transformed flac files into wav to burn them on cd. For the computer flac is better because it does not take that much disk space than wav files. I've really just learned a minimal amount about audio just by trial and error and learning from my mistakes. I used to burn wav files to cd too, until for some reason my stereo had trouble playing them anymore, so then I suspose I preferred flac.
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