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Last night I fired an email at Kubilay from @BlueSoho, asking if anything could be done to resolve mastering issues on three tracks from Soholand ("Mictlan", "The World I Know" and "Sunseeker" to be specific). I don't know if it was due to a glitch when they rendered them for the release or something, but these tracks are so badly over-compressed that they're almost unlistenable, and one of them has a 1-second gap during the best part. Which really sucks as "Mictlan" is one of the best tracks on the compilation by a longshot.
(If anyone from @BlueSoho sees this and wants further details, please PM me)
Wow, that's. . . badOriginally Posted by Altair
Last night I fired an email at Kubilay from @BlueSoho, asking if anything could be done to resolve mastering issues on three tracks from Soholand ("Mictlan", "The World I Know" and "Sunseeker" to be specific). I don't know if it was due to a glitch when they rendered them for the release or something, but these tracks are so badly over-compressed that they're almost unlistenable, and one of them has a 1-second gap during the best part. Which really sucks as "Mictlan" is one of the best tracks on the compilation by a longshot.
(If anyone from @BlueSoho sees this and wants further details, please PM meOvercompressed almost seems a rule nowadays but a one second gap. . . . .
I can imagine they'd let the artists do the mastering and didn't check the end result good enough, but that's just guessing
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I don't think it was the artists. If you listen to the promo videos of those tracks that were posted back in 2012 on YouTube and compare them with the final result you can see that the original masters were much better. It isn't just your standard overcompression - it's every damn beat clipping so hard that you can hear it audibly distort (and in the case of "Mictlan" it's even distorted during a mellow section of the break). The waveforms look like dynamic-less bricks. Like, Blue Soho may not have had the most professional history as a label but the music they put out isn't intentionally rendered/mastered to sound like shit. And that's only three tracks out of the four discs on that comp. So this has to be some kind of mistake.Wow, that's. . . bad
I can imagine they'd let the artists do the mastering and didn't check the end result good enough, but that's just guessing
Last edited by Altair; 11-11-2015 at 18:49 PM.
The only thing that's been on my mind is Excel and learning all of its advanced functions and learning VBA...For the last couple of months, I've not had a life...Have not gone out ONE single day in months due to my studying...I am hoping that by Lumi Beach, this will all be over and I can have a life again....
What? How are you able to pay for groceries? Cant use paypal for that.
Old Skool Trance FTW!!!
Just a normal payment card
And now I have another problem..... At first attempt it gave me an error message that the payment couldn't succeed and after the 2nd it worked....
But when I checked my PayPal account it said that I paid twice
Oh yeah, bank card. I sometimes Mix them up. Ah, that sucks.Just a normal payment card
And now I have another problem..... At first attempt it gave me an error message that the payment couldn't succeed and after the 2nd it worked....
But when I checked my PayPal account it said that I paid twice
Old Skool Trance FTW!!!
Home again after 2 weeks. Internet, everything cooked, everything clean, no worries. I get to walk my dog, play with my niece, visit my sisters, maybe even get together with friends and smoke some herbs.
Last weekend was amazing, hanging out with two of my friends,all the time, going wherever we could, clubbing... Happens once in a while, but when it does it's amazing. I've also been playing some basketball, going to intense trainings, also swimming. Really feeling good at the moment, I just need to improve my studying, find m'self a woman and that's it!
Hearing about what's going down in Paris. Mère de Dieu - are all the Frenchies on this forum okay??
Last edited by Altair; 11-14-2015 at 01:39 AM.
Yeah.. All over the news here.Hearing about what's going down in Paris. Mère de Dieu - are all the Frenchies on this forum okay??
Terrible, just terrible.
Moments like these actually show me the good sides of not having internet at my place - coloring the Facebook profile photos, everybody saying they're praying for the victims, not to mention the countless conspiracy theorists etc. - all for likes. And after most of the people (at least here) press "Post", they go to jerk off to Lisa Ann in their underwear and slippers. I have a giant cynic inside myself, I know, but my point is that most of the posts are published just because of self-interest (likes, and "oh I'm so open and mindful, look at me!"), and have no actual significance, they don't help anyone ("Oh no, my son got killed, I'm so sad! But look, one girl from Serbia posted she's praying for Paris, now I'm all better!"). This picture sums it up.
Disclaimer: Of course you feel bad when something like this happens, I do. Of course this is the fucked up world we're living in (and that's what I get the most). But why post it? What does anyone get with that? It's not like you're donating some money, or fighting the terror. That's what I can't comprehend. Feel free to explain it to me, I admit I may be viewing this wrong.
Disclaimer #2: Counts only for most of the generic posts on the biggest social networks. Generic posts include:
1. Profile photos in blue-white-red
2. #PrayForParis
3. Peace/Eiffel tower picture (if I can recall it) etc.
I understand where you're coming from but in my experience cynicism will only bring you down even if you think you are right in thinking so/feeling that way! It's a very destructive tool that at one time almost consumed me. The problem is you feel completely justified in thinking that way, but you don't realise (at least I didn't at the time) how much it drains you, sucks the life out of you. It's better to either just ignore it or try to look at it from a different, much more positive, perspective. Trust me it's not just self-interest, I'm sure lots of people actually feel compassion and are just trying to share it in the ways they see fit. And isn't that a beautiful thing? Togetherness in the face of horror. At least that's how I feel about something like this right now and I can tell you I feel much happier than back when I was thinking more alongside the lines you've described here.
Of course this is all just projection from my part, the reason I posted this is because your post reminds me a lot about myself from a few years back.If you were my younger self the above is what I would tell you haha.
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Gagi (11-14-2015)
I either just ignore it or make a rant and that's it! Just taking it off my mind. It's not consuming me, but I understand that the whole view is not very good for me. There was a time in the near past that was a bit worse, when it was affecting my personal life and my friendships, but that time's over now. And yeah, you're absolutely right.I understand where you're coming from but in my experience cynicism will only bring you down even if you think you are right in thinking so/feeling that way! It's a very destructive tool that at one time almost consumed me. The problem is you feel completely justified in thinking that way, but you don't realise (at least I didn't at the time) how much it drains you, sucks the life out of you. It's better to either just ignore it or try to look at it from a different, much more positive, perspective. Trust me it's not just self-interest, I'm sure lots of people actually feel compassion and are just trying to share it in the ways they see fit. And isn't that a beautiful thing? Togetherness in the face of horror. At least that's how I feel about something like this right now and I can tell you I feel much happier than back when I was thinking more alongside the lines you've described here.
Of course this is all just projection from my part, the reason I posted this is because your post reminds me a lot about myself from a few years back.
Never seen so many pissed off people on Facebook last night cause Ronda Rousey lost her fight against Holly Holm.
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