Often when we lack the highend in a sound, we are tempted to grab a shelf and boost from 10K onwards or use fancy βairβ plugins. Most of what we are perceiving as βhighsβ resides actually under 10K, usually 8k is a sweet spot for many elements.
Depending on the context (type of instrument or single track vs submix/group) instead of using a high shelf starting at 10K, try using one but starting at 1K-ish, with low Q value (so is very smoothly lifting up). Or a wide bell at 6-8k to reach from 1k to about 10-12k.
Then check with a bell (one octave Q) the 6k, 8k and 10k and listen which one is bringing better separation, character and presence for the respective sound.
Always eq with the entire song playing (not in solo). If everything is right up to 10K, the βairβ usually falls nicely in place.
Finally, sometimes a little βairβ is needed. Most of the time a stock eq will do fine. There is pro-q, or free alternatives from Tokyodawn Labs, no need for bax or other expensive plugs.
As usual, use your ears. If 1 dB is needed, go with that. If 10-18 dBs are needed, donβt be afraid to push that far (an eq with autogain function helps, otherwise compensate with a gain plugin).
Alwayes listen. Ear training is a neverending learning. Cheers!
Until today, I have been recording at 44.1 and 48 kHz (you know, music and video purposes). Is there an improve to sound or mixing if you record at higher samples rates? I mean, I can hear the difference in DAW but probably you are going to convert down the result later.
So for a interface to a resolver I need 3 PWM signals of high speed. 400 Khz from a 50 MHz clock. I have never worked with high frequency PWM:s before-
It all depends on the resolution of the duty cycle of course. Do I do this math correctly.
Say I want 8 bit resolution from a 50 Mhz clock. That gives me
F_PWM = 50 Mhz / 2^8
F_PWM = 50 Mhz / 256
195 khz would be the fastest PWM then. And even at 7 bit it would be only 390 khz. So I would need to go down to 6 bit resolution and get 780 khz max frequency.
Β¨I will try to do this first on a Cyclone 10 LP Development Kit but the design in the end will be similar. Can I use the PLL in the Cyclone 10 LP to create a faster clock for the PWM generator?
A comparison of Patricia Barber's album Clique! in various formats including DXD files (stereo 24/352.8 and 5.1 in 24/352.8), Qobuz Hi-Res (24/176.4) and Tidal Master streaming versions, and the CD MQA which allows to push the limits on the CD support.
https://preview.redd.it/xl8resh8k8d81.jpg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17945c4567f242b83a53106352201f0a0c8173d7
This audiophile album was recorded by Jim Anderson in DXD ultra-high resolution (32bit/ 352.8 kHz) with Pyramix system and Horus audio interface, mixed in stereo and 5.1 by Anderson at Skywalker Sound and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering.
You can find the comparison with measurements (DR, Spectrum, waveform...) and samples on https://magicvinyldigital.net/2021/08/06/patricia-barber-clique-review-dxd-2-0-dxd-5-1/
I use it often as an EQ technique but am not sure how it works. I know it's the pinna notch region on open-backs and that closed-backs known for slam sometimes have a similar one around 5 kHz.
e: Also, I noticed that planars and QDC-like IEMs often have a corresponding dip at the half-harmonic and that it correlates strongly with perceived staging depth. Is this an accurate representation of the acoustic ear interactions that occur when listening to live music from far away?
I am working on a problem where I need to generate 48 kHz stereo (2 channels) audio samples of about 5-10 seconds long based on an existing dataset (~800).
I have the following issues:
- The input audio is of varying lengths. I get around this by padding the samples to the length of the largest. For example, if the samples range from 1 - 10 seconds I pad them all with zeroes so they are all 10 seconds long.
- I have used WaveGAN to generate audio that sounds decent. However, it only outputs 16 kHz mono samples. There are a few parameters to tweak this but they don't, in my experience, converge nicely.
- It is also difficult to control the output time of the WaveGAN samples. It would be ideal to specify I want to synthesize a 7 second or 9 second audio sample, for instance.
This leaves me with a few thoughts:
- I am currently trying MelGAN and WaveGrad but I don't hold out much hope for them to alleviate the above issues (even if they create slightly better output).
- Maybe I should be outputting 16 kHz audio and using audio super-resolution to upsample to 48 kHz. Has this been done before in an accessible library?
I am wary to build my own model based on WaveGAN because I believe 48 kHz might be too many parameters to learn in a reasonable amount of time or based on my sampled data.
If anyone has played in this space before I would love to hear your advice!
So.. I've been hearing some strange dialogues between 2 or 3 Women in this frequency lately. 4:00 UTC - 7:00 UTC specially 5:00 UTC - 6:00 UTC. I don't know the language that they are speaking which makes it even weirder.
I have some videos about this if you want to check it out I'm new in this community so let me know if I need to upload more videos.
https://youtu.be/El6chuZMbYo
If you want more videos about this frequency let me know.
Update: I think they are speaking Russian and the frequency is probably used by an Airport. Kinda cool though. Let me know in the comments if you know something.
From the graphs Oratory1990 has provided, the Meze Empyrean has a dip at ~9500 Hz, see here. I am using RME ADI-2 DAC and replaced band 1 with 5.0 dB, 9400 Hz and 9.9Q. Am I thinking correct when trying to eq that dip?
I am not using band 7 at all, 5.5 dB, 105 Hz, because the bass is too much for me even with 1.0 dB.
Hello! so I made this skin a while back but never thought about releasing it until my discord asked if I could because of the circles and stuff so I thought I'd upload it here too. This is a mixed skin so know that no assets are mine besides the hitcircles that I made. All assets are from the original skin itself.
I hope you enjoy the skin! :3
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/gVVbOGh
Download: https://app.mediafire.com/04bkvzy85m2xj
and remember, Enjoy osu! game
other skins ive made/mixed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S-EGp6QJpBiUUFIdlDEl2BGlKUMHoW3N8H6Wr_uZBAY/edit?usp=sharing
Hi everyone,
I recently ordered a cheap DAC (AuxLink HiFi Pro) to pair it with the USB Audio Player Pro and my Tidal HiFi subscription. It's obviously not the best DAC out there, but it's pretty portable and reproduces up to 384 KHz/32 bits.
My question is: will this DAC be able to reproduce the MQA files or will I need one that specifically states it reads MQA in its specs?
Hi there - beginner here.
Introduction
I own the Denon PMA-600NE [1]. I have migrated from (a) using Bluetooth to (b) using a NIMASO USB-C to 3.5mm adapter [2] and going direct to the Denon. (b) uses the adapter's DAC and bypasses the Denon's.
Before doing any research I thought, the Denon must have a better DAC.
Research
Denon PMA-600NE
>Built-in 192kHz/24bit D/A converter
NIMASO
>upgraded DAC chip allows up to 32bit/384Khz
Question
Does this mean that the tiny little DAC in the USB adapter is better than the DAC in the Denon?
References
[1] Denon PMA-600NE - https://www.denon.com/en-us/product/amplifiers/pma-600ne
[2] NIMASO USB C Headphone Adapter - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D9MB4GD
