[LAU] How is the bass mixed? Per-channel frequency analysis? Histogram?

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Thu Feb 6 22:34:12 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:22:29PM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote:
> [Fons Adriaensen]
> >That means that when you put the bass off-center, your level
> >meters may well show 'out of balance', in particular if they
> >have a small range as e.g. a VU, during the entire song. 
> >Many sound engineers probably dislike that, even if it does
> >no harm at all.
> 
> They might dislike it because it implies the energy budget of the
> transmission isn't exploited maximally. :)

Which leads to the question why they would care about the energy
budget if the information budget is used in such a suboptimal way
:-)

Ciao,

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FA

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