7 Nov
2010
7 Nov
'10
12:37 p.m.
On Fri, November 5, 2010 1:20 am, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:45 -0700, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
It think it is a bit more subtle. I have listened to the mix on several
systems now and have found that the overall levels are not exactly what I
am hearing when I listen with ardour. That could be partly related to the
exporter, my sound card which I am mixing on being a high quality audio
device and the general levels being just not quite right. I am working on
toning down the tracks that have become distorted in the export process.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
"ZPE is not about creating something from nothing: It is about using the
zero point of a wave as a means to transform other forms of potential
energy like magnetic flux, heat, or particle spin into usable energy in
such a way that entropy appears to be reversed."
However I swear that all I did was export the mix
once with normalise
enabled (at 11:40pm on 31 October 2010) and once with it disabled during
day light hours on 01 November.
I just downloaded the start of both original FLAC files (to about 1:40),
exported to wavs and matched their gains, swapped the polarity of one,
and presto: a combined signal at < -120dB. There are no differences in
the mixes except overall level.
So this proves two things:
1. You did nothing but switched normalization (at least for the part I
tested) between the mixes.
2. Normalization works as expected: it only adds gain.
Whatever differences you are hearing between the mixes is all in your
playback system.