Re: how to get rid of hiss?

Two responses, combined:

donz5 wrote:
> Michael wrote:
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>>but I need to know "why" as much as "what"
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> Precisely the right attitude, I think. And probably the most
> frustrating (I feel your pain). I've spent the last few months reading
> and re-reading most of the various "tutorial" essays in "Recording" and
> "Electronic Musician," trying to get a sense of the science behind the
> sonic manipulation. I mean, I knew _nothing_ about broadband vs.
> multiband compression and didn't appreciate the differences. I'm far
> from becoming an expert (way far), but, as I wrote earlier to Mr.
> Howler, I've begun to know what I don't know, and that's a big step for
> me.

A while back I asked a question about Get Back/LIB?

Turns out Don cracked a 35 year old case and had a chapter ready to go for a new book.

I ask about "tweaking" my tunes before I burn them?

Well, Don "spent the last few months reading and re-reading most of the various "tutorial" essays in "Recording" and "Electronic Musician," trying to get a sense of the science behind the sonic manipulation."

Don, the "big step" you refer to is several floors up from were I am!

Sounds like I gotta use math?  I'm dead.

Audition isn't cheap and I hoped I didn't have to know "too" much about science. Yeah, I caught on to PhotoShop and PageMaker in a snap!

Since things were going pretty well in Audition I was lulled into believing I was using too much Cardomom (The key to getting to my perfect "and I'll put it up against anyone's" Vindaloo).

Thanks for confirming it's the "why" and not the "what".

However, if "reading and re-reading (what you wrote you read and re-read) left you where you've "begun to know what [you] don't know"?

Maybe I should wait till you do, and you can "fix me up" in a single post like you did with GB/LIB! Yeah, that's the ticket!

> Or what's the proper sequence -- eq first? (evidently not -- it should
> be last in the chain, I've read) Reverb after compression? Before?
> Which order gives the best results? Little things like that.

"Which order"? [Remember that]

Soon to be seen as not a "little thing".....

> It all just gave me a better appreciation of what a good pre-mastering
> engineer has going for him/her -- years of experience and know-how,
> something I suspect that most of us here lack.

Appreciation?  I might have had that.

Now you turned it into "awe".

[It gets more complicated in his next post]

donz5 wrote: 
Nessie wrote:



Often eq is done before compression, but you know it's tough to make any
blanket statements about anything in this mixing biz. �Way too many
variables.


No, that was supposed to be a "little thing" (Don said so!)

And once again I've regressed to the "I don't know what I don't know"
stage. Thanks a damn lot. :)

See me, down here, - - - With the candle? I'm looking for "a sense of the science behind the sonic manipulation"?

No you do not see me.

You have not regressed that far.

PageMaker? I was teaching it to other people after a week or two!

PhotoShop?  I was a beta tester after using it for three months?

I beg you: No: "I don't know what I don't know" talk.

I don't mind that dickwad not understanding me. He was either a liar or a coward.

You?  If you backslid I'm feelin' pretty hopeless.

Don, I'll stay here - - - You go for help!

I did find a Usenet group? alt.audio.opinion

It's more general than this subject but either they can help or can point you to food and water to bring back to me. No, I dare not open my mouth, there.

Since you're at least in the tunnel and can see a light, maybe you could raise your hand there? Yeah, you know the lingo!

I'll prolly open up the proggie anyway, I'm not in the right frame of mind this afternoon to swim in the "science behind the sonic manipulation".

In the meantime somebody with clout tell Apple to quit futzin' - - - I'll be happy to give them some of my cash if they do the work on "their" catalog for me.

Hey, it's their job.

~~~
Michael






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