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Re: Re: ATRAC compression

Subject: Re: Re: ATRAC compression
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:38:48 -0700
Geoffry Sample, you wrote,

>I like to get some context of distant ambience
>to the 'soloist'. I've always been suspicious of a how a system like
>ATRAC would deal with it. How can it work out what's redundant in that
>low level mix of maybe a little wind/water, distant reverberations of
>calls, etc. that merges with the noise floor in the electronics?

Low-level stuff shouldn't be a problem for data compression; it uses
fewer bits.
I tried dubbing a sample to MD at -20 dB gain and boosting it back up
in Pro Tools, sounded fine.

>I use an MS set-up - I like the directional picture from this method. How
>will the system affect the directional information in the low level
>signal? Equally across the 2 stereo channels?

Also appears to be no problem.

-Dan


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