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Re: mastering for cheap cd players

Subject: Re: mastering for cheap cd players
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:13:59 -0600
>At 4:56 PM -0800 1/10/06, Dan Dugan wrote:

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>If it's earlier, recordings would have to be
>processed to avoid high level high frequencies. That's a shame, since
>we now have recording media that, unlike lower...

I believe the distortion is embedded in the loud call of Rich's field 
original. Perhaps saturating -only to ~-15 dB in the field for sounds 
with lots of high Hz energy would be safer practice for now.  There 
is some talk about slew rate distortion and CD's. 
http://www.airwindows.com/analysis/SlewRates.html . 
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~erick205/Papers/paper.html Rob D.



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