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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 11:23:23 -0600
Good thought. I don't use the limiter with that combo. I have in the 
MP2 to D7 at times. I'll be monitoring many hours of field recordings 
over the next two months and I'll post a example if I come across 
one. I record at 24/48K. Rob D.

At 4:16 PM +0000 1/11/06, Raimund Specht wrote:
>Rob, you wrote:
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>>  It does seem logical that ATRAC
>>  would be more challenged, but I've gotten it with uncompressed
>>  MBHO->MP2->(line input) D7 Walkman DAT and with mkh/nt1a->744T
>>  (and also with lesser saturated calls not exhibiting it, BTW).
>>  Could be one of those demanding situations that presses even the
>>  best amp/A-D combos are pressed beyond their limits. It could
>>  even start in the mics too.
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>Are you sure that there was really no clipping and no limiter
>activated? I would expect that at least a MKH -> SD744T combination
>can handle such signals properly. Note that the limiter would also
>introduce some harmonic distortion (but of course less than simple
>clipping).
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>Raimund
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


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