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GuitarRiffs wrote:To practice a little, I will apply each of your edits one at a time, and make sure I can hear their impact.

After listening to Steve's remix maybe my remix is a bit too mono. If you vary the ratio from -6dB stereo / -12dB mono to say -4/-14 the result will be less-mono more-stereo. As I mentioned in my previous post you can adjust these levels while the mix is playing : you immediately hear the consequences of altering the levels in the stereo image.

GuitarRiffs wrote:Koz, I reapplied every EQ step onto the orignal raw. So, there are 2 generations, not 80.

Koz may have been referring to the kbps rate of the mp3. An 128Kbps original remixed then exported as 128Kbps will have compression damage (compression artefacts) similar to an ~80Kbps original.

An 128Kbps original remixed then exported as 128Kbps will have compression damage (compression artefacts) similar to an ~80Kbps original.

Trebor, did you export your remix at 256kb?

Pleeeease stop using MP3. After the first one, you're not compressing the music any more. You're compressing the music and the errors.
Koz

GuitarRiffs wrote:Trebor, did you export your remix at 256kb?

I usually use 256kbps, but as Koz says mp3, (even at 256kbps), is going to add more compression damage because mp3 is lossy compression format.

FLAC format is a lossless compression format, but the compression ratio is only 1:2 whereas mp3 can be 1:10
i.e. a FLAC file is half the size of the original WAV , an mp3 can be 1/10th the size of the original WAV.

Not all audio software & devices can read flac files.

I think Audacity as shipped can read/write FLAC format without having to add ffmpeg libraries.

An example of a flac file is attached.

Trebor wrote: I think Audacity as shipped can read/write FLAC format without having to add ffmpeg libraries.

Yes it can.

Audacity also supports "Ogg Vorbis" which is a "lossy" format with similar compression capability to MP3, but without some of the design limitations and is free (MP3 is restricted by licence)

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 10#p203777

I'm revisiting this topic a year later with a new clip.
Can someone please remind me how to do Step #3 from Trebor in terms of splitting stereo tracks?
I have no recollection of what and where I am supposed to click!

GuitarRiffs wrote:... Can someone please remind me how to do Step #3 from Trebor in terms of splitting stereo tracks?
I have no recollection of what and where I am supposed to click!

Click on the little black triangle for the drop-down track-menu ...
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Trebor, I'm hoping I can use your expertise again.

I just applied your same tweaks from last year, but I bet you can do better?
B/c this recording is much different than last year.
I think the guitars are way down, for example.

Can you apply your brilliance to this new clip?
Here is a link to the file you can directly save.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255 ... 140110.mp3