Posts by Phil Brownlee
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It seems actually the solution for TV3 is much easier than I'd previously thought. The replay gain solution used by MP3 players like iTunes is rather easy. It manages to assess perceived loudness, and attenuate accordingly.
Agreed. ReplayGain is really useful. Although iTunes uses its own method (called SoundCheck?), which AFIK just analyses peaks, rather than the perceptual measurement used by ReplayGain. Which is better than nothing.
Players which support ReplayGain tend to be those oriented towards the geek market. -
The technical term for squishing low (and high) volume bits closer to the average so that there's a constant volume level is compression, if you want to google up this hateful phenomenon.
Audio compression is not hateful per se. The question is how it's used.
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Is there a similar funding entity in NZ? If not, should there be?
People get Creative New Zealand grants to record albums. You'd be unlikely to get $50 000, though.
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'Real artists' still need to eat.
But that's what you're asking, isn't it? -
There's no sound, none, that can be generated from a recorder that remotely approximates music.
Excuse me for joining the conversation late, but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rccp8KcpyI