The lovely sound of rounding errors!

[chessrock]

Say, just for kicks, I've been experimenting with various different flavors of plugin-related digital rounding errors to spice up my tracks!

Unfortunately, I'm running in to a small problem when it comes to actually recognizing what they sound like.

Does anyone have a favorite digital rounding error example they'd like to share with us all?

Thanks!

[littledog]

digital rounding does not have any particular "sound". it could manifest itself in loss of stereo imaging, smeared transients, or any number of other differences. none of which very many poeple would find "spicy"...

the way you could experiment is to try doing a whole sequence of manipulations that should more or less cancel eachother out. Try the experiment at 24 bits and at 16 bits. Compare each processed file to the original files and see if you can hear the difference.

(Example of cancelling plug-ins: use two EQ's with exactly inverse settings.)

[chessrock]

Originally posted by littledog
use two EQ's with exactly inverse settings.

That sounds absolutely splendid. I can't wait to try this out.

Anyone else have a favorite rounding error? Hmmm?

[littledog]

forget it. i lost my head there for a second and thought you were being serious. i must be losing it...

[chessrock]

Originally posted by littledog
i must be losing it...

Happens to the best of us.

[Ethan Winer]

Chess,

> Does anyone have a favorite digital rounding error example they'd like to share with us all? <

Rouding errors show up as distortion. Tiny amounts of distortion. They are 100 to 1000 times less than the distortion of your microphones and loudspeakers. Unless you're recording using only 8 bits.

--Ethan

[chessrock]

Originally posted by Ethan Winer
Unless you're recording using only 8 bits.

This place is a wealth of information ! !

[Robert D]

You could try playing with roundwound strings after downing a couple of pitchers.

[volltreffer]

Use automix for fading down a fader of a track while sending it through a EQ (via send return !!!) With the same speed you fade down the track, you fade up the return... In addition you use the inverse EQ for the send/return one as track EQ

Wow!

aXel

[M.Brane]

Is that like jumbo shrimp?

[chessrock]

Originally posted by M.Brane
Is that like jumbo shrimp?

Actually, it's almost exactly like that. It's all the same difference when you boil it down, MBrane. Although sometimes it can get pretty ugly if you're not careful.

[M.Brane]

Nice pun there, chess.



At least with digital we can choose the type of noise that best compliments our recordings.