Chibi Nappa05-18-2005, 11:14
"i have a yamaha MD8 and were ready to transfer some songs onto a regular MD player, from this i'll put it onto a CD"
Let's back up to this for a second... Why are you sticking an MD player in there? You know MD players use lossy data compression, right? You're hurting your sound.
the reason i record to an md is because thats whats in my set up! i mix a song "live" to the md each time, thus it may take me six or seven attempts to get it right. when i have the right mix i record it to a CD recorder. if i mixed straight to CD recorder id get through no end of CD's
is this really a problem? i know that some people mix down to 2 tracks on the MD8 first then copy that mix to CD or MD, but im not happy doing this, it never sounds as good somehow, for the same reason i try to avoid bouncing if i can, luckily with a straight band set up (2 guitars on 3 tracks, electric drum kit on 2 tracks, bass and vox 1 track each, leaving a track free for solos, backing vox etc) we dont need really need more than 8 tracks.
i think ive learned from the response to my initial post that its ok to put a compressor in line from the 8T to the MD,
whether i'll actually apply any compression in the end is yet to be decided. what i want to do is learn how to fit the compressor into my set up so that i can start experimenting to see whether compression will improve our songs in any way. if they dont appear to sound any better/tidier/ punchier/complete then i shalln't bother. its just that i want to start testing out sonic ideas
thanksto all who replied, it helps a lot
"i have a yamaha MD8 and were ready to transfer some songs onto a regular MD player, from this i'll put it onto a CD"
Let's back up to this for a second... Why are you sticking an MD player in there? You know MD players use lossy data compression, right? You're hurting your sound.
the reason i record to an md is because thats whats in my set up! i mix a song "live" to the md each time, thus it may take me six or seven attempts to get it right. when i have the right mix i record it to a CD recorder. if i mixed straight to CD recorder id get through no end of CD's
is this really a problem? i know that some people mix down to 2 tracks on the MD8 first then copy that mix to CD or MD, but im not happy doing this, it never sounds as good somehow, for the same reason i try to avoid bouncing if i can, luckily with a straight band set up (2 guitars on 3 tracks, electric drum kit on 2 tracks, bass and vox 1 track each, leaving a track free for solos, backing vox etc) we dont need really need more than 8 tracks.
i think ive learned from the response to my initial post that its ok to put a compressor in line from the 8T to the MD,
whether i'll actually apply any compression in the end is yet to be decided. what i want to do is learn how to fit the compressor into my set up so that i can start experimenting to see whether compression will improve our songs in any way. if they dont appear to sound any better/tidier/ punchier/complete then i shalln't bother. its just that i want to start testing out sonic ideas
thanksto all who replied, it helps a lot