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Andish said:
thanx all for your quik rescue. the nain reason I asked this is coz most commercial cds i observe are usaually cut from about 16khz-20khz at list. this lead me to assume that these fq's are rolled off. thanx alot all!
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Are you basing this on MP3s cut from commercial CDs? Because the MP3s will almost certainly drop off above 15k; part of their compression method is to get rid of that high frequency stuff because most casual listeners can't hear that high very well anyway.

But the original CDAs themselves should not be rolled off at all. Other than data compression in MP3s, there's no reason to roll off those frequencies; that is there is no advantage to doing it for any reason.

That said, even in regular un-compressed music, there is not a whole lot above 16k anyway. Not only does the energy tend to naturally drop off to very low levels at that high of frequencies, but you're also getting into the range where the frequency response of many (not all) of the microphones used in recording starts to drop off as well.

G.
 
AndishDude :D

No...not all tunes roll off any frequencies. And that might have been HZ and not KHZ. Dunno what yer readin.

But the guys are spot on dude. There is NO one answer to EQ. Even within the same genre, each track of each song will be different.

Do some reading about EQ and interactive frequencies etc and then start twiddling knobs with your new grasp of EQ.
Luck man...;)
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Are you basing this on MP3s cut from commercial CDs? Because the MP3s will almost certainly drop off above 15k; part of their compression method is to get rid of that high frequency stuff because most casual listeners can't hear that high very well anyway.

But the original CDAs themselves should not be rolled off at all. Other than data compression in MP3s, there's no reason to roll off those frequencies; that is there is no advantage to doing it for any reason.

That said, even in regular un-compressed music, there is not a whole lot above 16k anyway. Not only does the energy tend to naturally drop off to very low levels at that high of frequencies, but you're also getting into the range where the frequency response of many (not all) of the microphones used in recording starts to drop off as well.

G.
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thanx this wat i needed to hear.
 
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