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Originally Posted by Jan
You could try Audacity as it's free... But it's still the same waveform... the sharp transients just do down. |
ok it looks the same for me in Audacity, so it's just a difference in the software and the way it draws the waveform.
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This all becomes even more depressing looking at a closeup on a single kick from Little Speaker:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...speakervn1.png
While limiting has been applied to Little Speaker, the transients from the kicks have been cut off. I can only guess where they were in the original but I marked it in red.
Fortunately, though, most modern limiters don't introduce clipping or distortion anymore. But sharp attacks in the sound will be damaged or buried in the mix. And that sounds like this:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l2im4xf9y7m
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well this is a bit of an oversimplification. There's no reason why that closeup of the little speaker kickdrum means anything "depressing" has happened. It's just a normal result of limiting and compression, both perfectly valid tools for shaping and sculpting sound. What matters is the overall mix, and indeed as you say a lot of stuff these days is over-compressed/limited and has lost punch and definition. I've never found this to be the case for Underworld records though, even when some of them obviously have been processed more heavily than others.