The future of Audio compression!

This is what the wave forms are going to look like very soon at the rate cds are being compressed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, lets jack the level up 20db, that'll make people listen!!

 

Ed Feinblatt Special.

 

Is there really a waveform there?!?

 

All I see is 4 christmas trees laid on their sides.

 

This reminds me of the guy in the seventies who could guess the classical piece by looking at the lp's grooves.

Stephen

 

Not even gonna go there!

 

polog,

Where have you been? Waves have been looking like that and worse for more than ten years!

 

I caught on right away, Steve!

I was just playing the MFSL hybrid of it the other night, in fact. (Skrowaczewski/Minnesota Orch. version originally on Vox.)

 

CSNY, It starts out quitet and then it fades out altogether.

 

That fellow is still around and still an expert at doing exactly that. Another 20 years of experience and he is even more astounding than before. An article on him appeared in one of the more minor hi-fi magazines maybe 6 months ago. Unreal.

 

Just googled the guy, is that him?

Arthur Lintgen

Arthur Lintgen (b. 1941?) is a United States, US physician who can recognize classical phonograph records with a naked eye. He lives in Philadelphia. He claims no extrasensory powers. When Arthur B. Lintgen sees a vinyl record, he can recognize the music in couple of seconds. Based on the physical construction and the grooves and contours on the record, he can recognize sections where music is loud or quiet, the length of each movement and so on. Then he uses his extensive knowledge of classical music to recognize the music. He can also draw extra information about the structure of the vinyl, because records from different companies are slightly different, so he can guess who is the conductor. However, his ability is strictly limited to classical music after Beethoven and only music he knows - modern music looks "disorganized and gibberish". Beethoven's Fifth symphony is the most common record he is asked to identify. Category:1941 births, Lintgen, Arthur ...

Also see: http://www.snopes.com/music/media/reader.htm

 

Eh.

Actually, I didn't know if you were talking about Ravel's "Bolero" or Beck's.

 

My question is: Using Cool Edit or something like it, would it be possible to save a track like that? I have seen many tracks that look close to that, on many cds I own. It is very frustrating. With a good system, these types of cds sound horrible.

 

Hey! That's a great waveform from Metallica's St. Anger CD

 

I've never heard Bolero Steve.

 

That is amazing!!!!

 

Call me a skeptic but I'll bet he just reads the numbers in the dead wax and connects them in his mind to the information on the piece (having studied information on Classical records in extreme depth) and pretends to have read the grooves.

 

Apparently not. They covered over the dead-wax in the test I saw.

 

Certainly!

 

Grant,

Give you give some advice as far as what settings would help these tracks in cool edit. I have tried eliminating what I call or think is transients on the esss's. Maybe it's just sibilance. I don't know.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

My wife and I are ROTFL here - it just took me a day to get to this thread!

- Joe

 

Use the declipper. Problem is, it doesn't work with all highly limited/compressed files.