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Just as a fun little exercise, U2freak999 and I both did a mix of a song that I've been working on lately (the show that is). Same sources and all. Wireless sources only with no audience source. Naturally we came to different mixes at the end of the day.

Now--let's hear some people's opinions. Here's the two mixes in a zip file. They are unlabeled for now, let's see what people think without knowing who did what.

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/791603788/3c08e0c1dcc5a75c5c197b4e8a4d9db0
http://rapidshare.com/files/321474185/No_Line_sharebear_take1.zip.html

If anybody can repost then that'd be really cool if it goes over limit.

Cheers
hoserama/sharebear

toysfornoise

15 years

dowloading now ..
interesting mission ..

will feedback later

mrbullet

15 years

Tricky one.
Although i think i prefer source 2 for the volume, it does seem to loose a little on the drum & bass side of things. kinda get's lost in the crowd so to speak.
Both sound good though, which show is it from?

LikeASong

15 years

Downloading. Feedback later

hoserama

15 years

Originally posted by mrbullet:
Both sound good though, which show is it from?

It's a secret!

noiseless

15 years

Funny little experiment.

I like the second sample a bit better. Mainly because of the stereo image sounding more natural to me. In the first sample, the "location" of some sounds is a little odd. This source seems to have a bit more bass though, which doesn't hurt.

Of course I don't mean to interfere but I would choose for the second source, maybe with a subtle accentuation around 4k and a tiny boost of the lows, and I might consider turning the very lows into mono.

hoserama

15 years

Originally posted by noiseless:Funny little experiment.

I like the second sample a bit better. Mainly because of the stereo image sounding more natural to me. In the first sample, the "location" of some sounds is a little odd. This source seems to have a bit more bass though, which doesn't hurt.

Of course I don't mean to interfere but I would choose for the second source, maybe with a subtle accentuation around 4k and a tiny boost of the lows, and I might consider turning the very lows into mono.

Yeah you're probably right. It's pretty easy to dial up the bass for this. Agreed on mono'ing out the low range.

LikeASong

15 years

I don't know anything about ranges or frequencies, but the second source sounds better to me, maybe I would keep that one and boost the bass a bit, otherwise it sounds somewhat flat. But with a bit of bass-boosting, it can rock a lot.

LikeASong

15 years

Nah, I've changed my mind. 1st source sounds better, even with the slightly lack of volume. Bono and Adam are much more hearable on the first!

WIRE

15 years

I think the first one sounds the best, but that's only my opinion. Interesting experiment, would love to know where it's from though.
Regards
WIRE

noiseless

15 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:Nah, I've changed my mind. 1st source sounds better, even with the slightly lack of volume. Bono and Adam are much more hearable on the first!

Everyone decides with his own ears what sounds best, but it's easy not to be fooled by different volumes: just use Replay Gain (it makes your flac files play at the same level without affecting the files, i.e. it only adds some meta-information to the files). Then you can really compare different sources.

Risto

15 years

Close call, but i like the second one better ! Although it can use more Adam / low frequencies imho.

Both great though, had to choose on details. I like Edge high in the mix

Originally posted by noiseless:[..]

Everyone decides with his own ears what sounds best, but it's easy not to be fooled by different volumes: just use Replay Gain (it makes your flac files play at the same level without affecting the files, i.e. it only adds some meta-information to the files). Then you can really compare different sources.

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