Sound Design Weekly Newsletter - Monday, February 29, 2016

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Top new questions this week: Is there any tradeoff to get the best quality/file size ratio for mp3 conversion? We record vocal sound via the Creative - Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD soundcard and its dedicated recording software. the settings are : 96 KHz 24 bit depth I would like to convert it to mp3 ... sound-design mixing sound sample-rate wav   asked by user4249446 2 votes answered by Simon White 4 votes How do sound waves work that make certain intervals sound good? I'm learning waves in my physics class and I was wondering, how do sound waves work that make certain intervals sound good. Why does a M3/P4/P5 sound really good while m2/M2 sound (kind of) bad? music waves harmonics   asked by Meeesh 1 vote answered by user2235980 1 vote How do I make this sound? I heard this awesome song and I was wondering how was it possible to make the plucked sound that pops out in the drop (1:36) It's something like my favourite song ever, so I'd like to know how to ... sound-design sound music   asked by Andrea Moleri 1 vote answered by Kurt Astro 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Can instrument effects pedals be used for (live) vocals? Either at mic level or line level? I just saw Rosetta last night, and noticed that the vocalist uses some kind of all-in-one effects pedal. I don't know whether or not it was specifically made for vocals though. I would like to have ... vocals line-level   asked by Samuel Meacham 7 votes answered by Colin Hart 5 votes What is "clipping" distortion? What causes it, and how to avoid it when recording audio? What is "clipping" distortion? What causes it, and how to avoid it when recording audio? audio-recording distortion clipping   asked by Chris W. Rea 10 votes answered by Kim Burgaard 15 votes How to set the Zoom H4N for recording with external mic & lav? Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting the right settings on my new Zoom H4N for recording with 2 XLR inputs -- a shotgun mic and wireless lav system for a film shoot. I also can't figure out how to ... zoom-h4n film-sound-design lav-mic xlr-input   asked by Willa 3 votes answered by fuzzysounds 6 votes Boost volume of track in GarageBand I have a track in Garageband that is recorded at a very low volume. If I could I would go back and redo it, but I can't, so I just have to live with it. So far, to boost the volume of this track, I ... software garageband   asked by Bill Cheatham 7 votes answered by neilfein 6 votes Can you answer this? How to make the most of my FX Loop send/return? I have a Hughes & Kettner Statesman Quad EL84 tube amp, and one of the nice features it has is an FX send and return. From what I understand, this feature allows me to add effects to the end of ... effects amplifier guitar signal-routing   asked by Johannes 1 vote

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