[Paul Dorman]

On 1/2/2021 5:51 PM, geoff wrote:
On 3/01/2021 5:43 am, Paul Dorman wrote:
On 1/2/2021 4:46 AM, geoff wrote:
On 2/01/2021 11:44 pm, John Williamson wrote:
On 02/01/2021 01:44, Paul Dorman wrote:
Â*Â* Dude, YouTube audio is good enough!Â* Especially through
good headphones!


Good enough for some, maybe, but have you ever compared an item you
recorded yourself with what comes down the line from Youtube?

I have, and even using loops to generate background music for the
video, I can tell the difference with no problem.


They request 24/44k1 or better source media, then drop it to 128k or
256K best AAC.

geoff


Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Just listen to live concerts on YouTube, using a good
set of studio monitors, or headphones.

Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* You'll be able to easily tell if the recording was done
with tape, or digitally recorded.Â* Tape recordings sound
dull, and mushy, compared to digital recordings.Â* It's like
night and day.


Um ..... a 'live' concert - tape or digital ? Think about that for a bit.


Uuh..... a "live" concert in front of an audience, versus a studio
recording. They used to be recorded on tape, but now they are
recorded digitally, which is the FAR superior sounding format.
Get it?


There are good and indifferent tape recordings, and similarly digital.
Different badnesses. And best you can get on YTM is 2456kbps AAC, more
typically 128 on straight YT.

Try your famous 'live' concert on mere CD version versus a 256kbps AAC,
MP3, or whatever equiv. If nothing else should be a good test for your
headphones, or hearing.Â* Granted that lossy-encoding is much better now
than the earliest days of MP3.


Live concerts are too obvious.

Go to any of the mic shoot-outs on TY. Use a good pair of
headphones, or studio monitors. You'll be able to hear subtle
differences between the mic takes.