Spoiled rotten

[Carey Carlan]

Editing a concert on the computer, I got lazy and was going to do all the
editing in 16 bit. I couldn't do it. I was hearing all the little things
that fail when you start manipulating 16 bits (instead of 24) and I had to
revert, convert to 24 bit (actually 32-bit floating point) and do my
editing.

Specifically:
(1) Fades *from* silence are more audible at the start of a song.
(2) Reverb needs the extra bits to decay cleanly.

Yeah, it takes longer, but it's worth it.

[Arny Krueger]

"Carey Carlan" > wrote in message
. 202
> Editing a concert on the computer, I got lazy and was going to do all
> the editing in 16 bit. I couldn't do it. I was hearing all the
> little things that fail when you start manipulating 16 bits (instead
> of 24) and I had to revert, convert to 24 bit (actually 32-bit
> floating point) and do my editing.
>
> Specifically:
> (1) Fades *from* silence are more audible at the start of a song.
> (2) Reverb needs the extra bits to decay cleanly.
>
> Yeah, it takes longer, but it's worth it.

What editor?

[Blind Joni]

>Yeah, it takes longer, but it's worth it.

Why does it take longer?
John A. Chiara
SOS Recording Studio
Live Sound Inc.
Albany, NY
www.sosrecording.net
518-449-1637

[Carey Carlan]

"Arny Krueger" > wrote in news:L9-dnTRDw_MaWNncRVn-
:

> "Carey Carlan" > wrote in message
> . 202
>> Editing a concert on the computer, I got lazy and was going to do all
>> the editing in 16 bit. I couldn't do it. I was hearing all the
>> little things that fail when you start manipulating 16 bits (instead
>> of 24) and I had to revert, convert to 24 bit (actually 32-bit
>> floating point) and do my editing.
>>
>> Specifically:
>> (1) Fades *from* silence are more audible at the start of a song.
>> (2) Reverb needs the extra bits to decay cleanly.
>>
>> Yeah, it takes longer, but it's worth it.
>
> What editor?

This machine is still running Cool Edit 2.1.

[Carey Carlan]

(Blind Joni) wrote in
:

>>Yeah, it takes longer, but it's worth it.
>
> Why does it take longer?

Primarily because I have to convert to and from 16 bit, but also because
Cool Edit is a bit more sluggish with the x2 file sizes.