Speakafreaka
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Posted : Jul 10, 2007 19:29
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hehe, if its any consolation, I hate most releases I hear today... because they are far too focussed on 'that' sound and not enough on the creative aspects of work.
In answer to the other points you made about the kicks looking all the same.
this is technically inaccurate, although I know what you are saying - any signal when fed into a spectrum analyzer (more correctly known as an FFT analyzer) is broken down into its constitunent sine wave components. The amplitude of the relevant sine wave freqs is then displayed on the screen. Now, what happens with a lot of analyzers is that they 'smear' the display of the amplitude becuase sometimes a freq is only there for a very short period of time and would otherwise be invisible. Nearly every fft analyzer worth its salt will let you vary the speed of the alaysis, and when you really ratchet up the speed of the analyzer then you can see the difference between kicks. It is also important to consider the block size of the sampling window used to establish sine amplitude content, as this can yeild considerably different results with different settings - playing around with this is fantastic with basses in particular, where it can be very hard for the human ear (no matter how good the monitoring is) to establish precise harmonic correltation with sub 150ish waves. This can be a great tool to establish and learn the best places to notch the bass to 'clear up' the bass without loosing anything you want.
Next, when you consider peaking amplitdues, that only tells you part of the story, RMS analysis is very valuable too under these circumstances, and here is why - the human ear doesn't hear all frequencies flat - it follows a individually unique curve which bears considerable similarity to a fletcher-munson curve. It is not a fletcher munson curve, as some will tell you, as a F-M curve is based upon inharmonic noise - not what music consists of, however it is similar. Movement away from this basic curve will result in one aspect of the mix being relatively less or more loud then another part - ie, badly mixed. Look at an F-M chart, and see how the values show a real correlation to virtually every mix out there when analyzed with a freq analyzer. This isn't an issue of judgement, so much as the scientific nature of human hearing. There is variance from person to person, but the basic picture doesn't change. So what I'm saying is, if you mix it really properly by ear - it will automatically look great on the analyzer, with regards to an F-M curve correlation - and that is really just the way it is! A FFT analyzer therefore is a useful tool to point to where and why something isn't working correctly.  .
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