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A

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A question on A/D and D/A conversion for Classical Music   4731
Analog versus Digital. Observations from an ex-Dolby engineer on the Debate   4814
Analog tape simulation during the mixing process   5056
Analog Tape, can I reuse it?   4124
Archiving   3535
Aural Enhancers on the Mix Bus?   4821
A question about -20 dBFS   5661
Acoustical Correction - Automatic   4277

B

Items Rating Hits
Baking Old Master Tapes   4253
Balanced and Unbalanced Interfacing   3915
Balanced versus Unbalanced Connections   4461
Bits, isn't 20-bit good enough?   4050
Blinded by Science? A letter from someone who might be too hung up on the importance of the number   3911
Bass Problems   4437
Bit Depth in DAW   4557
Bit Depth --- See Also Wordlength   4383
Bass Rolloff in Mastering   5460
Reel to Reel unbalanced inputs and outputs to a balanced DAW   2538

C

Items Rating Hits
Calibrating the output of a DAW to an Analog Desk   3838
Can I make masters for duplication from an AES/EBU CD Recorder?   3319
Cassettes   3165
CD Replicating   4039
CD Running time - What's the max?   4008
CDRs and boomboxes and car players   3359
CDR rejected by plant as master   3698
CDR Write Speed - What will give the best quality?   4992
Compression   4237
Concerns on the Epidemic of Hypercompression   3818
Confused Engineer seeks Enlightenment   3536
Converters : 20-bit Converters in the 16-bit ADATs   3324
Cables : 24-bit Cable Impedance Query   3865
CD Master Preparation   3711

Compression vs Overcompression

Items Rating Hits
Challenge from a Rap and Hip-Hop Engineer   4218
Changing the world one day at a time   3438
Compression and the DVD   3504
Do We Really Mix for Radio?   3408
Don't quit and grow asparagus   3413
Don't quit, Bob!   3657
Films and Trailers - Getting louder?   3467
The Fugitive versus Titanic (from my compression article)   3529
Good Thing Some Clients have Ears!   3218
How to be Honest with Yourself   3551
Loudness from the Audiophile point of view   3985
Only the best practices from a quality-conscious Viennese Radio engineer   3308
Radio Stations and the Loudness War and good comments on analog PPMs   3386
Comments on the Titanic Soundtrack from a composer - what soundtracks sound good?   3467
Wow! A Program director who knows what happens to overcompressed music on the Radio!   4621

D

Items Rating Hits
DAW's and bit transparency. Staying Transparent   3521
DAW's and plug-in's. Current limitations   3809
DC Offset. Clicks and Pops   4029
Differences between PMCD and CD Premasters   3548
Dither and 192kHz Sample Rates   4205
Dither, when to?   4804
Dubbing from digital multitrack to analog multitrack to get that fat sound?   3719
Debate about Dynamic Range, Bit Depth, ...   3481
Downloads   964

E

Items Rating Hits
EQ Dilemma   3956
EQing the Final Mix   5022
Equipos digitales - conexion analogica. En Español   1008

F

Items Rating Hits
Fun with Dither and Jitter   3515
Filtering and Overloads   3082
Fixed versus Floating Point Notation   3950
Frankenstein Beast of a Digital/Analog Hybrid Studio   3445
File types in Mastering and DDP   4383
Fle Tagging   3415

G

Items Rating Hits
Gain Changing and Dithering   3659

H

I

Items Rating Hits
ISRC Codes   3418
ISRC Codes and CD Text: Reading on a MacIntosh   3729

J

Items Rating Hits
Jitter : A Clarification of my Article   3410
Jitter : Digital Patchbays, good or bad?   3215
Jitter : Digital Audio Cables for 24/96   3571
Jitter on CD   3686
Jitter In SCSI & IDE   3118
Jitter : Toslink versus Copper   3516
Jitter : Better Sound?   3653

K

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K-System and ITU-R BS.1770   4893
"The Magic of 83 with Film Mixes" or "The Magic of 85 with Film Mixes"   1907

L

Items Rating Hits
Laptop "Audiophile Audio Interface" - An Oxymoron   4737
Levelling Issues Part I   3655
Levelling Issues Part II   3060
Levels - Optimizing   3917
Loud CD's: What's Your Feeling, Bob? (and references to sites about the issue)   3382
Loudness Race Discussed   3169
Linear Phase Equalization   4075
Learning frequencies, is there a software for it....?   1976

M

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Mastering Techniques   4454
Mastering vs. Mixing - What is the difference?   4026
Mastering Software   4588
Microphones and 2496 Recordings   3386
Microphones and Phantom Power   3930
Midi and Microphones   3582
Mixing : A Serious Mini-Mixing Lesson   4026
Mixing in the Digital World   3614
Monitor Calibration : What is this "Dolby 85" thing   3896
Monitor Calibration   5002
Monitor Placement   3822
Monitor Stands - Metal versus Wood?   3948
MP3 Compression : How does it work?   4022
Multiple passes of 16-bit dither?   3262
M/S Techniques in Mixing   4570
Monitor Calibration: Pink Noise   1200

N

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Normalization   3184
Nano, Nano! What is this +9 business?   2999
Noise   2955
Normalizing and Wordlength   3733
Normalizing on Individual Tracks or the Entire Mix   4482
Normalizing in Samplers after UV22?   4002

O

P

Items Rating Hits
Problems with Samplitude 2496 and the Teac CD-W58 E CD Writers   3468
Proper Recording and File Levels   3714
Pyramix   3035

Q

R

Items Rating Hits
Removing Frequencies in Mastering   4906
RIAA curve: What is it?   4170
Roomtone: What it is and when to use it?   3451

S

Items Rating Hits
Sample Rate Conversion (SRC) or EQ, which comes first?   3989
Silence at the beginning of tracks, do we have to put it? (WAV files, AIFF files)   3600
Space : 16 Bits in a 24-bit Space   4049
Story Time With a Valuable Lesson   3295
Subwoofers   3875
sampler 16 bit   1971

T

Items Rating Hits
Three to One Rule   3800
Timing problems in a DAW, can they be caused by jitter?   2999
Transferring Digital Audio from One Platform to Another   3197

U

V

Items Rating Hits
Video as a Clock Master   3646

W

Items Rating Hits
Warm Sound - What's the Recipe? Is it EQ? A bit more 200, a bit less 10k?   4842
Word Clock and Digital Interfaces   3909
Wordlength - (Best Bit Depth) and Sample Rate   4566

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Z

Items Rating Hits
Zero dBFS Defined   4313