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Does the .wav file created from a .mp3 file have better quality than the .mp3 file itself?
A WAV file has the potential to hold "more" or "better" data than an mp3. WAVs employ no compression, no loss; they are as close to an exact replica as it is possible to get.
An mp3 employs lossy ...
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How can I record frequencies from 0.1 to 20 Hz?
A webcam mic is going to be nowhere near good enough to record infrasound.
Most mics, good or bad, aim to capture sound between 20Hz & 20KHz [the approximate absolute limits of human hearing]. The ...
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What does 100Hz 12dB per octave mean?
There are three parameters of this filter that are described in the phrase "100 Hz 12 dB per octave low pass filter". I'll cover them in reverse order.
Low pass filter - This means the filter does ...
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Cubase is blocking audio for other audio application
Go to Devices/Device Setup then under VST Audio System on the right side of the window Tick the option underneath ASIO Driver that says release driver when app is in background... ;-p that worked for ...
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Does the .wav file created from a .mp3 file have better quality than the .mp3 file itself?
No. When you convert a file from .mp3 to .wav, no new information is added: there is no way to regenerate the information that was lost when you created the mp3. All the extra data in the .wav file is ...
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Draw music in software
Yes, you are absolutely right. As a matter of fact, in many simple audio editing programs (my personal favourites are Logic and Audacity, depending whether I'm using my Mac or my Ubuntu), it is very ...
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How do sound engineers maintain levels in live performances?
This is probably a better question for Sound.SE, but anyway:
A good vocalist will be aware of their mic placement (it becomes habit pretty quick). In "loud" genres, rock for example, as an engineer, ...
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How can I record frequencies from 0.1 to 20 Hz?
If you want to save some money and do it yourself you might try suspending a membrane of some sort, like a piece of paper or plastic, and attaching an accelerometer to it. A quick search found the ...
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How to make the music sounds like playing in the picture
In addition to a little reverb (convolution reverbs are critical tools for sound for picture, IMHO), it will still sound like soundtrack music with extra reverb unless it is filtered.
You could run ...
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Approximating SPL from dBFS?
You see that tree over there that you're barking up? It's the wrong one. There's nothing up there. Seriously.
You're contradicting yourself in your question.
You know there's no direct relationship ...
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Does sound lose quality if sped up and then slowed down back to normal speed?
It depends what method is used.
If it's simply played back 'faster' without actually changing the data, then of course there is no lasting damage. This would be how a simple sampler would ordinarily ...
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Does the .wav file created from a .mp3 file have better quality than the .mp3 file itself?
MP3 is the 'colloquial' name for "MPEG 1 Layer 3" audio encoding. The purpose of mp3 encoding is to reduce the overall size of an audio data stream whilst maintaining an acceptable level of listening ...
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Water / Snow Movement
Usually the smaller more intimate sounds will provide the detail, so you'll have those larger, slower, heavier wave sounds as the body and you can provide movement and texture and detail with smaller ...
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Is there any tradeoff to get the best quality/file size ratio for mp3 conversion?
To get the best audio quality in your final lossy-eccoded audio file output at the smallest possible file size, you have to do 3 steps:
sample rate convert from 96kHz to 44.1kHz, because the lossy ...
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How are audio tracks finalized in the cinema industry?
The channels of the respective output format (2.0 / 5.1 etc) are exported as separate mono audio files. Usually the encoders (DCP / Blu-ray Etc.) expect separate audio tracks as input.
Apart from ...
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Draw music in software
an attempt at a simpler answer...
what audacity is showing you is the sample of the whoooole song jammed together in time. every sample for every note (of every instrument) has already been mixed ...
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Need help to understand the basic components of sound
The highly simplified answer is that sound in the real world is not sine waves with fixed frequencies. We learn about sound initially as frequencies or notes and simplify the concept down to thinking ...
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How do speakers work?
There's quite a few ways this question can be answered, but perhaps the most concise way to do it is to ask you to consider the properties of waves in general. You understand that in order to produce ...
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Recording soft sounds
Even if you could record it properly, without significant background noise (e.g. in an anechoic chamber), you'd likely not be satisfied with the results.
The actual recorded sound of rubbing a thread ...
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Does the .wav file created from a .mp3 file have better quality than the .mp3 file itself?
In order to make sound, your computer must drive the speaker with a time-varying voltage. In order to create the time-varying voltage, the computer must send a sequence of numbers to a Digital-to-...
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How can I as beginner learn Sound Design cheap?
The best advice I can give is to make a lot of mistakes. And learn from them.
So, if you really are serious about this:
start today. Select one animation, any animation already there, download it to ...
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Why is Compression and Expansion of Signal to Noise Ratio used in Wireless System signal transmission?
Compression followed by expansion is often called "companding" and is used in various fields to reduce noise. It is effective in reducing the final level of noise that is introduced between the ...
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How can I match/adjust two clips together with a smooth transition?
Try using a crossfade between the two tracks.
Crossfading is slightly different from a normal fade in/out. Instead of a linear transition, crossfading uses a logarithmic curve to keep the volume ...
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How are professional "instrumental" soundtracks created?
This type of cinematic sound used to require a lot of paper, a lot of people & a large studio to hold them all - in other words a composer, a conductor & an orchestra; plus all the technicians ...
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Play three mono audio files in three speaker
Well, I found the solution in another software named "Sound Forge Pro v10".
Steps:
File > New >
Select "Surround 5.1" or "Surround 7.1".
In that page you will see 6 or 8 rows. Drag&Drop your ...
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When your phone rings in your backpack why do you hear it?
I'll assume you want a short, easy to understand answer.
How easily sound waves travel through objects depends on a few different factors.
How much energy the sound wave has - how loud it is, but ...
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How can I record frequencies from 0.1 to 20 Hz?
This is not a direct answer to your question. What you need is not a direct answer because in order to carry out your intentions successfully you will need to know exactly what you are doing. ...
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How do sound engineers maintain levels in live performances?
What they said - plus:
If it is well done foldback* is provided to the performers, the variation in distance to the microphone is compensated for by a feedback loop via ears brain and mouth - often ...
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