That's hot.nebulae wrote: it literally feels like my eardrums are being lathered in butter when I listen to it.
define "warm"
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I don't know, I'm not sure pro audio gear has any audible aliasing at all - considering the absolute minimum a pro studio will work at is 96Khz. I just think that nothing in the DA-AD process colours the signal, at least not favourably.
It's good we are in this situation though, it means we can choose whether or not to add this type of process. I'm sure engineers in the past fought for many hours to try and cut down on excessive harmonics and noise.
It's good we are in this situation though, it means we can choose whether or not to add this type of process. I'm sure engineers in the past fought for many hours to try and cut down on excessive harmonics and noise.
but then we're back to warm=roll-off - in this case wrt the nyquist theorem.Angstrom wrote:which is why (I think) DSP aliasing is often the cause of 'non-warmth' , as it produces non musical harmonics.Funkstar De Luxe wrote:'Warm' is merely a light, pleasant form of harmonically related distortion. Everyone else is talking shit about things they don't fully understand or can't articulate. As per usual
Edit: And no, cable type will not affect your recordings unless 1) They are broken or 2) Are picking up interference (ie, not properly shielded). You can run simple test to prove this with RMAA http://audio.rightmark.org/
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Funkstar De Luxe wrote:I don't know, I'm not sure pro audio gear has any audible aliasing at all - considering the absolute minimum a pro studio will work at is 96Khz. I just think that nothing in the DA-AD process colours the signal, at least not favourably.
It's good we are in this situation though, it means we can choose whether or not to add this type of process. I'm sure engineers in the past fought for many hours to try and cut down on excessive harmonics and noise.
I think most people would be a bit upset if their hardware was aliasing these days
Ableton Operator meanwhile uses aliasing as a selling point!
Lots of bedroom coded VST / VSTi feature aliasing in many areas (intentionally or unintentionally) and get used by laptop musicians.
Which means that 'cold' digital sounds are still prevalent and popular. So I think of 'warm' as featuring few digital artefacts and musical harmonics, 'cold' as featuring many non-musical harmonics.
Just because someone has the best hardware doesn't mean they won't then use the ring mod off a freeware VSTi through that alias-free hardware!
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The +40 crowd RULES!nebulae wrote:I'm right there with ya, brutha.Sibanger wrote:Man, you'll soon see how old I am. You are sooo close.
Yep, that would be hot flushes.
It doesn't take much these days.
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"Warm" is saying something while actually saying nothing, often used by manufacturers but also very diplomatic expression- someone asks you how "does it sound", it sucks, but you dont want to hurt anyones feeling then "sounds warm" will work, you don't lie and you dont antagonise, "interesting" is another good expression.
I find "thin" much more powerful, the most abusing word in this industry, it does not says much, difficult to challange , but it hurts badly and can be applied to anything hardware, software, song, mix, band, voice.....
I find "thin" much more powerful, the most abusing word in this industry, it does not says much, difficult to challange , but it hurts badly and can be applied to anything hardware, software, song, mix, band, voice.....