nyone hear crackley distortion on 'Dance of the Goblins'

I was just listening back to the mp3 of my latest piece and heard
some audio artifacts that were not meant to be there.

I do not know whether it is a problem with my headphones
[unfortunately I d not have an amplifier at the moment] or is
actually recorded on the mp3.

Did anyone else hear any crackly sounds that sounded like they
should not be there?

Justin

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justintonation wrote:

> Did anyone else hear any crackly sounds that sounded like they
> should not be there?

I usually find it's because the volume's too high on the MP3 player.

Graham

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., graham@m... wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <ac1sr6+ecej@e...>
> justintonation wrote:
>
> > Did anyone else hear any crackly sounds that sounded like
they
> > should not be there?
>
> I usually find it's because the volume's too high on the MP3
player.
>
>
> Graham

Thanks Graham I have listened again and it is not the same
each time. So it is not an atifact I am hearing. Turning the mp3
player down did indeed help.

Catharsis Wrote:
<Yes. Probably a mix fix.. Keep it coming... the mix is a little dry
and
the part that comes in at 1:34 is jarring like a bunch Goblins.>

Yep, once I get my amp made I will concentrate on this. Devote
more tim to mastering that is. I tend not to use many
affects/reverb if any. Perhaps it is time to have a play in that
arena.

Justin

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jacky_ligon" <jacky_ligon@y...>
wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "justintonation"
<JUSTINTONATION@H...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was just listening back to the mp3 of my latest piece and
heard
> > some audio artifacts that were not meant to be there.
> >
> > I do not know whether it is a problem with my headphones
> > [unfortunately I d not have an amplifier at the moment] or is
> > actually recorded on the mp3.
> >
> > Did anyone else hear any crackly sounds that sounded like
they
> > should not be there?
> >
> > Justin

> Justin,

> Really enjoyed your tune! Was that done with FM perhaps?

Thanks! There were some FM timbres which were made in The
FM section of Metasynth. I used Metasynth to create all the
parts/sounds and then just multi tracked them into an
arrangement. There is a lot of use of sine waves and harmonics
of melodic lines. Perhaps that is what you are hearing? I know
FM can sound very bright and that is a type of sound I like.

> On the disortion thing, I might suggest that when you normalize
your
> tracks, don't normalize to 0 dBs, but rather to something like -.3
> dBs. This will help to avoid digital distortion, which is the most
> unforgiving kind I know. Just a few samples above 0 dBs in a
digital
> file will cause audible distortion, where in an analog recording,
one
> can drive it 'into the red' and it still sounds good - almost like a
> natural kind of compression.

Thanks for the advise Jacky. I am very new to this. But I have
noticed this on all the tracks I have made so far. It always seems
to be more apparent when I bounce to MP3 than when I am
working in audio .

> J:L