[DECtalk] New Red Dwarf MP3 files

[Jayson Smith]

Hi there,
Actually for the Red Dwarf files I didn't do any mixing at all.  I use APH
Studio Recorder for most of my sound editing work.  It doesn't have much in
the way of effects, but it gets the job done quite nicely for sound editing.
For the Red Dwarf music, I took the mp3 music from Shaun, then converted it
to wav and downsampled it to 11025, mono.  Still 16-bit.  That's what the
DECtalk produces at its best.  To use Studio Recorder's Insert Wave feature,
the files must be in the same format, so that takes care of that.  So I
converted each episode to wav, then got to the point just after DECtalk
spoke the episode name, then inserted the music.  That's about all there was
to it.  Also, the MP3 specs for these files are 11025, 16-bit, 16 KBPS,
Mono.  I used high quality, not sure what others used.
As far as mixing jobs, what I do and recommend is to use something like
Cakewalk or Sonar, E.G. an actual multi-track studio program.  What you do
is to put each element of the final product on its own track.  Then, you
have independent volume controls for each element, and thus you can play
around, making adjustments here and there until it sounds good.  Then you do
a mixdown to create the final product, or something that will be very close
to it.
Hope this helps.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at jaybird.no-ip.info>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] New Red Dwarf MP3 files


> Hi.  I am not a Red Dwarf fan, although I did listen to an episode
> once.  Yes, I would be interested in how you did the mixing.  Do you use
> Sound Forge or something else?  The biggest problem I have when mixing
> music with speech, such as the Daisy music with your text file is
> clipping.  I lower the volumes, but then either the music is too quiet or
> there is still clipping in the source, i.e. the speech.  Any help in how
to
> mix correctly while still getting decent volume and no clipping would be
> very, bery helpful.  The best I've found is that I lower volumes on both
> source and destination a lot and raise the volume when it's done, but even
> then I think sometimes the music is too loud and drowns out the
> speech.  Yes, please give an overview if you don't mind.  I suggest
posting
> on list because it will get archived.
> Tony Baechler
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