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Poor audio quality on barefiles.com

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:18 pm
by aircooled
Some of the mixes I have downloaded from barefiles.com suffer from poor audio quality. Sometimes the sub bass distorts, and sometimes there's just lots of crackley shit all the way through. Where does this come from? Is it present in the file, or is it something to do with the download process? I have had to bin lots of great mixes because of this. Help!

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:22 pm
by conspira
Recordings from audio streams and FM!
Don't trash them, they will grow on you.
Peace

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:22 pm
by adruu
yeah check your eq'ing always, and it's recorded from pirate radio so you'll get the crackles and things. honestly i kind of need the crackles now and then, if it sounds too crisp it bugs me.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:31 pm
by deapoh
What they said.

Some mixes are home / studio recorded, mostly the ones posted here so they will be quality. But anything from Radio you can almost gurantee won't be as good quality.

The majority of the Hatcha & Crazy D, N-Type & all the Skream sets are the best radio quality you will get.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:41 pm
by aircooled
Thanks for the tips. I'm playing the new Dub U mix at the moment, clean as! Barefiles is a great site by the way, respect.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 1:34 pm
by robjc
Deapz, did you ever get the paypal thing sorted so we could all contribute?

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 1:55 pm
by deapoh
RobJC wrote:Deapz, did you ever get the paypal thing sorted so we could all contribute?
I went to the bank today and got told to go back tomorrow. Once I open a current account I'll sort it. Thanks so much, if I can get enough money together I'll get a second server otherwise I'll have to put advertisements up and things but hopefully a second one isn't far off.

Thanks for the support.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:54 pm
by dopedragon
dont forget the dodgy amp and needles.

after we get deapoh sorted with the paypal, next on the list should be the rinse studio fund :wink:

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:05 pm
by etidorhpa
Yeah totally get the paypal donate button on the go, its a no pressure way of raising some funds, and i'm sure there'll be a fair few donators out there!
I for one have totally maxed out me harddrive since barefiles emerged.....big up yerself deapoh

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:34 pm
by selector.dub.u
The reason the mix I did sounds so clean is that it was recorded at home. I was not streaming directly at the time.

The funny thing is that some of my favorite recorded dj sets of all time have been from rinse fm at a low bitrate with tons of crackle and static.

In my opinion the sound quality isn't the most important aspect of the process of hearing music through these sets it is mostly about the selection of tunes and then secondarily how they are mixed.
It's funny if the bass isn't perfect or certain sounds are not coming through clearly I just imagine in my mind what the music would sound like on a nice sounding system played live by a dj.


Also it makes the records I buy due to listening to music from these sets even more precious and loved by me. Nothing like getting a well mastered
record , cd or mp3 of music that one loves after hearing a track or song in my favorite djs sets at 96 k or 64 k sound for months.

Primarily though these mixes are being offered free so one of the main responses that comes to my mind is gratitude for the time, effort and love
that everyone involved in this process puts into getting the music to people.

Also putting together fund for the aforementioned services sounds like a great idea.
i.e. Needles and amps for rinse. Money for Deapoh's hosting.
I would surely contribute whenever i have some extra coin.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:42 pm
by deapoh
selector.dub.u wrote:Also it makes the records I buy due to listening to music from these sets even more precious and loved by me. Nothing like getting a well mastered
record , cd or mp3 of music that one loves after hearing a track or song in my favorite djs sets at 96 k or 64 k sound for months.
Wow very true. Thats what I think. I hear it for ages and ages, then I get a vinyl and omg it's high quality and even more stunnin then when I first heard the tune.
selector.dub.u wrote:Primarily though these mixes are being offered free so one of the main responses that comes to my mind is gratitude for the time, effort and love
that everyone involved in this process puts into getting the music to people.
Yes it's a taster of what special tunes will be out in the future or if it's out then it's a reminder of the great tunes rolling and if you want to hear it in high quality then shed a few quid / dollars / your currency and get a piece of plastic / binary of an mp3!

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:56 pm
by boa
sure makes the records sound good when you finally get them tho!

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:04 pm
by alex bk-bk
to be honest you cant comlain can you !

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:59 pm
by djshiva
big up deapoh!

i have just recently gotten into dubstep, and barefiles has been a godsend to hear great tunes and great djs in a place where no one is playing this stuff.

i would gladly send some$$ for barefiles(although would prolly have to do it thru someone else's paypal, since i don't use credit cards or banks...call me a freak...i hate banks...)

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:43 pm
by seckle
ready to send money as soon as you get it sorted deapoh. large! overseas crew shouldn't take anything for granted. if it wasn't for deapoh, boomnoise and few other peeps, none of this would get archived, so give thanks. i'll take any quality audio as long as i can hear the tunes.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:08 pm
by corpsey
Makes it more raw

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:25 pm
by marsyas
who gives a fuk, you rather listen to nothing?

is about saving space too.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:42 pm
by dopedragon
Marsyas wrote:who gives a fuk, you rather listen to nothing?
!BOH!

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:08 pm
by ghettobot
sounds great to me!
thanks to deapoh for all the time you put into it.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:53 pm
by rogue star
Big up Deapoh this guy is a G!!

Neva dis-re-spek it!!