I have received a few complaints about my seeds being ridden with FM hiss. Well, I believe mines are (mostly) great FM recordings, but in case you are all welcome to ask Lewojazz, unclewolfi, joerg, hamhen, boldsouls or others to upload their mp2 versions, or wait for the remastered version by jazzrita or anyone else. Anyhow, check samples before downloading. Or post your own version if you believe it's better... it has to be made clear that dimer boldsouls confirmed that every glitch, gap, skip or "hole" you might hear in the recording are also present in the satellite broadcast [this was the case for umbria 2008 recordings, from past year]. also, from dimer hamhen: Hello, you mentioned in the torrent description that there were complaints about FM hiss - I can assure you that the digital broadcasts are sometimes hissy as well. I cannot tell if that is the case with this broadcast at this time (my satellite antenna is installed at my parent's house). But, for example, the Don Byron/ Uri Caine set from Luras, 2008-08-14, had quite an mount of background hiss in the digital broadcast version as well. This may be on the original masters, as we should consider that some of the concerts are not recorded under ideal studio conditions but in outdoor venues, for example. All in all, you should not worry about the complaints! 20-01-2010 GREAT NEWS!!! after months of complaints, jazzrita finally admitted the following: after comparing your fm recording with my mp2 i have to tell you: the flaw isn't your fm receiving but the hissy recording of the rai sound people! it is really crazy! MONO disclaimer !!!! 2010-03-12 : with the help of dimer rillenheini, we recently found out that some or many or all of the RAI shows from Sant'Anna Arresi 2009 were probably recorded in mono, to be later broadcast as "stereo" (RAI are supposed to be recording and broadcast in full stereo) - I am not certain if this applies to this specific torrent too, I have no will or time to go and check every torrent one by one, but it might also be the case. Please consider that this is what was broadcast by RAI, if this is mono I believe there is no stereo version available, I have no specific confirmation but I have reason to think that also the satellite/cable broadcasts are exactly the same. Point is.... if you believe this is not good or satisfatory, don't hassle me but complain with RAI - I am just spreading this. #4036949 by survivor69 at 2010-06-04 13:36:23 GMT >But why did you make track splits for a seamless performance that fits on one CD, when you admit that you don't know where the different compositions start or stop? because: A) I don't like long tracks, seamless performances, uninterrupted soloing and so on... do you actually play an 80 mins CD without any interruption? trackmarks are useful if you have to go to the toilet or answering the phone... B) "we are told it is instead three separate compositions, three proper tracks, fused together, one by each musician" - so that some of you should also provide us with some title... I only know Deep Purple, Raibow and Whitesnake, me, not Seamus Blake... anyhow, they play "seamless", you shouldn't notice any interruption when you play them (both as cd or as flacs), there is no gap between them, so you have no real grounds for "complaining", if you hear any gaps it means your mediaplayer or your burning software are not set-up properly note that due to disk space limitations, I will not be able to keep seeding this torrent for a long time - I will abandon the seed in a few days, maybe remove from HD these wav/flac files, and keep only my own CDR. Too many things to upload. In case of seeders going missing, enlist yourself as a leecher and some seeder will come back, and you are anyhow welcome to try and ask for additional torrenting... checksum file included - if uploaded on other trackers or reseed (and you are welcome to do both), please include original infofile and also do not change FOLDER name. Also, if not satisfied with my offering, you are welcome to remaster/retrack/whatever and repost, but please always clearly state where/who did you have this material from and keep original infofile. IF YOU ARE THEN OFFERING THIS SET ON YOUR BLOG AS mp3's, PLEASE SPECIFY WHERE TO ALSO GET THE ORIGINAL LOSSLESS FILES OVERBURNING : #5276664 by Simmdale at 2012-03-13 20:05:59 GMT Hey again jmz93... you can do overburning on a cd-r. Each manufacturer makes their cdr's a little different. One of the things that usually differ is the max capacity of the cdr, hence the max you can overburn depends on the cdr manufacturer. The best way of finding the cdr capacity is to use Feurio (www.feurio.com). It has a function called CDR capacity test, that attempts to burn a very large file to a cdr in simulaiton mode. When the burn fails the program simply subtracts the space needed to succesfully complete the lead out, and whoalla you have the max capacity of the cdr in minutes and seconds. Also, overburning depends on your actual cd-r burner that you have and are using... this matters a great deal. Overburn 2-3 min is POSSIBLE. Possibility depends on your burner. Quality/reliability depends on the media, and success decreases when overburn time increases. Overburn 5 min is not possible with 80 min/700 MB media. A new burner will not help. By wide margin... Lite-On and Plextor are the best writers you can buy. And, both do overburning very well. Most agree Lite-On is the very best of all though, especially for overburning. And, burn speed is also a factor to it. You can do online search to find all the specifics about that. Also, they are newer cd-r's being made now by some manufacturers that are 90 and 99 minutes in length to be burned on them. Most of the 90-min & 99-min ones can be bought from here: http://www.yesbuy.net/ A 50-pack 90-min CD cost $25, and a 50-pack 99-min CD cost $30. Their 80-min CD are not too bad either. A 100-pack 80-min CD cost only $15. Anyway... thought that I would mention all of that to you. Because, if you are using the a capable burner and kind of cd-r that allows it, an overburn of 80:30 should be EASILY done. Check on all of that though... Fight the Loudness War! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war use No compression in the post-processing of recordings to preserve dynamic range, listenability and authenticity. Actually, it would be better not using post-processing at all. MP2 >sorry for the ignorance, but this is the first time ive encountered your file format (mp2)?? The file sizes dont seem to be lossless. Nor will Xact process these in any way. >Can you add a little assistance on the what file format youve created and shared? it's not me who invented it or created, it's called mp2 and it's like mp3, in this case at 192kbps, in other cases it could be at 256 or also 320 (or 128 and 92kbps) and it's not lossless, of course, but lossy... LOSSY SOURCE SEEDED ON ORIGINAL LOSSY CODEC satellite broadcasts (DVB-S), cable brodcasts (DVB-C), or in this case terrestrial broadcast radio (DVB-T), where DVB stands for Digital Video Broadacast, are ALL in "digital" format, which means lossy. you might see them circulate converted as flacs, but they are lossy anyhow as the source IS lossy... so, here is the original source X-Act is for macs? not my field of expertise, on windows they can be easily replayed with almost every media player (foobar, vlc, winamp), burning them to an audio cdr could be a little trickier, I use "burnatonce 0.99.5", other prefer to convert them first to wav and then burn... #6225442 by tom_phillips at 2013-11-29 09:14:10 GMT In remastering this concert, I started using dbPoweramp to convert the mp2 to wav, but was surprised that it did not sound nearly as good as Foobar2000 converted files (what you have here). I also then tried Audacity and it was even poorer, both for mp2 and 48 > 44.1k conversions, the latter being significantly poorer to Audition (3 or 5) - Nero is poorer too for the 48 > 44.1k conversion. The purpose of this comment is to encourage others to try the same as there is IMHO no doubt that the SW tools used can affect the sound quality. #6419444 by tom_phillips at 2014-04-17 07:17:02 GMT This post is in no way meant to criticise the dedicated hard work of other previous posters, but highlights again that the digital tools used can make a difference to the quality throughout the editing chain. I researched several recording tools (including Total Recorder) before choosing i-Sound as giving the best SQ - as other Dimers have done since. Other 'best SQ' tools I have found are foobar2000 (mp2 > wav conversion) and Audition (48k > 44.1k) Private message 1852814 from bombdiggity on 2014-01-14 18:41:29 GMT The RAI digital broadcasts definitely suffer from their 192 kbs format, so I'd not post if there is some chance it can (or would then) be upgraded/obsolete. I'd be happy to edit your FM recording if it didn't seem worthy of your time.
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