Oct 19, 2007 01:13 pm I think that there is an option in most media players that will automatically level the sound. See if it's in the ripping options, or if its just a playback option that you can uncheck.
sorta off topic, but a "pulsing" playback?
Posted on Oct 19, 2007 12:08 pm
kennethwsmithjr
The Eternal Student
Member Since: Oct 08, 2005
folks, I have a strange question, I've got a bunch of cd's that i've ripped to iTunes, but when I play it back over my speakers, I can definitely hear a "pulse" sort of thing going on in the volume, like the sound is actively being damped at somewhat regular points.
Is this a result of a "smashed" album? Has anybody else heard this happening on their systems? I will say the overall level of the songs I can really hear it on is quite a bit higher than ones that don't "seem" to pulse. I guess I'm curious as to if I'm hitting a hardware limit and it's compensating or this is just crappy mixing? The CDs, specifically (among a couple others) is Project 86: Rival Factions and Skillet: Comatose.
I'm just playing it over a laptop soundcard and logitech x-540's.
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Oct 19, 2007 01:13 pm I think that there is an option in most media players that will automatically level the sound. See if it's in the ripping options, or if its just a playback option that you can uncheck.
Oct 19, 2007 01:25 pm yeah, checked the playback thing, it's not checked, but it might be in the ripping? I'll poke around...
Oct 19, 2007 09:02 pm Also check to see if you have the Variable Bit Rate on. When some of the compression formats uses that it can sometimes have a bad effect on the way a tune sounds. Not very common but something to look at.
Oct 19, 2007 11:01 pm nope, no variable bit rate... although, itunes has a
"smart encode" thing that was checked... perhaps their "smart encode" means they damp the signal? Wouldn't surprise me, some crappy feature like that from apple.
lol, I also increased the bitrate to 192kbps to see if the "lossy" ripping was making a difference...
Oct 19, 2007 11:06 pm The smart encode may be a variable bit rate encoding and probably is. Try not using it and see if that helps.
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