Re: [LAU] mp3 codec question

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 11 2013 - 22:05:23 EET

On 02/11/2013 09:35 AM, Aaron L. wrote:
> OK.....
>
> Friend sends rough mix of drums and bass in mp3 form.
>
> Tells me to record new guitars to this.....(he expects a wav file in
> return).
>
> This "master in mp3 form" makes me a bit nervous. Why?
>
> Because I don't know enough about the mp3 encoding process.........
>
> Is it "lossy" simply because it rounds-off stuff?
>
> Or does it actually drop samples (like various lossy video encoders?)
>
> If so, the wav file that I send him could get weird sample-wise when he
> imports it into the "real" session, no?
>
> Am I picking nits here?

My guess is he sent you an MP3 version (for you to play to) of something
that he has in WAV format in his audio workstation. So you just record
your track in WAV and send that to him, he'll pull it into his DAW and
align things with the original WAV.

-- 
David
gnome@email-addr-hidden
authenticity, honesty, community
http://clanjones.org/david/
http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Tue Feb 12 00:15:08 2013

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Feb 12 2013 - 00:15:08 EET