Creative's X-Fi 24bit Crystaliser & live gigs

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Posted by Tarpex on Mar-19-2007 18:42:

Creative's X-Fi 24bit Crystaliser & live gigs

Ok, this is a bugger. Could the feature that makes the sound so much more pleasant to hear on home audio system, wreak havoc on loudspeakers?

My best mate & i had a gig past weekend and we started with plastic angel - call the galaxy taxi (martin roth's nu-style mix), which has quite a "heavy" bassline, the famous crystaliser was on, and later we've had reports that the sound was distorted like hell (we couldn't hear it in the booth beacause of lousy monitor and disastrous accustics) for the first track.

Could the sub-quality sound system in the club be blamed for this, or did the crystaliser did something nasty with the sound? (320kbps standard beatport quality)

I'm really confused here, any ideas?

Greetz!

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Mar-19-2007 18:45:

That kind of things should never, ever be used anywhere.

Posted by david.michael on Mar-20-2007 14:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
That kind of things should never, ever be used anywhere.

+1

Especially on a loud club system. Oh my...

Posted by djthunderbird on Mar-20-2007 19:58:

why why why why why

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2...x-fi-part2.html

Posted by |Thrax| on Mar-20-2007 20:18:

In short, yes it will make it sound like shit..

The clubs have tons and tons of amps and it is very processed and tweeked already.. using a piece of software that digitally alters the output is very bad.

Posted by cmay119 on Mar-21-2007 05:18:

Never use the crystalizer feature on any audio source that's already of great or better quality (I.E. 320Kbps MP3, OGG-Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, ect.)

The crystalizer function was intended to be used on crappy 128kbps mp3 files to 'enhance' them. And that itself is also very subjective. I own the X-Fi, I however, have Crystalizer disabled.