Hey everyone,

Ive got a quick question... at the moment i am not playing out but i may try and get involved in the future.. i know Riley & Durrant are very impressed with a mix CD i sent them!!

Currently i am using cd's only and i have a rather large collection, i have been purchased my files from beatport and audiojelly, most are 192 and a few are 320 mp3 files.

In the last few months since beatmatching has become second nature i have been spending more time adjusting the gain on the tracks to try and keep the output levels on the master roughly the same throughout the set.
I read a few posts on here and noted that people were saying to have your cd's containing WAV files instead of mp3.

Can anyone tell me what the best WAV file is to use ie, 8 bit, 16 bit 24 bit etc and if 44.100 kHz stereo quality is going to be good.
Also any other info i would need in relation to file quality etc would be appreciated

I will probably use jet-audio to convert the files, in relation to the 320 and 192 mp3 files that i have, will the conversion make them all the same quality so i wont need to mess around with the gain during the mix all the time as i am thinking that the reason behind adjusting the levels all the time is becasue the files on the cd are not the same quality.. i am not very technically educated when it comes to this stuff so advice would be very helpful.


Many Thanks and Happy Christmas to all

Dan

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Originally posted by UniversalNation Hey everyone, Ive got a quick question... at the moment i am not playing out but i may try and get involved in the future.. i know Riley & Durrant are very impressed with a mix CD i sent them!! Currently i am using cd's only and i have a rather large collection, i have been purchased my files from beatport and audiojelly, most are 192 and a few are 320 mp3 files. In the last few months since beatmatching has become second nature i have been spending more time adjusting the gain on the tracks to try and keep the output levels on the master roughly the same throughout the set. I read a few posts on here and noted that people were saying to have your cd's containing WAV files instead of mp3.

is your cdj able to play mp3 files? so you have the tunes as mp3s on the cds and not as audio? i'd advise burning everything as audio to avoid any confusion.

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Originally posted by UniversalNation Can anyone tell me what the best WAV file is to use ie, 8 bit, 16 bit 24 bit etc and if 44.100 kHz stereo quality is going to be good. Also any other info i would need in relation to file quality etc would be appreciated

i think cd is 16bit 44.100kHz, so having a file better than that isn't really wise, because you have no way of playing it on that better quality

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Originally posted by UniversalNation I will probably use jet-audio to convert the files, in relation to the 320 and 192 mp3 files that i have, will the conversion make them all the same quality so i wont need to mess around with the gain during the mix all the time as i am thinking that the reason behind adjusting the levels all the time is becasue the files on the cd are not the same quality.. i am not very technically educated when it comes to this stuff so advice would be very helpful. Many Thanks and Happy Christmas to all Dan

converting an mp3 to wav won't increase its quality in any way. you cannot come up with data that is lost (mp3 compression takes away some of the sound data). you still have to tweak the gains as with everything, this has nothing to do with wav/mp3/cd/vinyl really. some tracks are just louder than others, because of many reasons. of course it'd be possible and nice if all tracks would be as loud as every other track, but that's just not the case and you can't do anything about it really. adjusting the gains can't be that much of a problem!

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