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Beatport Rocks! (pg. 2)
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| SPANIARD |
| quote: | Originally posted by Djsketchbag
Its not that bad once you know were things are. |
I know how to use it just fine, I just find it unfriendly and poorly executed. The old design was better IMO, much easier to use and none of that restarting business. |
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| Nick Cenik |
| I agree the navigation is frustrating at times but, on the whole, the site serves as a quick avenue for accessing the latest in EDM :) Thumbs up for Beatport ;) |
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| Jer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Djsketchbag
Okay newb here whats clipping ? |
Distortion in the track peak.. Often happens with kicks / cymbal crashes. Without getting too complicated, it's when the peak runs out of room and gets rammed to the ceiling. |
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| El K Dee |
yea with the old beatport, i had a crate full of about 200 or so worth of tracks but didnt want to buy all...they made a list of all my tracks for me in an excel sheet and sent it over (links to tracks included)
got a refund on a track that clipped
but im still waiting on 3 tracks for re download for a few months now because they didnt sync when transfering and a i lost them...still waiting...waiting...wait...ing.. |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jer
Distortion in the track peak.. Often happens with kicks / cymbal crashes. Without getting too complicated, it's when the peak runs out of room and gets rammed to the ceiling. |
Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after.... |
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| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by cammaxwell
Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after.... |
not only have i found clipping but even skips in the track (def not intentional on the production end) |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
not only have i found clipping but even skips in the track (def not intentional on the production end) |
Exactly, I even had a track that just cut out after 10 seconds before....but they fixed it.... |
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| Jer |
| quote: | Originally posted by cammaxwell
Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after.... |
I find more often than not it's ass-backwards and rushed mix engineering that causes distortion and clipping, not so much buggered downloads. I can't see how (unless it's the most remote of cases) re-downloading the same MP3 / WAV will make a difference in the sound quality. |
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| basilisk |
| Do you enjoy being overcharged? I know I don't. Haven't been back to Beatport since Juno introduced bulk pricing (i.e. buy the whole release, save some cash, and even pay less than a CD = mind-blowing concept, apparently). |
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| knacker |
| quote: | Originally posted by basilisk
since Juno introduced bulk pricing |
ya, Juno Download is great -- loads of tunes that are not on beatport... Way too many people only stick to one store and miss a lot of quality music coming out. Not to mention how many non- "exclusive" releases get buried within beatport. |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jer
I find more often than not it's ass-backwards and rushed mix engineering that causes distortion and clipping, not so much buggered downloads. I can't see how (unless it's the most remote of cases) re-downloading the same MP3 / WAV will make a difference in the sound quality. |
That's what I'm saying, the redownloads ARE better so it can't be from the original production, so it must be some kinda of upload/download issue. I'm sure there are some tracks where the mix down was done poorly and therefore have some clipping issues, I don't remember many of them though myself.
Also, the clipping I'm talking about isn't your typical peak clipping......it can be just a random clipping noise. That's another reason I assume it has to do with how Beatport is uploading/preparing a track for sale/download. |
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| Djsketchbag |
| Oh i've never had a problem with tracks sounding distorted the only thing i've noticed is that once in a while a track reads 68 bpm when its really going at like 128. |
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