smear them to heaven

Every once in a while I peak into the ProSoundWeb mastering forum. Today I spotted this delicious quote from a post by Jeff Dinces talking about the problem of poor sound quality in mixes.

some braniac marketeers proffer the notion that one could take tizzy aliased little square waves and smear them to heaven by sticking a tube on the end.

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Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence

By compelling audiences to listen more closely, “No Country for Old Men” has had the effect of calling attention to an underappreciated aspect of filmmaking: the use of sound.

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The article makes note of the lack of music in the sound design. Years of being manipulated by music have left us ready for this trend. I first noted it in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days when I saw it this past summer at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Rip enhanced CDs with help from Disk Utility

I recently tried to rip an “enhanced” CD (Andrea Bocelli – Sentimento) in iTunes, but it didn’t see the CD since it mounted as a data CD and wanted to show me the content through a controlled player. However, I discovered that I could go into Disk Utility and mount just the Audio CD part of the CD, and iTunes saw it instantly and could rip it …
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Visit Mac OS X Hints for more. Now since we’re pros here you’ll know that we’re ripping using Apple Lossless or Wave. ;-]