Check Out The New Tone Chart

[StrangeDay]

Re: Check Out The New Tone Chart

Great improvements! Although I won't be able to read it in meetings at work now that the print is larger...

A couple of tweaks:
1. Lose the Pro/Players choice - tone is tone
2. Maybe instead of cubes/flames, a standard/hot/nuclear rating - I'm not saying millivolts, but something a little more informative than fire/ice
3. I still don't agree with the CC eq ratings!!!! I'll post on that later Still should be more like 4/8/6

I agree with you - especially on the CC ratings. To me it is more like 4/8/5.

 

[Fusion1]

Re: Check Out The New Tone Chart

Hans, actually you can encode Mp3's with Mp3 PRo at a super low bitrate without much loss in quality. Check out this audio recording I made as a bootleg from a concert I went to recently using a crappy Philips RUSH Mp3/voice recorder.

The recorder was set at it's proprietary "HIGH QUALITY" setting of 60kb/s. I then converted that over to .wav, and then encoded that to 20kb/s 16 bit, 16,000HZ MP3 PRo. This is only a 1 minute sample, but look at the file size... 147kb!!!!! And no the sound sounds damn good to me considering this was a crappy recording to begin with.

1 minute sound sample

Basically I recorded the concert in 2 parts and the first is an hour long and basically only 10 megabytes, and the second is slightly less than an hour and only 8.7 megabytes. Not too shabby huh?

 

[hans-jürgen]

Re: Check Out The New Tone Chart

Right, I know mp3PRO very well, too, because I use it for the newer demo samples of my band on my homepage, but I wouldn't recommend it for the Seymour Duncan site with probably thousands of visitors who don't know how to install the necessary Winamp plugin and how to handle it properly (i.e. uninstall or disable it when having to use the normal in_mp3.dll).

Furthermore I'm sure that these special samples with only one guitar will cause more problems (i.e. show more coding artifacts) than a normal piece of music where there are better chances to mask them. Like I mentioned before I tested normal MP3 at 64 kbps/mono for my samples, and it clearly wasn't good enough. If you're interested in more info (e.g. about the coding efficiency of Spectral Band Replication / SBR), we can discuss this per email, since I've been involved in the development of an open source codec for almost two years. But let's not hijack this thread with more propeller-head stuff...