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Why did the size of my flac file increase after cropping?

I have a sound recording roughly 40 minutes long at 24bit 96khz. I've found that after trimming off about 40 seconds total of leading and trailing silence (well, quiet background hiss to be precise) from the original WAV and encoding to flac, the…
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Good references for learning Mixing?

I am learning how to mix and there is a lot to it. What are some good online references or places I can learn how to mix? When I say learning how to mix, I don't mean so much the beginning technical side of it. I am more talking about the…
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Who's using an Ebow and how?

Never used one before but am interested - does it only work on stringed instruments? Can I use it on anything that can resonate, say a metal table leg or piece of wood? Does it feed out of 1/4" jack or something?
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Designing the sound of a 20" *ahem*... "Member"

So I'm currently posting a rather dark comedic short and well the title beats around the bush but I need to design the movements of a flaccid enormous cock to put it quite bluntly... I have a particular sound in mind already: I've tried filling…
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What do you use for passbys?

What plugins/techniques du you use? I make TONS of passbys in my work (space ships, cars etc), and i'm always looking to improve my sounds. Thanks:)
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Can you force a mic/input to be one channel on Mac OS?

I've got an Alesis iO2 Express and a Samson c01 mic plugged into my Mac. The Alesis provides two channels of input, one for each of the mic inputs available on the device. If you plug the mic into the left input, you get sound through the left…
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How is this mix so clean?

How is this production so clean?? Literally every single sound sounds so clear and distinct from every other sound. I've tried many times to get my mixes sounding even half as clean as this, but it always resulted in cutting off half of the…
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How do you identify clicks and pops in a spectral analysis?

I'm not a music guy, but I do use Adobe Audition from time to time for noise removal from interviews. I'm working with some particularly bad audio digitized from old audio-graph recordings, which is a bit too much for the automatic noise reduction…
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Is there a restart via gate type option in FM8?

FM8 seems to change timbre at random on different midi hits. Massive also does this, but you can change the restart via gate option so that the oscillators always start at the same phase each hit. In FM synthesis, this free running oscilator type…
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Can I edit sound as fourier transformations?

Classical waveform isn't very practical for editing. For me, it's not even helpful for viewing. All I can tell is amplitude and some guess about pitch: Maybe not even that - one of these is e and other is E, but they look almost the same. There's…
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FMOD Studio/Wwise vs Unity 5/UE4 Audio?

All right, I'm a bit confused in general about audio middleware. I'm a composer/sound designer and I was under the impression that you need middleware like FMOD to implement audio/music into games. However, many people I know have said that with the…
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Old Movie Phasing

I have noticed that many older movies (Late 70's and before) shown on tv have a subltle phasing sound that runs thru the entire track. It sounds like maybe the stereo track is being summed or is out of phase, but I'm not sure. Anyone else notice…
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Building a modern radio studio

Hope this isn't a question that's been asked a thousand times before! I've been press-ganged into building a new 'portable' studio for a non-profit community radio station. Unfortunately I've never built something like this from scratch before, and…
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Low electronic noise in my audio

Hello and thankyou in advance for helping me. I've been having some audio issues for the past few months and I have no idea how to get rid of it. I've tried getting a new mixer and that didn't work. Got new cables and it didn't work. I have no idea…
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Audacity causing unwanted artifacts for high frequency sounds

I tried generating two nearly inaudible tones in Audacity, with frequencies 16 kHz and 18 kHz. (With a sampling rate of 48 kHz, I also tried this at 44.1 kHz) Playing each in isolation results in a high frequency tone, as expected. But when they are…
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