#4 About sound quality and streaming compression
Hello everyone!
We wanted to share with you some thoughts about the way a music can sound based on its compression.
We always try to render our sounds in the best quality possible as in "You were here with us" when we play. We always records our sounds live and sometimes add some editing to make it better, but as we listened to our music on different streaming platform such as Spotify or Google Play music etc, we noticed that most of the time, the result was a little off, even not really good sometimes.
While not everyone care about the sound quality and or having the full render of what it looked like in the studio (because sometimes we just want music as background or whatever).
But a simple and major difference we noticed, even when listening to streaming was the sound output.
Simply switching to a mono device like a "ChromeCast" or a low quality earphone (Like earpods, sorry Apple) to a cheap Seinheiser headset was making a huge quality difference.
And for us, music is about moods and feelings we have on the moment, that we want to share because that's a part of us and having them chopped and degraded by a poor hardware will definitely harm the message we want to share.
We understand that for some it does not really matter because it's more about the message in lyrics, or the technicality of the instruments played or whatever, but for us, carrying the most about the wave that only music can provide us to ride, knowing that you can have the same feeling as we did really matters.
If you are still here, good let's go into more technical stuff:
We render our music in flac uncompressed, while we do that our setup is set to 24bits, 96000Hz.
Usually, streaming services will render a music in 16bits, 44100Hz, the bits difference will restrict the number of tonal levels you will be able to hear, and the Hz will refer to the amount of "Sample"(Block of 16/24 bits of sound) that the file can render per seconds. 16Bits will mean 65 536 levels, and 24bits raise that to 16,777,216.
For most of peoples this won't matter, and the main reason for that is the hardware.
It doesn't matter if you have the best quality input, if your output isn't capable of rendering it, you will be left with the same quality as with low quality input.
To resume, the better the quality of your hardware, the better the quality of your input(source files) can be. Having a better sound quality will get you closer to "real sound" as if you were here with us.
But don't feel that you have to buy really expensive stuff to be able to listen to music, with a relatively cheap Headset (around 70$) you will have a vast improvements over a 15 or 30$ one.
The same goes for TV or speakers, paying just that little extra will give you so much more.
The things we noticed with sound is that if you go to the cheapest you will have a bad result, but you don't have to go overboard, the difference between cheap and good is 1000% better than good and expensive.
And sadly, this is the same for live performance, we have been to countless of bad performances that were not due to the artist but of the setup and Acoustic of the place, that can range from a simple party to a movie to a large scale concert.
And if by any chance, this small text motivated you to buy or use a better hardware, then we hope you can try it we all other kind of music and media, as sound is one of our most used senses and we should not forget about it.
All in all, if you have listened to our music we hope you had the best experience you could, we try to move you to another world and you listening to us as if we were in the same room make that possible.
> This was a prescription from Dr Rice and Dr Psilo (The Hyper Electric Doctors of the Sound).
Your best Auditory sensory remedy is a good Hardware, a good setup will allow you to enjoy the best musical therapy experience in a optimal listening at best of its effects.
We wanted to share with you some thoughts about the way a music can sound based on its compression.
We always try to render our sounds in the best quality possible as in "You were here with us" when we play. We always records our sounds live and sometimes add some editing to make it better, but as we listened to our music on different streaming platform such as Spotify or Google Play music etc, we noticed that most of the time, the result was a little off, even not really good sometimes.
While not everyone care about the sound quality and or having the full render of what it looked like in the studio (because sometimes we just want music as background or whatever).
But a simple and major difference we noticed, even when listening to streaming was the sound output.
Simply switching to a mono device like a "ChromeCast" or a low quality earphone (Like earpods, sorry Apple) to a cheap Seinheiser headset was making a huge quality difference.
And for us, music is about moods and feelings we have on the moment, that we want to share because that's a part of us and having them chopped and degraded by a poor hardware will definitely harm the message we want to share.
We understand that for some it does not really matter because it's more about the message in lyrics, or the technicality of the instruments played or whatever, but for us, carrying the most about the wave that only music can provide us to ride, knowing that you can have the same feeling as we did really matters.
If you are still here, good let's go into more technical stuff:
We render our music in flac uncompressed, while we do that our setup is set to 24bits, 96000Hz.
Usually, streaming services will render a music in 16bits, 44100Hz, the bits difference will restrict the number of tonal levels you will be able to hear, and the Hz will refer to the amount of "Sample"(Block of 16/24 bits of sound) that the file can render per seconds. 16Bits will mean 65 536 levels, and 24bits raise that to 16,777,216.
For most of peoples this won't matter, and the main reason for that is the hardware.
It doesn't matter if you have the best quality input, if your output isn't capable of rendering it, you will be left with the same quality as with low quality input.
To resume, the better the quality of your hardware, the better the quality of your input(source files) can be. Having a better sound quality will get you closer to "real sound" as if you were here with us.
But don't feel that you have to buy really expensive stuff to be able to listen to music, with a relatively cheap Headset (around 70$) you will have a vast improvements over a 15 or 30$ one.
The same goes for TV or speakers, paying just that little extra will give you so much more.
The things we noticed with sound is that if you go to the cheapest you will have a bad result, but you don't have to go overboard, the difference between cheap and good is 1000% better than good and expensive.
And sadly, this is the same for live performance, we have been to countless of bad performances that were not due to the artist but of the setup and Acoustic of the place, that can range from a simple party to a movie to a large scale concert.
And if by any chance, this small text motivated you to buy or use a better hardware, then we hope you can try it we all other kind of music and media, as sound is one of our most used senses and we should not forget about it.
All in all, if you have listened to our music we hope you had the best experience you could, we try to move you to another world and you listening to us as if we were in the same room make that possible.
> This was a prescription from Dr Rice and Dr Psilo (The Hyper Electric Doctors of the Sound).
Your best Auditory sensory remedy is a good Hardware, a good setup will allow you to enjoy the best musical therapy experience in a optimal listening at best of its effects.
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