Processing your sound for output.

[Fatlimey]

In the past I have been a supporter of outputting your sound raw and untouched to the amp and letting the music producer be the person to say how the music sounds. Let the engineer be the engineer. But now I am starting to have my doubts. I was wrong, and the postprocessing crew may have a point (Let me apologise if I offended anyone in the back and forth).

Take for instance this example. Sasha and Digweed on a Radio program playing two tracks. The first track is:

George Delkos - Deftoner

Here is the track raw from Beatport:

Deftoner on Beatport

And here is same the track from their radio show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2TYG-2u9WY

The difference is astonishing. The beatport copy sounds flat and a bit "Meh" and I wouldn't look twice at it, much less buy it. Meanwhile their radio version is zinging, full and dripping with their trademark heavy groove. This is why I always search out the tracks I hear and I can never recreate the energy of their mixes - they process the shit out of them. Even given that Radio sources usually compress signals somewhat, that doesn't explain all of the juicyness of their sound. They have something pumping the mid and high end of their output.

I'd love to know what they use... Anyone?

EDIT: Yes, I know Beatport previews usually tend to lose some of the high end but so does Youtube - both the streams are compressed, so I argue that my comparison is valid. There's more to it than just "more hihat". Also, before judging make sure the two versions of the track are playing at similar high volumes and tell me what you think.

[Rumblejazz]

to be fair the beatport copy is 96kbs.......i dunno, they kinda sound the same to me

*shrug*

in fact listening again the beatport sounds better to me ears...........

.......just my input. not trying to cause an arguement or anything, when i read the post i thought i'd be agreeing with you

:|

[silver fox]

i agree that the radio version sounds better... its got more....zazzz

but as Rumblejazz says the beatport version is fairly low quality
but i thought they upped it to 128Kbps??

[Rumblejazz]

nerp i definitely read on the beatport blog it was "upped" to 96 kpbs

[silver fox]

ewww..... i guess its better than 64 lol