short question: somehow, in a moment of extended stupidity, I have changed my BP download settings to 192 vbr *.aac, instead of 320 cbr *.mp3, way back in september. Yes, I forgot to change it back and it just dawned on me when I got confirmation for a gig in a club with a funktion 1 sound system. I know 192 kbps vbr is shit, but aac can get away with slightly more compression than mp3. So far it wasn’t a problerm since most places had crap sound systems and people were high on a cross section of your average drug store range of goods. No-one cared. This is different and I don’t wanna look like a dork playing audibly low-q tracks.
Do I have to beg BP to allow me to re-DL some 500 tracks in mp3 r can I get away with it? Keep in mind I will be playing the first 3 hours, so the club won’t be crowded and people won’t be drunk yet.
God I am not looking forward to re-gridding everything, setting 8x500 cue points again, losing all my playlists etc…
Have a look in your BP account and there should be a section that allows you to download the tracks again. Might be easier to install their little app to do it though.
Yeah I know but I was just wondering why -7.2dB? Very specific number! ha
But yeah at 192 you’d be pretty safe, it’s unlikely someone will notice and even if they do they would blame the system before they blame you.. Unless they’re a regular haha
On trial and error I discover that. At that output volume you can push a xone mixer to +3 on peaks and not having distortion and on pioneer mixers as well on the gains. Those ah mixers really like to be above 0.
Yes, warmup is usually a little less loud than the main act (which are ear-busting loud). No regulars, every night they invite new dj’s. Jeff Mills coming up next sat! Woot!
I will do that -7.3 db thing! I am SO relieved. I will also try to replace the old 192’s by 320’s one by one in the next few months.
