My Mix of 'Talk To Me Baby'

[davemcg61]

So the reverb over the stop before the second chorus is just snare and toms? Wow, I was sure it was responding to the vocal, funny how the brain works. And high cut starting as soon as 12kHz is surprising as well, though my analyzer tells me no mp3 goes beyond that and I've never bothered.

Hi Deliza. I don't know what analyzer your using, but its not showing you everything. Attached is an image taken in Logic of Melissa Etheridge's song "Breakdown" at 128kbps MP3 and again at 320kbps, using Logic's default multimeter and with FabFilter (this was ripped way back when disks weren't as large and were much more expensive). It shows that there are frequencies above 12kHz in MP3s.

Back in 2010, my CRAS class did some comparisons of MP3 compression versus the mastered wave file. You can clearly hear all sorts of problems across the frequency spectrum at a compression below 192VBR. As you increase the rate above that, the differences become less noticeable. In my own case, I think 256VBR sounds much better than 192VBR, but going up to 320 doesn't seem to be any different than 256VBR. Personally, I like Apple's and Linux lossless compression the most, but you can't load much on your iPad/iPhone/iPod when the files are so large.