My songs lost all their bass....HELP ME please
Reply #3 – 2015-08-25 22:43:49
It sounds like your car amplifier/stereo system isn't set up right if lacking bass only on that playback system. Those AudioTechnica headphones are pretty high quality so I think they'd probably be pretty reliable. You will want to test out some kind of regular non-automobile stereo to be sure that you didn't make an encoding mistake such as high pass filtering (which would reduce the bass). On an unrelated note, in the MP3 format, joint stereo, which is the default, causes some of the lower frequencies, especially the very low ones, to collapse to mono while preserving the stereo content of the high frequencies. This usually isn't a noticeable loss of quality unless you are extremely aware of some wide bass tunes. The convention comes from the psychoacoustical idea that on speakers, the bass frequencies are less directional in terms of our human hearing. Because of that, it's harder to tell if something is panned in the bass frequencies. So the MP3 codec exploits that shortcoming of human hearing and just collapses to mono the frequencies most likely to be heard lacking directional characteristics. The caveat of this practice, is that it's based upon listening to speakers and not headphones. But now isn't then. More and more people are listening to music on headphones and not on speakers. So if your the creator of your own tunes and you had wide bass in them, you might notice some of the bass seems less spacious after lossy encoding to MP3 with the joint stereo setting on. The joint stereo is efficient, but at the minor cost of the lost "side"(s) of the bass, amongst other things. You can avoid this by encoding to "stereo" instead of "joint stereo". "Dual mono" would also work and at a high rate of 320 kbps constant, there wouldn't likely be any perceptible loss of quality for the mostpart. 320 kbps CBR is pretty robust for the ears. The other caveat is that in most encoding softwares, "joint stereo" is the default setting instead of "stereo". So seeing stereo encoded MP3's is actually still kind of rare. People will argue for joint stereo in terms of encoding efficiency--that it's an advantage. But personally, I see no problem with opting for the setting that is the LEAST lossy since hard drive space and portable media player space is pretty abundant and still getting bigger. You can still have all the advantages of MP3 without having to jump to FLAC for actual lossless. So you can see it's a nice medium compromise if your player can't do FLAC (yet). A simpler way of saying this is to say that 320 kbps CBR MP3's are still pretty tiny compared to the source WAV's or AIFF's. One more important note: IN SOME OTHER CODECS, JOINT STEREO HAS A DIFFERENT MEANING BECAUSE OF A DIFFERENT PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. THAT'S WHY SOME GET CONFUSED; SAME WITH MID-SIDE. But I don't think that the joint/stereo/dual mono/mono is the issue you had. I think it's probably something about the playback chain in the car that's messed up. You'll have to do more checking to find out for yourself.