Thanks for sending me somewhere that doesn't horribly compress/limit/kill the sound as found on many youtube videos.That said, what would you guys use in the recording of a cymbal individually to arrive at what I heard in that first soundcloud link?
I use a Zoom H4 with a higher recording mode than mp3 (the lowest it does). You also need to make sure you get autogain out of the way with whatever device you use. Kiss of death to good sound.
Next avoid YouTube if at all possible. It does compress mightily using lossey compression. Of course, it is really all about fitting video into a smaller disk space. I think it is much better to have larger nicer sound files and don't bother with video at all. Unless you have huge amounts of disk space -- which the free services don't!
I tried Soundcloud once and found it seemed to re-compress something which I had already put into mp3 form, so the result wasn't good enough to my ears. I maintain my own web site where I can put up files without having any additional compression happen which I don't want.
The original mp3 is on my web site (click on Bosphorus Antique 21 ride sound)
http://black.net.nz/drums/
and what Soundcloud did to it is here:
https://soundcloud.com/zenstat/bosphorus-21-ferit-antio-2530g
and I *think* I can tell the difference with my studio monitor headphones on. I'd be interested what others think. Oh, the music source was linked up in CuBase which came with the Zoom. Thanks to John Riley The Art of Bop Drumming for the nice drumless practice tracks, used here for study purposes.
And that's a mighty fine crash Bill, even though I've said it before.
