VNV Records

05/02/2022

Microphone 🎤 🎙 patterns

11/12/2021

VNV Records is a boutique recording facility situated in Cleariestown County Wexford, Ireland.

We offer - Sound Recording, Audio Engineering,
Mixing, Mastering Services.

We’d love to be a part of your next audio production.

For more information contact us at:
[email protected]

Cinematography by Liam Delaney
Audio by VNV Records

VNV Records is a boutique recording facility situated in Cleariestown County Wexford, Ireland. For more information contact us at: [email protected] 21...

01/07/2021

Out now on all major music platforms
Not Enough by Vadimoff, Joe Sinn, Pierre.

25/06/2021

Bandcamp Release !!!
Not Enough

3 track album

24/06/2021

Not Enough is out with Pierre and Joe Sinn

Original Picture - Michal Mroz

24/06/2021

Not Enough - vadimoff

Original Picture - Michal Mroz

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24/06/2021

Day Z - Joe Sinn

Original Picture - Michal Mroz

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24/06/2021

Dissolution - Pierre

Original Picture - Michal Mroz

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22/06/2021

18/06/2021

New release coming 25/06/2021

17/04/2021

First guest in the studio, back in to recording.

28/12/2020

The Loudness History

23/12/2020

Editing tape

In the not too dim and distant past, audio editing (commonly known as cutting and splicing) was done with razor blades and tape. At this point in the history of audio production, a cut really was just that. There was no going back and doing it again. Once you had cut the master tape, that was it!

It is simply a matter of rearranging sounds. You physically cut out unwanted words, phrases, or sounds and rejoin the remaining pieces with adhesive (splice) tape. To edit you must first understand the order of the tape heads. The order is to Erase, Record, Play (ERP).

19/12/2020

Studio... Time...

16/12/2020

Mixing, mastering, balancing, listening, learning...

14/11/2020

Loudness of music this days, do it matters???

06/11/2020

Casette-tape

The Compact Cassette or Musicassette, also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was developed by Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, and introduced in September 1963.

06/11/2020

Vinyl-record

An analog audio recording pressed in vinyl. The 45 RPM record holds one song per side, while 33 1/3 RPM "Long Play" records hold an entire album (see LP).

The LP is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by a speed of ​33 ¹⁄₃ rpm, a 12- or 10-inch diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry.

29/10/2020

Dynamic vs Condenser

17/09/2020

Mono vs Stereo

The difference between monophonic (mono) and stereophonic (stereo) sound is the number of channels used to record and playback audio.

Mono signals are recorded and played back using a single audio channel, while stereo sounds are recorded and played back using two audio channels.

16/09/2020

The chain of Modern Recording...

10/09/2020

Cooking drums today, for local band...

05/09/2020

A sound wave is the pattern of disturbance caused by the movement of energy traveling through a medium (such as air, water, or any other liquid or solid matter) as it propagates away from the source of the sound.
The source is some object that causes a vibration, such as a ringing telephone, or a person's vocal cords.

04/09/2020

Sound energy travels in waves and is measured in frequency and amplitude.

The energy in a sound wave can be measured using Decibels.

The Decibel Meter shows examples of things that make noise and measurements in decibels.

Amplitude measures how forceful the wave is.

dB or decibels

Audio signal or sound levels are measured using a decibel (dB) system.

The dB system is used to compare two levels or a change in signal voltage or power.

One dB is the level change that is just noticeable by most people.

A 6 dB change is considered to be about twice the volume.

04/09/2020

What is Audio Bit-depth?

So we can say that sampling is capturing an amplitude value in time. This value is captured in a process called quantization.

As well as with the time axis, digital systems have a certain resolution on the amplitude axis. The higher this resolution is, the more accurate the digital representation of the waveform’s amplitudes.

This is determined by the bit-depth of the recording. The higher the bit-depth, the more dynamic range can be captured. So a 24 bits system has a higher resolution than a 16 bits system.

A 16-bit recording has a theoretical dynamic range of 96 dB whereas a 24-bit recording has a theoretical dynamic range of 144 dB.

You can imagine that mixing with audio that has a 24-bit resolution is much easier and pleasant to mix with since we literally have more values on the amplitude axis.

03/09/2020

Uncompressed, lossless, and compressed audio files.

“Sound is made of waves and audio files represent those waves,”. “The way those waves are encoded in audio files through individual samples includes the waveform’s shape at a given moment and how far away it is from a zero point.” That zero points is silence, and audio files measure a sound’s distance from silence. “It’s essentially a snapshot of the audio waves,”

Uncompressed files: These audio files are very large, and include all of the possible information that audio equipment can detect. Uncompressed file formats include WAV, AIFF, and PCM.

Compressed lossless files: These file types are compressed, but in a way that no information gets lost. They include FLAC, WMA, and ALAC. These files are larger than compressed and smaller than uncompressed files.

Compressed or lossy files: Generally the smallest types of file formats, compressed files remove some information that is not entirely essential. Popular lossy audio file formats include MP3s and AAC. “Those are the things typically being streamed on Apple Music and Spotify,” says Rodocker.

03/09/2020

What is Sample Rate?

Think back to animated films from a couple of decades ago.

Films were just slides of still images being shown one after another to create the illusion of movement. The speed of the transition determined how smooth the resulting animation was. The faster the transition, the better the illusion of animation.

The speed of the changing slides is just like framerate when it comes to modern video.

The digital sound wave is like a snapshot of the original audio signal. The closer the sampled sound wave looks like the original sound wave, the higher the fidelity of the digital sound wave.

In digital audio recordings, the sample rate is analogous to the framerate in the video. The more sound data (samples) gathered per period of time, the closer to the original analog sound the captured data becomes.

A higher sample rate will give you a more precise capture of the original audio signal

In a typical digital audio CD recording, the sampling rate is 44,100 or 44.1kHz. If you’re wondering why the frequency is so high when the human ear can only hear frequencies up to 20kHz at best. It’s because of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.

Christopher D’Ambrose puts the hearing ability of the normal middle-aged adult at 12-14 kHz). Nyquist Theorem

Commonly referred to as the Nyquist theorem or Nyquist frequency, this states that to prevent any loss of information when digitally sampling a signal, you have to sample at a rate of at least twice the highest expected signal frequency.

In this case, using a sampling rate of 44,100 samples per second or 44.1kHz allows for accurate reproduction of frequencies around about 22kHz.

Other examples of common sampling rates are 8,000 Hz in telephones and anywhere between 96,000 Hz to 192,000 Hz for Blu-ray audio tracks. A sample rate of 384,000 Hz is also used in certain special situations, like when recording animals that produce ultrasonic sound.

03/09/2020

How Is Sound Digitally Recorded?

When sound is produced, it creates a pressure wave that propagates through the air. If the diaphragm of a recording device, such as a microphone, is nearby, the pressure waves in the air create a vibration in the diaphragm.
Through the magic of transducers, this vibration, in turn, creates an electrical signal that varies continuously with the waves in the air.

This continuous and proportionate variation is where the term “analog” comes from.

The signal created by the diaphragm is often not strong enough on its own. Typically, a preamplifier first boosts the signal so that it can be recorded in a number of ways.

Throughout history, various materials have been used to record and store analog signals. This includes wax, vinyl disks, and magnetic tapes. Eventually, digital records were introduced and became commonplace.

Digital systems (ones and zeroes) record analog signals (continuously variable values) by sampling them.
Difference between a low sample rate and a high sample rate

By grabbing enough samples of an incoming analog signal and saving it into memory, digital records are able to capture and later on reproduce the said signal.

A typical digital audio recording has as many as 44,100 samples every second. However, it is not unusual to see 96,000 samples a second with some digital audio formats.

03/09/2020

The definition of hi-res audio states that any music file recorded with a sample rate and bit depth higher than 44.1kHz/16-bit is considered high definition (HD) audio.

03/09/2020

To rip your music CDs to an audio format like MP3, WMA, or AAC, or to convert between formats, it's a good idea to know what CBR and VBR mean before you start. We compared these two encoding methods so that you can make the best choice for your music collection.

Many factors impact the quality of your digital music library. Bitrate is one of them. Whether you're looking to get the best quality rips or you want to maximize space on your mobile device, it's important to weigh your options in choosing the bitrate.

CBR stands for constant bitrate and is an encoding method that keeps the bitrate the same. VBR, by contrast, is a variable bitrate. When audio data is encoded by a codec, a fixed value is used, like 128, 256, or 320 Kbps.

In general, the higher the bitrate, the better the quality of the audio.
The advantage of using the CBR method is that audio data typically processes faster compared to the alternatives. However, the files that are created aren't as well optimized for quality-versus-storage, as is the case with VBR.

CBR is useful for streaming multimedia files. If the connection is limited to only performing at 320 Kbps, a constant bitrate of 300 Kbps per second or lower is more beneficial than one that changes throughout the transmission since it could go higher than what's allowed.

VBR allows the bitrate of an audio file to dynamically increase or decrease within a target range. The LAME encoder, for example, varies between 65 Kbps and 320 Kbps. Like CBR, audio formats such as MP3, WMA, and OGG support VBR.

The biggest advantage of VBR when compared to CBR is the sound quality to file size ratio. You can usually achieve a smaller file size by encoding audio with VBR rather than CBR because of the way the bitrate is altered depending on the nature of the sound.

The bitrate reduces for silence or quieter parts of a song. For more complex areas of a song that contain a mix of frequencies, the bitrate increases (up to 320 Kbps) to ensure sound quality is maintained. This variation in bitrate reduces the storage space needed compared to CBR.

However, the disadvantage of VBR encoded files is that they might not be compatible with older electronic devices like CBR is. It also takes longer to encode audio using VBR because the process is more complex.

Which One Should You Choose?

Unless you're restricted by old hardware that only supports audio formats encoded using CBR, then VBR is the recommended method. Support for VBR in hardware devices like MP3 players and PMPs used to be hit and miss, but these days it's usually a standard feature.

VBR gives you the best balance between quality and file size. It's therefore ideal for portables that have limited storage or where you want to make efficient use of other storage solutions like USB flash drives or flashcards.