YourMotherShouldKnow Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Easy for the mechanically minded... 1. What's the difference between a RIFF wav and a Broadcast wav file? 2. On the AUX BUS, what's the advantage/disadvantage in setting it to "pre" or "post"? Or more plainly: How do those things work exactly? :thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Hepworth Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 1- ? 2- pre would be signal unaffected by channel fader - like for doing a headphone cue. post would be affected by channel fader for most effects usage. No matter how good something is, there will always be someone blasting away on a forum somewhere about how much they hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Cakewalk Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by LanceMo: [b]Easy for the mechanically minded... 1. What's the difference between a RIFF wav and a Broadcast wav file? 2. On the AUX BUS, what's the advantage/disadvantage in setting it to "pre" or "post"? Or more plainly: How do those things work exactly? :thu: [/b][/quote]A Broadcast Wave file is time stamped. "...draggin' a dead walrus..." kk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourMotherShouldKnow Posted October 31, 2003 Author Share Posted October 31, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by NE-One: [b]1- ? 2- pre would be signal unaffected by channel fader - like for doing a headphone cue. post would be affected by channel fader for most effects usage.[/b][/quote]Thanks NE-ONE. So what affect does this have in practice? My brother explained this to me once but, like Milli Vanilli's grammy, it didn't stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourMotherShouldKnow Posted October 31, 2003 Author Share Posted October 31, 2003 [ :thu: [/qb][/QUOTE]A Broadcast Wave file is time stamped.[/QB][/QUOTE] I'm Mr. Practical today. I'm gonna burn wav files and send them off someplace to have them mastered. Is there a qualitative difference between RIFF and Broadcast. Incidentally, SONAR 3 is fantastic. Congrats to you and the folks at your company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 What the heck is a RIFF file? Is that Cakewalk specific? Or do you mean AIFF? Some specific examples of pre and post fader aux send applications: 1) You send a guitar and a vocal through the same reverb. If you set those auxes to prefader, you will not be able to control the relative levels of the two instruments with the channel faders. Also, if you fade the two out using their channel faders, you will still hear them going strong coming out of the reverb. Use post fader for this application. 2)Let's say you have a clean guitar track that you've recorded. Now you want that track to have distortion through the whole song, except for the chorus, where you'd like the clean signal to double the distorted sound. In this case, I would send the signal out of the aux as prefader into the distortion box. I would then return the distortion back to the board into a channel. Now I can pull the fader of the clean track all the way down to nothing and control the distorted guitar with its own fader. Then, at the chorus, I'd just pull the fader up on the clean track. Since the aux is set to prefader, the gain increase on the clean track does nothing to the distorted track. "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 A RIFF wave file is a standard wave file. A BWF is the same thing but with extra timestamp information in the header of the file. [url=http://www.ebu.ch/tech_t3285.pdf]Here\'s[/url] a handy PDF file that explains it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 A RIFF is a standard WAV file that contains acidizing information. Broadcast WAV is time stamped. If you're sending off a WAV file for duplication or whatever, there's no significant difference between the two. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourMotherShouldKnow Posted October 31, 2003 Author Share Posted October 31, 2003 Thanks people! :thu: :thu: :thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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