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Old 6th September 2008   #8
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Wouldn't this be like saying "I've got all this great gear and high resolution, I'm going to mix specifically for cassette tape."

MP3 as a format is designed to shave off what the encoder considers unnecessary frequencies, and how can you mix for something that degrades your audio?

I feel that if you have great mixes to begin with, and encode at a high kbps rate (320 for example), your MP3s will sound close to the original mix, almost as good. This is what I've learned on my own, but I may be wrong and there may be a trick to making better mixes for a format that degrades your audio, I don't know.
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