Comments on: Quality Control: Rethinking WAV vs MP3 http://thedjpodcast.com/articles/quality-control-wav-vs-mp3/ Video Tutorials to Improve Your DJ Mixes Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DJ Eddie K http://thedjpodcast.com/articles/quality-control-wav-vs-mp3/#comment-319 DJ Eddie K Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:57:08 +0000 http://thedjpodcast.com/?p=310#comment-319 "Many clubbers may not even hear the difference in a nightclub." I would say NONE will notice unless the sound format is pointed out to them, and even then you want your audience too absorbed in the music to begin wondering what bitrate your files are. We DJs are notorious for pushing mixers into the red. Club owners already have their expensive PA systems pushed to the limit and protected by limiters and compressors, so in the end the only difference between WAV and MP3 in a performance setting is how many tracks you can fit onto your storage medium. “Many clubbers may not even hear the difference in a nightclub.”

I would say NONE will notice unless the sound format is pointed out to them, and even then you want your audience too absorbed in the music to begin wondering what bitrate your files are.

We DJs are notorious for pushing mixers into the red. Club owners already have their expensive PA systems pushed to the limit and protected by limiters and compressors, so in the end the only difference between WAV and MP3 in a performance setting is how many tracks you can fit onto your storage medium.

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