Skip to content“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.”
–Unknown
Music has always fascinated me. I remember lighting up with joy after receiving a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle for Christmas one year. It came with a then impressive 1GB storage capacity. Since then, my Music library has expanded to an enormous 250+ Gigabyte, High-Quality, Super-library, and continues to grow every day. I love sharing my collection as both a party DJ and as a Music lover!
As a Party DJ, Variety truly is the Spice of Life
My library spans across all Musical Genres, Eras, and Movements. If you want to take a journey through the history of Music, and hear Disco and Funk from the 70’s, BeBop from the 40’s, 0ldSk00l Hip-Hop and House records from the 90’s, mixed with Classic Rock and Synth-Wave from the 80’s, I WOULD LOVE TO BE YOUR GUIDE! During sets I enjoy finding a balance between timeless classics and experimental soundscapes that will blow your mind and expand your understanding of Musical creativity!
My Music Library: Quantity AND Quality
In addition to having an impressive quantity of Music, I also take pride in the quality of my collection. My Music library is stored digitally as high fidelity audio.
But what exactly does that mean?
Music, in the form of digital audio, comes in many different formats. These formats range from common “lossy” formats like OGG, or MP3, to less common “lossless” formats like FLAC (free lossless audio codec), or WAV.
Lossless formats retain more of the encoded data from the original recordings of the Music. This means that lossless formats take up significantly more storage. They also sound noticeably cleaner, purer, brighter and more natural than their “lossy” counterparts.
Lossy formats will typically sound pixelated, bit crushed, or distorted at lower qualities. However, the most noticeable effect on the audio, is “highs that bleed.” This phrase applies to the high frequencies of the human hearing range (15kHz – 22kHz). This range is typically where the snare, clap, crashes, and hi-hats reside in a song. When a song is downsampled to an MP3 to save storage space, the highs (high frequencies) tend to “bleed,” or are are dull, blurry, muffled or muddied. As a Party DJ, I have chosen to take responsibility for ensuring that as much of my collection as possible is High-Fidelity.
To illustrate this effect, I have imported a song into a spectrograph, and analyzed the encoded audio information, from 20Hz to 20,000Hz (the range of normal human hearing).
Here, we have a FLAC (high fidelity) copy of the song: “Cars” by Gary Numan. “Cars” has been imported into a spectrograph, and we can see all of the dynamics (higher frequencies) are preserved.
And in the MP3 copy? You can see that all of the sound above 16kHz is lost! That’s 20% of the human hearing range! Don’t settle for 80% of Music!
Choose TASTEFULLY ECLECTIC for your special event!
HEAR THE DIFFERENCE a high fidelity Music Library makes!
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