From the course: A Mix Engineer's Glossary of Techniques

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Make it lo-fi

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Make it lo-fi

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- [Narrator] Beginning with the definition of lo-fi, it's a shortened version of low fidelity, and obviously it's the opposite of high fidelity, a term we're all familiar with, meaning that an audio recording has been made with the highest attention paid to quality, a full range of frequency spectrums we can hear which is generally thought of as between 20 hertz and 20,000 hertz, or 20k. And a recording with that kind of high-quality attention paid to detail will sound normal to the listener. When a person asks you as a mix engineer to degrade that, make it lo-fi, they might be recalling the way records sounded in the '30s, they may be recalling the early days of digital when 8-bit recordings were common, and they might be recalling the sound of a microphone placed too distantly from the source. There's many different versions of what could be termed as low fidelity. And among the easiest to achieve, you could say it would be to limit the frequency spectrum, cutting off the lows and…

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