26 Reply by dequalsrxt (edited by dequalsrxt 2011-03-08 05:34:26)

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

Holy shit- I'm glad I still have my copy from high school then!

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

we still have a dubbed maxell cassette of it, and actually it's one of the best damn sounding cassettes we own in our collection. industrial and cassette is a winning combo imo.

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

so the message is ... "pomping" remastering jobs damage teh fossils.

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

And next to being loud, what's up with the equalization in some of the current pop music like that retarded kate perry? In those tracks the vocal sneeringly cuts through your eardrum and irritates your synapses until you're bound to get a headache from them. Seriously that music is so flat, the only thing you hear is someone shouting the whole time, I'd rather listen to a recording of screaming baboons.

Just record it already!

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

well, if you master like that, its almost impossible for something to stand out in the mix because there is a dynamic range of a 10th of a db. it all becomes one compressed mess. the only thing you can do to get something nooticed is extreme eq, which makes a crappy track even worse..

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

oh yeah i've noticed this too. it sounds like they eq the voice to be that of a knife stabbing your ear drum.

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=13752

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Re: who's gonna win the loudness war

The new hope is that CDs will be eventually replaced by files, and that media players will have algorithms to automatically equalize the perceived volume of each track it is playing, so in the end every song will have the same loudness, regardless of the production:

http://mixonline.com/mixline/reierson_l … _war_0802/

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