The Death of Dynamic Range - people against Loudness War

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• Stereototal78 wrote:
  9 days ago

  This Link should go sticky I think: http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/

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• rettrou wrote:
  12 days ago

  Here's a website of waveform pics: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/anukaa/Loudness_War/Loudness_War.html

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• lolzunicorn wrote:
  17 days ago

  I agree, although the Beatles' remasters are great :)

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• _KevMusic_ wrote:
  19 days ago

  It's a sad world we live in, isn't it.

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• _KevMusic_ wrote:
  19 days ago

  Well said, and more than %100 behind you all. I can't stand it. It's a sad state of this world when they sacrifice quality for something so goddamned superficial.

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• Kirpus69 wrote:
  20 days ago

  Hey! Finally I found peers in my frustration. I wish you could find a website that recommends good hifi recordings.

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• musicdreamer11 wrote:
  last month

  A well known Mastering House turning out a lot of crapped up over-compressed albums http://www.sterling-sound.com/ One can email them, but not sure if they answer... *sigh*

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• jarizappa wrote:
  September 2009

  check this out -Album recalled for being too loud!! http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2009/07/dinosaur-jr-mastering-fault-cd-is.html

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• orangesprings wrote:
  September 2009

  Link some artists... like Muse, Scorpions, RHCP etc. [2] Agreed.. will get the group more views!

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• mvordeme wrote:
  September 2009

  "I like to think it has something to do with me putting the link in my sig and profile.": In my case you are right. :-)

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• jarizappa wrote:
  September 2009

  I just got the remastered version of Rubber Soul. Sounds really good I must say, RMS between -11.41 dB and -14.40 dB. Some songs peaks at -0.00 dB but I can live with that.

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• jarizappa wrote:
  September 2009

  Does anyone know how the remastered re-releases of The Beatles' all studio albums will be (re)mastered?

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• Bolshevized wrote:
  September 2009

  Charts are pretty good here, too. Yay for us.

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• musinum wrote:
  August 2009

  Those examples were eye-opeining, or should I say ear-opening! This is another example of reverse progress, not unlike what happened with the Saurday-morning kiddie cartoons when they realized it was much less work doing only 6-10 cels a second instead of 30, and not bothering to make the mouths move in synch with the speech, or sometimes at all, and the kids don't even know what they'e missing. We're getting a whole generation of listeners now who don't know that recordings don't have to be fuzzy and tinny, that they can be crisp and glorious! Some of this remastered stuff sounds not much better than the old cylinders of Caruso at the dawn of the recording industry. It's cringe-making!

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• jarizappa wrote:
  August 2009

  Marillion has released an old live recording from '83. http://www.last.fm/music/Marillion/Recital+Of+The+Script I'm listening to on Spotify (160Kbps) and it sounds like they haven't killed the dynamics in the mastering. Nice punch in Bass drum and Snare, cymbals are slightly distorted but that might be from the compresssion. A good recording imo.

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• rettrou wrote:
  August 2009

  did you see this site already: http://dr.loudness-war.info/

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• alvareo wrote:
  July 2009

  Zu's Carboniferous: http://i40.tinypic.com/b6t6bl.jpg, http://i40.tinypic.com/28wlz5g.jpg. Gorgeous, innit?

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• secretterrorist wrote:
  July 2009

  Hate to spam (but not really), I've just released my new album in two mixes - one loud and compressed for car/iPods etc, and one quieter for closer listening. You can compare them if you want - http://bit.ly/pVvm5 to stream the loud one here on Last.fm (yay royalties) or both the loud and quiet at http://radioovermoscow.com - where you can download free/pay what you want Radiohead style if you like. It's groups like this that inspired the idea - and I find most people prefer the quieter version, when they're played back at the same volume! Cheers!

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• parnuder wrote:
  July 2009

  It's not like this group is going to change anything though. There's a market for loudness.

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• TheMannen wrote:
  July 2009

  Yeah, I like to think it has something to do with me putting the link in my sig and profile. :] But maybe I'm overestimating my powers.

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