Re: OT Re: Beer Budget CD Release ...headache from cds

[Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>]

some time ago I found a very interesting website where there was a sort 
of people movement trying to sponsoring a more natural use of dynamics 
in audio production and mastering.
It was a very well done technical analysis, but I can't find it anymore...
I am sure some google wizard could "easily" find it.

I must say that as I don't like overcompressed, flat mastering, I also 
don't like when there are deliberate ear attacks with audio jumping from 
very, very quiet moments to very aggressive ones.
they make me angry
is it maybe their precise intention ?

luca




andy butler ha scritto:
> L.Angulo wrote:
>
>> Playing some of the CDs i have sometimes give me headaches and i feel 
>> saturated by them after a while, and thats not because ive gotten 
>> old,some of that stuff is just way compressed loud and cold sounding 
>> to my ears,
>
> That's probably the "volume wars" effect.
> ...and digital clipping, that'll give you a headache soon enough.
> The cd medium has much better dynamic range than vinyl, that's it's 
> strong point.
>
> There's no actual need to compress the music on a cd at all.
>
> Eventually that overcompressed music will be considered an 
> un-listenable oddity.
>
>
>
> andy
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