On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 20:02 -0800, Mike Anderson wrote: > Noise is also a lot harder to compress than pure tones. My time series > professor used to argue that if you look at the frequency spectrum of > rock and roll, it looks a lot more like noise than classical music > does!
Wise guy. Actually some of this is true. The famous "Wall of sound" production style of the 60s tries to put something in every part of the spectrum. So there is a lot more stuff than a most classical arrangements. more important for this topic, the producers and labels in all pop genres for the last decade or more have been on a crusade to make each song louder than the rest. They do this with compressors and limiters, sometimes several cascading sets of compressors and limiters. Look at the waveform on a lot of pop, and you will see very little dynamic range. Which doesn't compress very well. Calling it noise sounds like something a father would say to a teenager. I won't go there. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
