Mr_Sukebe;194555 Wrote: > Clive, > I'm a little confused about your point on hypercompression. I assume > the issue we're talking about is how so many recent pop CDs have > everything compressed into a 6-7db volume range. > I thought that this would have been completed during mastering, and as > such would result in it being applied to both CD and LP in the same > way. Is this not the case? The final mastering done for LP and CD releases is radically different. (As I mentiond in my previous posting, LP mastering requires all sorts of compromises due to the mechnical limitations of the medium. CD mastering requires none of these compromises).
The hypercompression which plagues modern pop/rock CDs is completely incompatible with delivery on vinyl. If such hypercompression were to be used on a vinyl release, the only way to fit it onto the LP would be to cut the album at such a low level that: (i) surface noise would be a terrible problem; and (ii) the LP would be very quiet (which defeats the purpose of hypercompression in the first place, which is to make things sound as loud as possible). Therefore the mastering for LP uses significantly less dynamic range compression than is used for CD. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
