vdonovan;222369 Wrote: > That's a great article. Very informative and straightforward.
Yeah .. I thought it was well written too. Originally I wasn't going to post this, because the matter has been discussed here a couple of times before, and there are a bunch of similar articles floating about on the internet including a wikipedia entry (just ask the great Google oracle - and all will be revealed) But when I saw Slim Devices mentioned, and Sean's Quote - I just had to. Mark Lanctot;222368 Wrote: > > What I've always wondered is - is this compression and clipping > happening on the master? In which case, that music is damaged forever. > I should hope not! I would imagine that the original master tapes are treated more carefully, and all this craziness only happens in the final mix before the pressing in a medium specific manner i.e. a different final mastering for CD and Vinyl. I wonder how hard it would be to dynamically implement all these loudness and compression operations on the tracks (i.e. if they must be done at all) depending upon the intended listening scenario. Perhaps something like Replay Gain tags (or other meta tags) in the tracks would tell an iPod to compress it differently, a car stereo differently, a radio station differently, and a high end stereo to not compress it at all. Taking this same train of thought slightly off track - in my ideal world this approach could go several steps ahead. Wouldn't it be great if music became available in some sort of unmixed multitrack format - with a couple of guide mixes so that we could hear it as the artists and producers intended, but also with the option to add and remove instruments, and generally fool around. It would change the way listeners interact with music completely, making them far more involved artistically and creatively ... if wishes were horse ... and pigs could fly :) -- Nikhil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37844 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
