Phil Leigh;381808 Wrote: > Even with the rules, you can't go back! You would have to remix from the > raw "multitrack". > > If you stick a signal through a compressor followed by an expander, you > don't get the original signal out! Analogue or digital Compression is a > one-way street. It's EXACTLY like WAV-MP3 - you cant ever get the WAV > back. Once dynamic range is lost, the original accurate level > information is lost. > > > Although companding a la Dolby/dBX etc does work for noise reduction... > but is not a transparent process, Exactly my feeling. Replay gain does at least a good job of bringing back albums to a range that is listenable. But as far as correcting them, you can't without a total remix. Anyting else would not be true to the intent. The sad thing about the loudness wars is that the youth that is buying the "popular" albums, or tracks usually, don't care or even understand the notion. But then again ask me or yourself back when you were 18 would you have cared? I look back on the stuff I listened to and mainly the equipment it was listed on and realize I wouldn't have cared at that time. My son just listens and doesn't really catch the differences. So the songs that stand out are the ones that they keep buying and that drives sales which makes the loudness wars and their purpose seem correct to the record companies. Hopefully we can make a difference by letting it all be known and how it is destroying music. Don't buy albums that abuse this method and let the artist know why you are not buying. It would be a start hopefully.
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