Darren - as I said, the 2009 masters have very little additional compression and what there is is transparent - no sign/sound of any dramating "hard limiting" and the compression curves used are very soft-knee, with maybe only a couple of dB of level reduction.
We are a million miles away from "loudness wars" here! You can use replaygain to get a reasonable leveling across the 2 masters. I only have the 09 masters on disk at the moment (mono + stereo) and can't get to the garage to retrieve the 87 discs. Side note: (forgetting loudness wars and just talking about good mastering/production practice.) Compression is generally used for 2 reasons: 1) to get even, smooth levels through a performance, avoiding excessive peaks or dips in level - in this respect it is applied to the individual component sub-tracks prior to mixing down. This compression can be quite heavy... especially on vocals, guitars and drums. EVERY mu 2) as an "effect" to add "punchiness" - either at a track level or across the whole mix. Usually this will be a milder treatment, to avoid unnatural squashing of dynamics (cf L wars!). -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72852 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
