Mark Lanctot;244756 Wrote: > That's what I had heard earlier, but this is the first time I've heard > of a mastering engineer doing it on his own merely due to "fashion". I > hope it's not definitive of the majority of mastering engineers, because > it's depressing. I suspect there's some kind of auto-catalytic network in operation here. Producers ask for things to be loud, so mastering engineers oblige. Radio listeners like what they hear, so they buy the CDs. Mastering engineers notice that compressed stuff is what people seem to want, so they start to apply it as a matter of course. Soon, everyone involved (except for us audiophiles, whose opinion Does.Not.Count) just assumes that CDs are supposed to be like that. The quality of CD mastering is drifting towards the abyss simply because "that's the way things are".
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