On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Ironically, those people who won't tolerate this kind of garbage do > tolerate the horrible mixing and volume levels of any recent recording. > Even vocal and orchestrated music is recorded this way nowadays. It's > horrible. The subtle nuances of the quieter tones are all drown out by > the volume compression. Even on a basic CD we have 20 bits to mess with > yet all the studios make the sound as loud as they can, reducing the > amount of useful sound levels. Instead of pristine, 20-bit sound, it's > often all packed into the upper 4 bits (amplitude-wise). Why they do > this is beyond me. My stereo is perfectly capable of expanding and > amplifying the signal. > > Maybe this all comes out of the Phil Spectre idea of the wall of sound. > I dunno.
Well, you just have to tolerate what you have no say over. I agree, it's really lame that most CDs nowadays are sampled so high that they are already clipping the signal... all for the sake of sounding louder on the radio--and they get away with it because radio stations don't actually have someone there playing music, monitoring the volume--they just hit the 'play' button and let their purchased playlist run. For all we know, they just play the music from itunes now anyways... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
