Moonbase;379968 Wrote: > Floyds »Ummagumma« was actually a good example: Mine shows an album RG > of -2.60 on the »Live« disc 1, and -3.58 on the »Studio« disc 2. > (Values may not be that accurate, since I still only have that album as > MP3, not as FLAC.) > > For me, the »live« and »studio« parts thus would somehow be kinda > »separate« albums, and RG'ed accordingly. Yes, I totally agree. Ummagumma is an example of when I wouldn't combine disks 1 and 2 onto one album. They are two different productions, with different mastering, and I do see them as different albums.
I have ripped that one as "Ummagumma [Studio]" and "Ummagumma [Live]". I could never remember that disk 1 was studio and disk 2 was live (actually, I think it is vice-versa, which is counter-intuitive). They are not even presented as "disk 1" and "disk 2" - I think they are "The Studio album" and "The live album". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummagumma. Like you, I'd play one or the other; playing both in one session would be too much like hard work (although I have been known to play "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "Several Species of Small Fury Animals Gathered Together In A Cage and Groovin' With A Pict" on repeat, I couldn't listen to Sysyphus once in totality!). Even in this example, is there really much noticeable volume difference between -2.60 and -3.58 (=-1dB)? If there was a gain difference of 4dB, then I'd be concerned, but this doesn't seem extravagent - I'd probably not notice much, considering the difference in the music between live and studio content and dynamic range. Live albums especially are split across two disks, and I'd always consider them to be one album. I'll have to try some subjective listening between tracks from the end of disk 1 to the start of disk 2, to see if the crowd noise sounds noticeably different. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57543
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