On 9/28/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28-Sep-07, at 5:41 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This appears to be a volume normalizer. How would that help when
the waveforms have been clipped by turning it to 11 while
engineering the album?
It can't do anything about clipping,
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: [ on 04:26 PM 9/28/2007 ]
One of the root causes is the fact that the default way of consuming
music for much of the world is via MP3 or other lossy digital formats
-- leading to CDs being engineered to be ripped.
AACGain, anyone? I depend on it to undo the loudness
On 28-Sep-07, at 5:41 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This appears to be a volume normalizer. How would that help when
the waveforms have been clipped by turning it to 11 while
engineering the album?
It can't do anything about clipping, but does help with those maxed
out without clipping. My
On 28-Sep-07, at 11:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Having said that, I think that some of the things we are seeing with
the loudness war would not be possible without digital technology.
One of the root causes is the fact that the default way of consuming
music for much of the world is via MP3
Steve Albini is, of course, the guy behind this [1] which is still
required reading for anybody trying to understand what all the fuss
about music and copyright is *really* about.
Here is some tangentially related stuff, that allows him to express
his inner Dorothy Parker very well:
On 9/28/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, equalization and compression. Yeah, I can see that. I still think
he's wrong for blaming CDs though. I think the same thing would have
happened (and was happening) in any medium. I know the trend had
already started with LPs and cassette
