On 26-Jul-11, at 1:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, gabin kattukaran
<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-loudness-wars-is-musics-noisy-arms-race-over/242293/
I liked the last bit:
"That, then, may be the end of the Loudness Wars: As brick-wall
limiting became more popular and attracted more attention, it became
something gauche, ugly, uncool. And there's no better way to keep
something out of music than to make it seem uncool."
More egregious instances of brick-wall limiting may be reduced (thank
goodness), but mastering compression is not going away anytime soon.
Cars are still noisy, ipod headphones still have poor frequency
response, and that's what mastering engineers are optimizing for these
days. I've heard more than one producer claim that they mix with their
expensive monitors and master with ipod headphones. They're probably
joking, but only kinda.
-Taj.
