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I think a parallel can be drawn to the loudness wars in music. The user can easily change brightness of their screen just as the user can easily change volume
by im3w1l 6y ago
I think a parallel can be drawn to the loudness wars in music.
The user can easily change brightness of their screen just as the user can easily change volume of their music. But producers want their creation to stand out. Make their music a little bit louder, or their website a little bit softer than the rest.
In both cases the outcome is a race to the bottom and reduced dynamic range.
And finally, in both cases it's fairly inconsequential. Things get worse but only a little bit.
- httpsterio 6y agoOP's comment sounds to me like they want to throw a compressor with a low threshold and high gain on top of their master and gave everything either clipping or gated. Screw transients, am I right?
- mrob 6y agoText is not music. Transients don't belong in text.
- httpsterio 6y agoI don't enjoy staring directly at the sun as I do not enjoy sitting with my ear pressed against the speaker at a festival. Your senses are not meant to be either not stimulated at all to fully stimulated, there is such a thing as a sane middle ground. Please do some research instead of doubling down on opinions you're presenting as absolutes.
- chrismorgan 6y ago> The user can easily change brightness of their screen just as the user can easily change volume of their music. This is just not true. 100% (minus rounding error) of devices can easily adjust volume. Phones and laptops can adjust brightness, but dodgy automatic brightness adjustment is the rule of the day. And basically no desktop monitors can easily adjust brightness (not because they can’t, but because OSes have frustratingly ignored functionality that has been standard for a decade or two; on-screen brightness adjustment is absolutely consistently painful enough to use that I disqualify it for the word “easily”—oh for the brightness wheels of the CRTs of yesteryear!).