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Be very careful that for most people, the first impression of "sounds great" is in reality an "is louder", the loudness wars in audio production have led to les
by polotics 3y ago
Be very careful that for most people, the first impression of "sounds great" is in reality an "is louder", the loudness wars in audio production have led to less and less significants bits of data being needed to carry music, an objective measure of information loss.
Also I will not get started on hearing loss, but... if this was somewhere else in your body than your ears, what DIY project would you accept there?
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- brudgers 3y ago[I am not an audio engineer] Compression was the preferred munition during the loudness wars, not amplification. Recordings producing more acoustic energy were made by reducing dynamic range.
- tonyarkles 3y agoYou're totally correct, and just to clarify for anyone who's not into audio/DSP this isn't referring to "data compression" but rather dynamic range compression. Basically quieter sounds get amplified so that the difference between a quiet sound and a loud sound is smaller, and then the whole thing gets amplified so that it's dancing right on the edge of clipping.