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Once you had digital mastering and digital manipulation, the loudness wars would have happened no matter what the output medium. What I don't understand is how
by mark-r 11y ago
Once you had digital mastering and digital manipulation, the loudness wars would have happened no matter what the output medium.
What I don't understand is how this appeals to the bean counters. Were any of the best-selling albums of all time noticeably louder than their peers?
- DanBC 11y agoLoud works for radio, which used to drive sales.
- 6581 11y agoMost radio stations use all sorts of sound processing anyway though (including ridiculous dynamic range compression) to make the station sound "better".
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoLoud on radio comes from boxes, not from a disc. If you have unremastered CDs of the top 100 selling albums of all time that were built before CDs, they have a lot of air in 'em. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Hotel California" and the Led Zep catalog all show this. There's just no good reason to overmodulate a CD. You have a volume control; use it.
- bsder 11y agoThe loudness wars were about CD changers. Radio always normalized anyway. You didn't want your CD sticking out as "quiet" when put in a 5 CD shuffle.