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Re: The War on Loudness

 ·  Posted: 18.02.2008 - 23:19  ·  #9
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 ·  Posted: 19.02.2008 - 00:34  ·  #10
Stephen, you're partly right but remember that not every listener has superb high-class sound system or direct, flat-characteristic monitoring system at home. IMHO even if it's not folky dance music but something that require more attention from listener, mastering should serve as a process ensuring the best sound reproduction both on mid-class hi-fi set and high-end sets. It's also a compromise between loudness and dynamics. Personally I hate flat-mastered records with every sound on maximum level almost like the sound on TV-spots. But from the other hand I don't like changing volume constantly during listenng - it deconcentrates me :).
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 ·  Posted: 19.02.2008 - 02:26  ·  #11
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Stephen, you're partly right but remember that not every listener has superb high-class sound system or direct, flat-characteristic monitoring system at home. IMHO even if it's not folky dance music but something that require more attention from listener, mastering should serve as a process ensuring the best sound reproduction both on mid-class hi-fi set and high-end sets. It's also a compromise between loudness and dynamics. Personally I hate flat-mastered records with every sound on maximum level almost like the sound on TV-spots. But from the other hand I don't like changing volume constantly during listenng - it deconcentrates me :).


Yes, there is definitely some room for a happy compromise. In the end, it really depends on the nature of the recordings.
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Re: The War on Loudness

 ·  Posted: 19.02.2008 - 10:47  ·  #12
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Stephen, you're partly right but remember that not every listener has superb high-class sound system or direct, flat-characteristic monitoring system at home. IMHO even if it's not folky dance music but something that require more attention from listener, mastering should serve as a process ensuring the best sound reproduction both on mid-class hi-fi set and high-end sets.


This is exactly what a good mastering job should accomplish: It should sound good on any equipment. That
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 ·  Posted: 23.02.2008 - 12:48  ·  #13
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 ·  Posted: 23.02.2008 - 16:10  ·  #14
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 ·  Posted: 23.02.2008 - 22:51  ·  #15
You just need to check a visual display of both the uncompressed and the compressed / maximised audio files in Wavelab or ProTools. It
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 ·  Posted: 26.02.2008 - 17:25  ·  #16
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