[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:
3:17 AM geoff wrote"
On 23/03/2015 2:28 p.m., wrote:
You can probably make that loud enough without having
to clip any of the peaks.

And you can add significant amounts of compression, even
hyper-compression, without "clipping the peaks".

But why would one want to? The appropriate processing,
as determined back when it was made, was already done.

Well, for example, if you're a classical radio station. You have source
material with very wide range, and you have listeners who are mostly in
the car who can't benefit from that wide range. So you need to reduce it,
but you need to do it with a slow AGC-style compressor (or with manual
gain riding) in an inoffensive manner. You can actually crush it pretty
far without any real artifacts because you're starting with something that
is so dynamic to begin with, but you have to do it slowly and in a couple
different stages.
--scott

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