[ChrisCoaster]

On Feb 12, 11:07*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
ChrisCoaster wrote:
The bean counters at the record cos don't care Max. *So there's "5dB
dynamic range at best"? *Squash it to 1dB and pin it to digital VU -.5
dB and re-sell it to the suckers!!!

It's not the bean counters anymore. *It is now pretty normal for musicians
to come into the mastering room and demand everything to be louder.

The problem is now much more fundamental than that.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Well fundamentally it all boils down to money. Artists are now of the
mentality that if it isn't loud enough it won't be noticed or stand
out.

In any case, It's a shame that this is the new "norm" for popular
music, especially with the lowest noise highest dynamic range flattest
frequency response platform(digital) in the history of recorded
sound! I would also appreciate it if past artists or their labels
didn't apply this mentality - and processing - to past works that
stand out by their own virtues in the deceptive guise of "remastering"
or however they want to call it.

-CC