On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:53:54 -0400, Dave Plowman (News) wrote
(in article ):
In article ,
Colin B. wrote:
There's a far more mundane explanation. Recent
music distribution, including CDs, have suffered
from an industry-wide of sever over compression,
limiting and clipping, as an endemic result of the
mastering process.
I'd suggest that this isn't a recent phenomenon. I've got plenty of pop
vinyl from the 1970s and 1980s that has roughly no dynamics. Making crap
sound louder on the radio at the complete expense of quality is decades
old.
There's a difference in how this was acheived, though. In older days it
was through the arrangement of the music and studio recording practices.
The Phil Spector 'wall of sound' for example.
These days it's done using largely automatic processors after the studio
recording is signed off. Similar to the types used for processing radio at
the transmitters.
I'll respectfully disgree, Dave. Colin's right. In the US, anyway.
In our local songwriters ass'n compilation CD, two years ago, we had several
entries that were mp3 and NOT particularly well done. We let it go in the
name of art. (Not this year though.)
Lots of artifacts and reduced bandwidth that's what you look (listen) for.
Try MP3ing them and see if they don't fall apart even more precipitously
relative to normal wav files.
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