"Ryan" wrote in message
m...
This guy has all types of gear
dedicated to getting every last dB out of his recordings. How do I
explain this to him in such a way that he will see the point? Help!

Just to throw in my $.02, take your tracks and find another mixer that
understands what you want and is willing to work with you rather than trying
to tell you what you should do. Anyone that thinks louder is better is
fooling themselves and you'd be buying into it. If he were to have said,
well, to be noticed on radio most A&R and marketing dweebs simply push for
as much volume as possible, then at least you'd know he knew what he was
talking about. But if his only idea is to get it as loud as possible,
regardless of the equipment he owns, any of us could do that, including you.
The difference is that most of us wouldn't.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

I'm currently working on finishing a project I played on but I will
not be doing the final mixing. I'm trying to convince the mixer to
make it so the final .aiff files are not clipped in the type of way
most all gain addict current releases are. I learned that doing so
brings about a type of distortion from the good folks here at RAP.
The mixer says that all the stuff nowadays is clipped, that it's the
popular sound out there. And you know, now that I think of it, I
really can't notice this type of distortion much myself. It doesn't
bring about any artifacts or strange frequencies. Sure the dynamics
are non existant, but the *sound* of the tracks don't really suffer,
at least I can't tell they do.