"MINe 109" wrote in message

In article ,
(Scott Gardner) wrote:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:47:06 GMT, MINe 109
wrote:


You may have discovered for yourself that the trend in new
masterings is toward *less* dynamic range. The loudness wars
continue.

What was the specific recording?

I've noticed it to some extent on all of the albums I've recorded so
far. They've all been recordings that were made in the mid 80's or
earlier. The ones where I've noticed it the most have been

Harry Belafonte - "at Carnegie Hall - The Complete Concert"
Joe Jackson - "Night and Day"
Jackson Browne - "The Pretender"

Those are all fairly well known. I'll fire up the turntable and get
back to you.

When I recorded those three, and played the songs back, I had to
raise the volume on my iPod from about 50% to about 75% to get to my
desired listening level. Similar increases were necessary when
playing back on the PC. Once I increased the volume, they sounded
fine, but it got me thinking about what I could do to fix it, since
I was having to constantly adjust volume between listening to my
tracks I recorded from CD and the ones I recorded from LP.

Since you said elsewhere that you are using a cheap turntable and
preamp, presumably to avoid new purchases, you probably won't want to
investigate the Really Nice Compressor to see if a high quality analog
compressor might help.

http://www.fmraudio.com/

Under $200.


Perhaps Scott would want to check the help system of Sound Forge for an
featured area called "Dynamics Processing", which is a software compressor.

Under $0.01