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Mike Rivers wrote:
I have Comcast. I compared the HD with the regular broadcast and
it was the same issue. Vocals being squashed to a flat line.
Martina McBride had it right, she could be heard over the music.
Almost all the rest of the acts suffered from vocals mixed way
too low.
Apparently what you heard was just a poor mix of the band, with the
vocal not high enough. If the whole mix went through a heavy limiter
(as it might anywhere in the broadcast chain) the band could have
been brought up to near the level of the vocal, destroying whatever
the original mix was. And the people who set up those limiters
don't listen to what they're doing, they just watch the meters to
assure that they don't overmodulate.

OF course they don't!!! After all, it's only audio. Why
should we have to actually (listen) to it? PEople don't
actually expect to listen to these things do they? IT's all
about having the volume down with plenty of shots of low cut
dresses and tight jeans now. who cares about the friggin'
audio?
Beyond this: THe sheep still flock to it in droves and pay
big money. Feed 'em more **** they'll keep on coming back
for more. AS long as we use words like "digital" and "high
definition" in the ad copy they'll tell you it's the
greatest thing since sliced bread.



Richard webb,
Electric Spider Productions
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Great audio is never heard by the average person, but bad
audio is heard by everyone.