As most here are probably aware, there is a developing tendency in the music production industry to make the average level of a recording on a CD louder, especially on pop titles.
Essentially, this means they are decreasing the dynamic range of the medium, and, in fact, even clipping the music signal in many, many cases.
For those who don't know the consequences of this, they are putting the music on the CD at a louder level, so that the quietest moment in the music is louder and the upper limit (which cannot really inncrease) often is exceeded resulting in lost information and plain bad sound.
Some folks over on another forum were discussing this in the following thread.
They got worked up enough to actually attempt to make some noise about it, and have begun constructing a website to be able to point people to to illustrate what this means and why it's bad.
It's set to "go live" sometime next month (June), and they are looking for supporting data (i.e. samples of waveforms where this has occurred, or other technical input to illustrate the problems it causes) to add to the site. The contact info for the guy putting the effort into it is on the second page of the thread listed above.
Don't know if this will amount to anything in the age of the MP3, but worth mentioning.
BB
Essentially, this means they are decreasing the dynamic range of the medium, and, in fact, even clipping the music signal in many, many cases.
For those who don't know the consequences of this, they are putting the music on the CD at a louder level, so that the quietest moment in the music is louder and the upper limit (which cannot really inncrease) often is exceeded resulting in lost information and plain bad sound.
Some folks over on another forum were discussing this in the following thread.
They got worked up enough to actually attempt to make some noise about it, and have begun constructing a website to be able to point people to to illustrate what this means and why it's bad.
It's set to "go live" sometime next month (June), and they are looking for supporting data (i.e. samples of waveforms where this has occurred, or other technical input to illustrate the problems it causes) to add to the site. The contact info for the guy putting the effort into it is on the second page of the thread listed above.
Don't know if this will amount to anything in the age of the MP3, but worth mentioning.
BB
Comment