[vorbis] 24/96 ?

[ndrw mchl grnbrg]

Craig Dickson <crdic at yahoo.com> wrote:
: 
: In pop music, the worst problem now is the fad of compressing the
: dynamic range to death to make the average volume higher. This is a
: recording/mixing issue rather than one of mastering, but it's being done
: on purpose by producers and engineers who think (perhaps based on real
: facts about record sales, perhaps not) that their record will do better
: if it's louder than everything else on the radio. Of course, if you're
: going to optimize your recording for FM radio, then you're wasting the
: potential of CDs.

Really? I always thought that the hard-limiting was done by the mastering
engineer. Regardless, most FM radio stations compress their signals so
much just to be louder than the other radio stations that it doesn't
really matter what the recording they're playing _really_ sounds like.


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 agreenbu @ nyx . net                             andrew michael greenburg
                     http://www.nyx.net/~agreenbu/

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