[vorbis] 24/96 ?

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Jack Moffitt <jack at xiph.org> wrote:
: > 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.
: 
: On my recent roadtrip to texas (20 hours in the car!) I listened to a
: lot of radio.  It has either gotten way worse, or I'm just a lot more
: used to hearing those kinds of problems.  Some of the stations were
: compressed so bad it was just a puddle of mud.

One of the guys I used to play music with joked once about running the
recordings through a dynamic expander before sending them to radio
stations.


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

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