Nowdays,we compress the shit out of everything
 

heres a nice artical about the over use of compression in today's industry-
everybody wants to be loud,who will the loudest? :)

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_big_squeeze/

some wise words from bob catz,the mastering guru included :P

Ive been thinking the same for a while now, its getting silly :?

I dont like the sound of it at all :(

Re: Nowdays,we compress the shit out of everything
 

yup, there was a site loudnessrace.net but it seems to have dissapeared and there is this one as well http://www.airwindows.com/analysis/Dynamics.html

All seems a bit silly. If I want a cd louder i'll turn the volume up. Hell, I use replay gain on my mp3s so that the loudness of a track is compensated for. Utter madness compressing the fuck out of tracks so they are more "competitive".

Over compression in Mastering has been a pet-hate of mine for ages now.
At least it keeps mastering engineers in a job though. :?

Any of you heard Madonna's latest album? The material is ok...but when i played it on a high end hifi it sounded so hot and nasty that i dont actually get any listening pleasure from it. They used a Nord 3 and i can distinctly hear the filter distortion being used....trouble is....it doesnt sound nice on a hot recording....2/10 to be honest.

I dont particularly like todays recordings....i prefer the atmosphere of well produced 70's,80's and early 90's stuff....

DS

Agreed! Love the 70's vibe

hendrix rulez!

Re: Nowdays,we compress the shit out of everything
 

Precisely! Unfortunately, I think we are all caught in the same loop at the moment. - we want to keep our music dynamic, but in order to get it to compete with the other stuff out there, we must get it loud. Because to most of the people out there purchasing music - louder = better :?

I think it seems to be a pet hate of anyone I have met who is producer and been doing it for a while.

Strangely people who are new to it immediately want to squash the hell out of everything because its the fashion... then after a year or so seem to learn that is sound a hell of alot better o get a good mix and apply a bit of gentle levelling and smoothing :)

My real pet hate is that most post production all-in-one-instant-mastering plugins seem very orientated toward this squash the hell out of it approach and so they sound like shit, and still seem to sound like shit when you try and be gentle with them.

Im not keen on T Racks at all!
So many people "master" their music with this yet they havent a clue about mastering or suitable monitoring equipment\enviroment.

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