Re: Why contemporary music sounds terrible

[cburke55@comcast.net (Christophe)]

Interestingly enough there was a short article in Wired some time back 
that talked about the excessive use of compression, which evidently 
appeals to broadcasters, making every recording as hot as possible so it  
"jumps" out of the radio dial orgrabs the scanner's attention.  By way of 
illustration, They showed diagrams of three different sound spectra - one 
an old AC-CD recording, which had lots of dynamics and headroom, then I 
think Celine Dion and Slayer or Megadeath or someone, and the sound prints 
would make you think that Celine was blasting away at the same levels as 
the rockers with the same lack of dynamics.
 
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From: kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com
> Quoting Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net>:
> 
> > ...It's like
> > compress, compress, compress, limit, limit, limit....turn that wave
> > form into a solid bar, and then raise it to 0db...in your face, 100% of
> > the time. Below is the first time I've seen this referred to as
> > exhausting, but it makes sense. Even if you turn your stereo down,
> 
> Your thoughts help me to feel that I am not alone in the world.
> 
> Some radio stations proclaim "All music all the time" however I think  
> they should say "All loud all the time".