"look at early theo parrish records in a wav editor. the peaks of the kicks will be hitting at 0 and the rest will be at -25dB or some ridiculous nonsense like that"
At the danger of over simplifying things, DJs are probably the biggest single culprits for the loss of dynamics in today's music. Its DJs who don't play the quieter tracks. Its DJs that will play a heavily compressed (loud) track on the club's PA at level 10, leaving no scope to then turn up the next quieter track. Etc.. Okay, this is really generalising but hey, it's not too far from the truth... Ta, Paul London www.punkdisco.co.uk www.punkdisco.co.uk/Music/Wot.mp3 - New annoying track www.myspace.com/punkdisco - Zero content, more pictures