On 1/30/07, punkdISCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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..
but thats what the gain knob on each channel is for, to equalise where the things are peaking. of course the perceived loudness of a quitely mastered record vs a loudly mastered one will still be different even if the peaks are both hitting 0. to get that record with dynamics to have the same perceived loudness, youd have to overdrive the channel till you match it (essentially chopping off all of the top of the waveform), likely resulting in audible distortion or clipping, depending on whether your mixer has analogue or digital circuitry. the fact is that most deejays just arent taking out a ton of old stuff that would be mastered like that. almost all new dance music is squashed. i blame the people who decide on the mastering for every record more than the deejays, though they should get some blame too for being too scared to not play a smooshed banger. tmo
