pfarrell;332350 Wrote: > ralphpnj wrote: > > years. I remember back in my college radio days in the mid-1970s > that > > many commercial radio stations would compress and boost their signal > > just as I described. > > Yes, but Loudness Wars, look it up, is fairly new. The labels force > the > mastering engineers to compress all life out of the music. Then it > goes > to radio stations, where they still have the massive compression that > you remember. > > > I think that what is different today is that thirty years most of > the > > records were not compressed and boosted, and it was mostly just the > > radio and television stations that were doing it. > > What is different today is that all dymanic range is squashed out of > pop/rock releases. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Pat, I believe that we're saying the same thing. I was just trying to give some background and to show people that the compression/boost technique has been around for a while. That things are much worse now as far as dynamic range compression and level boosting are concerned is only too true and very, very sad. Good thing I listen to a lot of jazz since this type hatchet job rarely happens with jazz recordings. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51021 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
