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[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication, branded 'unlistenable' by studio experts"

(insert obvious joke in comments)

More seriously, is this degree of compression something you notice when listening to new CDs? I had noticed that you need to set the volume control at a much lower level than you do with older CDs. But, rather naively, I assumed modern 'remastering' tended to broaden the dynamic range rather than narrow it.

Maybe it is only rock records that are mastered in the way this article complains about.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Domino, Arctic Monkeys’ record company, defended its band’s use of compression on their chart-topping albums, as a way of making their music sound “impactful”.

Ahahahahahah!

Anyway. My werk computer has a very limited volume range for some reason - some CDs I have to turn right the way down in order to be able to listen to without going deaf, for some mp3s I have to boot the volume kn0b all the way up to max. There never seems to be anything in between.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Darn, you (inevitably) got there before me!

Is "impactful" even a word?