Originally Posted By: zhimbo


4. Dixie Chicks, "Lubock or Leave It".
Dynamic compression Hell. When you zoom in on the peaks there is clipping out the wazoo, right there in the source material where there's nothing you can do about it.


Welcome to the last phase of the loudness wars. I've posted a lot of great articles on the subject. This has been happening for decades in some form or another. But the recent trend is blaming MP3s for the noisy compression. Not true!

Anyway, here's some reading for you all:

http://www.turnmeup.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jan/18/pop.music

Zoë


The more you love music, the more you love music.