Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

:: What really annoys me is the routine over-application of
:: levelling soft- or hardware to EVERY DAMN CD I'VE BOUGHT
:: FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS AT LEAST. I mean "dynamic" does not
:: necessarily mean everything at the same level, right?

I do a LOT of music editing for many local and regional dance companies, so
I get to look at the waveform displays on a lot of CDs. There are many that
still have a pretty good dynamic range - the "Cirque du Soleil" music for
example. Take something like Tori Amos though - sheesh! It's a solid
perfectly smooth thick black line! You're hard pressed to even see bass drum
or snare hits in the display without scanning back and forth through the
waveform to hear where it is....

Jezz....